Ever since she was young girl, Jenny had always wanted to be a singer. She wrote her first song at age 12 and sang it in front of all her peers and their parents at a school program. She learned some chords on the guitar when she was 17 and continued writing many songs over the years. She decided to record some of her songs and made her first album with all original songs with Tate Music Group from Mustang, Oklahoma. She was then approached by an old schoolmate to perform at a charity function that led to her forming her own band. They played anywhere from a local bar to Sonic Corporation where they were flown to Coronado Island in San Diego, California where they played for them right on the beach.
The life of a musician isn’t everything she thought it would be though. Being out late practicing and playing at bars and restaurants is not for a married woman with children. “I became so involved with my music that I began to put it above my family and my family was falling apart,” says Jenny. She always thought about that scripture, Psalm 37:4, where it says if you “delight thyself also in the LORD… he shall give thee the desires of thine heart.” “I always just assumed that was my music career but that was only causing me grief.” So one day when she hit her knees and cried out to God, she asked Him to give her a burning desire to know Him and He answered her prayer. Ever since that prayer, she has been seeking God and reading the Bible daily. Her faith began to grow and everything she thought she wanted in this life became detestable to her. The more she read the Bible, the more she became separated from this world. So the scripture that she always clang to, Psalm 37:4, came true. “The problem was I wasn’t keeping my part of that verse. I was delighting myself in the world and seeking my own desires that were filling my heart.” The bible says that “the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9)” Once she found true delight in the Lord, God showed her that He is the true desire of her heart now.
Jenny did finally pick her guitar back up after seeking the Lord first for several years and she has written some beautiful songs that glorify God. “I don’t believe He is done with me yet. I’m still a work in progress, but at least now I feel like He has set me on the right path and I am growing in Christ, whereas before I was lost deep in the spirit of disobedience seeking my own will and not the Father’s,” “Not everyone that saith unto me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom of heaven; but he that doeth the will of my Father which is in heaven.” –Matthew 7:21
Notes of Charity 