A JOURNEY OF UNVEILING
In the last several years, I have been on a journey, trying to understand love and relationships. I've been searching for answers for the many divisions I've experienced in personal relationships, generational family relationships, and the overwhelming division in relationships in American society. In a recent act of radical repentance, I have been shaken to the core! I invite you to read through a series of six pages that summarize this life-changing journey. It has been a lot to process, and I feel the Lord is leading me to boldly speak up about it.
"SPILLING THE TEA"
7.7.25
I heard this phrase three times in one day last week. I must be out of it because I have not heard this phrase before. So, I asked a friend who had used it if this was a new buzz phrase. We deduced that we are both older and a little out of it. She wasn't sure, but later that day she ran into a tea towel with this phrase on it and sent me a pic of it. I just laughed and moved on. The phrase kept coming back. "Why did I hear this phrase for the first time suddenly, and three times in one day?" I decided maybe the Lord was trying to tell me something, so I googled it.
THE LATEST ALBUM
"Healing from generation trauma is a lifelong journey from understanding to more understanding, freedom to more freedom, peace to more peace, and love to greater love." ~Jill
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...grew up in rural Texas, often sitting on the floor in front of the stereo console binging on her mother's record collection. A neighbor and best friend of her mother's was a singer/songwriter who played guitar. She would add to this record collection by bringing stacks of Laurel Canyon artists like Linda Ronstadt, Carole King, and Carley Simon.
Jill's mother, whose father was a World War II veteran suffering from severe PTSD, later lost her husband to a car accident while pregnant with Jill. She was told that she had also miscarried Jill. Later she would lose a son, JIll's younger brother, to yet another tragic car accident. Life seemed to be a relentless spinning wheel of chaos and trauma. Generational trauma would become an unavoidable effect, and Jill would inevitably inherit her portion, which often mars relational health. Jill loves to turn the focus to the "ever-present, overcoming healing power of God she has found in it all."
This record, influenced by the Laurel Canyon sounds and recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio, reflects Jill's deepest dive into the sometimes difficult matters of love and relationships in this fallen world, which Jill has learned requires a constant Return to Love in finding your way through to ...
The Other Side
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2.14 Désirée
3.3 Bomerang
4.4 11:11
5.5 The whole Record
The plan was to go into Muscle Shoals Sound Studio for 10 evenings and cut one guitar vocal per evening. I would figure out what to do with them later. On the third day, I asked Chase, engineer turned co-producer, if there were still players in town that are the same level of musicians as The Swampers. Chase answered "Sure! There's Will McFarlane and those guys." I said, "Well cool. Call them up! I want to track this stuff."
An hour later Chase came back out of the control room and said, "I'm realizing you don't know who Will McFarlane is." I said, "Nope. Sorry." He said, "Well he was Bonnie Raitt's guitar player." I said, "Oh, that'll do!"
"Will McFarlane and Those Guys came in the next night and cut 7 songs flawlessly! I asked if they could come back the next night. They did, and cut 4 more songs flawlessly! I looked at Chase and said, "I think we just accidentally cut a record!"