Songs of Light and Love, and of Love and Hope

This album is made in response to many requests, over many years, that I record some of the songs that I’ve written and sung in services at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church on Signal Mountain in Tennessee. Similar requests were made for songs performed by the church’s contemporary group, Zammarin. My

Songs of Light and Love, and of Love and Hope

This album is made in response to many requests, over many years, that I record some of the songs that I’ve written and sung in services at St. Timothy’s Episcopal Church on Signal Mountain in Tennessee. Similar requests were made for songs performed by the church’s contemporary group, Zammarin. My thanks go out to everyone who asked for this record. I hope you like it.

As said in the subtitle to the album, these songs come from light and love, two special aspects that are as inexhaustible as they are inexplicable and simple—all traits common to each tune here. They are also songs of hope: hope that is freely expressed, hope that is earned by each of us as we help each other, hope for our world and for those who struggle on after us. There is also my personal hope that these songs may touch, inspire, and lift all who hear them.

One of the songs speaks of the chance that each of us is given to make a positive difference in the lives of others, in a world that seems, far too often, indifferent. Tarbell and the other members of Zammarin join me in the hope that the songs on this record will make a difference to all who hear them.

Thank you to my amazing husband, David, who has encouraged and supported all the creative dreams in my head and heart. His love and belief in me taught my heart to sing.