Go Climb That Mountain

One of my favorite things about my church is our annual women’s conference called Time Out For Women.  I’ve attended this event for 2 consecutive years in 3 different locations and it’s always incredible and inevitably at least one presenter is at my location JUST for me I know it!  At my second event, I was introduced to the LDS girl group Mercy River and about 4 measures into their first song, they quickly became a favorite!  You can check them out here or here.  I will post the poem I wrote inspired by their closing performance at that event on the Praise Faithfule link here on my blog.

Because I am audio powered, I buy music kind of like crafters buy paper.  It’s one of my favorite things and I’m kind of OCD about it actually.  When I find an artist I like, I typically have to have EVERY album they have released or I have convulsions and stomach aches.  Not wanting to risk either, I quickly coughed up my plastic and purchased both Mercy River CD’s during our break.  Though their second album Beautiful Dawn is great (we LOVE Hello Sunshine), I think my favorite is the self-titled first album.  On that CD is this amazing song called “Go Climb That Mountain.”  It’s kept me so inspired since I first heard it.  Here’s some of my favorite lyrics:

“Go climb that mountain!  Go climb that mountain, go climb that mountain.  If you start with willing feet you can conquer anything.  Set your feet on that road and go.  Every time you cast your eyes on that mountain it seems the peaks reach further than the skies but that mountain was made for your feet and there is one who has always believed in your journey….if you start with willing feet you can conquer anything, set your feet on that road and GO!”

Isn’t that powerful?  I just love the part about “if you start with willing feet.”  How true is that…if we start with willing feet and the Lord at our side, certainly we can conquer anything.  Since becoming a single parent three years ago, often my view of the skies is clouded by peak after peak after peak.  Often I fear I lack the energy to take even one more step…it’s at those moments I hit up my Mercy River play list and turn on the musical reminder to keep on keeping on that I find in “Go Climb That Mountain.”  Lately, the amount of peaks I see seems to have tripled and I figured I might need a visual reminder as well as Mercy River’s Audio one.  Here is what I just finished creating:

It’s pretty plain because I intend to laminate it and bling and pearls and stickles don’t like the laminating machine too much.

Supplies Needed:

Scrap paper…that’s what I used.

Cricut

Dinosaur Tracks

Hannah Montana

George and Basic Shapes

 

The overall dimensions are about 3 by 8.  The words Go and Climb are made from Hannah Montana, the mountains come from Dinosaur Tracks (that is what it’s called right?) and then the black background shape came from George and Basic Shapes.  The purple paper this piece is mounted to was just cut using my new trimmer (I’m trying to figure out if I like it or not).

The girls of Mercy River are beautiful inside and out.  From reading their blog and being their friend on Facebook I can tell they are as witty and funny as they are beautiful and I am thrilled beyond belief that I was exposed to them.  I am inspired and encouraged by their vocals pretty much daily.  Did I mention the girls are gracious too?  They have allowed me to share some of their music with you.  Please be advised though, I have made the tracks I’m going to share a PowerPoint presentation in order to help protect their copyright.  To hear “Go Climb That Mountain, please download this file to your computer (it’s safe I promise) and then double-click it to open.  The song will play when you open it and you will see a picture of my girls while this amazing song plays in the background.  Ladies, thanks for letting me share your beautiful music in this public forum so my crafty friends can get a taste of the wondrous talent you have been blessed with and are willing to share.

If you like what you hear and want to buy the self-titled album, please click here.  To buy their second album Beautiful Dawn, please click here.  Be sure to visit my blog again so you can hear samples of other songs they’ve let me share, there might even be craft projects relating to them!