Gloria Gaither
Gloria Gaither
Gloria Gaitheris a Christian songwriter, author, speaker, editor, and academic. She is the wife of Bill Gaither and together they have written more than 700 songs. She performed, traveled and recorded with the Bill Gaither Trio from 1965 through 1985. Since 1990, she has served as a performer, recording artist, songwriter, scriptwriter and narrator for the Gaither Homecoming series of television broadcasts, video and DVD releases, and audio recordings...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMusician
Date of Birth4 March 1942
CountryUnited States of America
The more I come to recognize my story's place in God's grander Story, my once-bewildered questions are turning to psalms of thanksgiving at the wonder that I have been included in what He is doing.
I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.
God's will for your life is God's will for today, and it doesn't get any more glamorous than that.
I never set out to write prayers at all. But there was a span of time when I didn't find it easy to pray, but, when I went to write one of the things I had to write, a prayer would come.
When we're in trouble, it's usually a line from a song that saves us. I wish it was sermons, but, I'm sorry, it's not. When you're in crisis, what comes to mind is 'O love that would not let me go.' You know?
Everything is a part of what God's up to in your life, so I think our job is to embrace it. Everything. Embrace it all and consider it God's will for this moment.
Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love in our relationships.
I hear people say, "It's not the quantity of time that's important; it's the quality." Well, technically that may be true, but quality doesn't happen in a hurry.
In working with people across the country and around the world, I've come to know that most of us go through times that re-route our prayer life.
Scripture has always been a part of my life. My dad was a pastor. My mother was a speaker, writer, and teacher. I memorized Scripture from the time I was little.
I'm not what I want to be. I'm not what I'm going to be. But, thank God, I'm not what I was!
Tradition gives us a sense of solidarity and roots, a knowing there are some things one can count on.
What will your children remember? Moments spent listening, talking, playing and sharing together may be the most important times of all.
Prayer is sort of like an unlocked door with a giant, red-lettered sign on it that says: "Welcome. Feel Free to Take What You Need." Inside is the storehouse of all that God is. He invites us to share it all. He doesn't intend for us to stay on the outside and struggle all alone with the perplexities of life, and He not only invites us to come in, but to stay in. . . . It is an on-going process, not just an occasional religious-sounding speech we make to a nebulous divinity "out there somewhere." Prayer is meant to be a part of our lives, like breathing and thinking and talking.