A few years ago at Vocal Band concert, they sang a song, Come to Jesus. I was in tears. I had been battling a mysterious illness that had taken the will to live right out of me. This song helped open my heart to Jesus. Thank you so much for giving me hope when I needed it. My life has been completely changed because of it. :)
I've been enjoying the videos from the vault. I didn't discover "Christian" gospel music till 2004...I've been looking and listening since then, and still have yet to learn it all. Turns out you guys are legends! God bless and keep you 💗
It was May 1995 in Olathe, Kansas. The lineup that night was Lynda Randle, Janet Paschal, Anthony Burger, The Cathedrals, and GVB. Late in the second half, Bill sat down at the piano and motioned to Lynda to sing The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power. She sang the first verse and out of nowhere, Glen Payne and George Younce started singing the harmony with her. To see these two old Gospel music legends (who happened to be Southern white men) team up with this much younger newcomer (who happens to be a black woman from the inner city) was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, and it was a powerful statement of unity while declaring a timeless truth. I had just completed my junior year of high school, and that memory has stayed with me for 25 years, and I’ll continue to carry it for the rest of my life.
Story and meaning behind "Something Beautiful" by Gloria Gaither "Suzanne, our firstborn, was always the "project kid" around our house. As long as we were making something, building something, painting something, cooking something, she was a contented child. If I was washing dishes, she was standing on her little chair beside me, he arms elbow-deep in the dishwater, talking a mile a minute. If I was making cookies, she was rolling dough and cutting it into Thanksgiving pumpkins, Valentine hearts, Easter bunnies, or stars of Bethlehem, then sprinkling the shapes with colored sugar and silver pellets or smearing the fresh-backed symbols with icing. When she was almost 3, she was working one day with tempera paints and her little table in the corner of the family room. From the kitchen, out of the corner of my eye I watched as she confidently made great strokes of strong colors across the large sheet of paper that covered the whole surface of her table. She kept dipping into water and paint, as children love to do, when - on one trip from paint to paper - a big black blob dropped from her wet brush right into the middle of her picture. I watched her consider it, then try to make something that seemed intentional out of the blob. But because her paper was soaked with too much too-wet paint, the black paint just spread out in little rivulets in all directions, invading the lovely yellows, reds and greens. I heard her feet pattering across the living room to the bathroom. She came back with a washcloth and tried to soak up some of the paint, rubbing the soggy paper wiht the end of the cloth. Soon she had rubbed a hole in the center of her picture and the colors around it had turned an ugly umber. It wasn't long before she was in tears. She picked up the drippy mess and brought it into the kitchen where I was working "Oh Mommy," she sobbed, "I tried to make you something beautiful but just look! I dropped some paint." She heaved and caught her breath. "I tried to fix it, but it just got worse and now just look!" I took the soggy painting and laid it on the counter, then knelt down beside her, took her in my arms, and let her cry out her anguish and disappointment. Finally, when she was spent and could hear me, I said, "I think there is one more bog peice of paper in the craft closet. Let me check." I went to where we kept supplies and, sure enough, there was a clean sheet left. You should have seen her face when she took the paper and skipped off to her table to begin again! So often we are like Suzanne and her painting. We start out with noble dreams and aspirations. We harbor high hopes and lofty ambitions. We make up our minds not to make to make the mistakes our parents made, not to choose the paths our sisters chose, not to mess up as our brothers did. Perhaps the best thing that can happen to us is to realize that we are not self-sufficient. Like a child, we can take the mess we've made of things to a heavenly Father and say, "Oh Lord, I wanted so to make something beautiful of my life, but just look..." The amazing thing about Jesus is that He doesn't just patch up our lives. He doesn't just "make do" out of what we have left. He gives us a brand-new sheet, a clean slate to start over with. This miracle called "grace" is this: no matter when we realize we've made shabby gods and give control to Him, He makes us new creations. With God, it's never Plan B or second best. It's always Plan A. And, if we let Him, He'll make something beautiful of our lives."
This was in my spirit today as a thanks to God, for rescuing me from such a bad start in life and doing miracles in my life. It was so nice to hear this today. Thank you, Gaithers and friends for blessing the world so much.
God bless you both and all the Gaither families and fans ,he been in love with their songs since my teenage life. More anointing,power,grace and strength
Thank you So Much🙏 are used to play records my mom and dad head and then I would play them on my sisters stereo and then I recorded them on tape Play the tapes. I found Jesus for 50 years. Thank you so much
I sing this at my church but somewhere someone gave me a second verse to it.....my burdens were heavy my heart was despairing when Jesus whispered to me. He said if you give me your life and live for me completely, I’ll be all you need. I said lord you know me , I’ve nothing to offer, my life’s in disharmony, but if you could use a vessel like me, I’m yours eternally
Thats beautiful. Quite coincidental also because this is the first time I really listened to this particular video and read the comments. I love the song and was wondering recently if there is more to it. All I've come across only sings that one verse. Whats so interesting also is to see you only just wrote your comment,despite this video seems to have been up awhile😀.Maybe somewhere out there is the full thing:) Anyway,that one verse says more that enough-Hallelujah. God bless to you.
please God keep Bill life so I can see him face to face please do this favour i wish i could meet Jessy Dixon, Dottie Ramboo they gone but Lord please do me a favor let me at least see Bill and Gloria you know how much they keep me strong in your way, you know how much they inspired me, please Lord you say you will fullfil our heart desires please Lord😥😥😥😥😥
I’m so confused by his statement at 1:50. He wasn’t going to do this but..? What, sing? He wasn’t going to sing that particular verse? That’s already a part of that song? DO HUH?! Oh now that I think about it, he seems to say *something * at that part. Like, “There’s a verse in that song and it goes like this...”.. ok mystery solved.
Do you have the footage from the Trio and Vocal Band that was released (perhaps only to bookstores) on a VHS called One X 1 that had a few GVB songs from that album? Do you have any footage of the Vocal Band with Lemuel Miller? Those two would be awesome to see!
Jan Thomson Don't know for sure but I think it was just the disbanding of the trio and continuation of the vocal band that she didn't have a group to sing in. I'm sure she still sings at the Homecoming performances
Indeed she does still sing along with most of the songs I have watched. It is merely an observation a friend and I had. Wondered why she seemingly pulled back. I am a huge fan and have no complaints whatsoever. I am blessed daily by them.
What have been some of your favorite moments from Gaither concerts in the past?
A few years ago at Vocal Band concert, they sang a song, Come to Jesus. I was in tears. I had been battling a mysterious illness that had taken the will to live right out of me. This song helped open my heart to Jesus. Thank you so much for giving me hope when I needed it. My life has been completely changed because of it. :)
I've been enjoying the videos from the vault. I didn't discover "Christian" gospel music till 2004...I've been looking and listening since then, and still have yet to learn it all. Turns out you guys are legends! God bless and keep you 💗
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It was May 1995 in Olathe, Kansas. The lineup that night was Lynda Randle, Janet Paschal, Anthony Burger, The Cathedrals, and GVB. Late in the second half, Bill sat down at the piano and motioned to Lynda to sing The Blood Will Never Lose Its Power. She sang the first verse and out of nowhere, Glen Payne and George Younce started singing the harmony with her. To see these two old Gospel music legends (who happened to be Southern white men) team up with this much younger newcomer (who happens to be a black woman from the inner city) was one of the coolest things I’ve ever seen, and it was a powerful statement of unity while declaring a timeless truth. I had just completed my junior year of high school, and that memory has stayed with me for 25 years, and I’ll continue to carry it for the rest of my life.
Story and meaning behind "Something Beautiful" by Gloria Gaither
"Suzanne, our firstborn, was always the "project kid" around our house. As long as we were making something, building something, painting something, cooking something, she was a contented child. If I was washing dishes, she was standing on her little chair beside me, he arms elbow-deep in the dishwater, talking a mile a minute. If I was making cookies, she was rolling dough and cutting it into Thanksgiving pumpkins, Valentine hearts, Easter bunnies, or stars of Bethlehem, then sprinkling the shapes with colored sugar and silver pellets or smearing the fresh-backed symbols with icing.
When she was almost 3, she was working one day with tempera paints and her little table in the corner of the family room. From the kitchen, out of the corner of my eye I watched as she confidently made great strokes of strong colors across the large sheet of paper that covered the whole surface of her table. She kept dipping into water and paint, as children love to do, when - on one trip from paint to paper - a big black blob dropped from her wet brush right into the middle of her picture. I watched her consider it, then try to make something that seemed intentional out of the blob. But because her paper was soaked with too much too-wet paint, the black paint just spread out in little rivulets in all directions, invading the lovely yellows, reds and greens.
I heard her feet pattering across the living room to the bathroom. She came back with a washcloth and tried to soak up some of the paint, rubbing the soggy paper wiht the end of the cloth. Soon she had rubbed a hole in the center of her picture and the colors around it had turned an ugly umber.
It wasn't long before she was in tears. She picked up the drippy mess and brought it into the kitchen where I was working
"Oh Mommy," she sobbed, "I tried to make you something beautiful but just look! I dropped some paint." She heaved and caught her breath. "I tried to fix it, but it just got worse and now just look!"
I took the soggy painting and laid it on the counter, then knelt down beside her, took her in my arms, and let her cry out her anguish and disappointment. Finally, when she was spent and could hear me, I said, "I think there is one more bog peice of paper in the craft closet. Let me check."
I went to where we kept supplies and, sure enough, there was a clean sheet left. You should have seen her face when she took the paper and skipped off to her table to begin again!
So often we are like Suzanne and her painting. We start out with noble dreams and aspirations. We harbor high hopes and lofty ambitions. We make up our minds not to make to make the mistakes our parents made, not to choose the paths our sisters chose, not to mess up as our brothers did.
Perhaps the best thing that can happen to us is to realize that we are not self-sufficient. Like a child, we can take the mess we've made of things to a heavenly Father and say, "Oh Lord, I wanted so to make something beautiful of my life, but just look..."
The amazing thing about Jesus is that He doesn't just patch up our lives. He doesn't just "make do" out of what we have left. He gives us a brand-new sheet, a clean slate to start over with. This miracle called "grace" is this: no matter when we realize we've made shabby gods and give control to Him, He makes us new creations. With God, it's never Plan B or second best. It's always Plan A. And, if we let Him, He'll make something beautiful of our lives."
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Thank you so much Gloria Gaither ☺
Wow!!!
Thank you so much for this story.
Well you just said the most beautiful things. Amen if we just let God be God in our lives he will make something beautiful out of our lives
Thanking God for the singing preachers, like King David 👏🏻❤️🤗🌴👍🏻
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How are you doing today?
This was in my spirit today as a thanks to God, for rescuing me from such a bad start in life and doing miracles in my life. It was so nice to hear this today. Thank you, Gaithers and friends for blessing the world so much.
Hello Helene how are you doing today ?
I really appreciate watching a gaither homecoming show & gaither vocal band with guy Penrod,mark Lowry, the oak ridge boys
Sweet Bill and Gloria.....the two most brilliant people in this whole wide world ! Your songs are fantastic !
I would love to hear something from the vault with Danny Gaither in the trio. He had the most beautiful, natural voice I've ever heard.
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Hello Suzy how are you doing today ?
Danny's voice had his own unique quality. UA-cam helps us hear him when we have that need.
God bless you both and all the Gaither families and fans ,he been in love with their songs since my teenage life. More anointing,power,grace and strength
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Truth is, those hymn writers in the old hymnals, lived long lives! And that’s when medicine and surgery were quite rudimentary.
Thank you So Much🙏 are used to play records my mom and dad head and then I would play them on my sisters stereo and then I recorded them on tape Play the tapes. I found Jesus for 50 years. Thank you so much
Oh, how much I have enjoyed over the many years the music of Bill and Gloria.
Awesome. Love Micheal's hair
Hello Teka how are you doing today ?
Wonderful piece❤
What a blessing!
❤ ❤ ❤ beautiful thank God.
I could listen to them all day. Love the Gaithers.
I think "Something Beautiful" in our church hymnal was my very first exposure to the Gaithers. Went right out and bought the album..
@@sandrasharp2934 Hello! How are you doing today! Please pardon me for intruding into your privacy but I just wanted to know if you're a fan.
Thank you for keeping these songs alive.
Love when Gloria sang with the group
Michael English being hugged and loved on by Vestal when he was overcome with a song.
Hello Penny how are you doing today ?
Luv this one! Drive carefully. Mom
Loved this, all was so young and truly beautiful. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
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How are you doing today?
I sing this at my church but somewhere someone gave me a second verse to it.....my burdens were heavy my heart was despairing when Jesus whispered to me. He said if you give me your life and live for me completely, I’ll be all you need. I said lord you know me , I’ve nothing to offer, my life’s in disharmony, but if you could use a vessel like me, I’m yours eternally
Thats beautiful. Quite coincidental also because this is the first time I really listened to this particular video and read the comments. I love the song and was wondering recently if there is more to it. All I've come across only sings that one verse. Whats so interesting also is to see you only just wrote your comment,despite this video seems to have been up awhile😀.Maybe somewhere out there is the full thing:) Anyway,that one verse says more that enough-Hallelujah.
God bless to you.
Katherine Jones Bill and Gloria only wrote one verse.....someone in my fellowship of churches wrote that verse!
@@brianeason3659 Ok. Well,they did a good job,I think. And I feel sure Bill and Gloria would probably agree:)
Katherine Jones you could search UA-cam and look up my name and hear that version
@@brianeason3659 Ok....thanks.😇
absolutely love it!!!
Something beautiful happens to be my favorite of them all. All my confusion he understood......
I dint know Bill came this far with Mr English. Kkkkk that joke, Yes he is still alive n we still need him
I have this on VHS. The quality isn't nearly as clear as this. Would love to see it released on DVD!
🥰🥰😘I love this song
Little girl just sang along ..so cute
please God keep Bill life so I can see him face to face
please do this favour
i wish i could meet Jessy Dixon, Dottie Ramboo they gone but Lord please do me a favor let me at least see Bill and Gloria you know how much they keep me strong in your way, you know how much they inspired me, please Lord you say you will fullfil our heart desires please Lord😥😥😥😥😥
Wow! 😭
Sing it Bill!
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Amen
❤ pretty love so much
The Holy City
I’m so confused by his statement at 1:50. He wasn’t going to do this but..?
What, sing? He wasn’t going to sing that particular verse? That’s already a part of that song?
DO HUH?!
Oh now that I think about it, he seems to say *something * at that part. Like, “There’s a verse in that song and it goes like this...”.. ok mystery solved.
Do you have the footage from the Trio and Vocal Band that was released (perhaps only to bookstores) on a VHS called One X 1 that had a few GVB songs from that album? Do you have any footage of the Vocal Band with Lemuel Miller? Those two would be awesome to see!
This on DVD ?
Is there a reason that Gloria doesn't sing anymore ? She made a comment jokingly one day that she would consider singing again. I am confused.
Jan Thomson Don't know for sure but I think it was just the disbanding of the trio and continuation of the vocal band that she didn't have a group to sing in. I'm sure she still sings at the Homecoming performances
Indeed she does still sing along with most of the songs I have watched. It is merely an observation a friend and I had. Wondered why she seemingly pulled back. I am a huge fan and have no complaints whatsoever. I am blessed daily by them.
The insincere acting is nauseating while Bill sings.