Hubby's Golfing With A Friend!

Yep...Jan just walked out the door to golf! He hasn't done this for a long while so this is what I'm going to expect when he get's back!

I stunk! LOL!
I'm almost sure he's not going to do well and he'll be unhappy with his swing or putting. But...why? It's not like he put time into it. It's not like he's a professional or goes out that much to really get better. But...for some reason he expects to be surprised with a good game.

We want results with little work! That's our society today. Show up and hope we look like the best! Now...in golf that's not going to work. In most things that's not going to work. So...why is it we keep aiming for that over and over with no change or time applied to making us better?

I want to be the BEST christian I can be! I'm sure you do too! Yet for many of us(me included at times) we show up for the day hoping someone will see us as the best christian without putting the work into it. Day in and Day out we show up for a day doing the same thing but not applying God's word to our life. If we don't take the time to read the word to see how God would have us grow for that day it's just as bad as my hubby showing up to play golf and expecting to do well.

Just a reminder to change a bad pattern that might be in your life. Starting off every day in the wrong way won't achieve the right goals.

The Bible!

Read it! :)

I'm going to be WRITING!

Yes...today I'm headed to my good friends house Amy and Kerry! I'm going to be spending sometime writing with Kerry. I'm excited about that! One because...in the last few days I've had some stuff I needed to work through. That stuff might be able to surface through the writing. Two...because we are writing for NO reason.
Usually...I'm sitting down at the last minute to write with someone. Which is great but...time is never our friend. So...today I'm hoping to walk away with a song, or idea or music. Too cool!

Rain! Rain? "Rain" !

Well...we missed another rain! Yeh...I'm not wanting a ton of rain because twice now our basement has flooded within the last 4 years. But...we are also trying to keep the new grass that was planted alive. All the rain is going either East of us or West of us. We can't seem to get any. Then next year...we will probably have more rain than what we really know what to do with.

Weather tends to be the one thing that God clearly can say to us "I'm still in control"! It doesn't matter if you believe in him or not you'll have to question his existence. You might not admit it, confess it or even believe but...you'll wonder! I know you will!

Givings A Pleasure!!!!!

Well...since my hubby is a radiologist and reading MRI's is what he does I thought this was kind of interesting!
So...what's your take on this?


Donating money to charity can feel good – and now there’s new evidence to prove it. The regions of the brain associated with pleasure light up when you give, according to researches at the University of Oregon. Details are in the journal Science. They say brain-imaging technologies like MRI’s may allow economists to uncover more unknown facts about human behavior and motivation that were previously hidden. These parts of the brain have previously associated with the brain's response to rewarding stimuli, such as taking street drugs or viewing pictures of loved ones.

I'm starting this over once again!

I'm thinking about moving my blog from there to here! For a lot of different reasons. No need getting into that but...I wanted to see if this was still working. Post a comment and let me know! I'm leaving on vacation tomorrow night! I can't wait! I'm more than ready! I'm excited and really looking forward to the down time.

Not really GOOD at this here!

I know that I'm probably writing this to myself but...I have tried to keep this thing going only to walk away from it a time or two. I blog over at Shoutlife which is an awesome Christian community for people. They also have an artists, organization,comedian and author area. I thought I would blog that I'm blogging there. LOL! You can check out "Shoutlife" By going to www.shoutlife.com . You can stop by my spot at www.shoutlife.com/leahmartensen . You can also hear my new music there as well if you are interest. I'm not shutting this down because I'm hoping to get back to it. I've just been doing a lot of touring and working on my ministry and it's just hard to do it all. It bothers me to know I have this place and can't keep it up. I'd love to build it up someday. Blessings to you all! Or...LOL! to me if I'm the only one reading this! leah

Blogger

Hey! I'm having problems with my site. If anyone is reading this can you help? I've just been told after trying to get my comments that "My site is closed due to term violations". What is that? I've not done anything. I had a spammer come on and it's been removed but I haven't violated anything? LOL!

COMING SOON!

Hey!!!!!!!

I'M STILL HERE!!!!! You just can't tell! LOL! I really stink at this blog thing! Have a GREAT NEW YEARS! 2007 has some great thing in store for everyone I'm sure. For me...I'm hoping it means less water and no flooding. That would be a great break! Blessings to you all! leah

Rocky- Yes Even I got a lesson from it!

We were planning on going to the Nativity tonight as a Christmas get together with friends. Come to find out that wasn't showing at the Mall at night. Hmmmm...Not sure why but we chose the Rocky movie. We laughed and joked about how lame it was going to be. But...I have to say I really liked it! I gave it a 4 out of 5 tonight when ask. Maybe because I needed to hear what this movie was saying. It wasn't about winning to me but moving forward with your life passions. If you are a fighter that's all you know. Apply that to anything. If you are a SINGER...that's all you know. Fighters quit because people tell them it's time but...sometimes you know deep down you're just not being called to quit just yet. I'm at that point. Well...in my head. Life is about the young. I'm not old...not YET. But...some people try to put me there. God called me to sing and share my life with others. He's called me to use my gifts. I've never heard him tell me it's time to hang it up. But...I have had people for all the wrong reason try to make me think that. Tonight was a moment to re-evaluate myself. I believe that God was making me think again for the umpteen time that...it's not over till he says it is and I'll know when that is with no question. To sum this up...don't let anyone take your time from him! I know we all struggle with this from time to time. People can have all the right intentions or all the wrong motives it what they try to make you believe but...in your heart you know. There's that feeling of God tugging to keep moving past the hits. I'm keeping that close for 2007 Blessings and Merry Christmas! leah

Enjoying Christmas!!!!!!

Well...now that all my travel is over I get to do all those things everyone has been doing for the last month. SHOPPING! I'm usually an all year shopper so it's done early. But...I've been to busy this year to make that happen. So...now I'm working on it and it's actually not to bad. Tonight I'm so happy that we are heading out with friends to Fox Theater to see "White Christmas". I love Christmas stories, and musicals. So I'm really looking forward to seeing this musicals which I've seen a millions times before. There's just something about old musicals and Christmas. So...this post didn't have much of value other than...I'm hoping you are enjoying this Christmas with your family and friends. Blessings!Leah

Nashville - Did you even know?

I had a great time in Nashville this weekend! Totally got my music done. Had dinner with some great people(John and Robin)! Caught up with an awesome artist and her manager hubby(Kathleen and Brett) who took us around the whole opryland hotel Christmas world. Jan and I also had so time together just chillin out. We've decide that we're going to be doing more 3 day things. We really enjoyed this weekend! Blessings to you all this Christmas season! leah

I'm BACK(for today) :)

It's been awhile I know! I probably don't have anyone coming here now but...totally understand why. I'm not good at keeping blogs up. I'm going to cut and paste a couple of things I've blogged on my Myspace so...let me know if your reading. The Spam guys got ahold of my sites so I had to clean that up too. Blessings to you all! or none! LOL! Leah

#9 on the Charts!

Saturday, July 22, 2006

TOP 20 of the Month of July 22, 2006

TOP 20 of the Week on iggyROCKS! July 22, 2006

1. Revelation Project - Children - Revelation Project
2. ResDeus - Never Meant to Last - ResDeus
3. Kevin Max - Existence - Stereotype Be
4. Featuring Mike Lee Of Barren Cross - Make Believe - Soundtrack of a Soul
5. Bliss - All of Me - Quiet Letters: U.S. Edition
6. The Strangers - Quench The Thirsting - Compilation Album
7. Rock and Roll Worship Circus - A Beautiful Glow - A Beautiful Glow
8. Lindsey Kane - Satisfied - Lindsey Kane

9. Leah Martensen - Race Cars In The Rain - What I'm Not

10. Aisle Seven - Top - Aisle Seven
11. Transistor Radio - The Getaway - Transistor Radio
12. The Huntingtons & Darlington - Judy Jetson - Huntingtons & Darlington: Split CD
13. Stryper - To Hell With The Devil - Can't Stop The Rock: The Stryper Collection 1984-1991
14. Strangeland - The enemy has fallen - http://www.strange-band.com
15. Smalltown Poets - Every Reason - Third Verse
16. RezBand - Can't Stop Loving You - Ampenodectomy
17. Larry Norman - Watch What You're Doing - Something New Under the Son
18. Katholicus - Pull Me Through - No Greater Love
19. John Reuben - Do Not - Are We There Yet?
20. Jeremy Camp - Take My Life - Stay

ST. MICHEAL'S RCIA - PODCAST

We have another play on podcast this week.
This weeks play is from St. Michael's RCIA.
St. Michael's is a Catholic church in Cranford, NJ.


The podcast show is hosted by Christopher Cavaliere. Song of choice this week was....."How Ironic"! Yes....How Ironic it is!
Thanks for the play!

WORD FOR THE DAY!

"True peace is not the absence of trouble, but the presence of God"

MAD MONEY MACHINE

Mad Money Machine one of the Top 10 Investment Podcasting programs played "Shut Up and Pray" on their lasted program. Using the song creatively to get a point across about stocks! It's excited to see how God can take a song and place it where you would least expect it. Although credit was not given to who or where the song came from with the rest of the other artists credits it's clear that God is a very creative God who also has a sense of humor! :) Never underestimate!

UPDATE ---- MAD MONEY NOW HAS ME ON THE CREDITS! Yeh! After sending an e-mail it was an oversite which they fixed! :)

ANOTHER FLOOD AT THE MARTENSEN'S

I can't believe we are at this road again. Ohio was hit with a huge storm on Wednesday Jun 22 and I'm told it was a 500 years storm(whatever that is) Anyhow we ended up with 4 ft of dirty water in our basement. Last time this happened I only saw what it left behind. This time I was down in the water trying to move in waist deep water screaming on the inside "this can't be happening again." I have to say that I've been having this pitty party. Why would God let this happen to ME again? Like...I'm the only one in Sylvania dealing with this. But wait...I'm a Christian! God loves me! I serve Him! Shouldn't he send the water in a different direction for me?
Well...it would have been nice but...it didn't happen. Once I sat back and realized that there were others even worst off them me I started settling for well...it could have been worst. And the bottom line is...it could have been! I lost my keyboard(piano) in the flood. It's more about a huge amount of work issue that I don't know if we can keep up with but...already we've had a couple of friend step in to get the water out and tomorrow the walls will be ripped out. I know that God allows stuff for a reason. I'm hoping to find out just why this time. LOL! I'm hoping he will reveil it to me. I'll keep you posted! Blessings to you all!

This is not my basement! But...it could be!

Build The Church. com

Hey if you want to listen to a podcast program go to www.buildthechurch.com They just featured my cd and I'm on Show #90. I haven't done my interview with them yet because I'm swamped with the diva retreat and dinner coming up. All the Christian D.I.V.A.s have been featured through the month. It's a pretty cool show! Leah www.joyfulsoundrecords

A small update!

Well...I knew that I would be bad at this! I also knew that I'd feel guilty for not keeping it going. It's the "not letting anyone down thing"! The funny thing to this is...I'm not sure who's even reading this if anyone! Talk about having unnecessary GUILT! LOL!

Here's a small update on what's been going on. I've been busy doing concerts on the weekends, getting ready for the Christian D.I.V.A.s retreat and dinner showcase that's coming up June 23. Mega time doing that! Then in the middle of everything I got this e-mail about recording again. Totally out of the blue and totally a God thing! I'm going to be doing a more acoustic cd which is what I really do best. But...not only that I'm going to do something I've been running from. In music we all have a style that we lean towards and are best at. In my heart I've always known mine but fear it because it's either loved or hated. So...I did everything from Jazz to pop and stayed clear. But...I'm giving in! I'm going back and doing an acoustic folk, country soft rock cd. Yep...country! Not cowboy country! Not twangy country but folk soft rock country.(Think Susan Ashton) I'm not country, country! But...it's hard to explain that because once you say the word country people just make up their minds.

So...I'm asking that you stick around and take a listen when it's done and let me know what you think. There should be something to listen to around Sept. So...you can make fun of me then! LOL!
Blessings to all who come to this site!
Leah