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Nick, Thanks for including my song, "When He Calls" in this list. That song was written almost 2 years ago to the day. My Aunt Nita, mom's last remaining sister, died 2 years ago Monday. I sang at her funeral, along with our cousin's husband, Troy McManus. Well, 2 weeks after her funeral, Troy passed away. The night he died, I guess the death of my aunt was so fresh that I was overwhelmed with grief and questions. I started playing my guitar and was practicing "Go Rest High On That Mountain" by Vince Gill, which was one of Troy's favorites. Before long, I started playing a similar chord progression and started singing "When He Calls". Like many of my songs, it basically wrote itself as I worked through thoughts about death and heaven. This was one of the songs that changed a llittle during the David Smith project and I ended up adding another verse: Some talk of mansions and streets of gold and of the crystal sea. As for me, I long to behold my friends and family. To me, heaven isn't about getting to some mansion on a hill. How CAN it be about material things like that? If loving people on this side is what we are supposed to do, then I think that being able to fully love all of the people that we have tried to love partially on this side will fill us in Heaven -- and of course, the one that we will love the most, and the fullest and the one that we will finally see face-to-face and that will see US face-to-face, is our loving saviour, Jesus! That song was written almost 2 years ago to the day. My Aunt Nita, mom's last remaining sister, died 2 years ago Monday. I sang at her funeral, along with our cousin's husband, Troy McManus. Well, 2 weeks after her funeral, Troy passed away. The night I he died, I guess the death of my aunt was so fresh that I was overwhelmed with grief and questions. I started playing my guitar and was practicing "Go Rest High On That Mountain" by Vince Gill. Before long, I started playing a chord progression and started singing "When He Calls". Like many of my songs, it basically wrote itself. This was one of the songs that changed a llittle during the David Smith project and I ended up adding another verse: Some talk of mansions and streets of gold and of the crystal sea. As for me, I long to behold my friends and family. To me, heaven isn't about getting to some mansion on a hill. How CAN it be about material things like that? If loving people on this side is what we are supposed to do, then I think that being able to fully love all of the people that we have tried to love partially on this side will fill us in Heaven -- and of course, the one that we will love the most, and the fullest and the one that we will finally see face-to-face and that will see US face-to-face, is our loving saviour, Jesus! Peace! Gerard http://gfsongs.com