Hi I'm Maureen. I want to tell you just a snippet about myself.

The Lord is the center of my life, and it is through Him that I have been able to live with joy and contentment despite some unique challenges.

I was born three months premature and because of that came into this world with retinas that worked only partially and caused me to be legally blind. I was also born with a rare bone disease called Osteogenesis Imperfecta. Though the disease has many other symptoms it's chief characteristic is that bones tend to be brittle and break easily. consequently I've had a little over 100 fractures.

I grew up in Lester Prairie Minnesota, graduated 4th in my class in high school, and went on to college where I obtained a degree in music therapy.

For, you see, music has always been part of my life. Some of my earliest memories were singing with my sister Kathy. And it wasn't the typical childhood nursery rhyme we were singing. Before I started kindergarden at age 4 I was singing all the popular hits of the mid 1950's. My favorite songs were "Side by Side" and "Catch a Falling Star". I began independently plunking out melodies to these songs on an old upright piano by the time I was 6. Because of frequent fractures my piano playing was often interrupted, but my love for music never died. At age 14 I picked up my sister's guitar and taught myself how to play. As a teen I was especially smitten by folk singers such as Judy Collins and John Denver.

Writing songs was never in my plans. But when Paul and I began attending Church of the Open Door in the mid 1980's a desire to express my love of the Lord was kindled afresh through song.
In the early 1990's many of my songs were recorded and are now available

Even though my love of worshipping God through praise filled music has been frequently disrupted that desire to lift Him up through song has never died.

In 1993 a serious accident caused me to lose all of the vision I had gained through cataract surgery ten years earlier. And a car accident in 1996 left me with an incomplete spinal cord injury which took away the use of my legs, trunk muscles and right hand.

But God in His kindness allowed the 10 years in which I had to be totally dependant on caregivers and my wonderful husband Paul as fertile ground for producing my Arise and Some Run the Race cd's.

In 2006 God began taking me on a miraculous journey of healing. Today I am walking with a walker and long leg brace and have full use of my hands and improving trunk muscle strength.

And I'm continuing to write songs which I enjoy singing in my own walk with God and for the edification and encouragement of others.

God is indeed good.