2. Dance O' Child Of God!

3. I've Got Faith 

4. Salvation and Glory 

5. Sleep Tight My Child 

6. Forget Me Not 

7. God Showed His Love

9.  The King's Coming 

10. Be Still 

11. God Wants Us To Be

12. Examine Me 

13. I Forgive You 

14. Oh I Trust You Lord 

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Read the inspiration behind the songs by click here: Inspiration
Read the music credits by clicking here" Music Credits
Read the lyrics to the songs from "Dance O' Child Of God" by clicking here: Song Lyrics

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"Dance O' Child Of God"	"I Am Yours Lord"
"Old Favorites - Christmas Songs"	"Songs From The Heart"

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Inspirations for the songs off of this CD

Music Of A Baby’s Cry:
This song was written shortly after Norman’s daughter Carly Beth was brought home from the hospital after her great ordeal from birth. It is a testimony of an actual miracle when all the doctors had given up and determined Carly would only live for a few more hours. Carly was diagnosed with pulmonary hypertension and had as little as 6% oxygen going to her brain, through her blood stream. After Norman and his wife mostly staying at the hospital every day had decided to go home and sleep and come back with fresh clothes etc., they received a phone call from one of the attending doctors who informed Norman that Carly was dying and that if they wanted to spend the last few hours with her that they should come down as soon as possible. On the way there Norman prayed to the Lord telling Him that “no matter what happens I won’t be bitter. I will still trust in You”. 

When they arrived at the hospital and prepared themselves by scrubbing down and putting on gowns etc. they went in to face the crisis. They were greeted quickly by the doctor who called them on the phone and another female doctor and there was great energy and excitement going on. The doctor told Norman, “Mr. Morrison, we don’t make those kind of phone calls unless we’re sure but about 15 minutes ago, your daughter completely turned around and we have just decided to take her off the life support, “el dope”, morphine, respirator, 100% oxygen, and put her in God’s hands”. When Norman was told that he knew that the Lord had healed her right when he was talking to Him on the freeway. He told the Lord in his heart “I will never be afraid to share You with people ever again in my life”.

When he heard Carly cry for the first time at home, it was then that he was inspired to write the song. The sound of crying usually is not appreciated but in this case it meant “life”.
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Dance, O Child of God!
Norman reminisced about when Carly as an innocent little girl, used to dance around the room waiving a blue scarf in the air in worship before the Lord while he played his songs before the Lord. This song is about the purity God gives us through faith in Jesus Christ and the true liberty and joy of everlasting freedom. This song is an attempt to express a picture that is in Norman’s memory of a good and wonderful time. It also describes a joy Norman believes the Lord Himself has when He sees His child or children so grateful and in love and joyful about Him and His worthiness to be honored, worshipped and praised.
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I’ve Got Faith:
When Carly was in Teen Reach this was her favorite song. When you listen to the words you can see why then and now this song is appropriate.
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Salvation and Glory:
Norman is practicing what he preaches in this song. Because there is going to come a day when there will be no more tears. He’s dwelling on that day and using the words to the song that will be sung in Heaven described in Revelations 19:1.
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Sleep Tight: 
This song was written after Norman’s daughter Carly had passed away. He was remembering Carly laying next to him on the couch after getting up from bed being afraid of the dark, but also in the present tense, referring to her as “being asleep”. This song is really about the past, present, and future. It is also about Norman as a godly father teaching her the promises of God through faith in Jesus Christ which includes of how the believers in Christ who are dead now but “in Christ” will be raised from the dead at His return and be transformed and join the Lord. Also, using the same words except referring to the “Son” instead of the ‘sun’ when he sings “before you know it the sun “Son” will appear” and our heavenly Father instead of earthly father and the “Light” (God is the Light) that in the end prevails over darkness. There is another future meaning in the song that will be realized one day of which Norman has chosen not to reveal. 
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Forget Me Not:
When Norman was up at the cemetery where Carly had just been buried making arrangements for the contents of a gravestone and design he remembered a recent conversation with Carly where she had told him that she wished that there was an actual rose bush that produced blue roses. At that moment he was deciding on having the Rose of Sharon” in a vine like form wrapping around a cross and having an open blossom. This type of rose looks different that most roses that we see when in full bloom. Norman asked the representative if it was possible to have the rose be blue instead of red. The lady said “sure”. She suggested that they go drive up to a site where a flower had been put upon a gravestone with the blue color. So they went and took a look. 

When they returned to the office in the car, upon stepping out of the car Norman looked down as saw a synthetic bluish purple flower lying right next to his foot. The petals looked exactly like what the face of the final product was to look like. He expressed “wow this is kind of weird”, and the representative suggested that he should save it. So he did. Then a short time later while Norman and his wife Julia were watching a program on television about garden flowers they were showing this beautiful blue flower that actually looked exactly like what the final product was to look like on Carly’s grave and yet looked exactly like the flower that Norman had found at his foot when stepping out of the car. Then the person on the program stated the name of the flower to be “Forget Me Not”. Norman will never state to anyone emphatically that Carly had communicated to him, but the song is his interpretation of the whole event and his answer to her as well as his constant proclamation of God’s promises. Interestingly, the stone worker mistakenly put two flower blossoms on the stone instead of the intended single rose blossom. 
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God Showed His Love:
Norman kept finger picking this little part that you hear when he first comes in singing the chorus "God showed His love toward man through the cross. But before he had the words for this song he kept picturing Jesus carrying His own cross with determination. He would imagine Jesus falling and yet getting back up again with all of the strength that He had left after being beaten and tortured. Realizing how we can know what Jesus did for all mankind, yet easily, daily forget, or be distracted by other things, Norman felt compelled to really stress that God the Father made a gesture of love never to be equaled ever again by this willful sacrifice. Jesus, being God’s only begotten Son, expressed His Father’s love to the world.

Norman was thinking how he felt in losing his youngest daughter to an accident and then thought about the feelings of our God in allowing purposely the death of His only begotten Son. And even worse how He feels when so many live their lives as if nothing ever happened. When this is truly the most awesome, loving, giving event of grace that man will ever experience!

The passion that resonates in Norman's ‘preaching expression’ was done in tears as the realization overwhelmed his spirit in the studio when he was supposed to perform a harmony part to his lead voice. At that moment Norman was expressing God's love with a plea for the opening of the ears and hearts and minds of so many who are blinded by sin that God is still calling to this day to come home.
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A Special Place:
Norman had an old piece of music that he used to always play on the piano since he was a teenager. When he attempted to put words to it he never was ever satisfied that they were the “keeper” words for this song to be complete. About a year before Carly had passed away she had expressed how she really missed the old family piano which I had given to some friends when we had been given another antique piano by some other friends of ours. Carly kept saying “I have so many memories with that piano, I really miss it”. So Norman one day told the friends that he had given the piano to what Carly had been expressing and they insisted that he take the piano back. So Norman gave away the antique piano to yet some other friends and had the old family piano returned to the house. 

Shortly thereafter Carly was killed in the auto accident. About 3 weeks after her death Norman had a dream. In this dream Norman was going to a place that he’s not sure but he thinks that he has dreamt about many times yet there is a sort of veil over his memory in some way, yet it’s as though he has known of this place all of his life somehow. He describes what he saw in the dream. When he went into the house he went directly to a downstairs bedroom and inside there lay Carly sleeping in bed. He clearly could see that she was breathing (representing life) and noticed that her hair was its natural brown color rather than it’s slightly bleached blonder color. He also sensed in his spirit that there were six children in spirit represented there. Then as soon as he woke up from the dream the words, “I go prepare a place for you. I wouldn’t tell you this unless it was true” came into his mind, which are Jesus words to His disciples. The next day Norman for some reason sat at the old family piano and started playing the old tune from when he was a kid. But this time he sang about the dream. He also took King David’s line and attitude when David’s young son had died, in putting it into his own words, “she will never come to me again but I will go to her”. 
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The King’s Coming:
The development of this song came as far back as the 1970’s. This is the music that Norman’s daughter Carly used to dance to waiving the blue scarf. Ironically the celebration in the song is about Jesus Christ’s promised second coming. The horns that you’ll hear at first are representing the final trump which is being portrayed 

Be Still: Norman wrote this song using scripture promises of God to remind himself or anyone what God says to us. Scriptures that we should memorize and teach our children and grandchildren of which when need be will come to remembrance by the Holy Spirit during a trial and hopefully a steadfast trust in the Lord will be the result. 

When Norman was a young boy his large family used to go camping a lot. On some of those long trips his mom used to keep them all busy learning an old song “There was a little Ford”. The way it worked was that after the first line you had to repeat that line and then add the new line to it. Each time you repeated the previous lines. So you had to remember what you had already sung. So Norman thought this would be fun and at the same time anyone who would take on the endeavor to sing the song would be forced to remember God’s scripture promises while having fun doing it. His prayer is that some day because some child of God had learned this song it would also serve as an anchor when they need to hold on to its truth and message in a trying time. It worked for Norman while grieving at the loss of his daughter. Outside of the bridge all of the words are supposed to be God speaking to us, His children. The 3 voices are representing the Trinity which was TK’s idea.
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God Wants Us To Be:
Norman’s always going to preach a little when he thinks the audience will listen.
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Examine Me:
This song was the last choice to be part of this project. It was also written after Carly’s passing. Norman felt that it was appropriate because there are many thought provoking songs on this album and he felt that we all need to understand the need for daily repentance and honesty between the Lord and us. We fess up and He pours out His grace. There’s nothing like a spiritual bath. We always take the time and are honest about our need to take a shower or bathe every day. Most of us can’t stand to be dirty. The same thing goes spiritually. In fact it is more important than the former. If one reads in 1 Chron 7:14 there is a great message that we all should learn. It reads: “If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.” KJV Norman imagined King David on one of his many occasions where he got on his face before the Lord and poured out his heart. 
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I Forgive You:
This song really is inspired by the Prodigal son story in Luke 15. It’s a clarification using scripture that God has made provision for all mankind’s reconciliation unto Him through the sacrifice of His only begotten Son by dying on a cursed cross on our behalves. All the host of Heaven has a party of rejoicing when a lost soul receives salvation through faith in Jesus the Christ and the prodigal’s father celebrated the return of his son. Now the Holy Spirit is calling us to take this awesome gift and come on home forever. It was written when Norman’s daughter was a prodigal and he was dreaming of the day or her return to the Lord, which per the testimony of Carly’s friends took place a short time before her death. There is an urgency expressed that today is the day of salvation and no one should ever wait till tomorrow. As we know, tomorrow may never come and death without Christ is a final situation.
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Oh I Trust You Lord:
When Norman was asked by Carly’s boyfriend to sing at her funeral Norman took this as being from the Lord. He went down to his brother-in-law, Julian’s studio and recorded the two songs that he had determined to play which were “Music of a Baby’s Cry” and “The King’s coming” the night before the funeral. While Julian was mixing the songs this little song came to Norman and he began singing it along with “The Music of a Baby’s Cry”. He decided that he would add it at the end as a statement that really resonates throughout this project. Then during the producing of the album to Carly’s memory Norman was listening to the song on cd and came up with the ending part about “what an awesome God You are”. Etc. So that was added to the song. 

On the morning of the funeral Norman decided to pull up the words to the songs just in case he might forget when performing. When he was scrolling on his computer he came across the title “Oh I Trust You Lord”. He wondered hmmm what’s this entitled the same as his new little song. When he clicked on it he found that it was an entry into his journal 3 days after Carly’s birthday the prior year. It was all about him having given his daughter over to the Lord and trusting that He will keep her and how He was so trustworthy. This entry made Norman understand how God knew all along the number of days not only that Carly would have but all of us. Then at that moment Norman looked down on the floor and saw a light blue box with 50 booklets inside entitled “The Message of Hope”. In Carly’s favorite color no less! Then Norman said, “Okay Lord, I’ve got the message”. So he brought those booklets with him to the funeral and offered them to whoever felt they wanted one. Needless to say they were all gone. God’s presence was at that funeral in an awesome way! This was Carly’s going home party as she trusted in the Lord for her salvation! And we celebrated God’s grace and mercy Who allowed us to know Carly, know her love and to love her. That is why the end is a celebration of God. He is our Shield and our Exceedingly Great Reward!
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Music credits for the CD "Dance O' Child Of God"

1. Dance Oh Child Of God!: NPM: lead vocal, harmony vocal, acoustic guitar. TK: acoustic guitar, vocals, piano, percussions. Christine Johnson: backing vocals Alex Quintana: drums. Rich Starcher: saxophone, flute. Dave Segale: bass. Violinist to be named later.

2. I’ve Got Faith : NPM: lead vocal, acoustic guitar. TK: vocals, percussion, electric guitar, piano, synthesizer. Randy Ekstedt: bass. Rich Starcher: saxophone. Christine Johnson: vocals. Alex Quintana: drums.

3. Salvation and Glory: NPM: lead & bv’s, 12 string acoustic guitar, TK: vocals, electric guitar, synthesizer, drum programming, percussion. Matt Snelson: vocals. Randy Ekstedt: bass.

4. Sleep Tight: NPM: Lead vocal, acoustic guitar. Terry Pettigrew: acoustic guitar. TK: drum programming, synthesized strings, acoustic guitar, bass, vocals. Violin player to be named later.

5. Forget Me Not: NPM: lead vocal, acoustic guitar. Michael Herrera: classical guitar. TK: drum programming & percussion, vocals, synthesizer effects, bass. Christine Johnson & Indy Carter: backing vocals. Agnes Morrison (grandma): accordion. 

6. God Showed His Love: NPM: lead & backup vocals, acoustic guitar. TK: acoustic & electric guitars, vocals, synthesized strings & effects. Randy Ekstedt: Bass. Alex Quintana: drums. Christine Johnson: vocals. Matt Snelson: vocals. Rich Starcher: saxophone. 

7. A Special Place: NPM: lead & backup vocals, piano, harmonica. TK: drum programming, vocals, bass, synthesized strings.

8. The King’s Coming: NPM: acoustic 12 string guitars, vocals. Alex Quintana: drums. TK: synthesizer , percussion & effects, vocals, bass. Christine Johnson: vocals. Violin player to be named later. 

9. Be Still: NPM: acoustic guitars, lead vocal. TK: midi bass, vocals, drum programming, classical guitar lead. Michael Herrera: classical guitar.

10. God Wants Us To Be: NPM: acoustic guitar & lead vocal. 

11. Examine Me: NPM: Lead and backup vocals & acoustic guitar, harmonica lead. TK: vocals, harmonica. Drum programming. Rich Starcher: saxophone. 

12. I Forgive You: NPM: 12 string acoustic guitar & 6 stringed acoustic, lead & back up vocals. TK: piano, vocals. Synthesized strings, drum programming, percussion, acoustic guitar. Dave Segale: bass. Alex Quintana: drums. Christine Johnson: vocals.

13. The Music Of A Baby’s Cry: NPM: 12 string acoustic guitar, lead vocal. TK: bass, vocals, synthesized strings, drum programming. Michael Herrera: classical guitars. Randy Ekstedt: bass. 

14. Oh I Trust You Lord: NPM: lead & harmony vocals, 12 string acoustic guitar. TK: bass, vocals, drum programming, synthesizer. Michael Herrera: classical guitar. 

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