I heart DWELE

I think this is my favorite song on Dwele's new album Wants World Women! Check it out!!! :) Musically amazing!!

It's Been A While

Hello to whoever is reading. It's been a while since I blogged. Well, I graduated from college, got my degree and am unemployed. Life is amazing though! haha! That's not in any way sarcastic. Things are going great with the band. Our first EP is coming out this Friday and it will be available on iTunes on the same day! So, if you want to check it out, we're Tipping Point and the name of the EP is called Vibe EP. I hope you like it if you do check it out. Other than that, I'm still looking for a job, miss my family and loving life. :)

TIPPING POINT BAND WEBSITE

www.tippingpointband.com

CHECK OUT OUR BAND!!! :)

RIL Grandma Fa'aumu

On March 6, 2010, my grandmother passed away. She was a strong woman who was always there for us and loved her family very much. Out of both my grandmothers, she was the one who was always there for me. She was always there when I was sick and was there during the hardest times of my childhood. My grandmother was a strong prayer warrior who was constantly praying for everyone in the family. Every morning before the sun even got up, I could hear her praying in her room, and I would hear her praying for each family member. She never prayed in general, she always prayed specifically for people. My grandmother was always supportive. When she got older, she still saw me as a little kid. :) Last time I saw her, I was saying goodbye to her before I flew to St. Louis with the band, and she told me to shower everyday and wash my hair twice a week. My cousins Ericka and Edwyna would always lie to my grandmother telling her that I'm outside playing in the rain and it's dark outside. Hahaha! My grandmother would yell "Tell Della to get inside and wash her hair!" And I'd be sitting right there wondering "WTH?". My grandmother was definitely one of the coolest grandmothers in the world. Now that she's gone, I can only think of all the things I learned from her. Hopefully one day, I'll be a grandmother just like her. Grandma, I love you so much and I miss you. I'm glad you're in a better place. RIL Grandma. I'll see you on the other side! :)

Love, Della.

Mayer Hawthorne

I love this man! :) He's so old school in a really modern way! I LOVE IT!

House of the Lord

This is my best friend Mark Shaver! An amazing guitar player and violinist! So, it's his last week in his house and we decided to take a break from packing and make a video for yall! Hope you enjoy! It's one of our favorite songs!!! Check us out on youtube!

youtube.com/tippingpointband
youtube.com/tinousi86
youtube.com/ajandreesemusic

Get on it!

Flyin' Away With Randy!

This is a video of Randy and I singing I'll Fly Away because we don't want to do our homework. Excuse the cracks in my voice coz I ate too much chocolate cake and don't mind the funny noises that Randy makes when he solos! LOL! Enjoy and have a great weekend! Shout out to my Tipping Point family! Love you guys!!!! :)

No Music No Life

Something I wrote in high school.... suppose to be read while listening to the intro of If I Ruled The World by Nas feat. Lauryn Hill! HOLLAAAA!

Real music doesn't simply make you feel
it makes your chest explode with passion
flinging emotion like paint onto the walls

When real music enters your ears
it holds you hostage
and won't let go
until you BLEED it out

Real music is not tender or kind
it's as raw as that piece of steak in your refrigerator

Real music doesn't wait for you to listen
it's a violent force of emotion
that MAKES you listen
MAKES you understand

Real music excites every nerve as it whispers
'don't let yourself be content'

So breathe it in
like it was your first cigarette all week
and LET GO

Be inspired to write music yall!! IBIQ!

Roots

This is something that I learned when our band went on our trip to St. Louis. I hope you enjoy reading this! :)

Roots. Although they can be firm and grounded, can either bear fruit or none at all. What are you roots bearing? I struggle with self worth. I'm always comparing myself to those around me in every kind of way. It consumes so much of me that I forget who I am in Christ. While Randy and I were praying with a brother, I heard God speak to me saying "I have carved your name on my heart." The maker of the world, the one who formed me, who knew me before I was even formed, who knows the number of hair on my head, has my name carved on his heart! Yet here I am, comparing myself to other people, wondering if I would ever be as pretty, cool or even as popular as they are.

Roots of comparison. Those were my roots that I find myself continuously uprooting out of my heart. Every day I continue to replace these roots, with roots of significance, roots of being a new creation in Christ. I need to understand that I am someone who has a greater purpose than what I see right now.

That phrase, remember your roots, is a phrase that is so interesting. Sometimes our roots give us something that aren't suppose to be passed down to you. Something we all know as a generational curse. Pray that God stop whatever it is that has been handed down to you and that those things be renounced and cut off from you. Whether it be comparing you to other people, or diabetes that seems to run in the family. Do not let these generational curses and sins from our roots hold us back from bearing the fruit that God has called us to bear. Remember the roots that God has give you and cut off those roots that hinder you from fulfilling the call that God has on your life. These generational curses were cut off long time ago when Christ died and rose for us.

REMEMBER YOUR ROOTS. Your GOD GIVEN roots. Have a great day people!

Lamentations 5:7, "Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne (been punished for) their iniquities."

BUT

John 3:17 "For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn it, but that the world through him might be saved."

Spring 2010

So this is my last semester of college! :) It's going to be a pretty cool semester. I'm taking the following courses:

1. Racism & Prejudice
2. Judaism
3. Teaching the Exceptional Learner
4. Child Development

All these classes are so interesting. They bring so much color into my college life! :) I'm really looking forward to ending this semester strong! Aiming for straight As this semester! haha! :) Have a good one yall! :)

IBIQ Campaign..

Posting this for my sister Reesa! :)

Urbana 2009

Last week, the band that I'm in (Tipping Point) went to a missions conference in St. Louis, Missouri called Urbana. This conference happens once every three years and is mainly focused on global missions. When I went to the conference, I was excited about what I was going to learn, but really didn't know what to expect. God met me in so many different ways.

I went to a Jewish seminar where I learned how to witness to Jewish people about Christ. The person who spoke in this seminar was a Jew who didn't believe in Jesus, until a friend of hers showed her the passage in Isaiah, and had her read it in her own language from the Torah. It was awesome to hear her story on how she came to know the Lord!

I also attended two music seminars. I learned about the business of music and how I should act when going to gigs and how to look. So yeah, I've heard it before, but it was good to hear it from a person who plays both in the church and outside as well. The other seminar was mainly for the theatre, but I still learned. I learned that a lot can be revealed through acting, and you can still portray Christ even without mentioning the name of Jesus. Theatre is a totally different world. The speaker said "If you want to preach, then preach. Because acting is a totally different thing" I thought that was cool. It showed that God can be revealed through everything.

I then went to another seminar that talked about the conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians. I thought it was very good. It broke my heart seeing and hearing about the things that were going on in Israel and Palestine. The man that spoke there was a Palestinian Christian and he told us about the different things that happened as he was growing up in the Holy City.

Then I went to a prayer seminar where they were talking about the roots of our sins. A lot of the sins that we struggle with deals with a lot of things that we've encountered in our pasts. And the speaker encouraged us to gather with other believers and try to find the root of those things that we struggle with and pray against those things and that God would uproot them and cut them off from us. A lot of the things we struggle with are also generational. Those things do not belong to us, and we should pray to God to cut that from us as well. I learned a lot from this seminar and it totally changed a lot about how I view certain things.

The speakers at this conference were amazing. One of the speakers spoke about prayer, and it totally changed my perspective on how I should pray. Of course, God hears our prayers, but being bold and being specific is something we usually don't do in our prayers. And so, it challenged me to try to pray more specific instead of generally. I also learned not to be critical. When the music team started singing, I was very critical about the vocals. But then God convicted me and he asked "Did you meet me? Did you encounter me during worship?" I was so busy being critical about the music that I totally lost my focus on God! So, I prayed for forgiveness and just worshiped him.

God did such an amazing thing at Urbana. I learned so much and I just pray that I didn't leave that conference on just adrenaline alone, but I left knowing that God was going to continue to sustain me and continue to feed that fire that was ignited in me from Urbana. God moved in so many ways, and I look forward to what he has in store for 2010. I'm thinking about going on a short-term missions trip to Israel, but I'm still praying about it.

If 2013 comes around, you should definitely go to Urbana! :) It'll change the way you view the things around you as well as the world! God bless!!!!