The following video nicely illustrates Aprille's moving
song. And Aprille sings
it from experience, as a
military wife.
Aprille Donaldson's own words...
"This song "Hero's Wife" was a work of God. As a
Ministry Team Leader at
christianmilitarywives.com, I was put in charge of
making a tribute video that would represent the vision
and desire of CMW. As I searched for a background song,
I had trouble finding one that had an emphasis on God's
help for the Christian military wife. It was my desire
to write a song, but nothing would come to my mind.
That's when God brought Colleen Saffron into this song.
Colleen is another Ministry Team Leader on CMW and the
co-creator of the organization
Operation Life
Transformed. "The mission of Operation Life Transformed
(OLT) is to provide education and resources to our
military spouses and caregivers, and increase awareness
of the long term needs of these families and support the
military spouse and caregiver as they re-enter the
workforce."
Colleen emailed me three separate poems that she had
written along the theme of Christian military wives. I
took these poems, combined a few lines from each poem,
added several lines of my own, and came up with the
lyrics to "Hero's Wife." As I was forming the lyrics the
tune had already begun to form in my mind, and within a
week I had the accompaniment to the song written.
God's timing could not have been more perfect! My
husband was deployed, and I had already scheduled a trip
out of town to be with my family. I was able to use my
brother's recording studio to record the accompaniment
and the vocals, an opportunity which only presents
itself a few times each year.
The photos that accompany the song on this video were
submitted to me from members of
christianmilitarywives.com and members of our group and
fanpage on Facebook. I pray that this song will be an
encouragement and an inspiration to each person who
hears it."
