Kathie Lee Gifford recently released \u2018The Little Giant,\u2019 a children\u2019s musical about David and Goliath. Image courtesy of The Media Collective.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSo I wrote a song with my friend David Pomeranz called \u201cWhat Is Your Stone?\u201d because I think that is a better question to ask our children. David picked up five smooth stones. He knew what he needed to do. He already had the skills God had already given them. What is our stone? Instead of asking our children, \u201cWhat do you want to be when you grow up?\u201d It\u2019s a better question to ask them, \u201cWhat is your stone? Where you gonna\u2019 throw it? What is your gift? How will you know it? What is the one thing you can do that no one else can do but you? What is, what is your stone?\u201d From that, we wrote the song. And a friend of mind, Mark Cabaniss from Nashville, said, \u2018Kathie, I think this is a little musical, a really, really cute little musical. Thirty minutes, that\u2019s the attention of most kids these days. Can you write the story of David and Goliath?\u2019 I thought, \u2018I\u2019ve written for Broadway, I\u2019ve written for off-Broadway, been Tony-nominated for my Broadway show . . . yeah, I can do that. That\u2019d be fun!\u2019 I realized there were no girl parts, because not until Bathsheba shows up in the bathtub do things get interesting for David. I wanted girls to be able to be part of this as well, because we want churches to do this as a live stage show as well as, I\u2019d love the Jewish synagogues to do it, because it\u2019s an all Jewish story. It really is. I made the sheep, because there were no girl parts, I made the sheep girls and they have a flatulence problem. There\u2019s a song, \u2018We\u2019re just sheep, we follow the leader and we don\u2019t have\u2026\u201d Kids love potty humor. I love potty humor. I live for potty humor! It just turned out so fun. It tells the story of David and Goliath with such power. Regis Philbin plays Jesse. He\u2019s adorable on it. My friends from Broadway, Gregg Edelman, four time Tony nominee, plays Saul and Goliath. He\u2019s brilliant in it. And a beautiful young man named Aiden Gemme plays David and he\u2019s just sensational. And I play Sheba the sheep. the narrator and she\u2019s always very, very impatient because her sheep are always late. It\u2019s a fun project all around. Hopefully we\u2019ll get it animated.<\/p>\n
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I saw your song \u2018He Saw Jesus\u2019 you performed on TODAY for your late husband. How amazing you sang it and was able to get through it. <\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
Well, first of all, I never take credit for writing it. I wrote it with an amazing man named Brett James, who is just the best of the best in Nashville and it was a joy. We\u2019re writing a lot of songs together these days, but that was our first one. When I wrote it with him, he looked at me that night after we finished recording it and said, \u2018Kathie, only you could sing this song.\u2019 Then he said, \u2018And this song is going to change the world.\u2019 I didn\u2019t have any idea what he meant. He wrote \u2018Jesus Take the Wheel,\u2019 \u2018Something in the Water,\u2019 I mean this man has had 500 hits, I\u2019ve had zero. I didn\u2019t know what he meant. I thought he was just trying to be sweet. But the reaction . . . I mean, we are number one on iTunes in the Christian field. We\u2019re number 10 in all of iTunes! I\u2019m ahead of Taylor Swift. To have a hit record at this point in my life is almost laughable.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s just thrilling to see how God takes our ashes and makes beauty out of it. He takes our mourning and turns it into joy. I\u2019m sitting in the very same room right now talking to you where I found my husband that morning where he saw Jesus and Jesus took his breath away. And I understood so clearly the Scripture that day that \u2018Sorrowful but also rejoicing.\u2019 That\u2019s what I\u2019ve been since Frank passed two years ago, two years and three months, but who\u2019s counting? If we just let Jesus do what He says He\u2019ll do, He\u2019ll meet us at the point of our need, He\u2019ll part the clouds and make a rainbow for us. But we have to partner with Him. We have to trust Him. All He wants is for us to reach out and trust Him. Say, \u2018Yes, Lord, yes, show me.\u2019 It\u2019s so simple, we stumble over it every day all day long.<\/p>\n
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God is using what you went through to bless others who are going through it. <\/strong><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
I rejoice over that, I really do. I\u2019m just a frail, fragile, flawed follower of Jesus. That\u2019s all I am, but you know what? That\u2019s all He needs. That\u2019s what all those fishermen were. And all those women who were at the foot of the cross, women, frail, demon possessed, flawed, and He loved them. He loved them to life. That\u2019s what Jesus does for me every single day. His mercies are tender and fresh every single day and it\u2019s like the sheep in the Old Testament, talks about He\u2019ll lead us along paths of righteousness for His name\u2019s sake and the green pastures. Guess what? There were no green pastures in Israel back then. It\u2019s just little teeny patches that only the shepherd knows where they are. The sheep know their shepherd\u2019s voice, they follow him to it. And what does it do? It gives them just what they need until they get to the next patch. The paths of righteousness, that\u2019s what they call all the ancient shepherd little paths. You can see them along every hillside in Israel. That\u2019s the ancient route. They knew where the good pastures were. If we would just be dumb sheep, listen to His voice, and frickin\u2019 follow Him. It\u2019s kind of simple. Sheep are stupid and they fart. But you know what? They need a savior and that\u2019s what Jesus is.<\/p>\n
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To hear the entire interview with Kathie Lee, listen to DeWayne\u2019s podcast below.<\/p>\n
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