Christopher and the Swordsman How the Christ-Child and the Music Was Saved

There is a power in music that transcends mere entertainment, themes for a character, or accompaniment to a solo. Music alone can create, enhance, and accentuate emotion, to speak to us in a way that words are incapable of expressing. Music can make us laugh, cry, dance, or march to our death into battle. Music is Devine and helps us commune with the Devine. Music has Power and anything that has power can be used to do harm or to do good.

This is a story of what almost would have been if there had not been someone there to witness and protect that which had been declared by the prophets long ago. This story is about a boy, a girl, a man with a sword who does not want to use it, the power of love, faith, and a very special weapon that can restore or remove that which is Devine.

Mark Joseph Welch lives in San Antonio, Tx with his wife, Maria, daughter, and son. He earned a BS from Texas A&M, where he played guitar and sang in the coffee house. He also earned a BS in Physical Therapy and a Master's degree in Music from Southwest Texas State. He is employed as a full-time Physical Therapist but music is his first love.

Mark firmly believes that if you truly want to get your point across, whether to a fellow human being, an angel, or God in heaven, you better put it to music, because music is a gift from God, no less, whether we understand that or not.