Drew Weber
Maria, Thanks so much for your insite! that is really cool that you get your inspiration multiple ways!!
Maria Rosa Chapman
Drew Weber
Jim! thank you! it sure does. That's a great prospective! I love that the topic for the song comes to you first and you build on that!
Jim,man of GOD, friend to GOD
And I said the melody comes to me naturally, but I always give glory to the Lord God in heaven for those things. Because it certainly did not just come from me. 
Jim,man of GOD, friend to GOD
Some inspiration will come to me either an idea I had about the environment. I’m in. I wonder who knows it could be something I read in a book that just all of a sudden hit me that I wanted to write about and then when I get inspired by these things, the melody for them always seems to come naturally., So first, it’s the idea, then the melody comes to me, and then I can fit I can write the words to fit the melody. I hope that makes some sense. 
Drew Weber
AttyRose: That is awesome!! I really appreciate your input!!
AttyRose
I'll usually start playing around doing chords find a couple like hum a little bit and then somehow magically a song falls out of my hands and head and mouth. I'm not sure how it happens but I'm glad it does.