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Welcome to my new site!
I am very excited about this new website! I hope you like the new look. Much of what you have seen before is the same. This section, however, allows me to communicate more of those things I like to talk about in concert. I hope to post here once a month but we are going to play it by ear!
Please check back often and register so you can participate as well!
January 3rd, 2007 at 9:53:09 pm
I love all of your songs! There are times that your music helps get me through the day. Thanks so much for sharing!
January 10th, 2007 at 1:20:42 pm
Wow! This is great! We just found your website a couple of weeks ago and enjoyed watching the video for “Ordinary Time”. The kids were upset that your family photo seemed to be missing someone, so they are very pleased to see the updated photo. The new design of the website looks great!
I have to let you know that I have been listening to your CD’s for at least 7 years, back when I only had three kids, and I am so grateful to you. I turn to them over and over to lift me up, help me through the rough spots and just to help me lighten up. It was probably two years before I could listen to “What I Wanted to Say” without crying all the way through it. There are still plenty of days where I am still just as weepy.
My husband gave me “A New Springtime” for Christmas and I am loving it.
Thank you for sharing your gift with us! You are touching so many lives!
January 12th, 2007 at 5:33:02 pm
I love your music! It is so comforting to know someone else seems to know exactly what my life is like! My kids love the Ordinary Time video and I am always in tears at the end of it. My oldest daughter (20) is in college now in another state and my oldest son (18) is a novice in a religious order in another country–everyone else is still at home with me, but even in the midst of the ongoing chaos- what I wouldn’t give for a chance to play trucks on the floor or dress up with the ones who are grown!
January 26th, 2007 at 9:39:10 pm
Thank you, Marie, for your beautiful music. I’m a thirty year old mom, married eleven years with seven beautiful girls and our latest, an adorable boy. They are all under eleven years old. I found your CD by chance on a really hard day, took it home and was literally in tears as I listened and was fed exactly what I needed. I have all your music now and I start out my day listening to “Without You”. I’ve shared your music with friends and everyone has ordered copies. My young daughters ages 10, 9, 7, 6, 5, 3 and 2 sing along with you as we do the dishes and I feel good that they hear the truth about being a wife and mother. You’re helping me train them to be godly wives someday. I can’t say it enough. Thank you. The Holy Spirit is using you to do his work.
January 27th, 2007 at 7:01:44 pm
Hi Marie! Thank you (and your family) for all your encouraging music, lyrics, talents. I saw you in 2005 in Columbus at a FAMILIA brunch and concert and it was a most wonderful experience. I was pleasantly surprised to find your site had been updated — it’s great! May God bless all you do!
February 12th, 2007 at 7:59:47 pm
My husband and I were so blessed to be present at The Night of Romance in Wichita, Kansas. I discovered that I used to much mascara that ended up all over my face, because your wisdom and the reality of the message in the music so deeply touched my heart, the tears flowed openly and freely. Nothing is a coincidence, I needed to hear that I am not the only one who struggles with the monontany of ordinary life. Thank you for sharing your insight!! I pray that you will be blessed in your vocation, thank you for blessing us!!!
March 8th, 2007 at 1:03:58 pm
We met in Wichita, KS at the Night of Romance. Your voice is beautiful and your songs bring such truth. I wanted to share that your song 9 more months one more time softened my heart and we are now to be the proud parents of 10 children and our 1 yr old twins will be big sisters in Oct. God works fast. Thank you for your example and sharing yourself with us.
March 16th, 2007 at 10:38:10 am
How wonderful! I had one year old twins when pregnant with my only girl. It was that pregnancy that spurred me to start writing music, so you never know what being open to life might bring! Congratulations.
March 21st, 2007 at 6:54:25 pm
Ok, I have to chime in here– one year old twins, hm ahem, well, I have them now, too- or almonst –mine will be a year old next month. Jack and Nick, affectionately referred to as numbers 11 and 12, and I am wondering how everyone else lives through this- and then goes on to have more…? Thanks for living the reality behind the music, Marie!
April 13th, 2007 at 9:03:41 am
Not a mother here, but a father that loves your music. A friend (I think it is momof8 from above) shared “He is a Daddy” on fathers day. we have been hooked ever since. I also love “Round and Round” and “One Heroic Moment.”
But my question is on “Will You Too Go Away?”, what was the inspiration for that one? So many of your songs have that element of personal experience. And I have wondered at that song, it is so beautiful.
May 2nd, 2007 at 1:34:24 pm
The inspiration for “Will You, Too, Go Away” was a little complicated. I had been reading a reflection on the Gospel passage which depicts the conversation between Christ and his disciples about eating His body and drinking His blood.Many of His disciples left, saying that this was strange stuff. Paraphrasing here: Christ turns to Simon Peter and asks “Will you, too, go away?” Peter answers “To Whom would I go? You have the words of eternal life.” It made me think about how Christ asks us that same question throughout our lives, as we are tempted to say “This is a hard saying, this is strange stuff… who needs it?” And really, at every Mass when we meet Christ in the Eucharist, the question persists. So I wanted to depict that conversation over the course of a man’s life, showing the main temptations presented at different stages of life. The man in the song is a compilation of many people. He is a cradle Catholic who, in the end, returns to the Church because the memory of the smell of the sacred is deep in his heart, as is the delight in hoping and finally knowing that he is perfectly loved.
June 13th, 2007 at 8:36:19 am
You, it seems, are living my life! Someone must be spying on me, or there are others out there with lots of kids, crazy lives, and relationships to ponder. My eldest is 33 and the youngest two are ten. With six teens still at home, plus the ‘babies,’ I find your music timeless and meaningful even at age fifty-three!
My eldest daughter (w/4 sons) and I have mused together about how the lyrics to ‘What I Wanted to Say’ have made us both consider our responses to the everyday comments and questions we hear. Thank you, Mrs. Bellet, for singing about real lives and how they are lived imperfectly, but with faith and hope.
June 28th, 2007 at 1:57:30 pm
I just love your music!!! My girls love “He is a daddy”, and “Ay, Yi, Yi”. The lyrics to all your songs are so wonderful…and wise!! Thank you for sharing you talents with the world. I’m sooo curious about your family…how old are all your children…do you homeschool??? What is a typical day like with 9 children. We have 4 beautiful girls…and hope to have more. Their ages are 8, almost 6, almost 3 and 6 months. Thanks again for your encouraging words!!
September 26th, 2007 at 10:26:22 am
Marie,
I have enjoyed your music in the past, but not listened in a few years due to the destruction of CD’s which happens when the CD’s and player are accessible to children. Right now I have been in a busy, stressful period of life. Health issues for myself (stress related), in-laws visiting, home improvement projects, and my mother being diagnosed with breast cancer (surgery seems to have been successful and lymph nodes show no cancer). Add to that worries about sons who have left the church, kids in college, and not getting my homeschool year planned and started as I shouldhave, and you can get an idea of where I am. My regular escape is into my sewing room to make a quilt and as such I tend to buy lots of fabric. But today my decision was to instead buy all 4 of your CD’s so I have something uplifting for my spirit to listen to while I sew, and at other times (I now have a high shelf in my sewing room for MY CD player and CD’s). Thank you for putting the joys and sorrows of motherhood and married life into words so well.
November 16th, 2007 at 10:56:34 pm
I love your music and everytime my friends turn on your music in the car or at home I think of you and how great you are.
December 2nd, 2007 at 8:00:49 pm
Hello Marie,
I haven’t been here in awhile.
Nice site.
I have all your cd’s
and as a fellow mom of 9 (11 really, 2 with the Lord thru miscarriage),
your music has been a lifesaver.
It made me feel less alone….as a Mom.
And it spoke of Husbands & fathers as valuable and needed.
thanks
March 27th, 2008 at 10:37:29 pm
Hi Marie,
I heard 9 more months 1 more time on Relevant Radio a year ago, when I was expecting no. 4 and now I finally have A New Springtime. I’m enjoying it a great deal, and my children enjoy singing along. I definitely appreciate Closet Space, as I am a world-class fretter and need occasional reminders of my mortality.
You may have a relatively small market for your music, but you make a relatively deep impact. Keep up the good work.