Michael Tinker: When There Are No Words

In November of 2021 my Dad, Melvin Tinker, was promoted to glory. He had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer 6 weeks before.

I started to take notes of the conversations that we were having as we chatted about what awaits us, what the new heaven on the new earth will be like. It was a painful time, but also such a privilege to watch his vision become increasingly filled with Jesus. ‘He is stripping away the dross…” he later wrote to me.
I wrote one song based on these conversations before Dad died, and he asked that it be played at his funeral. After that I starting writing more and more. Sometimes reflecting our conversations, other times expressing what I was feeling, the questions I had, the hope that I clung to through the tears. These songs form the album ‘When There Are No Words‘. The artwork is by the wonderful Jamin Still and speaks to me of life being so precarious, and yet there is hope over the horizon.
As an artist I not only want to speak for myself, but I hope in telling my story others may own it for themselves and it will help them understand their story.

Here is a link to one of the songs from the album.

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