Texas Songwriter Shellee Coley’s "Bright Idea" Featured as Franciscan Sisters ‘New Semester’ Song

Shellee Coley is a Texas-based singer-songwriter with three studio projects so far and a fourth on the way. Her songs often bring light to the not-so-celebrated parts of life and walk people through them, into growth and change.

The clear spiritual undertone to her music inspires a listener to experience their own faith while listening to her songs.  She says, “I want to write music and create spaces that encourage people to see themselves in my stories and hopefully get to know themselves a little more. Because how can you truly know God, if you don’t even know yourself?”

Reflecting on ‘Bright Idea’, the Houston area songwriter said ” We strive and strive and want all of these perfect things in life, (including our relationship with God), but really in the end, it’s often about the mistakes and inability to be perfect that bring us closer into the presence of God. It’s the little things in between the bright ideas that grow us into who we are longing to be. And somehow that brings me comfort and allows me to bask in the beauty of my humanity and allow the Spirit to bring the bright ideas at just the perfect time when I’m ready.”

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