This is a song about waiting on God. I was at a place in my career path where I was seeking God's guidance. I had a deep desire to leave and start in a new direction, but I was getting specific words from God through various avenues that He was saying "no, not yet". It took 3 years of waiting before I received 5 different confirmations in one single day that the time was right to leave. So, "Right Where I Am" is about seeking God, waiting for His answers and basically "blooming where you're planted" for now until it is His perfect time to move forward.
I went to a conference about healing life's hurts and at one point, the speaker asked everyone up on stage who had a mother or father that never lived up to their expectations or had inflicted deep hurts that would not go away. The speaker wanted to take the place of the parent, look each person in the eyes and apologize as if he were that parent. 95% of the audience went up. It showed me that I was in no way alone, and if 95% of these people had the same problems, how many people outside in the world carried similar baggage? I thought what a different place this world could be if people could 'break the chain', be all they were created to be, and communicate their love in a way the recipient can understand. Instead, most of us carry around all this baggage and never reach our full potential in life because we're dealing with all these inner issues. It just keeps perpetuating itself from generation to generation.
MY GOD IS BIGGER
I was watching the morning news a few years ago thinking about the disasters, fears and complete mayhem in the world. I also had a friend dying of cancer. I closed my eyes, feeling the weight of it all and prayed. The fear left and I felt this peace come over me. I knew that it was God telling me that He was still sovereign and in control. He was my God and the creator of the universe and bigger than any tragedy in the world or in our lives.
THE MYSTERY OF GOD
I love to sit back and look up at the stars, see the vastness of the universe. I think for God to create something so huge, it shows how uncontainable He is. Yet His spirit can come to live inside of us. That's a true mystery.
I have a love for the old hymns. I have had a lot a fun putting my stamp on them - giving them a fresh musical approach and an acoustic flair. My hope is
that it will cause us to pause a moment to hear the lyrics of these amazing
songs from our Christian heritage in a new light and feel the impact of their
words just as they were felt long ago when they were once new.
TAKE ME BACK
For those who are Christ followers, I'm sure you remember
that first experience is so wondrous, vivid and new. Then somehow as the years
pass, many of us get distracted with what the world says will make us happy.
We reach that point where we want to just start over and go back to the very
beginning when we first encountered God.
