I couldn’t believe what I was hearing.  “Record a CD.”  Record a CD? “But Lord,” I thought, “I haven’t even written any songs yet!”  Not only that, the journey the Lord had been taking me on was…well…not at all what I had expected.  Let me take you back to the beginning.

My experience with music began with the piano in elementary school.  In Junior High, I played the drums in the orchestra and the marching band.  I loved music; it was a part of my life.  Enough so that after I finished college, I took a songwriting class at UCLA and was very close to completing a few secular songs.  Then, something happened that completely changed my life.  The Lord through his grace saved me.  I became a Christian September 16, 1995.

Then came another surprise; God told me to stop working on music.  So I did.  For the next 7 years I focused on studying the Bible and developing a relationship with the Lord.   One of the things I remember so clearly during this time was how much I loved times of worship.  The Lord even moved us to Applegate Christian fellowship where they had morning worship 5 days a week, Friday and Sunday night worship in addition to the normal Sunday and Wednesday services.  I attended them all!

In 2003, the Lord directed me to return to music and to learn to play the guitar...

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