Several decades ago, as a nonbeliever, writing began on small pieces of orange paper. It was a means to recover my lost memory from a traumatic brain injury. Seeing the déjà vu in words was powerful medicine. If I didn’t write, the flash of life would vanish. Love for expression grew into spiral notebooks which became known to me as Diaries.
Eighteen months later I was well acquainted with the comfort of reaching emotions and telling the truth. Then, on a very snowy night while walking the up-state N.Y. suburban streets, I began singing some Frank Zappa lyrics out loud. Spontaneously I popped in my original words and tried to fit them into the song cadence. I fell in love with lyric writing.
A decade later while working with a secular band in L.A., the most amazing thing happened. God began His calling into my life. After several months of escalating His presence, He allowed me to know He is real on a warm July evening at sunset. Everything changed I was reborn, spiritually alive. I knew at that moment, everything, the stars, space, earth, oceans, animals and people were all about God. Eternity became real. Then all the discussions about Jesus became truthful, my values changed dramatically to line up with the Bible, Jesus Christ became my Savior.
Instantly a shift in motivation, purpose and reason to write, was focused on Bible truth and the gospel message of salvation. Expressing the impact of the trinity on my born-again life hit the diary first then lyrics poured out and songs followed. My purpose for writing for the last thirty seven years is to honor God with the time, talent and means He gave me.
Most of the horizontal is temporary, that is what most of the world is consumed by.
The vertical, the eternal heaven or hell, Jesus or Satan, is for the saved and the lost.
If someone waits, to find out where eternity will be, it will be too late to choose. Receive God’s gift of eternal heaven through faith alone in Jesus alone.
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