It's all a journey.

So I'm sitting here on the couch home alone watching the Ashes. And yes I have heard every joke under sun! As a proud Australian, naturally I am fairly impressed so far by our over all performance. That got my thinking, once I moved past each players stats, what does it mean to look past our individual "performances" and look at our overall improvement? For me, I can relate this question to my music. At first your not that great and often are very good at criticising yourself, but then bit by bit you start to grow and learn new things which improve your overall "performance". However, I can relate this too my life as well, and we will all be able to relate this something in our lives. In the moment of trouble or hurt or pain, we can be so quick to give up because we are so focused on the hear and now, if only we could look past that one little moment and take a look and what this might be doing to our "overall performance". I spose that can apply both positively and negatively to different circumstances.

When I wrote my first song I thought nothing of it, thought nothing of a career in music or that one day it would mean something to someone. However God had different plans. If only back then I could have looked at the bigger picture and let people into that space so that I could grow and learn for the very start instead of letting myself criticise the songs. I remember playing a song I had written for the first time to a dear friend and I can remember his reaction as though it was yesterday. That day I realised that maybe this stuff was worth something.

Things started to move along and I started writing more songs. I remember being asked to play one of my songs to our church and being extremely nervous and uncertain. That was the first time I exposed that part of my to an audience. Well God was moving that day, not only in the church but in me. Even then I couldn't see past the hear and now. Now I'm playing all over the place and I count it an absolute privilege to share that part of me with people. I can now see what all that was worth back when I first started.

I hope and pray that you all might be able to see past those horrible moments, those first time moments, and those dumb decision moments, and accept that it happened. Not to criticise or put yourself down, but to look at what it's doing to your over all "performance" because God works in all manner of ways and can use any and every situation you are faced with. Take heart and keep your chin up, it's not over yet!

Grace and Peace Everyone!