I've been a musician most of my life and a Christian even longer. But, as many of us have, I began to follow my own path rather than God's. As humans we tend to ONLY want to follow God's plan when it matches ours and often, when we pray, we are trying to convince HIM to see things OUR way rather than asking him to help us see things HIS way. Or is it just me? :-) 

I wasted countless hours and money pursuing dreams and ideas that seemed to be amicable goals...... There was one big problem....God had another plan. 5 years ago, I surrendered myself to Him and his purpose for me. I stopped writing and playing songs that I neither felt or lived and started doing what God wanted me to do.... write and sing HIS songs.

 

Once I re-dedicated my life to God and his will, I began to see his glory and his love for me in a way that I had never experienced before. I am so thankful for his patience and his tolerance of my stubborness and stupidity over the course of my life. In retrospect, he was always there watching over me, I would imagine, mostly in disappointment. But he never stopped loving me and he never gave up on me.

 

I am amazed at how things have changed since I've given it all to God and began letting him "Drive the bus". My life is better in ways I can't begin to explain. He is my hope, my strength, my reason, my life. He is my shelter in the storm, my light in the darkness and my comfort through the pains of this life. Looking back, I'm not sure how I ever made it without him, but I know I don't want to go back to the way it was. My only rationalization is that when my eyes were not on Him, His were still on me.

 

                                                                                                                                                      -Al