who is called the father of lies, lies are his native I think when I get an onset of lies or into that Enthusiast” is what that’s called, and I’ve spent
language. I just got this fire in my belly, I was comparison game, I’ll start singing scripture most of my life trying to avoid pain. It’s not that I
so sick of the enemy stealing our joy, our light, over those lies. It’s been a very practical didn’t have it, I just didn’t think about it. So this
and our peace. John 10:10 says that Jesus grounding technique for me, which is why I’m so is going to sound crazy, but I think it is because
came to offer us abundant life, and I was like, passionate about what I do. It has just brought of and not in spite of the pain that has been in
I’m not going down without a fight. God yields me out of the pit of despair so many times to my life that I know Jesus is real. I have been
his Word as sword and I’m just going to use it. I sing God’s truth. For whatever reason the way through some really hard losses and really hard
was looking through my Bible for anything I had that I’m wired is that when I sing I believe. It things, I have been so broken, and it’s actually
underlined before, because it’s not enough for helps quicken in my heart, it’s the reminder and my most broken places that I go back to and
us to just acknowledge the lies, we desperately the grounding. This life can be hard, and this say, “I have encountered the Man of Sorrows
need to anchor down in what is true. world can be sad, and it is broken. To have a himself right there, and He brought me through
shelter for those kinds of storms and a safe it”. I know that in suffering, and this is the whole
I just thought, I have a hard time memorizing place and an anchor for when the winds are story of the gospel, that death doesn’t have
God’s word, but I can sing a thousand songs, blowing really hard, it has saved my life. the final word. We experience it here, and we
so what if I brought in God’s word and let music
know how hard it is and how sad it is, but we
come out. That’s nothing new under the sun, [WM] I’ve seen you live in concert a handful of also know that there is life coming, that there is
people have been doing that forever, but I felt times and I have to say you are someone who healing and hope. I think for me I’ve always felt,
that for my weary heart I needed to do it. So, radiates joy. It shows on your face and clearly when I look at the world, there is beauty, there
for me the songs are just a way of helping the from your heart. What have you learned about is light. It’s just my natural rose-colored glasses,
truth settle deep down into my bones and into joy and happiness? but I think I actually know what joy really is after
my soul and my mind and my heart.
having been very uncomfortable and sitting in
[Ellie] I’m a Seven on the Enneagram, “The
April 2020
pain for a while. I’ve experienced peace and
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