do.” And I remember being in that moment and not upwards. While it’s always great to know the dreams and passions that I have inside my
seeing Josh, and kind of feeling this Holy Spirit that people appreciate what we’re doing, what heart. The flip-side to thinking “the glass is half
moment watching them on stage, and just are some of the warning signs that Christian full or the glass is half empty” is to look at it from
realizing that the reason they are up there is to musicians should be on the lookout for so they the perspective of how far we still have to go.
bring people to Jesus. don’t get caught in the trap of getting caught It’ll humble you immediately to see how much
up in themselves? work we still have to do.
to me, but look to God”. It just struck this chord [Garrett] What I try to do is set dreams and [WM] While some of us struggle with pride,
in me that it is an absolute privilege to be able goals for myself that are so big I probably won’t I’d say most if not all of us also struggle with
to walk on stage and present your gift to God every meet them. So, therefore I have no room our insecurities, sometimes to the point of
and bring Him glory. And I think it was during as an individual to be full of myself or to have an letting our faults define us. What advice do
that conference, just seeing the emotional attitude of achievement, because I know in my you have for musicians who struggle with their
maturity of that band, and it just overflowed into mind I have so far to go to be anywhere close insecurities, and how have you approached
my life and from that moment forward I kind of to where I desire to be. working through yours?
this awakening of what it meant to give my craft I think it’s okay to seek out self-growth, and go [Garrett] This definitely strikes a chord
and give my gifts back to God. It was definitely to school, and work really hard, but I think the with me. Something I’ve run into with a
a special moment for me. difference of not letting that get to your head is, lot of drummers that I’ve mentored (and
And there was just this overflow of, “Don’t look
felt like I had this (no pun intended), but I had
“Wow, look at all that I’ve done” versus, “Wow, acted as a big brother to) is it’s so easy to
[WM] If I’m truthful, there are times that I allow look at how far I still have to go” to fulfill the compare yourself.
myself to point people’s praise inwards and person that God wants me to be and to fulfill
January 2019
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