try to consider it a promotion and that it’s time do my best work, when I have a connection, times I might have taken something out of fear
to do something new and maybe broaden and I can tell that someone is after the same that something else wasn’t going to come.
my horizons. A lot of time when something thing that I’m after musically or spiritually. I can happens like that, and it’s a big life change see how it was a really good situation. The way I can look back and see that it wasn’t good or
and you don’t really know what’s happening I play, and if I have any sort of special thing, it’s healthy for me, or what I needed to be doing.
or why it happened, often when I look back I probably that I basically just play all heart. I’m I kept myself stuck in a situation based on
can honestly see that the Lord was protecting not thinking about anything, I’m just going for it. the wrong reasons. The only way that what
me, more times than not. It could be like, “Why It’s not like I don’t want to be serious and learn I do really works is if I am feeling it and my
didn’t I get that gig?” or, “Why haven’t I gotten stuff, I do, I take everything seriously, but I need heart is able to open up, because that’s how I
that opportunity yet?” or, “I sure would have that kind of release in the music. communicate. At the end of it, when I play my
loved to do that!”. A lot of times I look back and
I can see that I was really being protected.
guitar, that is my conversation. That’s sort of a
There
have
been
times
where
I
took hard thing to wrap my head around, because I
opportunities based on things other than basically internalize everything. I’ve had to get
[WM] Can you tell us about ‘early James’ that, money, which is fine because everyone better at things even like saying to my wife, “Let
and are what some of the things you learned needs money, but when I look back I can see me think about that and I’ll come back to you”,
early on that prepared you for what you’re that I wasn’t happy or fulfilled, I didn’t feel like because I’ll just have a million things spinning
doing now? I was really being able to play to the best of around in my head so I can’t say anything.
my potential because it was probably not what When I pick up an instrument, that is me saying
[James] I really only feel like I thrive and flourish I really needed to be doing. So, from that I something. I need to be in situations where I
in situations with music where I have a bond have really learned looking back that when can do that.
with the people. That I understand where they I make decisions like that, and I’m not telling are coming from or they understand where I’m people not to make decisions based on money So that was one of the big things I learned, and
coming from. A lot of times that is when I can because you have to be able to live, but a lot of one of the most important things to me is the
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