“We’ve got to see
God in the day to day.
We’ve got to! That’s
where we spend most
of our lives. We can’t
only be searching for
God on the stage. I
don’t know where that
would lead us. Nowhere
good if you ask me.”
The full story there is that this woman was a [Sean] That was a deeply personal thing for That’s still the process obviously. But a lot of
believer, and I think she sensed something holy. me, and I think that type of transformation was that transformation was in the secret place, and
So that’s what she was talking to my Mom happening in the quiet place for me, which was I didn’t know what that was. I didn’t know that
about. My Mom is as fierce of a prayer warrior just sitting with God in my room. I was in high I was starting to learn how to commune with
as you could be, so she took it upon herself to school and I was learning to pray and learning God. I didn’t even know I was writing songs
pray that into existence. It was cool, at some to commune, and that side of relationship during that time. Some of the things I would
point, we fast forward ten years or so… I was and prayer that is like a dance and like a start to say over and over again, I didn’t realize
in college and I came home one week with it conversation. what that was. And it was a long time after that
on my heart to tell my parents that I wanted to
when I started leading people in those times. I
change a lot of my life. And change what I’m I felt so safe in those moments, sitting with the think that’s what I’m still trying to figure out…
pursuing in school and make a shift towards guitar, humming a melody, singing my prayers, how to do it. How do we create a space where
being a worship writer and a worship leader. and I felt a tenderness and a kindness from we believe God is here, and we believe that He
And my Mom just started crying, and that’s God that allowed me to be honest and to be wants to bring us closer to Himself? In some
when she told me about the details of the real. I felt His grace and His love through all of way worship is that invitation to enjoy that, to
conversation she had with this woman when I that even though I didn’t really know how to enjoy God and delight in God.
was around eight years old. So she knew it was put words on what was happening. I think God coming way before I did, it’s a beautiful thing. in His kindness was helping to close the gap [WM] Where did you attend college and was
for me, and He still is, between who I thought it valuable to you?
[WM] When did you first personally become I was or maybe people were telling me I was,
aware of “real” worship? and who He is calling me to be.
June 2019
[Sean] I went to UCF, University of Central
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