9/20/2009 1:44:05 AM
I want to welcome all to my first blog. I have anticipated this moment for the last couple of weeks, and now it's here. This website is very special to me, because honestly, it is not intended to point the spotlight in my direction, or make me feel as though I am anyone of real importance...
I am merely a messenger... and I live in Rocketown.
Rocketown is a song by Michael W. Smith, a Christian singer songwriter that I saw in concert in 1984 in Oklahoma City. It was his solo debut the night I saw him, and he was the opening act for Amy Grant. He was her keyboard player, but that night I knew he was much more than that. He was an anointed musician of God that would eventually touch thousands upon thousands of lives with his music...including mine.
The song Rocketown is on his album titled "The Big Picture" released in 1986. One of the best Contemporary Christian Albums ever recorded. Track # 5 was Rocketown... First of all the music of the song is incredible, and the story is no less than intriguing... I asked God weeks ago when I first thought of writing a blog and having a website, what would I name it? What would catch my friends and others on the technology highway's attention to check out what I might have to share with them? I kept coming back to this song from 23 years ago...
Why?
Earlier this year, I began to experience a series of traumatic events. Throughout this time, God brought someone back into my life that I had not seen or spoken to in over 25 years. I know now that God timed that reunion perfectly to set me on a path that I now see, I was destined to take. This friend of my past walked close to the Lord, and reminded me of how close I once was to Him and how they remember specific things of my walk with Him. Through each traumatic problem that then came throughout this year, I found myself seeking God again and finding peace only through Him in the midst of my turmoil...
It has felt like I have walked through fire in the last 3 months. But just like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, when King Nebuchadnezzar threw them into the fiery furnace, Jesus came down and walked with me through my fires, and I was not consumed by the burning flames, but left unharmed, safe with His arms wrapped around me as if to never let me go...
So many of my friends have told me in the last several weeks that God has a plan for me... and little by little, I feel He is revealing it to me... there are so many that I know, and don't know for that matter, that walk through fires daily that don't know of the loving arms that long to reach out and shelter them from their fires and from their storms... He has given us free will to choose... I choose Him that shed His blood that I might have life and love overflowing...
I encourage you, if you do not know the song "Rocketown" by Michael W. Smith, go- listen and hear the message...
God has told me to start in my own backyard... and to me that is Rocketown.
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