Monday, May 23, 2016
This Man's Journey...: My music and My Life
This Man's Journey...: My music and My Life: What's good family! Just got back from Nashville. I attended the "Objective Weekend", the four day selection process for t...
My music and My Life
What's good family!
Just got back from Nashville. I attended the "Objective Weekend", the four day selection process for the Extreme Tour. It was four days of intense sessions covering many topics. Speaker after speaker pouring out their hearts to us about music and music ministry and the music biz and the true ministry. It was all kind of numbing at first. Line upon line. Precept upon precept. But then a speaker got up and shared about personal struggles. Here was a man being groomed to be a Pastor and his personal struggles caused him to walk away from it all. Those personal struggles nearly cost him his marriage, his family... everything. Watching his passionate transparency struck something in me and I decided to seek him out to speak to him one on one. I approached a man who I thought was him and bared my soul. He said, "I'm not the one who shared that testimony, but I'm the guy who can help you..." He then pulled me aside and set me on a path to fight my challenges and to show others how to fight. One of the main things he said was that I needed an accountability team. 2-3 people who can pointedly and directly ask me anything and I would answer... honestly. I'm a solo artist. That means I don't step outside of myself to allow people to see much of anything. I don't create with a band that I have to be "naked emotionally" with in order to accomplish musical goals. Its just me. I create and then call in others to help me complete the project. And now all of a sudden I have to have a team of people that I can't hide from. I find it intrusive, but freeing at the same time. I can fight now. No, not drinking, not on drugs or the down-low or cheating on the wife or anything crazy. But I have my thorns and I shared that with him. I didn't want my meteoric rise to match an equally horrific fall. I told him that terrified me. He reminded me of who I was. I'm a child of God. I'm a new creation and God has my back. It was odd that I wanted to share with one person about my life - and the one person who had my solution showed up.
The other thing that I learned was that I've been around the music "businessmen"so much over the last three years - that I allowed it to warp what I knew was real. I kept hearing the refrain "If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense" bouncing around in my skull. Yes, I KNOW that the work has to be done. Yes I know I must present that work well in order to make sales that I can feed my family with. But what's real is that it isn't as important about having a marketable product.. its MORE important that your "product" draws others to Christ. I'm a warrior... here to make more warriors. My music is made to build up the army of God. As I listened to it with different ears this time, I hear that. I hear it building up people. I hear it giving strength to others. Its got a little funk to it. Its got a little hip-hop to it. Its got a little jazz to it. But most of all its got the word of God through every song. The Objective this weekend opened some doors in my heart. I'm so different now I really can't explain it. My life is to SHOW God's love, that's all. I do that with my music and my life.
Curt
Just got back from Nashville. I attended the "Objective Weekend", the four day selection process for the Extreme Tour. It was four days of intense sessions covering many topics. Speaker after speaker pouring out their hearts to us about music and music ministry and the music biz and the true ministry. It was all kind of numbing at first. Line upon line. Precept upon precept. But then a speaker got up and shared about personal struggles. Here was a man being groomed to be a Pastor and his personal struggles caused him to walk away from it all. Those personal struggles nearly cost him his marriage, his family... everything. Watching his passionate transparency struck something in me and I decided to seek him out to speak to him one on one. I approached a man who I thought was him and bared my soul. He said, "I'm not the one who shared that testimony, but I'm the guy who can help you..." He then pulled me aside and set me on a path to fight my challenges and to show others how to fight. One of the main things he said was that I needed an accountability team. 2-3 people who can pointedly and directly ask me anything and I would answer... honestly. I'm a solo artist. That means I don't step outside of myself to allow people to see much of anything. I don't create with a band that I have to be "naked emotionally" with in order to accomplish musical goals. Its just me. I create and then call in others to help me complete the project. And now all of a sudden I have to have a team of people that I can't hide from. I find it intrusive, but freeing at the same time. I can fight now. No, not drinking, not on drugs or the down-low or cheating on the wife or anything crazy. But I have my thorns and I shared that with him. I didn't want my meteoric rise to match an equally horrific fall. I told him that terrified me. He reminded me of who I was. I'm a child of God. I'm a new creation and God has my back. It was odd that I wanted to share with one person about my life - and the one person who had my solution showed up.
The other thing that I learned was that I've been around the music "businessmen"so much over the last three years - that I allowed it to warp what I knew was real. I kept hearing the refrain "If it don't make dollars, it don't make sense" bouncing around in my skull. Yes, I KNOW that the work has to be done. Yes I know I must present that work well in order to make sales that I can feed my family with. But what's real is that it isn't as important about having a marketable product.. its MORE important that your "product" draws others to Christ. I'm a warrior... here to make more warriors. My music is made to build up the army of God. As I listened to it with different ears this time, I hear that. I hear it building up people. I hear it giving strength to others. Its got a little funk to it. Its got a little hip-hop to it. Its got a little jazz to it. But most of all its got the word of God through every song. The Objective this weekend opened some doors in my heart. I'm so different now I really can't explain it. My life is to SHOW God's love, that's all. I do that with my music and my life.
Curt
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