Ever since I finished my second CD two years ago, I've been wondering what should come next for me, musically.  Truthfully, the second CD hasn't sold very well, and it definitely messed with my head.  It's not that I expected to quit my day job and tour the world as a full-time singer/musician/worshipper.  But I did think the second CD would sell at least as much as the first one did (I've sold less than half as many of the second).  So I've asked myself the hard questions.  Can I sing?  Who do I think I am, trying to record and sell CDs, when the world is full of singers who are more musically gifted than I am?  Why am I continuing to put my family and friends in the position where they feel some obligation to buy a CD, just because I made it?

In spite of these and other questions that sometimes bombard my mind, I find mself sitting in the studio yet again, recording a new CD.  And I sit here, listening to a guitarist make my music sound even better that I thought it could, all the hard questions go away.  That's partly because as he plays "Your Awesome Name," I'm not just thinking that he's a great guitarist, or that I wrote a good song.  I am thinking and feeling that God's name is awesome--more awesome than I could comprehend.  This song becomes a ladder that enables my intellect, my emotions, and my spirit to know just a little bit more about my Lord and his awesome, awesome name. I sincerely and passionately hope that those who hear this CD will have the same experience I am having, in this moment.  And if they do, then it doesn't matter much whether or not I sell many CDs.

More on this some other time.