Care For Me INTRODUCTION
Last week I posted a campaign poll and was shocked with the results. Across my different social platforms, I asked the following questions:
What do YOU want to see? What would YOU share? COMMENT your answer below.
1. Cover Videos / Album Sneak Peek Videos
2. Devotions/blogs on the topics of the album: depression, anxiety, and faith.
3. Podcast.
Surprisingly, the poll ended with a three-way tie on all platforms, with messages from people asking for specific topics, and songs. While I DID plan on covering all areas to some degree, I was not expecting these responses. But I am excited because it shows what you all want and would share as I create.
SO I am beginning this process with the blog.
But honestly, this is surreal to me…
For those of you who may not know, I started and led a three-year-long online ministry called Worship Exposed. Worship Exposed was dedicated to challenging Christ-followers to capture a lifestyle of biblical worship. I created this ministry in college with some of my friends, and it was one of my greatest passions. We came up with a series and series topics, then had weekly articles. Everything we posted was thoroughly researched, reviewed, and edited before being posted for the integrity of reaching people for Christ and ensuring people understood what true biblical worship was.
Worship Exposed ran from 2015-2017. The only reason Worship Exposed ended was because all of those who were involved in the leadership, writing, and editing were now involved in full-time ministry, getting married, starting families… life was getting busy, and Worship Exposed was just a passion we did on the side with no income. It was either stop or get incredibly burnt out.
Since Worship Exposed came to an end, I’ve only written papers for my master’s degree, sermons, social media posts, and four lone blogs on my personal website.
So yeah… this is surreal to me.
As I write, I feel like I am writing for Worship Exposed. It feels… good, different, but good. I’ve missed writing like this.
But I digress.
CARE FOR ME Blog Series
Let’s talk about this blog series you all VOTED FOR!
Over the next few weeks, I am going to write an article that covers multiple songs in the project I am currently working on. The article will cover the story behind the song, the biblical roots, the hope and prayer for the song, devotion to the song topic, a snippet of the original voice memo when writing, AND an acoustic cover video.
Now it is important to note that I experienced deep valleys of depression and anxiety, and my faith — so the articles I write will relate to these seasons. Honesty… without it, there would be no album because these new songs are songs of prayer, desperation, and joy out of those seasons. Do I want to go through everything I went through again? No. Do I want anyone else to go through what I went through? Absolutely not. My goal is to help people turn their eyes off their darkness, off this world, and back to Jesus and our eternal promise in heaven. I am thankful I had that love and support and I want to be that for others. Jesus is the goal.
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