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More to This Life


It started innocently enough.  I spied a cassette tape on my brother's bedroom floor and picked it up.  It looked good so I popped it in my cassette player and pushed play.  I haven't been the same since for it is when the OBSESSION began.  Yes, obsession.  Oh it's healthy, I haven't like stalked the man or anything but his lyrics and guitar playing are IT for me.  And yes, Lanny knows.  It was an unspoken in our wedding vows that no matter if we were richer or poorer that if Steven Curtis Chapman was in Colorado we would be attending that concert!  So far, that has held true.  And yes, I own every single album he has ever made.  :) 

The title track really caught my heart when I first started listening to this album (way, way, way back!).  "More to This Life".  There is more to this life than what you or I see right in front of us.  We see just a small pixel (ha, I just went all techno - or something - on you guys!)  and God sees all the pixels together to form the picture.  What brings value to our days?  Why do we get up in the mornings?  There's more to life than just getting through the day.  We have to look for the value in each one that is given us.  We need to look for the value in the people we come into contact with.  Don't think there is value in your days?  Think again.  God says there is and since he has created each day I'm gonna go with him on this one! 

There's more to this life that just living and dying.  In the in between of birth and death we have millions of opportunities to speak value in to the life of others, to invest in the lives of others, to make a difference.  Look for the more and live out of the more! 

More to This Life

Will you see more of Steven Curtis Chapman in the remaining days of this experiment?  Uh in one word.  YES.  :)

In 2008 one of my besties, Rebecca, and I got a fantastic opportunity to meet Steven Curtis Chapman backstage after his show in Denver!  Thanks to our good friend, Dale, who scored us the tickets!  It was awesome to be able to meet this man that I admire for his faith, his gift of song, and his heart for ministry!  It was just a few months later that his daughter was tragically killed by his son in a horrible accident and we have been able to witness a stronger faith in God emerge from that grief.  What a journey! 

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