"For I am full of words; the spirit within me constrains me."
Job 32:18
I am naturally reserved.
But something happens when I am standing on a stage in a room filled with people. My heart beats a little bit faster, my stomach turns, my palms start to sweat...and then I take a deep breath and speak. It's at that moment I become someone else.
I really wish I was being overly dramatic. But I promise, I am not.
Throughout my career, the one thing that deeply moved me was motivating others to a call of action. Whether it was imploring business owners to become mentors to troubled teens, compelling leaders to recognize art as a gateway to learning or petitioning a room full of recording artists and executives to use their status to inspire, I always felt completely at home on a stage, with a microphone, in a room of crowded people.
For me and my reserved self, that just doesn't make sense.
When I left my career, God began to do a new work and put a new song in my heart.
That song was His story.
Immediately, it was as if I came to life...again.
Speaking isn't about teaching or telling or knowing. It's sharing. Sharing someone else's story...the story of a Savior who came to rescue us. It's proclaiming. Proclaiming the pursuing love of God that reaches beyond the heavens. It's leading. Leading others to discover the richness and fullness of His Word.
What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in your ear, proclaim upon the housetops.
Matthew 10:27
Share. Proclaim. Lead. Speaking for me is what I know I was born to do...without any reservation.
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