Why I Love Kristen #247

A few days ago, Chris Caraway handed me a CD of a band called Low Stars. Chris is a good friend who knows me all too well and knew I would dig this brand new album from a group of four acoustic-playing singer/songwriters. He was right...I'm enjoying the record.

A few tracks get a bit whiny, but for the most part it's everything good songwriting should be. This, of course, has prompted me to start thinking about getting back into writing songs that aren't worship tunes.

As you know, I love the art of songwriting in general and am constantly amazed at the vastness of styling and skills among today's top crafters of lyric and melody.

So I'm in the kitchen the other day and mention to Kristen...

"I think I want to do some real songwriting."

She didn't even turn around. She just kept sweeping the floor and said

"Writing worship songs is the most important type of writing."

I don't care if you agree with her or not...you see, she knows. She knows what God's called me to do and she sees through all my flights of fancy and my ridiculous dreaming.

She sees me on the brink of my greatest adventure in ministry to date and she speaks true.

Sure, I'm always gonna' write tunes; and more than likely, I'll pen a few that aren't congregational in the least - songs that are just statements about the nature of man and family and the world and in every sense, God.

But I love Kristen because she knows me and in her seeing she confirms continually the daunting task of penning songs for praise.

And she's pretty good looking, too.