Welcome!

hey there... welcome to my Walk With Me site!!! i have my own personal blog here, but this site is just a blog for each song on the Walk With Me CD... every song on the CD has an entry about it that has some sort of background on the song, whether it was the recording process or it's meaning or both... but scroll down to check it out and thanks for stopping in... leave a comment if you get a chance (you'll need a xanga account, but it's free, and maybe you could start blogging too?)...

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thanks again...

grande

1. My Soul Tonight

this song starts abruptly... i actually pressed record in the middle of playing the first chord on the guitar... but to me that's kinda how coming to faith in Christ came about... it was an abrupt revelation, kinda like outta nowhere... the songs goes on to catch the exact moment of when i wrote it... i wrote it in my room at my parents house... i had one lone light on and the blue walls created a very memorable atmosphere... my guitar amp also had a blue light, so when i hear the song, i see blue... it's not a bad thing... it's just what my room was like... this song also captures the feeling of when i first dropped to my knees and asked Jesus to rescue me... that also took place in my blue tinted room... it was just me and God and then some angels who were kinda just hanging around... what an incredible experience...

2. Walk With Me

the title track... i usually don't like title tracks, but here's one that i do like... hehe... this is the second song i wrote as a Christian... the first recording i made of it was with a full drum set and distorted guitars... for some strange reason, that recording got erased and i ended up recording it again with just acoustics, handclaps and a tambourine... this time around, when recording it for this CD, i decided to do it just like the acoustic version... i think that's the way the song is supposed to be: very simple, but fun... kinda like how our walk with God is supposed to be... the significance of the chorus stuns me... God says "Walk with me" and i don't think i really realized what that meant back then... i am still walking with Him and we'll be walking together for quite some time... regardless of the situation, He is always saying to me, "take My hand in faith"...

3. So Real

Jon Glover played drums on this song... i need to say this because i wasn't able to put his name in the credits... this song records the childlike mentality i had when i first got saved... a mentality that i stray too far away from at times... this song talks about really experiencing God for the first time... God being more real than He ever was before... it's a happy, simple song... very much how i was when i first got saved... happy and simple... i think i'm  actually beyond both of those things, in a good way (joy instead of happiness, mature instead of simple) ... but like i said, childlikeness is something i'll always need... childlikeness, not childishness... har har...

4. In the Melody

i don't know of one Christian that hasn't spent extensive time thinking about who their mate is going to be... it's a big part of Christian life and i think it's good for Christians to talk about it honestly... i wish more Christian artists would write about waiting and looking for a mate in a godly way... it's the biggest part of a Christian's life that no one writes songs about...

this is the most romantic song i've ever written... and i've written a lot of love songs... but this one is just so much deeper... i can actually visualize flying in the skies to heaven and my wife being next to me... there's no Scriptural basis to such an idea, but it's not far off and maybe when we're caught up in the air, she'll be next to me... what could be better than that!?!?