Last night I had a lady tell me that I had such a deep manly voice. To which I said "Yeah I do". She then told me that I should be a country music singer. I immediately saw myself on the big stage. The lights, the crowd, and myself in tight Wranglers and a cowboy hat twirling my guitar like Garth Brooks. I sing in the car, at work, and I can nail a county ballad in the shower. Then I remembered the one time I sang in public. I was the youth pastor of a small country church and we were having a youth night for the adults (who I don't even think liked youth, or Jesus for that matter) We did not have a worship band so I made an executive decision to make myself a worship leader and scrap together a guitar and bass player. After it was all sang and done I was asked to never sing in the church again (yes, they said that). C'mon, I was making a joyful, tone deaf noise.
Now, some people after being told they should sing country music would quit their job, put on their tight fitting denim and march right down to American Idol and show the world how crazy they are. You see for some people it doesn't take much to alter the course of their life. A few words here or there and they chase after what sounds good. I have come to know and understand the purpose for my life and it's not singing "Achy Breaky Heart" in front of 10,000 13yr old girls. The sad thing is that most of the people on this planet have no direction for their life and it's because they don't know the one who has mapped out their lives. Let me encourage you to stop chasing empty dreams and ambitions and follow the One who has it all mapped out.
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