I wanted to start this blog entry out with a quote from Thomas Young of the Three Mo' Tenors.
 
 - Life can show us so many things. It can show us that there are things in the universe beyond our knowledge and beyond our understanding. It can show us that there is an extraordinary distance between knowing a person's name and knowing the person behind that name. So what tasks must we perform in order to discover who we are and to be at peace with that knowledge? And what are we prepared to do to defend who we are once that knowledge is obtained? I have stood in front of crowds of people and known that my capacity to believe in myself superceded their capacity to believe in me. I'm still standing...by my faith and not by their sight.

So much is going through my head these days as I take a huge step in my career.  I have been blessed beyond measure.  One of the greatest gifts in my life has been the ability to work a job that I absolutely love, doing something that is the thing that I have to.  I can't imagine my life without music.  I live music.  I breathe music. I am blessed enough to call music my own.  Music has gotten mo through so many things in life and as of late it has played an especially powerful part in the soundtrack of my life.  There are those that seek to destroy your belief in yourself, and the quote above goes to all of those that said I can't or I shouldn't.  Guess what...I can, I have, I am, and I will.  An amazing conductor reminded me of the gift I have been given tonight and for a moment, it made me feel bad because other people haven't seen what he sees in me.  Then I got angry.  I got angry at myself for letting other people's opinion deter me.  Then I got angry because I can remember a conversation I had with myself just a few days ago.  In that conversation I contemplated shifting the focus of my dream, and in essence changing my dream all-together.  I was put on this earth to glorify God through the gift of song and to change as many lives as possible.  I have every intention of siphoning every drop I can out of my gift, and moreover, out of my life.  I leave you with this quote and hope that you know that the best of your days lie before you.  

Much Love!
 
John Christopher

"Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in sideways - wine in one hand, chocolate in the other - body thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and screaming 'WOO HOO, WHAT A RIDE!!!!"