To be truly human is to be in community, sharing our lives with one another. Our stories are threads woven together to tell the story of God's redemption and hope. We are His story. Addison Road's new album, Stories, is filled with pop-driven melodies and soul-stirring lyrics inspired by personal trials and real-life stories from fans.

Stories is one of my top albums of 2010 and includes several amazing songs like “Fight Another Day”, “This Little Light Of Mine” and “My Story.” My favorite song on the album is “Change In The Making.”

I had the great privilege to speak with lead singer Jenny Simmons again about “Change In The Making.”

Please tell me the message behind the song "Change In The Making."

I wrote this song with my good friend, Allie Rogers. We also wrote “What Do I Know of Holy” together for the last album. So, I was excited to write with her again. Honestly, I was sitting around the piano one day and I don’t really know how to write music but I was pounding away at these six notes on the piano. I started singing, “There’s a better version of me that I can’t quite see, but things are gonna change.” It was one of the days where I wasn’t feeling like a very nice person. But I knew inside that isn’t who I am. I know that I wasn’t who God created me to be in that moment. I was in one of those places where I knew I wasn’t being an image bearer of God. I was lost and I was writing on the piano and one of the guys in the band recorded me without me knowing and sent it to the record label. So that’s how the song started.

Do you have any Bible verses that tie-in with the message of the song?

Revelation 21:3-5: And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, "Now the dwelling of God is with men, and he will live with them. They will be his people, and God himself will be with them and be their God. He will wipe every tear from their eyes. There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away." He who was seated on the throne said, "I am making everything new!" Then he said, "Write this down, for these words are trustworthy and true."

What's the take-away message for listeners regarding the song?

Men tend to compartmentalize failures, but many women--including myself--tend to have failures affect their sense of identity. I can have one weakness or shortcoming and it can affect everything. The entirety of the Bible is about how we are redemption’s story. In the midst of the terrible year we had and thinking about quitting and having a more normal life--thinking maybe this isn’t where I’m supposed to be--I asked my friends to pray for me. One of my friends told me she doesn’t understand my lifestyle of being on the road and all the craziness I’ve been through, but she said she looks at my life and she sees me being a part of God’s story. When she said that, everything made sense. We started thinking that God is writing a story of redemption in all of our lives as believers. We are all a work in progress. The line in the song, “Wish I had faith like a little child,” is a reminder that we don’t have the answers. Have faith and let God “work all things together for good.” Spend time with God and let Him redeem and restore you. We are not at the end of our story, God’s still writing our stories of redemption.

Here are the lyrics:

There’s a better version of me
That I can’t quite see
But things are gonna change
Right now I’m a total mess and
Right now I’m completely incomplete
But things are gonna change
'Cause You’re not through with me yet

This is redemption’s story
With every step that I am taking
Every day, You’re chipping away
What I don’t need
This is me under construction
This is my pride being broken
And every day I’m closer to who I’m meant to be
I am a change in the making

Wish I could live more patiently
Wish I could give a little more of me
Without stopping to think twice
Wish I had faith like a little child
Wish I could walk a single mile
Without tripping on my own feet
But You’re not through with me yet

This is redemption’s story
With every step that I am taking
Every day, You’re chipping away
What I don’t need
This is me under construction
This is my pride being broken
And every day I’m closer to who I’m meant to be

From the dawn of history
You make new and You redeem
From a broken world to a broken heart
You finish what You start in everything

Like a river rolls into the sea
We’re not who we’re going to be
But things are going to change

I am living redemption’s story
With every step that I am taking
Every day, You’re chipping away
What I don’t need
This is me under construction
This is my pride being broken
And every day I’m closer to who I’m meant to be
I am a change in the making

I am a change in the making
I am not who I am gonna be
Moving closer to Your glory

The messages behind the songs on Stories are what truly lifts this album to that upper echelon of albums released last year, and for me this was one of the top albums of 2010. This is an excellent album, and I can’t get enough of the musical hooks, Jenny’s vulnerable and sincere vocals and the extremely poignant lyrics. I love how Jenny took a moment of personal failure and frustration and turned it into a prayer of confession. Being married for 16 years and having three daughters, I’ve seen how women tend to beat themselves up about moments of failure.

This is a wonderful song of encouragement and prayer to ask God to break our pride, help us live redemption’s story, and move closer to who we’re meant to be in Christ. Allow God and His Holy Spirit to change you to be more like Jesus, and move closer to His glory. The bridge of the song says it all, “From the dawn of history, You make new and You redeem / From a broken world to a broken heart, You finish what You start in everything.” God wants us to know that He’s faithful to complete what’s He’s started in all of us who’ve put all of our hope and trust in Jesus for our salvation.. Amen.