Scattered words and empty thoughts...
Posted November 07, 2007
By veritas,
...seem to pour from my heart.
I'd never actually listened to any of Jeremy Camp's music before seeing him live, as this CD had only come out shortly before. My church's worship band at the time had been playing 'Burden Me', one of Jeremy Camp's earliest songs. I liked the song and it sparked my interest enough to go see Jeremy Camp live when I heard he was playing in town.
It was a very humble setting, with the local sound and light guys at the church running the whole show, and no other bands or artists playing before him. Just as this album lacks a certain layer of production and polish, this was no major label tour. However, an incredible night of inspiration followed, and that same atmosphere remains on this album.
There was not a dry eye in the audience as Jeremy shared his heartbreaking story about the loss of his wife to cancer just five months after they were married. His testimony that night, and the beautiful restoration that has occured in his life since that time, is a story that most people following Christian music are now quite familiar with.
The songs that he wrote as he was going through that experience have remained a source of inspiration to this day, and I still put this CD on whenever I'm feeling down in the dumps. This is an album that no Christian should be without, regardless of your preferred type of music, and a glance at the lyrics for I Still Believe and Walk by Faith should be all the convincing it takes.
My Highlights: I Still Believe, Walk by Faith, Take My Life
The only place I can go is into Your arms
Where I throw to You my feeble prayers
In brokenness, I can see that this was Your will for me
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