
But our plans fell through. And although we didn’t know it then, God had prepared an even better filming location for us. Tabor and Kristin, and Chantelle and I sat down to regroup. Would we have to drive back to Michigan and disappoint our fans who were expecting a new music video? Would we have to settle on a filming location that didn’t match our vision? Would we have to wait another month to plan better and give up this weekend as a loss? There were so many questions, none of them giving us a satisfying answer. I’ve never been one to give up though (at least not easily). I hopped on Google and typed in “abandoned buildings”. I saw this church in Gary, IN. It had been used in a scene of Transformers 3. That’s cool! I called the number listed for the church. No answer. Pretty used to that by now…Was it still standing? Could we even get in?I don’t want you thinking we didn’t plan well or put in enough thought or work into this music video though. At this point, I was my only full-time employee. I didn’t just sit at my piano and play all day long. In addition to creating my piano arrangements and any orchestration, I also had to write and edit the sheet music, master all the tracks, distribute my music onto multiple streaming services, create and manage ads, manage 3 social media accounts, respond to all messages and emails, and find locations to film my music videos (which usually entails communicating with a minimum of 3 different parties and then arranging for a piano to be moved). I have to do a lot…So when all my calls to the railyard were left unanswered, I took a leap of faith and drove my team 5 hours south to Goshen, Indiana.




I’m so glad I took that leap of faith. I’m so glad God revealed himself to me like this, showing me once again that all the pain and brokenness is okay if we allow Him to enter in, to redeem it all, bringing beauty from the ashes.“Yes right in the middle of the darkness, ruin, defacement, scorn, and disrespect He brings beauty out of the ashes. We will praise our God despite all things around us crumbling. He is worthy! He remains on the throne.”
“I believe this video is a prophetic piece for today… This song, in this setting, the brokenness and disrespect, yet the new things springing up in the place of the old, the manmade being replaced with what God has made… “
