A new way of looking at things

I have decided to step out on faith and put together a CD of some new songs. In the past I have taken whatever opportunity I had to get a recording together, usually just my voice and a guitar or something simple like that, but this is going to be different and stretching and difficult and scary at the same time. I met with the guy who is producing for a writing session. I showed him several lyrics that I had and then he sat down and began pounding out some melodies and chords. Now these weren’t the melodies I had in my head, or had used before, but I said in the beginning I was open to co-writing and I can say I am glad I took this path.

I am glad because he had a different way of looking at things. When I saw those lyrics the same boring melody kept popping in my head, but he looked at it from a completely fresh perspective, and some of the songs that I thought had no hope.. got a new life, and a new sound, and are much better than before.

It makes me wonder if there are other areas of my life where I only see one way. How in my ministry at church, the meetings, the areas I am involved in, do I see the same way of doing things that I always have? What would happen if I was open to a fresh perspective, a reinventing? What if I asked someone else to co-write? What if that someone else was… God?