definitive moments....

I was eleven years old when my sister and I read an interview with Leslie Phillips, one of our favorite artists, announcing that she was leaving the Christian music industry. It was startling to us as children. We loved this woman's work. She was rocky. She was something very comparable, in sound, to the secular music we weren't supposed to listen to.

She was releasing her final album, The Turning, and the interview hit just before the album's release. We studied the interview....we absorbed it. Something in me at 11 related to the utter frustration this woman was feeling with a world that was trying to lull her brain asleep. She said that the record company wanted her to say she had all the answers...but what she really wanted to do was ask the questions.

What a novel concept.

I have since lived my life asking the questions...and reveling in not knowing the answers. I should wear the word 'why' on a t-shirt.

I woke up this morning with this song's lyric on my mind. I encourage you to pick up 'The Turning'...It will most certainly be a companion in the journey. It has been in mine since 1987....It still awakens and provokes me....