![]() And in everything that I do, whether it's a book, or a song, or a record, or a concert, or a podcast episode, I seek to connect to the hearts of people. "Years ago I came back to that word as being a cor component of what I feel like I'm on this earth to do. "I think what gives me the most satisfaction is boing it down to one word, and that is connection," he said. Since then he's been a musician, a singer, a songwriter (not only for himself, but for others, too), he's done a little acting and he's written some books.īut what gives Matthew West the most satisfaction? "In many respects, I feel like I was kind of off to the races after that," he said. I can't, I can't make myself get to a point where I'm able to figure out all of life's mysteries without some help.Īnd then he had to decide what to study in college, and someone mentioned that he might be good enough to get a music scholarship. ![]() I've discovered instead the exact opposite, that it's impossible to make it through life on my strength alone, and I'm just not strong enough. "And my life's no different … I've had a lot of different obstacles in my life that I've had to overcome to get to where I am today," he said. "The one thing that I know beyond the shadow of a doubt is that I have not overcome the obstacles on my own. No life is going to make it through from start to finish without being touched by pain, without being touched by trial or hardship or tragedy, obstacles. West said those experience taught him "that it doesn't matter how perfect your life might look on the outside. About five years later, he had to have vocal surgery that could have ended his singing career. An injury to his arm nearly ended his career as a musician just as he was getting started. And I think that's why I'm so excited to get on stage and sing these songs that have hopefully been an anthem for people as they've had to weather some storms in their own lives." I can't do it alone "I'm singing these songs with a whole new fire because I feel like for the first time maybe I understand what they're really about. "And I could go down the list of the songs and share with you, 'Oh, here's what inspired that song - let me tell you what that song means to me now.'"Īnother song from the album, called "What If," is "about living your life with no regrets and no 'what ifs.' And I think these last two years have taught me not to take a single day of my life for granted, and to realize that life is precious," he said. "So I think about those songs … I think about a song like 'The God Who Stays.' You know, that song meant one thing to me when I wrote the song, but now, in a season where so many of us have been separated from each other … there is one who is always with us. 1 recordings on the Christian music charts that were "all on the radio in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic," he notes.
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