Laying music down

For decades I poured my energy into music, but I realized music had become a stumbling block of pride, even though I was in denial about how much it pulled my focus away from what mattered most. Late in 2025 I was convicted of how big that stumbling block had become. By the grace of God the appetite for creating music left me entirely. What I had chased for decades, I now wanted taken away. So I gladly (and gratefully) laid music down. For me the benefit came immediately. I had more time, energy, and desire to put Jesus Christ first in my life.

In the following nine months I wasn't sure what kind of long-term work I would do, or how I would carry the responsibilities Jesus Christ has given me: my wife, our bills, a household to provide for. Other changes were underway too. We had recently moved across the country. In God's timing, the desire and drive to learn and build AI surfaced.

Today I build AI agents and automations that take repetitive work off a person's plate, and I aim to help others manage their businesses and lives more effectively. My prayer is that I approach this new work with reverence and an appropriate fear and trembling before God. Music showed me how quietly a good thing can take first place in my life, and I don't want AI to become the thing music was.

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