Mike Walker Creative

I got my start in the music world in Christian Music back in the early 90’s (which I realize dates me).

The first artist I worked for had a profound affect on my life. I learned so much from him that has really made me look at everything I do in my work and personal life different.

He had a song that he wrote that came out of personal experience he had gone through titled “To Forgive”. The song was incredible and had an ever more powerful video. I remember night after night how that song affected both he and the audience. Little did I know that almost 20 years later it would change me.

The song came out of a personal experience of his, but I have now lived it and the message has taken on a personal twist for me. It’s amazing how forgiveness and unforgiveness can impact our lives..even when you don’t realize it’s there.

Here are the words:
-I have never been the kind to let too many get behind the walls that I have built around my heart
-Now I find myself afraid, feeling like I’ve been betrayed by one I had trusted from the start
-But friends are only human and at times they’re gonna fall and when it hurts the most is when you need them most of all

-To Forgive is to reach out to your brother…as one friend to another…no matter what the cost
-To Forgive is to leave the past behind you…and pray tomorrow finds you stronger for the journey as every day I’m learning to forgive

-It was another place and time that I had failed a friend of mine and there was no one else to take the blame
-Though he could have turned away, somehow he found the strength to stay, his love for me was stronger than the pain
-In light of all this mercy, it’s much easier to see that even from the cross the Lord was calling you and me….

-To Forgive is to reach out to your brother…as one friend to another…no matter what the cost
-To Forgive is to leave the past behind you…and pray tomorrow finds you stronger for the journey as every day I’m learning to forgive

Now every day I am learning to forgive.