I didn't set out to become a songwriter.
I simply wanted to talk with Jesus.
In October 2024, I was at my church worshiping with the congregation when I began thinking about something that had been bothering me about worship music.
I realized there were songs about Jesus that I could sing, but what I really wanted was to sing to Jesus.
There was another thing I couldn't quite reconcile.
At times during worship, we would sing songs asking for the Holy Spirit to come into the place. But I found myself thinking, How can I ask for the Holy Spirit to come into this place when the Holy Spirit already lives within me?
I wasn't looking to criticize the worship. I was wrestling with how I wanted to worship.
And instead of simply becoming frustrated with the music, I felt convicted to do something different.
Write what I wanted to say.
Most Holy Place
So I wrote the lyrics to a song called Most Holy Place.
The song was my attempt to put into words what I was feeling about the Trinity, how Jesus' death and resurrection gave me total access to the Holy Spirit, His presence in me and what it means for me to be His temple.
I tried to create a melody for it.
I even tried playing it on a guitar.
That didn't go particularly well.
I'm not a musician, and I couldn't turn the lyrics into the song I could hear in my head.
So I put the song aside.
I didn't know it at the time, but it was only waiting for the right tool.
February 5, 2026
On February 5, 2026, I started becoming interested in what AI technology could do.
I asked ChatGPT a very simple question:
How do I turn my lyrics into music?
That question opened a door I didn't know existed.
I began experimenting with a music app called Suno.
And then something happened.
For the first time, I could hear my lyrics as a song.
The words that had previously existed only on paper could now become music.
And that changed everything.
I wasn't just listening to music anymore.
I was hearing my prayers.
My Prayers Became Songs
As I began writing more, I started noticing something.
I wasn't really writing an album.
I was writing how I prayed.
Most Holy Place was a conversation with Jesus about who He is and who I am in Him.
Here I Am Jesus became a prayer of dependence—coming to Him when anxiety, stress, confusion, and life become too much.
Wait on the Lord is me wrestling with my desire to accomplish things and reminding myself that sometimes God is asking me to stop, wait, and trust Him.
Forgive Me Lord is confession of the heart and gratitude for His grace.
My Virtuous Wife is thanking Jesus for the woman He gave me and asking for the ability to love her well.
Blessed with Children is gratitude for my family and a prayer that they will continue to bring Him glory.
Friendship is a prayer for the people God has placed in my life—for wisdom, accountability, love, and the ability to care for them well.
And My Soul Grieves reveals another side of my conversations with Jesus—the ache I feel for people who don't know Him and my desire to have the courage and discernment to shine His love into their lives.
These weren't songs I was writing simply because I thought they would make a good album.
They were pieces of my conversations with Jesus.
And eventually, those conversations became my first album:
Conversations with Jesus
Then Something Unexpected Happened
The process moved incredibly fast.
I began creating the music on February 5, 2026.
By March 21, I had distributed the music.
In a matter of weeks, I had gone from lyrics sitting on a page to having songs available for people to hear.
My family and extended family could listen to them.
My friends could listen to them.
People I had never met could listen to them.
But something happened that meant much more to me than seeing my songs appear on a streaming service.
I took Most Holy Place to my church leadership.
They chose to sing it at our church.
And then they sang it.
Three times during the summer.
Hearing Someone Else Sing My Prayer
There is something different about hearing a song you wrote played through speakers.
But hearing other people sing it is different.
These were words that had started as my personal conversation with Jesus.
Now I was standing in church hearing other people sing those words.
That's when something changed inside me.
I realized these songs didn't have to remain my conversations with Jesus.
They could become someone else's.
Maybe someone could hear Most Holy Place and think differently about what it means to worship Jesus.
Maybe Here I Am Jesus could become someone's prayer when they're struggling.
Maybe Wait on the Lord could remind someone to stop striving and trust Him.
Maybe My Soul Grieves could express something another believer has been unable to put into words.
And maybe these songs could eventually be sung in churches far beyond my own.
That's when I knew I wanted to share them.
From Talking With Jesus to Living for Jesus
There is a progression throughout Conversations with Jesus that I didn't fully recognize when I was writing it.
It begins with talking with Jesus.
Bringing Him my thoughts. My struggles. My sin. My gratitude. My family. My friendships. My questions. My heart.
But it doesn't end there.
It eventually becomes a call to live for Jesus.
That's what Live for Jesus represents to me.
We aren't meant to stay quietly in our conversations with Jesus forever.
He calls us to stand up, live for Him, and let His presence be seen in the way we live.
Talk with Him.
Listen to Him.
Then live for Him.
Shine His grace.
That is where my journey has taken me.
Why I'm Sharing This
I never started this journey thinking I would be putting music on Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, and other platforms.
I certainly never imagined that people in a church would be singing something I had written.
But God used something as simple as my frustration during a worship service to move me in a completely different direction.
Instead of simply asking, “Why aren't we worshiping the way I think we should?”
I began asking:
“Jesus, how do You want me to worship You?”
And then I started writing.
The technology gave me a way to hear those words.
But the reason I write is much bigger than the technology.
I love Jesus.
I want to talk with Him.
I want to hear Him.
I want to live for Him.
And I want other people to know Him.
So Here I Am
I'm still surprised by where this journey has taken me.
I'm still learning.
I'm still writing.
And I'm still having conversations with Jesus.
But now those conversations can become songs.
And those songs can travel places I never could.
Across a church.
Across a family.
Across a community.
Across America.
Maybe someday, across the world.
I don't know where God will take them.
I just know I don't want to keep them to myself.
Because if something that began as my conversation with Jesus can help someone else begin theirs,
then it's worth sharing.
These are my conversations with Jesus.
Maybe one of them can become yours.