Grammy-nominated artistš Walked Across Americaš¶š¼āāļøSummited Mt. Everestš
Joined December 2008
- Tweets18.5K
- Following0
- Followers571K
- Likes10.2K
Pinned Tweet
on my 26th birthday, i wrote I Took A Pill in Ibizaā¦10 years ago. The song became popular several years after i wrote it. Yesterday i celebrated my 36th birthday. i feel proud to look at the song lyrics and know that NONE of them are true anymore. Iāve grown into a completely new manā¦one that iām proud of. check this outā¦ š§µ
a song off my unreleased album Pages called āpretty damn good.ā this is the first song youāll have access to when u join the waitlist, click the link in my bio to join!
Iāve been trying to put out this album since 2013, but I was never allowed to. it was stacked with features from Justin Bieber, Big Sean, 2 Chainz, and more. comment āBLOOMā and Iāll dm u the link to join the waitlist for Pages, my unreleased album. join now to become a founding member, and youāll get the first track :)
Sign up to receive an email every Monday ā a personal note from me with something to carry into your week. š link in bio
Itās kind of surreal to think that in every concert I do, I never sing my most popular song. Iāve removed āI Took a Pill in Ibizaā from my set list, and now I only sing āI Went Back to Ibizaā. My life has transformed from a sad song into a love song. It doesnāt mean I donāt have sad moments. It doesnāt mean I donāt have challenges, and Lord knows I still have my fair share of pain, but itās all in the service of something bigger than me. When I remember that, my life is a blessing.
A year ago, I experienced a series of Christ based synchronistic events including:
1. a friend prophesying in Christ about my life events that I had told him nothing about.Ā
2. Attending a tiny church service where electricity shot up my spine and I was left with a deep feeling of Oneness that lasted for hours
3. A friend in Christ who brought up an event in my life that happened 9 months before that I was JUST thinking about.Ā
I interpreted this signs as signals for me to take a step towards Christ.
I did so.
A year ago, I got down on my knees and gave my life to Christ.Ā
The veracity of these events and whether they could be pure happenstance versus āsignsā from God is not that interesting to me.Ā
What is interesting is what happened afterwards.Ā
After getting up from my knees, I really didnāt know I now believed in.
As I tend to do, I went all in and started reading my little tale off.
CS Lewis, Mother Teresa, and The New Testament (amongst others) where all devoured but still I was a little confused on what it meant to me to be a Christian.
Some of the doctrine I heard espoused in church felt true to me and some didnāt.Ā
But in the last few weeks, that has somewhat been filled in for me.
FOR ME; To be a Christian means to aspire with all your mind, body, and soul to live as Christ did. To forgive all other people. To treat ALL other people, especially the least among us (whether that be the poorest of the poor financially or the loneliest of the lonely) with an impossible level of compassion, grace, and most of all LOVE.Ā
It means to forgive every single person in my life including me and LOVE CHRIST BY LOVING PEOPLE.Ā
It means to live with an impossibly high standard of goodness towards others, so much so that I NEED Godās help to even get close.Ā
It means listening to the little voice inside me (that I believe comes from God) that tells me to do right thing, even when I donāt feel like it.Ā
Itās not just a doctrine or theology, itās a way of life rooted in faith.Ā
For me, if it isnāt causing me to LOVE MORE PEOPLE MORE FULLY, it isnāt God.Ā
A few weeks ago I was baptizedā¦
Christ has not made my life or my heart smaller, but much, much bigger. Iām working on developing more and more of a personal relationship with God.Ā
Why doest this even matter? Do I think that my job as an aging pop star qualifies me to tell you what to believe? I do not.Ā
But to not share this would feel inauthentic and like I was hiding a part of myself from my audience and I am not hiding this part of my life. But I am proud of this part of my life.
