If I Stand...

“Drive”, by Ed Kowalczyk

This album came out in July, but I still find it so incredibly exciting every time I listen to it.  For those that don’t know, Ed Kowalczyk was the lead singer of the band Live (the guys who sing “Lightning Crashes”.)  I’ve been a fairly loyal Live fan since I was a little squirt, and managed to see them in concert a few years ago.  Ed was raised a Christian, but then began studying Buddhism when he was a young adult.  Both religious beliefs appeared pretty frequently in his music that he wrote for Live.  I couldn’t help but continue to listen, because I wanted to find out where he would end up in his spiritual journey.  On his first solo album Alive, Ed makes it pretty darn clear that he has returned to his first love—and yes, I believe him.  When he says in the opening track, “Drive”, that “You are the only one that can save me”, I know he’s talking about Jesus.  Throughout the album he sings of finding grace, drinking from the everlasting love, standing in the light of God, and what I think is the the most beautiful experience that is only found in Christianity: the Holy Spirit whispering inside him.  So good.  So exciting.  So unashamed.  Love it.