I sang at the Monroe Minimum Security Unit or (MSU) yesterday August 8th for Prisoners for Christ Ministries. I can't begin to tell you how blessed I feel each time I sing at one of the many sites Prisoners for Christ sends me.
After we minister in word and in song I always get a bunch of men coming up to me and expressing their feelings about many of my songs. They understand homelessness, divorce, despair and hopelessness as I did when I wrote the songs I sing to them. They seem to get the feeling that I'm not just a songwriter who sat back and made up a song about those things. They know from the words that I truly lived what I wrote about. They receive a deeper meaning in understanding what Christ did and who he was, and is, for their life.
It touches my heart beyond words to hear them tell me how much "Kingdom of Grace" and "The Rock" spoke to their hearts. I debuted "Son's of Men" & "I'm not dead yet" and received the same response with those songs as I have with "Comfort in You", "Can you see through the sin" and others I've mentioned. As a songwriter that does my heart good.
Today I feel just as my new song says, "I'm not dead yet" there's more for me to do.
Peyton Burkhart
