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Making the Cover: Relient K — The Explorer Dad | Nashville Photography
It's not every day when you're sitting at a pool in Oahu when you get a text message asking if you want to take photos with Relient K . Tal
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Making the Cover: Relient K — The Explorer Dad | Nashville Photography
It's not every day when you're sitting at a pool in Oahu when you get a text message asking if you want to take photos with Relient K . Tal
Johnny and Lindy on Matthew’s insta story
(01/06/19)
A compilation: Matty and small kids
once upon a relient K show
matt thiessen gave me a shout out (on stage) to let everyone in chattanooga know that they were playing jefferson aero plane because i’d requested it the night before.
“we’re gonna play four new ones and then a really old one for our friend, anna, who’s in the crowd tonight.” *cue cheesin’ smile*
God knows me better than i know me, and He let matt thiessen call me a friend in front of the boy who once broke my heart, and the girl who waltzed in and won his affections. never underestimate my Jesus.
“You’re good. And I’m not just saying that. I see A LOT of stuff… you’re really good. Keep at it.”
On July 23, 2016, my favorite lyricist (and writer in general) looked me in the eye while saying those very words. My cool, calm, and collectedness left the building as tears began clinging to the corners of my eyes. Reflecting on it now, I’m still in awe. God is incessantly good to me. How many people get to hold a conversation with their inspiration, and be given such a sincere and extraordinary compliment? Why was I given this experience to cherish and not any one of my amazing friends who love the Matts as much as I do? I feel so undeserving of my life.
Because normally, I complain about working day in and day out. Typically I’m scraping by on pennies of hope and Bible verses I memorized when I was little. I’m almost always grasping an rK song, hanging on for dear life as I pray for God to keep me from sinking to the dark depths yet again. I’m apathetic, I’m complacent, I’m sad. And yet…
I know there is light. I know there is peace. I know that I am not my own, and that this life is far beyond what I have seen. He speaks to me in volumes so loud that my heart cannot ignore Him.
“I may know Someone Who knows me more than I.”
Me too, Matt. Me too.
Relient K’s album preorder just happened along with the release of a new song. I can’t explain how much I’m feeling right now. It’s been three years since their last album so new stuff has me feelin all kinds of things. This band changes my life on the daily. They point me to Jesus when I’m nothing. When I am at my absolute lowest, I find hope. Their lyrics find me in such a unique way that I’ve yet to experience another thing or person being able to do. I’m thrilled at this new release and am expecting it to be full of joy, as Matty has been clearly in a season of joyful growth, as have I. Truth is out there, and this band helps me find it.
I made it through the year and I did not even collapse, gotta say thank God for that.
relient K
A thrill of hope, the weary world rejoices.
O Holy Night