![]() ![]() Rebecca’s songs reminded me that it was ok, for a male teenager at that time, to enjoy listening to music by females. Back then she wasn’t even thirty yet, but I don’t think that even mattered to this Australian, who already unveiled to us 6 studio albums, 1 best-of compilation, 1 live project, 1 Christmas album, alongside an independent album as well, by the time of 2005, which was when I first started hearing Rebecca on the radio presenting to us standout songs like ‘You are Loved’, ‘God Help Me’, ‘Take All of Me’, ‘I Can Trust You’ and some of her fan favourites like ‘Wait for Me’, ‘Song of Love’ and ‘Reborn’, to name a few. And when I started to explore the different styles of music within CCM during the 2000s, I saw the rich wonder and the enthusiasm present within a bunch of different artists around that time, that explored faith so candidly and without hesitation- artists like Steve Grace, Delirious?, Tim Hughes, Carman, Steven Curtis Chapman, Avalon, Hillsong and Chris Tomlin were all instrumental in my own faith journey throughout primary and high school, solidifying what I know and what I can assert to be true. Let me give a little bit of context first- I grew up in a Christian home and family- I still am a Christian and a firm believer in the saving grace and love of Christ, even to this day. An Australian from a big family who uprooted themselves in the early 1990s to settle in to living in America (and Rebecca then subsequently moved into CCM ministry at the early age of 17 in 1994!) Rebecca’s place in Christian music, as well as even music in general has shaped the 1990s and the 2000s in ways that even I know I can’t even fathom- her trademark voice, and her youthful and energetic demeanour is what drew me to her music in the first place, and is what continues to bring me back to her music time and time again as the years continue to roll on. Rebecca’s music has been a blessing to my own life in the last decade and a half since I first heard her passionate vocals in the mid-2000s. And He did- and as I write about Rebecca’s music and how it has been instrumental in my own life, and how the music has shaped my own ethos, beliefs, way of life, and outlook on people in general, I am thankful to how God can even use the things that have impacted us in the past, to remind us indeed of the past, as we understand that the things that have got us from then to now, still impact us to this day, creeping in our everyday lives when we may not think they can. Nevertheless, God always has His ways of showing up in the 11 th hour, in places that you know you may not necessarily expect Him to. I had everything planned out- for the next few weeks in fact, and I knew what I was going to write about, and it wasn’t about Rebecca St. And if I am to be completely honest, I wasn’t planning on writing about this particular artist today. You know how sometimes you have a plan of what you want to do, and how you’re going to go about it, and then in the end, the plan is uprooted and everything changes in an instant? Maybe that’s how I felt leading up to this blog post that I’m embarking on right now.
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