And I knew that Christ was knocking at the door of my heart saying, let me in. And I was like, Yes, God, like, I don't know you. But I think you're that presence that I felt when I was a child, locked in my room afraid of my dad. And that presence came to abide in my life. About two weeks later, returning to the same church, I felt God speaking to my heart that I needed to lay before him, the gift that he had given to me, kind of like Moses, this encounter at the burning bush, Moses, what is that in your hand? And the emphasis for Moses, his dialogue is it's my rod, mine. My calling my gift? And God tells Moses lay it down? Well, I was I hadn't read that story at that point. So it's only two weeks old in the Lord. But I since that, so I went up for prayer, there was a prayer counselor. And I said, Sir, I've been a believer for about two weeks. I feel like God is speaking to me. And there is a gift that He's given me a talent. And I need to dedicate that talent to His glory. I don't know exactly what that means. But I would like prayer. And I was 21, the prayer counselor was an older gentleman. And he said, I would be honored to pray with you. And he said, but I want to pray specifically. And he said, First, I want to encourage you that I can't believe that only after two weeks, you feel this impression to pray a prayer like this. And then he said, but tell me though, I can be very specific in my prayer. What gift do you have, that you want to give to God's glory? And I said, Well, I'm a professional dancer. And it was almost the first time I ever saw anyone fall back from the power of the spirit of this guy was like, whoa. And he said, Excuse me. And I said, I'm a professional dancer. And he said, explain that to me. Like if I was entered, you know, the the spotlight, the interrogation. And I said, Well, I've trained, I've trained in professional dance forms ballet and modern and jazz and tap. And he got really quiet. And he said, I tell you what, I am going to pray that we're going to ask the Lord, what else it is he has for you. And guys, at that moment, the orphan spirit are so familiar in my life. Hit me like a ton of bricks. I left that church feeling as if even God doesn't accept me. And I had never really, like, dug deep into the Bible. But I remember picking up I had this big King James Bible, a new believer with the Big King James Bible, perfect fit. And I thought, okay, I wonder, and this is way back before Google. And I thought, okay, I wonder if the word dance could possibly be in the Bible. And I didn't know where to start. But then I realized there was an index. So I went to the back of the index, I looked at the word dance, and it took me forever to find the Scripture references because I didn't know the Bible. I didn't know Old Testament New Testament. So it was a long journey. But the first scripture I turned to God as a sense of humor, was the passage where John the Baptist gets his head cut off. Because Siddhartha for Rodia says, dances in places, Eric. And I thought, Well, God, no wonder you hate this. Because when people dance, then good people get their heads cut off. But thank God, there were other references, but just that way, then I found the other references and the one that stuck out the most was one that was written by David which is so absolutely beautiful. And it's Psalm 30, verse 11. The Lord has turned for me, my mourning into dancing. He's taken away my sackcloth, and he has dirted me with the garments of grace. To the end that my glory may seem praise to Him and not be silent. There are other references in Jeremiah, again, I will build you and you shall be rebuilt overturn of Israel, I will draw you with cords of loving kindness and you will go forth again, the dance is that those that rejoice. And I thought, oh my god, of course, prices, name and dance, and then read the story of the prodigal son. In the father's house, there was music. And of course, most Christians will go, oh, yeah, of course, there was music, but they for they don't read the next word, and dancing, there was music and dancing in the father's house. And so these passages gave me life. So where where the church wasn't able to affirm this truth, the word of God was affirming it. But back in the day in 1981, could be a professional dancer, and to be a Christian was not a popular thing, or a thing that was understood. And there was just a lot of misunderstandings, a lot of judgments, you know, dances of the world, and it's of the flesh, and you know, we want to be a spirit and not have the body. But then I thought, well, but what about this thing that Paul says, Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit? You've been bought with the price, so glorify God with your body? So I thought there's that word body in Greek means something else, like, what is it to glorify God in your body. So bottom line, I just went on a search, and I even left dance for a while, because I didn't know I wasn't being affirmed by the powers that be in the church. So I got involved in very traditional evangelism and went to Bible school. I don't regret that. But finally, a leader came to me, my friend, actually, who had taken me to church and said, Randall, you need to return to the gift that God gave you. Like, God called you to this, and you need to embrace it as your mission of life. That was the most beautiful words impacting words I ever heard. Long story short, in the grace of God, and the providence of the Lord, I ended up in Europe, with an unknown ministry at the time that I've been working with now for over 38 years, called Youth With A Mission. And being in Europe, especially in Europe. That was also God's, like total Providence, because the European believers, for the most part, anyway, they had a greater understanding, because, you know, especially because I was living in Switzerland, and they had been very impacted by the teachings of Francis Schaeffer was on base. I was in the bill bass at the time. And also in vieler, as well, yeah. And so I met people that had studied that library. And I was in lectures, listening to them how, you know, If Christ is LORD than he's Lord over all that he has created, and all things were created by Him and for Him, and there can be redeemed to him. But then the thing that hit me the most was that He in His grace elects us to participate in His work of redemption. And that blew me away. Like, wait, God, you're trusting me to participate in this kingdom work of redemption. Like I'm not outside of that just a spectator, but you're inviting me in. And so that begin a whole new outlook on who I am in Christ as a son, and who I am in Christ as an artist to fate.