In the first few months I began coming to Harvest, helping with sound, I began to feel a belonging. I had found a place where I was not just making a difference, but making a difference for a “good cause”. A rewarding feeling. As I began playing guitar and singing at Harvest, I began to feel like music had a greater purpose. I wasn’t just singing and playing to feel good, or sound good, or make good music anymore. I began to sing to God. A rewarding feeling. I began to feel music move me more than it ever had before. I’d find myself singing alone at home like I’d always done (practicing) but I wasn’t alone anymore. I was singing to God, communicating. God was there. Calling me, leading me, fulfilling me. A rewarding feeling!

I always knew music could move people. Now I felt I could help move people closer to God with music. An awesome calling. At some point, near the beginning of those events, I was reading a book called The Case for Christ. One morning while reading that book alone at home, I came across a quote from Scripture:

You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free.

I sat there staring at that phrase, and suddenly what seemed like a rush of wind blew down on me. I looked up, I thought the fan had come on or there was a hole in the roof, it was very strong. I was baffled and astonished, and suddenly very tired. I closed the book and went to lie down in bed. I was asleep in minutes and had a dream that a close friend of mine, who had died a few months previous, was standing beside my bed saying something like, “See Dan, now you know, stay on this path. You’re doing the right thing now.” It was so real I woke right up, sat on the edge of the bed looking around the room for my friend Murph. I just started crying. Things have been different ever since.

My work at Harvest has become what I’m all about. I’m very proud to be on staff here. I work at three other jobs, but this work at Harvest is where my heart is. Or is it really my heart?