since you asked....

A few days ago, I received an email about a prayer that I prayed which happened to be at the end of one of the tracks of "Beautiful People" - a recently released CD by Jason Upton that I played drums on.

Below is the email from a friend and then my response.

Date: Jun 8, 2007 11:42 PM
Could you explain a little bit more about your beautiful people prayer at the end of "Never Alone Martin"? Even just in a nut-shell.

my response:

The night we captured that track, it was Jason, Bryan, me and two prayer intercessors. To be honest, we were all interceding that night. I can only say that now, after the fact. It was a night i will never forget.

That night had some very powerful spiritual moments - with music as our medium.

The same night we captured "Never Alone Martin" we also spontaneously played "You Decide What's Beautiful"...it was a spontaneous song that we flowed into...

That prayer came between songs....we had played 'never alone martin' and it was so powerful that I actually felt like I was sitting at the dinner table with Martin Luther King, Jr. when he received yet another phone call that was a death threat. After that prayer, we played "Never Alone Martin" again...and that is the take you actually hear on the CD.

That prayer was my response to that experience...to the experience of interceding for the sons and daughters of God; for those called to be peacemakers; the beloved of God; for followers of Jesus who are called "Christians" by others, not by self-proclamation; for those content to be known by their lives more than their words --- those who are called to die for the sake of the Kingdom to be 'on earth as it is in Heaven'.

I felt like I was interceding for ALL the beautiful people that have walked this earth throughout time....the "cloud of witnesses"....they wait along with creation for the children of God to be revealed.

I hope that helps.

blessings,
al