Zechariah 4:10

The rain has failed to ceases for what feels like ten consecutive days here in Nashville. You would have thought it to have nothing left to give, yet even now it is strong and steady. I just cracked the window in the office as if to turn up its volume.

These last few weeks have been busy. Things are in full swing with the new song, the next one is coming hot on its heels. I am grateful for all that feels back in restored form.

Let’s celebrate a few wins.

Easy on the Eyes has been doing really well. Last week, on Spotify, it increased daily listens by 4 thousand streams every day. It went from 18K a day to 22 to 26 to 30 day by day. This is the first song that has done that in a minute.

Since the top of the year we have grown from 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify to what should hit 1.6mil by the end of the week.

Social media has been starting to get dialed again, and I’ve had a ton of fun with y’all on there over the last few weeks. (Y’all keep commenting, it helps!)

We are going to keep pumping Easy, and about to start promoting Match For Your Memory, which is a couple weeks out!

Feeling very excited to keep building.

It is always a hard balance to find between priorities. This job, like many I’m sure, can so easily consume my every waking thought when I am not diligent. I can find myself, constantly thinking about what is next, what I need to do, or how a song is doing, from first waking thought to last. But, this last week I have tried to be intentional to find time alone with Jesus and empty my thoughts at His feet. I have found, He is the only one who can sustain me.

This Saturday morning I felt a word that was such an encouragement to me in my time with Him.

The craziest thing ever to me, is the intentionality of which God speaks to us. If we can learn to still our minds, it is unreal to watch as His voice will enter our thoughts.

I was praying, and honestly in and out of random thoughts and prayer, when I felt the thought of a random verse, Zechariah 4:10. In full transparency my first thought was I wasn’t even positive Zechariah was a chapter in the Bible (further proof it was God’s thought), so I opened to the table of continents and found it.

I opened to the verse and was amazed at what it read.

“Do not despise these small beginnings for the Lord rejoices that the work has begun.” (NLV)

This verse was so timely for me in this moment. The context of this verse is in encouragement to Israel in rebuilding the temple. In light of the grandness of the idea of this temple they have been asked to build, they are discouraged at the daunting thought of how they might ever accomplish it. To lay the first stone feels so small in comparison to all the work that needs to be done.

I am sure we can all relate to that at some point in our lives. We can have a dream for something, but the thought of beginning and taking a first step feels almost meaningless with the scale of how big or far away the completed vision is in our mind.

This verse reminded me to not look past all that has already been accomplished. The work has begun. We have already come such a long way, and though there is so much more to build and do, we can be sure that the Lord is already “[rejoicing] that the work has begun.”

I feel what we are building is built upon His calling, but finding the balance of staying within His grace without trying to strive on my own accord is the wrestle in this season. In the lord speaking this verse over me this weekend, I was reminded that He both rejoices now that the work has begun, and that what He has promised He will one day complete in the work He has set before me.

Same is true for y’all.

-Conner