Success had come early to Anna: leading worship at age 10, recording her first album at age 11, traveling the country to sing at conferences and conventions, and flying to Ukraine on a ministry trip at age 12. Before the age of 20, Anna had recorded several praise and worship projects, done a commercial, and recorded her own extended play album.
Then, just like many child actors who’d grown up, the opportunities seemed to dry up and blow away on the blustery Texas wind. She was stuck. At a standstill. Unsure what to do.
Faith to Press Through
In 2008, Anna married Chad Byrd, and a couple of years later he started asking her questions she didn’t know how to answer. “What have you written?”
How could she tell him that she didn’t have any music to write?
The words stuck in her throat.
One evening after dinner, Chad tuned his guitar and said, “OK, let’s do something. It’s time for you to write.”
With Chad’s support—and prodding—that evening they wrote a song.
Then they wrote another. And another.
“I don’t know how I thought songs and music would come,” Anna admits. “I think I thought that I would get into a holy moment with God and it would spring up out of nowhere. Like maybe I’d wake up from a dream and record what I’d heard.
“That changed when Chad began questioning why I wasn’t writing. It took me a while to realize that my reluctance stemmed from that old root of insecurity. Chad challenged me and helped me to push past it. When we sat down together and wrote a song, I realized how true it was that faith without works is dead. While it was good to pray and believe God for songs, I also had to war against my insecurities and actually do the work.”
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