Three years ago, in an auditorium with 8,000 other leaders, I heard Erwin McManus speak for the first time.

His words changed my life.

"Most of our lives are boring God to death. A hero is waiting to be awaken inside all of us and if you think you're talented enough, good enough ... you're not living out a big enough dream."

Finally. Something that resonated with who I was at the core. Finally my thoughts had been articulated in a way that I could never before explain to those around me.

Two years after that conference, I made the decision to move to L.A. to be a part the community that I had learned so much from.

Just this weekend, three years later, I was the worship leader for one of their morning gatherings. Even more paralleling, I had the opportunity to be the stage manager at our down town location - queing Erwin to enter the stage and breathe the same words I had heard in that auditorium in 2004.

It seemed my life had come full circle.

Miraculously interwoven into a moment that was far too large for me.

I met God this weekend in a very real way. As I stepped on stage, three moments flashed through my mind: The moment as I lay face down in my apartment in Wichita when I decided I wasn't going to stay where I was; the moment as I lay face down in my house in Long Beach when I declared I wasn't going back; and that very moment when I saw that, in my desperation, my decisions to move forward had brought me to a place that I couldn't have dreamed ... even for myself.

"Sometimes greatness is thrust upon us. When you follow Christ, He takes you to places that are too big for you. "

When I visited Mosaic a year ago for the first time (before I moved to L.A.), the band at played a song that I ended up doing back home later that week. It was, consequently, the last time I led worship in my home church.

This past Sunday as I stood back stage, my 13-hour day ended with the same song: In the roar of Your waterfall/In the storm of You/May You find me holding on/May You find me true/And I put my hope/And I put my trust/And I put myself in You/In You, Lord.

May this life continue to be an adventure full of moments that awaken the hero inside all of us.