I’m only 28, but I’ve been feeling very old lately. I don’t mean that I’m feeling very mature lately or anything like that. It’s just that it’s weird to think about the fact that it was 10 years ago that I was 18. Or 15 years ago when the Toronto Blue Jays won the World Series. I can remember those things like it was yesterday.

When I read the other week that Delirious? are breaking up, it kind of shocked me again. I mean, I remember when my brother and I first heard “Did You Feel the Mountains Tremble?” and were awestruck. What was this music, this sound?

I remember when the King of Fools record came out and I was just getting my friends into them. It was worship music, but it sounded good. It wasn’t cookie-cutter lyrically but had passion and poetry.

They gave me vision to see music break out of the Christian world into the world. Music that could not be contained within four walls. They were a group of guys who gave vision to hundreds, if not thousands of songwriters all over the world to write big songs about a big God. They gave bands boldness to believe that their music could touch the lost and the broken. That music was meant to inspire and heal.

Now they are breaking up.

I feel old.

Where did these 13 years go since we first met?

Anyway, thanks Martin, Stu, Jon, Tim and Stew for dreaming big and making good music that I could meet God with. You gave vision and boldness to millions of young people who will redefine Christianity as we know it in one generation.