Lucas Parry - Made to Fly - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

BIOGRAPHY 'So many times in this life, you feel like you're standing on the edge of a cliff but God keeps asking you to take that leap of faith and step into the great unknown.' Much of the music found on Lucas Parry's second album, 'Made to Fly,' was born out of a year-long process filled with ups and downs, trials and joys. But the result is a group of songs that run the gamut of a faith-based life - offering praise and worship to a Creator ('Amazed') and a simultaneous commitment and challenge to share the Gospel no matter what ('Beautiful'). Lucas, who grew up in Australia, took an enormous step of faith in 2002 when he moved to New Jersey to marry his American sweetheart and pursue his music ministry. The testing of his faith came when his Green Card didn't - and kept him from working to support his new bride. 'It was the hardest time I've ever been through,' says Lucas. 'In Australia, I was a school teacher and I ran two successful businesses, including my music career. But here in the States, I had nothing. I truly had to rely on God, new friends, my wife, my new family. It was the middle of winter, so there was nowhere I could really go - the closest I've ever come to being depressed. But God was teaching me a lot of important things...' One of those lessons to wait on God's timing. Lucas strongly felt led to take a year off from ministry to focus on his marriage, though he admits the temptation was there to attempt to continue the momentum he'd built as a songwriter and worship leader in Australia. 'During that year, though, God built such a wonderful foundation of communication in our marriage,' says Lucas. 'And He really taught me to seek His plan for my life and not my own. I got to the point of honestly laying before God my own hopes and dreams and aspirations and desperately seeking only His will.' The first track on the new album reflects his passion f