This is Starsong's newest recording artist, Nicole Nordemann,followed by the title track from her debut recording, Wide-Eyed.I guess I grew up in Christian music in the church,and my mom was a minister of music at our church in Colorado,and I honestly can't remember a time when I wasn't listening to a hymn or a worship song in our home.And she seemed like she was always sitting at the piano singingand encouraging my brother and I to harmonize and sing along.And I just developed a real genuine love for church music and for Christian music.I also went to a Christian school for almost my entire educationand found that experience to be wonderful,giving me such a strong biblical base for my life and for my music.I guess the other side of that is that while it gave me a foundation,it kind of gave me an excuse at the same time not to venture out into the real worldand to attempt to reach people who were not in that environment.So I loved and continue to love Christian circles and Christian music,but to be honest, I guess I really feel like the Lord is encouraging me to say,OK, you've got this foundation, you have this education in me,but it's time to do something with that.And so for me, it's just been a real struggle with,should I stay in this bubble which is so comfortable,or is it time to kind of bust out of that a little bitor a lot and begin influencing people who have not already heard the gospel.And disbelief and disillusionI was sometimes drawn by my conclusionsAnd so I turned and walked awayAnd laughed at what he had to sayThen casually dismissed him as a fraudI forgot he was created in the image of my GodWhen I met her in a bookstoreShe was browsing on the first floorThrough a yoga magazineAnd she told me in her past lifeShe was some plantation slave's wifeShe had to figure out what that might meanShe believed the healing powers of her crystalsCan bring balance and new purpose to her lifeShe left me wide-eyedIn disbelief and disillusionI was sometimes drawn by my conclusionsSo I turned and walked awayAnd laughed at what she had to sayThen casually dismissed her as a fraudI forgot she was created in the image of my GodNot so long ago, a man from GalileeFed thousands with his bread and his theologyAnd the truth he spoke quickly becameThe joke of educated, self-inflated Pharisees like meYeahWide-eyedThey were wide-eyedIn disbelief and disillusionThey were sometimes drawn by their conclusionsBut I have turned and walked awayAnd laughed at what he had to sayThen casually dismissed him as a fraudUnaware that I was staring at the image of my GodWide-eyedOoh, ooh, oohOoh, ooh, ooh