March 2 is a day I have eagerly awaited for months now. After nearly 2 years of waiting, anticipating, agonizing, planning, envisioning, wrestling, and writing, As Long As It Takes is finally being released. Now you have to know, the process of creating my sophomore project was never an easy one. In fact, when I started trying to piece together ideas for songs, I felt as if I was scraping the bottom of the barrel. Hadn't I already said everything in The Invitation? I put a good bit of pressure on myself to write better songs only to come up empty-handed. However, finding myself in the place of feeling like I had nothing left to offer was, in reality, the best place I could be. It was here that the Lord showed me how to be still, to listen and simply wait. Nothing to strive for, figure out, or conjure up--just the chance to lay the heaviness of my heart down before a compassionate, gracious, gentle, patient God, and trust him with the rest.