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Interview: Jaci Velasquez - Into the Light Again Print E-mail
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{mosgoogle left} SB: Your song ‘Por Escrito’ sung with Nic is lovely, really beautiful. It must be special singing together and really meaning the words. I know you compare the relationship you have with Nic as being a mini human version of your relationship with God. Tell me about the feelings behind your song ‘Into the Light Again’.
JV: Well ‘Into the Light Again’ and the song called ‘Jesus (the way)’, they’re both songs that are pictures of the journey back to finding God, and finding my relationship with Him in a new way. With everything that had happened with my personal life I went through so much darkness and sadness and hopelessness for so long that I never thought I’d ever be happy again. Basically ‘Into the Light Again’ is a song to show and hold out hope to others going through the same kind of hopelessness and sadness to realise, “I promise, you’re going to come to life again, you feel dead now but you will come to life again, I am living proof of that”. So you know it’s just my way of helping others.

SB: In the song ‘My Alleluiah’ and ‘Jesus (the way)’, your personal relationship with God is very apparent, when did you realise for yourself that Jesus was the way to God?
JV: I’ve been raised in a Christian home so I’ve always known about the Trinity so for me I’ve always had a relationship with Jesus Christ, and for me it’s really cool to be able to reflect that and to talk about that within your own songs, within your art. So with ‘My Alleluiah” it’s basically the humility and the understanding that you know nothing when you’re in the presence of Jesus Christ, in the presence of God.

SB: Now let’s talk a bit about the title track on the album, ‘Love Out Loud’. Why did you choose to give the album this title too?
JV: ‘Love out Loud’...well, after having Zealand, and while I was pregnant with him I felt this new responsibility to help others in the world, in whatever way I could. You know, I wanted to help out kids for the first time. Every child that I’d see while walking down the road I was like “That could be Zealand; that could be my son! That could be my baby!” And I suddenly wanted to go and take care of everybody because I loved this little boy so much that I didn’t even know that I wanted to go out and save the world! And so that’s what ‘Love out Loud’ is about. As believers we talk about going out and changing the world, well this is the challenge: let’s not just talk about it, let’s love out loud with our actions as well.

SB: Now I know you’re keen to put those lyrics into practice and ‘Love out Loud’ yourself with your work with Compassion and Feed the Children. How important do you think it is that as a Christian artist in the media you are an example to young Christians?
JV: Well I hope that I am an example but I don’t claim to have it all together because I really don’t. All I know is, if you look at my life I’m kind of a disappointment; I have a failed marriage, and I have all those things that can happen in life that by Christian standards are failures. But what I do hope I can offer is the hope that it doesn’t have to stay with you forever; you can let it go, you can leave it at the feet of Jesus and you do have the hope that tomorrow will be a better day, you have the future ahead of you.

SB: Well you talk about being a failure, but then isn’t that where true Christianity starts, when we realise we’re all failures and can only find favour with God through Jesus? In that sense, yours is a perfect example of hope coming out of brokenness.
JV: Yeah...“We’ve all fallen short of the glory of God!”

SB: Yup! Now, STREETBRAND is a youth magazine, as you may know. You’re still very young and you’ve achieved an awful lot considering you’re just 28. Thinking back over your experiences as a youth, what one or two lessons would you like to pass on to the young people reading STREETBRAND?
JV: I would like to be able to pass on this lesson: that every choice you make has a consequence. Sometimes that’s not so easy to see when you’re 15, 16, 17, it wasn’t easy for me. But now at 28 I understand that for every choice I make, there are repercussions, good or bad. So, you gotta make the right choices.

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written by babygirl, July 23, 2008
I love Jaci, good interview thanks. She's a good role model for young Christians and her life is indeed a testimony.

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