Singer-songwriter Audrey Assad seeks to bring a message of Pope Francis about building bridges to the music business. "Paul is a pontifex, a builder of bridges," the Pope Francis said at a Mass May 8. "He doesn't want to become a builder of walls. ... This is the attitude of Paul in Athens: Build a bridge to their heart, in order then to take another step and announce Jesus Christ. As a musician, a unique way I live that out, being Catholic in an industry full of evangelicals and Protestants," Assad said, is to "establish bridges ... (to) be Catholic in the presence of people (who have) never encountered a Catholic before." A New Jersey native, Assad grew up in a Christian Plymouth Brethren home and never encountered a Catholic until she was 21. Then she met a high school student who changed her life. A Catholic involved in LifeTeen ministries, he knew his faith really well, and he "asked me questions that challenged my faith," Assad recalled...
James 1:19 tells us that we should "be quick to listen, slow to speak, slow to anger..." These are the thoughts God places on my heart.