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The Call That Pulled Me from Divinity School

Posted on By shirahchante
Music

God called me to sing for him in the fall of 2000. I was attending Colgate Rochester Divinity School, studying to learn about God. I went to learn about God. That’s it. I didn’t go to become a minister or to be any particular being. I just wanted to know God better, and I thought going to seminary or divinity school would be a great way to do that. 

I believe this was on the Day of Atonement or sometime during the fall holidays, the fall Jewish holidays, God called me to sing for him. He said, “You’re going to sing for me,” just like that. And I was like, “What?” And he said it again, “You’re going to sing for me.” And I thought, “Wow.” And I immediately was taking this new mandate from the Lord. I went out and bought a guitar, and I got a guitar instructor and started taking online lessons. Back then it was only like two or three choices for online guitar lessons. 

I hired a vocalist, performed for my class, and then ultimately I left divinity school for Hollywood. As you know, the voice of the Lord said I’m going to sing for him. I thought I needed to go to Hollywood and get this going, getting singing for the Lord going. So I went to Hollywood, and things didn’t quite happen like I thought they might. I don’t really know what I was expecting to happen. I just know that the Lord told me that I would sing for him. 

I didn’t really know how that was going to look. I had different opportunities to sing for the Lord over the years in church choirs and different solo performances here and there, but nothing steady like I really wanted, how I see myself as a singer-songwriter and sharing my songs with the world. 

This call is now 26 years ago this fall. So I’ve been holding on to this dream, and I’m working on it. I’m working on songs as we speak to share with the world like the Lord told me I would 26 years ago. This is about Shirah Music (that’s me).

God bless, Shirah Chante, Relationship Artist

P.S. This is for you if you want to be in the know about my upcoming song releases and live events.