Deacon Ish…the songwriter?

Someone came up to me this morning and said that they didn’t realise that I was ‘Ian Smale’ the songwriter.

They had just seen my name under some songs in a songbook.

You see, Cathedral people only know me as ‘Deacon Ish’.

I thought that is wonderful, it’s good to be ‘sort of’ incognito.

Most of us Christian songwriters do not choose to become well known for writing a song, but it does give us great joy when we see people enjoying singing and playing our song and the Lord using it both to speak to and bless believer and non-believer.

But…in the end all true Christian songwriters know that they MUST give ALL the credit to the one who inspired them to write the song!