John Michael Talbot’s album “Come to the Quiet” has very special significance for me. I remember listening to it over and over during our first year of marriage...we both had good jobs and had just bought a home, why was my soul so restless? We left that life and moved to Texas so Ken could start seminary, and life got harder, deeper, poorer and richer all at the same time. When the pain of childbirth was too great for words, I tapped Ken’s arm to start and restart this song during the longest part of labor with our first child.
Only in God - John Michael Talbot
The version above is from the album, and I love the stark simplicity of it. Talbot sounds so young! Ken and a high school buddy hitchhiked to a rock music festival in Charlotte in the early ‘70s where JMT and his brother, Terry Talbot, were in a band called Mason Profit. Both Talbots, as well as Ken and his hitchhiking companion, became Christians soon after that. Everything changed.
Here you can see JMT perform the song with a live audience. He has had an interesting ministry as the founder of the Brothers and Sisters of Charity, a Catholic monastic community.
Only in God - Live version
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