I live in Kansas City, MO. where the Catholic community is large but connected. In the circles I traveled with my concert-talks I kept having people come up to and ask if I knew Mike Debus. It began to occur with such frequency that it started to get my attention. For some reason random people would come up to me after a presentation, ask the question and then follow up by saying, “I think you should meet.” Well, that was many years ago. The good news is that not only did we meet but we would go on to collaborate doing a number of performances together and, above all, become friends. Like Mike, I hesitated at the promptings that were coming my way because it didn’t align with my vision of what I was trying to do. Does this sound familiar? It comes so natural for us to seek the easy and apparently ‘safe’ path. Dare I say, we’re good at trying to avoid the cross of uncertainty where trust in our Good God is required for true discipleship. Mike’s work is amazing but his love for Jesus Christ, His Church and serving Him for the greater good is what I admire about this man more than anything. He is also very sober to the reality that in our journey home “it’s the good with the difficult.” I partnered with the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception to produce this story for their EWTN show, Living Divine Mercy available at: DivineMercyPlus.org. Whether your an artist, fan of art or just a fellow sojourner trying to find and remain on the narrow way, the greatest portrait of Mike is occurring not by his skill with the brush but the hand of the Master who will complete the good work He began in us if we only let Him.
Mike Debus
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