Hello Family,
I’m not certain how to address everyone… friends, strangers, brothers, sisters… so many new conversations. Since you’re here… I’ll just call you Family.
This is all new to me. Amy and I are working hard to build what it is that God is calling us to… but technology… not our forte.
I’m testing out this whole Newsletter thing… they say it’s the way to go these days. So we’re giving it a go.
If you are receiving this, that means that you are among the first to join this journey.
Over the years, we have been taking a grass roots approach to building a network of like-minded people to continue the story that God has written on my heart. Finding my footing was a difficult thing to do for so long. Not knowing who would listen. Not knowing who would understand. Not knowing which direction to turn.
But the “not knowing” has been the gift of it all.
I have shared with many of you how God changed my life.
When I started the journey of Jeremy Zeller and the Otherside… I committed my life to following the voice of God through it all. Even in the times that it required radical belief.
When this began, I was suicidal… a recovering addict who had not yet been diagnosed as Autistic. An unhealed child with scars from a life that I was ready die from… watching my life unravel in front of me.
I felt like a tether ball who’s string had worn so thin that it flew away from it’s center pole.
…………silence…………………………..
It is what I needed though.
For the first time in my life I stopped… turned around… saw myself… and wept. I wept for years. I wept until I actual understood why I was crying. And once I understood… I laughed… I’ve been laughing for years now. The joy of the Lord has been my strength… and I bask in it.
I felt like a subject in Plato’s Cave allegory. Everything in my mind settled.
Question after question… answer after answer…. questions… answers…
I could never get enough. I was a sponge for anything I could learn.
At first… through doctors and therapy… I learned anything and everything that I could about my own brain… from old medical records to modern testing… I dug in. I wanted to know everything.
As I opened myself up to the “knowing” of it all… I came to appreciate myself for who I have been created to be.
For so long, I always thought I was supposed to be what other’s expected me to be.
I was good at that.
But I’m even better at just being me… it’s much easier… and it doesn’t cripple me with anxiety… so there’s that. lol.
So…. that’s what you’re gonna get from these newsletters. You all will become my journal for this journey.
I am going to need you.
Alot of what I have done over the years has been alone. As grateful as I am for that particular part of this journey… I am unable to achieve my calling without the support of a community. People with the same mission. To be the hands and feet of God as we take the beautiful news out to a dying world.
I am but a farmer, spreading seeds of God’s good news… I am the feet that carry that message.
For the past couple years, I now have Amy… my moon. Her presence in my life has added the most peaceful presence that I’ve known. Her belief and love for me remind me of the love that Christ left us to love with. Many of you have had the pleasure of spending time with her as well. Through this journey, and this newsletter… you will get to know her as well. I’m sure you’ll find out why I’m so in love with her along the way.
Welp… I guess this was more than just a “test” newsletter… turns out it’s an introduction.
Welcome to the journey.
Pray for me.
Pray for us.
Pray for peace.
Pray for love.
I can’t wait to see how God continues to write my story.
Feel free to reply to this newsletter and let us know you got it… it’ll help us figure out how to do all this.
If you’d like to support our work, there are several ways.
As I mentioned… please pray for us. Come out to a show. Buy my new record. Share some of my content to your people. Add my music to your Playlist on your favorite streaming service. Share one of my music videos… there’s a bunch on my youtube channel www.YouTube.com/JeremyZellerandtheOtherside
or you can find several on www.JeremyZeller.com
You can also send your support via Venmo at www.Venmo.com/JeremyZeller , or at CashApp www.CashApp.com/JZandtheOtherside , or via PayPal at www.PayPal.com/JeremyZellerArts
Stay tuned for more newsletters… I will be sending them out once per week with updates, stories, content and more.
Thank you for rooting for me!
I’m rooting for you!
Love,
JZ and Amy