James Grisom- Electric Guitar

My name is James Grisom. I'm 15 years old. I'm part Puerto Rican, African, and Irish and I was born in Berwick, PA. I currently live in Bloomsburg, PA and attend Central Columbia High School. My mother and father are Melissa and Shawn. I have 5 siblings total, 3 sisters and 2 brothers. I'm a traveling man. I've been to Puerto Rico twice to visit family, once to Spain with my dad, and to New York a countless number of times to visit my oldest sister. I'm absolutely crazy for the Lord. My life is to serve God and be loyal to Him, and that's my greatest desire.

 When I was younger, maybe 4 to 5 years old I always went to church. I loved it... at that age it was so entertaining to be there with all of the Sunday School and what not. But there was a short period, about two or three years since I had been there I really started to fall away from the Lord. There had been times when I screamed and yelled and curse out to the Lord asking Him why He let me fall so far. Day after day I was becoming more and more angry. As time went further I fell away more. This was up until around a year ago this destructive path had stopped. Being as selfish and ungrateful as I was, I was bribed into going to a church camp by my mom telling me she would buy any guitar in this music shop that I wanted. My mom even in the lowest part of my life has always loved me (love ya too Ma). So I went, and there my life was turned around. I started to look away from the lifestyle I had been living before and then I wasn't so angry anymore, plus I met more people like me who had been where I was myself. One of the funniest things to me now is that our other guitar player (Caleb) was the worship leader when I was at the camp. But when I came back I felt bad that my mom had gotten me the guitar. It had already been bought, so I decided to use it for the Lord... which was already part of Gods plan for me though. God blessed me with the one U use now and it's much better than the one I wanted to begin with. Even today I still face some of these battles, but with each day I am getting closer and closer to God. Now with this band I'm in (Consumed) I'm getting to help others become closer to the Lord.