Thursday’s (December 12) CBL speaker encouraged the audience to turn virtual reality into reality by removing the obstacles we place between us and God’s grace.

An award-winning artist and former Eurovision Song Contest finalist who was a pop superstar by the time she was 19, Tatiana Tajci Cameron gave that life up two years later, leaving her home in Croatia to come to America and start a new life.  This morning she reflected on that career, citing the example of sharing her son’s virtual reality oculus and experiencing an uplifting experience that brought her to tears, only to see it disappear when she removed the device.  She said that today she wants to make that virtual experience a real one.  “I want to create experiences that take people out of their world and encourage them to live a more fulfilled life,” she said. “I offer my spirit and storytelling as an opportunity to experience an inspiration that will inspire you to see how God reveals himself to us in every little part of our lives. Pray unceasingly. Make every moment a moment of Hope, love, presence and grace. Grace and God’s presence never leave us.”

Tajci is still a talented musician, but with a wide variety of influences and styles, from gypsy jazz to indie pop to bluegrass and after time spent in musical forays in New York and LA she and her family found their way home…to Nashville. And her voice expanded beyond music.  From here she talks about her faith, performs her music, serves as a life coach, writes – she now has 4 books published – and, as if that wasn’t a full enough schedule, she volunteers with Better Decisions, mentoring female inmates here in Nashville, serves on the board of Nashville Peacemakers where she works with at-risk youth in low income areas, and volunteers as a presenter with EndSlaveryTN to raise awareness of human trafficking.