life

is good...we are blessed beyond measure...

I love my family, my friends, my faith community...things are moving, changing, growing, people aren't satisfied with where they are...they want more...it is beginning to happen...we're beginning to see what happens when Jesus has His way with us...life is happening here and I don't want to miss it...

Chris, Dan and I just recorded a brand new song tonight during practice...I think it'll be a good one once we get it worked out. Check it out on our myspace...the name is "How Long", our other recordings there are pretty rough too, but we're currently working on finishing up some demo material to add to some of our older recordings. Hopefully we'll have a full lp ready soon...maybe soon after the 1st of the year. I'll keep you posted in case anyone cares...

life

life is good...Our little family is very good and we're enjoying this journey and the challenges/blessings of it.

Tonight our faith comunity met in our house...it was good...prayers, laughing, good food, scriptures, stories, even singing...talked about how we aren't our own any more...Romans 12:5...We belong to each other...we are responsible to and for each other as the body of Christ. I'm ready for more of that interdependence in a culture that is all about independence...we are experiencing more authenticity as time goes by and I look forward to the day when more people that don't know Jesus begin to join us...

Afterward Adam, Justin and I met for our LTG and Jon joined us. It was good too...glad Jon joined us. He needs to see Jesus in our life, I hope he does.
The past two nights I've gotten to bed around midnight but have still woken up at or before 5:30...I don't know if it's because of the time change, every year it seems like it takes me longer and longer to adjust, or something else.
This morning it may have had something to do with a visitor I had. At 4-ish I woke up with a tickling on my elbow...I dosed off after smacking myself in the arm only to wake up again and feel the tickle on my head and ear...I dosed again after smacking myself in the head and face repeatedly and with great force...finally I felt it on my leg and the smacking ensued...I felt something though this time that was either a large lint ball or a nice sized spider. After some encouragment from my wife to turn the light on I pulled back the covers to see the carcass of a furry little guy on my side of the bed. I scraped it off with my wallet(I'd already handled it enough)to find that it wasn't fully dead yet. I then grabbed a shoe to end it and it was all over.
For some reason after all of that I couldn't go back to sleep...I don't know what it was...
So I went down and cleaned up the mess I've been making in the garage. I've been building an "amp/mixer" box to house some of my PA equipment for easier transport and better protection. Of course to save money I decided to build it rather than buy it directly...I'm sure it was a good experience and it turned out very, very nice if I do say so myself. I'll have to post a picture of it soon...now if I could just carry the dumb thing. We're leading sung worship at a church in Napoleon next Sunday and I'm a little nervous about it...it's been a while but I'm ready to get back to doing more of that if the opportunities present themselves. Our faith community is going to meet us there and we'll worship together there next week...it'll be different but good I'm sure.

Ok this is long enough...I need to get to bed...