Happy Thanksgiving
I am so thankful for my life. i am so blessed. i am thankful for mercy. i am thankful for grace. i don’t deserve anything i have been blessed with. i thank God for my wife and our relationship. He couldn’t have given me someone more perfect for me. she definitely completes me. i am thankful for my family. i know God has a plan for us and i trust He has everything under control. i am thankful for my in-laws. they welcomed me as one of their own even before jennifer did. i am thankful for my church family. i spend more time with them than anyone else. i don’t know where i’d be without them pulling for me to succeed. i am thankful for my friends. you guys choose me. i consider that an honor. i am thankful for laughter, it keeps me sane. i am thankful for music, my escape from reality. thank you for life God. i truly am blessed.
here we go…….
i had a couple of months off but, let the craziness begin again.
1. i have an idea for a drama to a kelly clarkson song.
2. i teach a guitar class and they are learning three songs for a christmas concert.
3. i have 5 songs to put together for the crave christmas service
4. i have to get a group together for a song at pen florida youth convention.
5. as soon as we get past the christmas service it’s time for fine arts again.
i have a lot of music i’m sitting on right now and i don’t have time to do anything with it. i love doing all of these other projects, but at some point, i need to get going on my stuff. i’m getting old. i would try to sell my songs to others but, there’s not really a high demand for rock songs. rock bands like to write their own stuff. i can’t complain, i bring it all on myself. i guess i’m just getting ready for the next 9 months of crazy……
A little hint…..
the kick drum and bass guitar are best friends. they enjoy being together. they’re like peas and carrots. so, if you ask a band to play something, please don’t have the drummer jam out and tell the bass player not to play. it sounds empty.
sorry, i’m sure no one reading this understands what i’m talking about. i’m just venting a little. I just left a service at crave
the speaker was interesting. everyone i talked to either loved him or hated him. i’ve never heard that kind of response before. Usually people are in the middle. oh well, off to bed…….
it hit me tonight
At crave, we sometimes get frustrated when the kids don’t get into worship. Tonight they were just standing there looking at us. But it hit me as I looked across the stage at our worship team standing there singing and/or playing. How can we expect our kids to do something we are not doing. Times like these I just want to start over. Get all new band members, and all new singers. Start fresh. I don’t want to put on a show, and I don’t want people to be fake. We just need people who are willing to worship God. We are training our whole youth group wrong. And we wonder why they won’t worship…………..
how do you……..
balance………
work
ministry
fun
your marriage
friends
family (parents, siblings, etc.)
once you figure it out. let me know
Wrap-Up
So fine arts is over. Our kids did better than usual. We heard our names called twice this year. 2nd place in the nation for worship team, and 3rd place for christian band. (Check out Doubting Benefit.)
I’m really drained but, for some strange reason my mind won’t stop thinking about next year. Who’s gonna be in what group? How is this gonna work without these people? What kind of songs should we look for? Am I good enough at human videos to try again? How many groups can I actually handle?
God, can I at least have a couple of months rest???????
fine arts
so far i think this year’s just like years past. we had a lot going on today. worship team and a vocal solo moved on. hope we get more good stuff
staying up
i’ll be stayin up all night tonight. on a bus for 9 hours tomorrow, gonna try to sleep all day. i’ll be in indy all week watching perhaps the most talented group i’ve ever worked with. they’ve worked hard. i hope it pays off…….
duplication
i’ve heard people talk about duplicating yourself but, i always thought of it as a way to be lazy. if i have someone else that can do what i do, i can make them do it. here’s the thing.
i’m about to go on a trip. there are certain things that i do that only a handfull of people around here can do. guess what…………………they are all going with me. now we are stuck. setting up sound for church sounds easy but, there are certain ways we do things, a certain order we do them, and some specific things that we take for granted. so good luck whoever this stuff gets put on. and remember, you might want to make sure someone else knows how to do your job when you’re gone. (just make sure you still do it better than them)
Control Freak
so, yesterday i said i don’t know how to take control of my temper. tonight, gary oliver said…….
God created us to rule 5 things……….
1. Our Emotions ……….. i can’t let my emotions (anger) control me
2. Our Minds …………. i need to take control of my thoughts
(these go hand in hand with my emotions)
3. Our Stuff …………….. do i really need to buy stuff all the time??
4. Our bodies …………… i endulge myself too much (eating crap food)
5. The Devil …………… we give him far more credit than he’s worth
