The last few weeks it has been hot. Too hot. Meaning our bedroom is also too hot for sleeping. The good news is there is a simple fix called a fan. You may have heard of them. Last night we finally got the fan out of the shed, cleaned it off and felt how much cooler the room was. The problem with this? Fans really bother my eyes when I am trying to fall asleep. Even on the lowest setting, my eyes itch, water, and finally start to burn. This is probably because more times than not I sleep with my eyes open. Not all the way open, just a small slit. Still very creepy, I know. But, in all of my infinite wisdom I realized I just need one of those eye cover things that rich snobby people wear in the movies. (I am sure not all who where them are rich and snobby, but in the movies they are and movies don’t lie so maybe I am wrong?) I mentioned this is Colette and lo and behold she has one that she can even find in the darkness of our room. I put it on and tasted true bliss. A cool room, the breeze from a fan and eyes that could stay open and not burn. This little work of genius will also help me look more beautiful. It has stuff that takes the puffiness out from around my eyes. I am sure to look years younger.
Once again, I was on the worship team for Bridgeway Christian Church. This weekend went really well. For whatever reason I felt like I played really well. Found my spots and didn’t interfere with the rest of the rhythm section. Oh, I guess I should mention that I was playing percussion. The set itself also seemed to be a good one. The worship team were talking about it at practice and we had several people mention they really enjoyed the set as well. So without further ado, here is the set.
Sing to the King - Billy Foote and Charles Silvester Horne
How Can I Keep From Singing - Ed Cash, Matt Redman, and Chris Tomlin
Christ The Solid Rock - William Batchelder Bradbury and Edward Mote
Sweetly Broken - Jeremy Riddle
Only You - David Crowder, Mike Dodson, Mike Hogan, and Jason Solley
Marvelous Light - Charlie Hall
And because it made me feel good about my playing, since sometimes I feel less then satisfactory about my playing, I had a couple people mention that they enjoy my playing. That will always make you feel good.
On a spiritual level we also had a person mention that God was clearly at work during worship, helping them through some issues. This part being more important than all of the others. God working through what you are doing is simply amazing. Like I said, it was a good weekend.
Oddly enough my stats are up today, perhaps people wait until today to read my blog. It is not good enough for busy work days. Or it has something to do with the inconsistency of my posting.
Slightly annoyed at the saw right next to my bedroom window while Bella is trying to nap and the unwillingness to move the saw.
I slept wrong last night and I am sore all over.
Worship team went great, a good set and good musicians.
Colette and I watched an episode of 16 and Pregnant today. They 16 years old were mature to realize that they were not capable of raising a baby and that their baby deserved a better life. Their parents, however, thought they “were not manning up” and “dodging their responsibility.” I don’t understand their parents.
It was 108 degrees today. It is still 106 degrees outside at 5:30. I am tired of the heat. I don’t know how to make that little circle for the degrees symbol. I should learn how, then I could impress you all with my special talent… … … … ° see you now think I am cool. °°
This lady on Bridezillas just inspected her bridesmaid to make sure they looked good. Amazing they are still friends.
This might make me a bit obsessive compulsive, but I like to think that it makes me awesome. For most of Friday, at least every possible moment, I was searching online for CD artwork. After putting a large portion of my music into itunes I realized I was missing a lot of the artwork. That drives me crazy. It always has. It is also a lot of work to correct this problem, work that I never felt like I had the energy to do until now. Like I said I spent a lot of time on Friday to do this and I am almost done. (There are some albums that are just really old and never released on a label so they are a little hard to find). I am pretty excited about the completion of this task. I sit there with itunes open not even listening to music, just flipping around the album covers, basking in all of its glory.
Really I have no point in telling you all of this, but by the end of the day this is what my desktop looked like and I thought it was cool.
After two months and two companies our camcorder finally came. This means that you will now be bored with videos of my baby, not just pictures. Aren’t you lucky?
So this won’t come with any great thoughts about what this means, it simply struck me as odd and something that I have never really thought of.
For my entire 20+ years of going to church, I pretty sure that I have always been taught that God is in heaven and that Satan is in Hell or at least not in Heaven with God. But this last Sunday our Pastor brought up a few interesting passages that seem to contradict this. The first come from Job.
Job 1:6 says, “One day the angels came to present themselves before the Lord, and Satan also came with them.” (Verse 2:1 says the same thing and if you continue to read through Job you realize that God and Satan have an ongoing conversation).
Zechariah 3:1-2a ”Then he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of the Lord, and Satan standing at his right side to accuse him. The Lord said to Satan, ” The Lord rebuke you, Satan! The Lord, who has chosen Jerusalem ,rebuke you!
Revelation 12:10 “Then I heard a loud voice in heaven say: ”Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ. For the accuser of our brothers, who accuses them before our God day and night, has been hurled down.”
Like I said this doesn’t have any life changing application, just something I found interesting.
I normally trim my beard about once a month. I like to keep it short and looking clean. I’m pretty sure it makes me look hot. Plus there comes a point where my skin goes into revolt and screams at me to trim the beard. The last few weeks has been one of those times. A chin that is itchy and sore is not fun. But because life keeps you busy, I have not had time to do the necessary trimming. While complaining about it today, Colette challenged me to grow out my beard until she can put it in two pony tails. Feeling up for it, I accepted said challenge. So today is day one. I mean it isn’t the start of the beard, just the start of the challenge. So for the next, however long it takes, I will be putting a picture of the glorious beard on here for you all to enjoy. Here is the first one.
p.s. If my lips look really red, I just put on some carmex. My lips were chapped and hurt real bad. Don’t judge me.
