Halloooooo, Decatur!
Been a good weekend. Quick recap for those of you who need your "blog fix" and can't live without knowing what excitement has filled my world in the past few days:
Had a good Thanksgiving with the folks...good to see them again, and I think they really enjoyed seeing Kailyn. While home, I rented a trailer and loaded a lot of my grandmother's old furniture into it (a piano, dresser, chest of drawers, 2 nightstands, round table with 4 chairs, mattresses...I got the "hookup" on some free stuff). A lot of work getting it loaded, but we got it done. Made the joyous 4-hour drive back to Decatur with the U-haul trailer-from-hell in tow (half the lights were out on it, and there was something screwy with the trailer's onboard hydraulic brakes...yikes). Brian and Dave helped me unload the stuff, then I headed over to B's with a couch and a grill we were giving him...
This morning...what should've been sheer mayhem was not. 3 (yes 3!) of our band members were all sick this morning...both guitarists and our drummer came down with the Asian flu (apparently, it also affects tall caucasian guitar players with dark hair). But, my "Plan D" (as J-mo called it) worked, and we had a very successful acoustic set this morning. It turned out to be nice for a change and fit the topic of "finding God in silence" more effectively than a full-blaring band might have done. And - strangely enough - none of the last-minute changes caused any "usual" feelings of stress, etc. It's nice to see clearly how God just works some things out for good.
Took care of some shopping needs this afternoon, had a meeting at Dave's later, then went out to eat at Pizza Hut with Dave and the fam. Now, as long as I can keep me and my family well, I'm happy...
There...now you're all caught up...you can go back to whatever important thing you were doing...
KEY PHRASES: (12 hours before showtime) "Don't worry, I'll be there." (1 hour before showtime) "I can't make it." "But we're a closer drive than Tuscaloosa if you want to play in church." "I'm taking Emma away from you people so she doesn't get sick." (hehe).
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Is God speaking to us, and we merely can't hear it? Is he drowned out by all the noise, noise, noise (think the "Grinch"). Cell phones, PCs, blogs (cough), telephones, televisions, billboards, radio, CDs, mp3 players, pagers, meetings, lunch appointments, games, illnesses, family, stress, pain, past hurts, personal agendas, "busy-ness,"...even church? What do we need to "turn down" so we can hear God?
Been a good weekend. Quick recap for those of you who need your "blog fix" and can't live without knowing what excitement has filled my world in the past few days:
Had a good Thanksgiving with the folks...good to see them again, and I think they really enjoyed seeing Kailyn. While home, I rented a trailer and loaded a lot of my grandmother's old furniture into it (a piano, dresser, chest of drawers, 2 nightstands, round table with 4 chairs, mattresses...I got the "hookup" on some free stuff). A lot of work getting it loaded, but we got it done. Made the joyous 4-hour drive back to Decatur with the U-haul trailer-from-hell in tow (half the lights were out on it, and there was something screwy with the trailer's onboard hydraulic brakes...yikes). Brian and Dave helped me unload the stuff, then I headed over to B's with a couch and a grill we were giving him...
This morning...what should've been sheer mayhem was not. 3 (yes 3!) of our band members were all sick this morning...both guitarists and our drummer came down with the Asian flu (apparently, it also affects tall caucasian guitar players with dark hair). But, my "Plan D" (as J-mo called it) worked, and we had a very successful acoustic set this morning. It turned out to be nice for a change and fit the topic of "finding God in silence" more effectively than a full-blaring band might have done. And - strangely enough - none of the last-minute changes caused any "usual" feelings of stress, etc. It's nice to see clearly how God just works some things out for good.
Took care of some shopping needs this afternoon, had a meeting at Dave's later, then went out to eat at Pizza Hut with Dave and the fam. Now, as long as I can keep me and my family well, I'm happy...
There...now you're all caught up...you can go back to whatever important thing you were doing...
KEY PHRASES: (12 hours before showtime) "Don't worry, I'll be there." (1 hour before showtime) "I can't make it." "But we're a closer drive than Tuscaloosa if you want to play in church." "I'm taking Emma away from you people so she doesn't get sick." (hehe).
THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Is God speaking to us, and we merely can't hear it? Is he drowned out by all the noise, noise, noise (think the "Grinch"). Cell phones, PCs, blogs (cough), telephones, televisions, billboards, radio, CDs, mp3 players, pagers, meetings, lunch appointments, games, illnesses, family, stress, pain, past hurts, personal agendas, "busy-ness,"...even church? What do we need to "turn down" so we can hear God?
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