A Taste of Something New

I am here at my church for my first band practice.... I am a little nervous. I have never played in a "church" band. In other words I have only been apart of a band that played for a ministry. The church dynamic kinda scares me. There are so many emotions when it comes to not sucking and letting people know when they are. I am glad I am not leading completely the first week I play. It will be good to see Dave in action a practice. I am going to be playing a song by delirious called Our God Reigns. Its a great song for our current series on Amos. If you haven't read that book... try to. Its a hard book to read.

Anyways I will leave you on a final note... Check out this guy's portfolio. It freaking rocks. And also if you know any churches who are looking for a video guy next summer let me know...

A Musing On Learning To Read

Mrs. Cox - She was an odd pear shaped woman
With a voice of a lion who could also sound like a mouse at will.

I remember my pillow fort
It guarded the land of imagination within
I didn't care about my studdering phonetics.
The curious monkey who accomanied me didn't either

I read a lot in grammar school
When the scholastic fair would come to town I remember getting lost in its booths

Each one had their own colors
The Hardy Boys had mystery
While the box car children had adventure

Space and science too my breath
Reading never was better when it came to pictures

Words became useless, My parents especially
Books were no more than babble; boring, dry, ink

Harry came late and conjured a new love for creativity
Often I found myself lost in a world of paragraphs
At a loss for words

Pacesetter set the... stride to writing in college
However it did not pace my time

I was unready for college
I wished I was still a jugler back in the scholatic fair
Tossing around Space, Adventure, and Mystery

Good Midday To You...

Well ladies and gents I am writing from Firehouse Subs about to enjoy the greatest meatball sub on earth. Its kind of funny. I have been sitting here for 30 minutes with out getting food. I think I look like and internet mouch. Anyways... Fun stuff today. I started class. My classes seem like they are going to be a lot of fun. I do believe that the bookstore is completely ripping anyone off who eats there. I have found most of my books significantly cheaper on Amazon.com. I am enrolled in an Advanced Composition course and the subject for the semester is creativity. BLING! I am super excited. Well... The line is getting small I'm going to gets me some food. Much love...

A Long Awaited Post

Welcome back all my friends in Clemson. I haven't been updating because I have been crazy busy moving back up to Clemson, out of my house in which I will never live again, and spending time with my wonderful girlfriend. So what have I been doing the past couple of weeks? Well...

I am not currently unemployed. I have finished my tour at North Point. I was an interesting summer. I really enjoyed working there with the team I was along side of. It changed my prosepctive on a lot of things concerning church. Does the size of the church coorelated with its inability to create real community? Do sixth graders really notice two moving lights? Is God found in the rubble of creative chaos, NTSC monitors, and The All American Rejects' greatest hit Move Along. All in all it was an amazing experience.

Soon after, I went to Litchfield, SC to spend a relaxing week at the beach with Lauren, Aj(sister), and their mom. It was awesome... Although I am a bigger fan of Sea Side and Sea Grove on the Gulf Coast, it was a lot of fun to hang out as a family.

When we got back home Lauren headed back to the beach for another week of tanning and girl talk. Which is good. I am glad she could spend some good time with her friends. It gave me time to do my favorite thing to do in the world... nothing. Also, I had time to work on my first attempt at screen play writing. Its been alot of fun.

Now I am back at school. Most of you who read this know this, but for those I leave behind I love you and miss you all. Be looking for more posts on a regular basis. Talk to you soon...

Good Listening...

Listening to some good tunes from Edwin McCain this morning... Check out these lyrics!

I'm just coming down from this cloudy head
World was spinning around the voices echo things that she said
I'm just coming down from this starry sky
I'm just glad to be here and most of all I'm thankful I'm alive

Sing it Edwin... I am just glad to be here and I am soooo thankful for the gift of life.