waking up

Last night Robert and I spent the night looking through his Hebrew Greek Key Study Bible and talking about Hermeneutics. What a dweeb I am. Shame too, because that kept me up late… I slept at 5 AM and missed morning prayer yet again. Thus, I broke my word for the second week concerning Thursday morning prayer! I told someone I’d be there… so dumb. Oh yeah, I told God, too. Luckily there’s grace :), or I’d be one dead man.

God willing, I will record again soon.

OH MAN. http://ragamuffin.dyndns.org/FTP/

I have learned about dependency. I always knew about it before, but only now do I really see the reason and need. Thank You, God.

Miraculously, I saved one shirt, which happens to be my favorite short-sleeved collared shirt. It is stain-free, but the rest have been defeated. Hint: Try soaking it in milk overnight. I KNOW IT SOUNDS DUMB, but I swear it worked on that one shirt. Also damaged slightly was my rare Olive Green Revivalution T-shirt. Sucks!

Don’t laugh when you see ink on my favorite jeans’ crotch.

CRISIS SITUATION:

My pen leaked all over my colored/dark clothes. HOPEFULLY THE STAINS WILL COME OUT, BECAUSE THAT’S LIKE HALF OF ALL THE CLOTHES I OWN. I CRY MERCY!!!

All I can say about the past few weeks is I’ve been learning. Successes, failures, observing others, getting used to new things… It’s a good time. But amidst it all, God still needs to be number one, even before His work. As they say, it’s about being before doing.

Time to change my strings. OOOOOH I’M SO EXCITED! These two month-old, grimy and rusting strings that muddy up my sound are going into the trash. Here comes bright and clear bell-like harmonics and crisp and buzzy drone notes. Musicgeekterminology over.

Big Group worship is this week. Trying to think of cool things for worship. It’s gonna be awesome!

Moe called it “Aurora.” I think that’s a cool name. Hopefully the recording is as cool.

My mom got me a devotional/journal. I’ve started since Jan. 1st, and it’s kinda cool, writing something that no one will ever read. Even though a blog is kinda supposed to be a journal, everyone knows there are still sensitive things you just can’t write about.

Here’s an interesting thought: What does God mean when He talks about coming as a child? Though many may say He means purity and innocence (Phil. 2:15), I believe the specific context of the verses that talk about it (Matt. 18:3, Luke 18:17), and the historical context (of Jewish attitudes in 1st century Palestine) refer to humility. As Brennan Mannin says, a child in those days was “regarded with scorn.” And, to make yourself like a little child “means the willingness to accept oneself as being of little account and to be regarded as unimportant.” I think WAY too highly of myself sometimes. Where in heaven or the Kingdom (which is full of servants of the King) does a proud and pompous man have a place? Nowhere.