A quick hello to the world before zzzzzz...

Hey all!

It's kinda late and I just got home. 2:17 to be exact and I just got home. On a ... Wednesday! I've felt super blessed through this week. It's almost like planted trees are beginning to bear fruit. Amazing. Each night of the last 3 days getting home well after midnight I think to myself how good it feels to play music and then I think about how great it feels to be playing with the guys I am. It's allowed for these crazy nights of mission into the city, bro-ing down and making some magic and coming home pretty content and fulfilled. Music has kept me going multiple times in my life. When I felt like I had nowhere to go and I was stuck I turned to music and it always did me well. If I was ever having problems getting up in the morning, it must have been on days when there was no music going on haha. I think the energy I get from it keeps me going through the late night drives etc.

Newly reinstated with high success is my morning walk/run. Yeppers, it's small, not a huge amount of exercise but it works better than coffee to turn that morning mushy grey matter into something I can use. Today was pretty fantastic, some of that fruit we were talking about. I woke up at 7, went for a walk and did a little running but not too much. I try not to exert myself on mornings when I have practice. It makes things harder to play than they should be. But I was able to get back home and be working by 8:30. The other pretty sweet thing is that I was at it straight until 1:30 without breaks or anything like that. The next thing I have to work on is prodding my brain again around lunch time so it doesn't fall asleep at 3:30 like it did today. I was fighting that 3pm wall so hard. I didn't give into a nap though. Felt really good.

The other super sweet thing about the morning is that it's pretty quiet in terms of people noise. You can hear lots of nature, trees in the wind, squirrels running about, and chirping birds. I use that all as the background for my time with the big man. It's a nice way to start the day.

Anyway, I'm putting dents in the mound of work I have and it feels amazing. Productivity continues tomorrow so I'm going to arm myself with some great zzz and crazy dreams.

Peace, love and rock,

J

Being a Christian is like...

Dancing in your underwear on the side of a hill. Amazing!

So ft was fantastic tonight.

I've just realized this has become the ft ranting blog but anywho I'll continue.

Worship was just Andrew and a guitar. It was great to hear the singing in the place. A really wonderful weather weekend to boot. The vibe was all good things and the sermon really packed a punch. Kevin was preaching today. The first line in the blog is from his sermon but I don't know if I got it quite exactly right. I might go back and listen to the sermon to remember a few lines and how they were delivered. It was really great. It was about God creating wind, and breath that makes things sing. We create great things that are filled and celebrate great things, a little piece of heaven on earth. And he also mentioned the organ that we have in our building and if it were to play it would sound like this. And then the organ played. The organ has been silent for all of our services thus far and it was beyond amazing to hear it cued in such a manner and for it to be such an amazing surprise. I won't hide it at all. I was just about tearing up at that moment. A few tears built up but never fell to my cheek haha. Amazing. Music has that effect on me though. I really felt it go right into me at that point.

I know that I'm going to think about what I've done to make things better for someone else each day at least for the rest of the week. It makes me think about the things I've been focussing a lot of my brain power on these past few weeks. Kind of lost in it all. Time to refocus, time to prioritize and think of others. The rest of that will just happen I think.

Anyway, totally time for bed.

Peace, love and rock to all,

J