Worship this Sunday was amazing. I have such a great group of teenagers to work with…love them to death! Here’s our set…
I realize it was a very Hillsong-heavy set, but the songs work so nicely together.
Took the month of January off from leading worship, but I was glad to be back this morning. Here’s what we played…
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about worship lately. Perhaps I’ll blog it soon.
Funny how spiritual warfare can masquerade as so many different things, leaving you suspecting nothing. Sneaky.
Funny how spiritual warfare suddenly carries no power once you realize it’s spiritual warfare.
Glad my eyes have been opened.
I’m not making New Year’s resolutions this year. Resolutions are too easy to break. What I’m making are some permanent changes.
First, I’m doing my Wii Fit exercises at least 5 days a week. I used to be really good at working out on a consistent basis, but lately (like the past 3 years) I’ve been terrible at it. I have a friend and my husband to keep me going, so I’m going to stick with it this time.
Second, Thomas and I are getting in better financial shape. This part of the plan is already well underway, but this is going to be the year that we say goodbye to all our debt and save up a down payment for a house. Tough goal, but we’re determined.
Third, I need to work on my attitude. I have been very negative lately, and I need to stop it. So if you see me being negative, tell me to knock it off.
Last. I need to cut out the non-essential activities in my schedule and just focus on what’s important. Part of this plan is already in place…deadlines and such. Part of this is also DOING something important…something to actual help someone…something to make a difference, if only a small one. I’ve been wallowing in self-pity for too long, and I really have nothing to complain about.
So that’s my plan for 2010…no…for the future, starting now. I’m not living the life I should be, and it’s all because of me. So it stops now.
Why do some people feel the need to divulge every sordid detail of their lives in their Facebook statuses? Or every emotion they feel in the course of a day? Perhaps I’m just a more private person than most, but I don’t really want the general public knowing all that much about me. I actually don’t want most of the people I come in contact with on a daily basis to know that much about me. And yes…there are things I’d rather not know about you as well.
We’re starting to work some Christmas songs into our worship sets. This week we studied the first chapter of John, so it was a combination of Christmas songs and worship songs that were about Jesus’ coming and Him being the light of the world. Our set was…
Yeah. I’m a Scrooge. I hate Christmas. Not the holiday itself, but all the insanity around it. If we could just take a day and commemorate Christ’s birth I’d be happy, but that’s not what we do. I’d really like to just sleep through it this year, but that’s not an option. There’s family to visit, presents to buy, parties to attend…and I love to visit family, but not out of obligation or duty. I love buying people presents, but only when I see that perfect thing that I know someone would love and I buy it just because. And parties are wonderful, but not three parties every weekend for a solid month.
At least I convinced my family that we should pool our money and make a donation this year instead of once again spending money to buy stuff for people who don’t really need or want any of it. We’re already so wasteful in this country. We don’t need more stuff to set around our houses just because someone bought it for us. There are people in the world who have absolutely nothing, yet we sit and revel in our excess, complaining about what we don’t have instead of being humbled by the blessings that surround us. We think we deserve things…that we’re entitled to a certain standard of living. But that’s a lie.
Can I encourage the three people who actually read this blog not to buy into the lie? We don’t need more things, but there are millions of people in the world who need everything. Let’s never forget that.
I realize all I’ve been posting lately is worship sets. This post is my lame attempt at correcting that. Life has gotten crazy again, and Thomas and I have been insanely busy for the past couple of weeks…completely by choice though, so I guess it’s okay. Now I’m wishing that I had taken full advantage of my free time back when I had it. I wouldn’t be nearly as behind on sleep as I am now.
Every spare moment I have has been spent knitting since I’m doing a craft fair with a friend in two weeks. I want to have as many knitted products as possible so I have a greater chance of selling as many knitted products as possible. My hands are holding up pretty well…so far, anyway.
I’m really starting to look forward to Thanksgiving and Christmas, not because of the holidays themselves, but more because I know I’ll have some time off work and will be able to rest at least a little bit.
Oh…and I’ll be updating my template again. Thomas updated Wordpress for me, and I have to do a little tweaking to get the themes I like to display properly…
This Sunday’s set…
Also had a community outreach event yesterday where we played a longer set…
This past Sunday we played…