21 Days

It's been said that it takes 21 days to break an old habit and 21 days to form a new one. So with that I'm giving myself and you all a challenge - to form a new relationship with God and by that I mean setting aside time each day for the next 21 days to 1) read my bible, 2) spend time in prayer with God, even listening to Him not being the one to always speak, 3) maybe even keeping a journal and taking it way beyond the 21 days. So that my friends is a challenge that I'm up for and I hope you are as well to start off the year going deeper and continuing throughout the whole year. If you need a little help or something on paper to help you out go to deliberatepeople.com and they have all you will need. Now saying that I will let you know that for the bible reading they have is a good one but it jumps around. By that I mean they have you read something from the Old Testament, Psalms, Proverbs, and the New Testament each day. Sometimes it might just be a verse or two and some might be a whole chapter. I did that once and for me it was a bit hard to try and keep everything in perspective and remember so I'm going to start in the New Testament and go from there. Feel free to start however and wherever you want.

21 days is not a long time, just 3 short weeks, but the results will be monumental. So are you up for it? If you are lets all be encouraging to each other and hold each other accountable for the challenge and track how we are progressing. This is gonna be cool.

One good thing

There is one good thing about being laid off at this time, I don't have to get out and drive with all the maniacs out there when it's slick outside. I love this type of weather as many of you know, the more snow the better, but I don't like driving in it and the main reason is all the other people out there driving. I can't drive them and me at the same time just not possible. Some drivers think that no matter the conditions they can drive the same but that is just not the case, and I've always said that if you go flying by me on days like today I'd wave as I went by while your stuck in the ditch. I really have been enjoying this since yesterday, hey give me a break, there will be alot more days of sunshine and temps above 75 then there will be days with snow so get over it. I hope that there is more on the way but we will see.

Good final service of the year yesterday, where did this year go, and a good little set list for worship as well. This year has flown by and I'm looking forward to 2010 to see what it holds. Gonna be a lazy last week of the year here at the homestead but I expect things to pick up next week. Not sure yet how we'll ring in the new year but I'm ready for some NCAA football on New Years Day though.

Sunday Set List:
Not To Us - Chris Tomlin
Open The Eyes Of My Heart - Paul Balachoe
Burn For You - Steve Fee
Let My Words Be Few - Matt Redman
Just As I Am - Daniel Baker
Saviour King - Hillsong United

December's post

Well maybe there will be more than one post in December but we have to wait for the last half of the month to see. Been a few weeks since the last post so here in a nutshell is what has happened so far in the month. Meetings, practices, performances, church, youth, relaxation, and a few bout's of boredom. That has been what this month has been so far. Meetings are going to be getting cut in half at least which right now is a good thing. I have stepped down from clerk of M&O but have reconsidered the offer to remain on M&O, still haven't heard if that has been accepted or not, so that means that only the meeting on the first Wednesday of the month will be the only one I have to be at. I've had an enjoyable few practices with the worship team the last few weeks and I might add that worship has been pretty cool and downright amazing the past few weeks. Youth has also been really good the past few weeks. We've started a new 4 part series called Why Jesus by David Nasser. Good stuff.

Went to 3 performances, 2 for Taylor and 1 for Tyson. Both are in band and are enjoying it very much. Taylor has really taken off in it, she played in Winchester as part of the Honor Band I believe and it was cool to see what all these kids from the area could do in just 1 day of practice and then a performance the following day. Then there was the Winter concert out at the school which was good. Tyson has his first ever band performance last week and during the band part it was very good, then came the main act: the rest of the show. All I need to say is that quite a few people came up to us after the performance and said that they couldn't stop watching Tyson. Why you ask? Because of his "performance" of singing and a few dance moves while sitting down. It was quite the experience. The one year we don't tape it and he goes all out. Oh well you'll probably be able to see him do stuff like that sometime in the future on some comedy show somewhere.

Relaxation and some boredom has set in now as I got laid off for the second time this year, I liked it so much I thought I'd do it again. We kinda knew that it was going to happen, just didn't know when. So now its back to filing for unemployment and back out searching for a job. I do know that God has that perfect job out there for me, just have to be patient and wait for it which as many of you know sometimes can be nerve racking. So thats whats been up for the last few weeks.