very very tired and i hope everybody is having a good day

please pray for jordan

a very unpredictable day...

so i volunteered to help build a deck for someone yesterday and wound up with a nail thru my finger. who knew?

the story is this: I was holding up a piece of wood for someone with a nailgun. they miss the wood and shoot the nail thru my little finger. I was in shock so the only thing i said was "wow. that went all the way thru." other than that i just kind of stood there in a daze. then my mom drove me to the hospital where i found out that the nail went all the way thru the bone and i would have to have it in a splint for the next six weeks.

day 1 with a splint: this sucks

we had a pretty productive practice yesterday and came up with a lot of good material for the new song. We are recording next week but I havn't determined a day yet because of baptisms next weekend. It will be very interesting to see how this stuff goes down because we decided to record on such short notice.

The new song we've been practicing is actually an old song. Actually it's the first song I ever wrote sooo I don't know if it's very good.

The song is called sold out and it is about serving God with our whole hearts and being 100 percent sold out for him.

SOLD OUT

at the athiestic meeting, they have christians that are fleeing,
and just what with they are dealing, they no not what they are feeling
and when they rise from their seating, through their lives they will be fleeing
just because he can't be seen, doesn't mean he's just a dream

Do you see their faces?
Then you know their faking

Sold out, sold out for Jesus, to be in this world but not be of it
Sold out, and I've been forgiven, I want all of heart sold out for him

Is a christian just a name? Should we all just act the same?
Do we act on every word, assuring God cannot be heard?
We all could be in the light, we all could put up the fight
We'd all have to undergo, God wants his word to be told!

Do you see their faces?
then you know their faking

Sold out, sold out for Jesus, to be in this world but not be of it
Sold out, and I've been forgiven, I want all of my heart sold out for him

it's raining..... again

holy moley a lighting bolt just struck next to the shop and it was REEEAAALLLLY loud!

aight homies, lets get down to business...

Well the band has been kinda lackin in the crackin lately. We've suddenly slumped on our practices mainly because of all the other activities going on. But now I think it's time we got back in shape. We are gonna start practicing pretty diligently for the next two months for sho. I believe the plan is to play at a local coffee place, and if that goes good we are gonna start going all around the central illinois area to spread God's word through our passion in music. I was playing around with the idea of a London band tour :) how cool would THAT be??? but to be serious that prolly wouldn't happen for at least a year. Anyways, I'm finishing up some songs I started a while back and I'm super pumped to start practicing these ones. It's gonna be a purty interesting rest of the year...

This weekend was an interesting weekend. I think I got a whole 4 hours of sleep total (thanks for that by the way Luke Wahl, Caleb Jones, Jason Grassi, and Drew and Josh Schumacher). But it was a fun weekend. We originally had a band practice scheduled but me and c-lab were unexpectedly roped into cutting down a tree at the apartments instead. Oh well, theres always the next time. Since school has finished I've found myself with a lot more free time after I get done at work, so I've been working more on finishing some new songs and working on personal projects for people. They are mainly art projects and I DESPISE them. I mean I love to paint and draw and all that jazz but when it is done for fun it doesn't have to be perfect.

A new song is coming together and I'm pretty excited about it. It's called "Give Up" and it talks about how we hold our dreams and ambitions and even material possessions above god sometimes and we can't truly become sanctified and christ-like until we give them all up for the glory of God. I love writing this song because it is convicting for me. I have all these ideas that I've made up for my life so I can live the way I want to live, but God has his plans for me and he wants to put them into action in my life and in everyones lives, and I need to realize how much my life means to him so he can put his plans into action.

anyhoo thats all for now. I'm gonna watch teenage mutant ninja turtles and get some well-deserved slumber.

for the glory of our king,
David