We had a really cool practice this past Wednesday. Every once in a while, after the dust settles from the holidays and life cools down a bit, we have a chance to dig in and learn some new tunes. We had a chance to do just that on Wednesday and the moment of creativity we had during the song "Faithful" was awesome. At first, the guys didn't like it and wanted a recording to hear how it "really" sounded. I said no...we need to make this "ours". As soon as you let go and let the music flow from your very core..amazing things begin to happen. The same goes for your walk with Christ. As soon as you begin to live the life of faith in God, fascinating and physically gratifying possibilities will open up for you. Oswald Chambers is a great author and I have been reading his book again for my quiet times, other than my Beth More study witht the ladies Tuesday morning study. I just wanted something more to read. He says: as you begin to live your life of faith, you will actually waive your own rights and let God make the choice for you. However, God sometimes will allow me to get into a time of testing and tough times in order for me to realize that I waive my own rights and allow God to work freely through me. This is so tough for me as I want to control my feelings emotions and actions. He says that whenever my right becomes the guiding factor in my life, it dulls my spiritual insight. The greatest enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but choices which are not quite good enough. hmmm...I'm thinking that many of us might not be growing spiritually because we continue to choose on the basis of our rights instead of depending on our awesome God to make the choices for us. Oh man! I want so badly to learn to walk with Jesus according to the standard which is: I will ALWAYS have my eyes fixed on Jesus for direction. I KNOW that I don't always live like that. I would like to think that I do...hmmm...then something comes up that hurts so bad. It rattles my emotions and shakes the very core of who I am. I know the right thing to do is fix my eyes on Jesus...but I often times fix my eyes on myself and my own feelings. Not sure that is the right thing to do.

How does this relate to the band thing? hmm...i think it just got me thinking of how awesome it is when we all fix our eyes on the common goal of creating God's music. It becomes God's ART! I want God's art in my life. Do you? hmmm...just some random thoughts of mine.