Gigs

Last night I went to see a couple of my friends play a gig. It went well, as I thought it would. However, while there, God answered some questions that I had been dealing with (fighting) with for the past couple of weeks. The issue was should I focus on secular songwriting or Christian. I knew God was leading me to Christian, but I have been fighting that. Last night, I just gave up and said, "okay". It was so amazing to see people worshiping God last night. Usually, I am the front man doing the playing or speaking, however, last night, I had the honor of being in the back where no one could see me, yet I could see them. It put goose bumps on me!! It got me to thinking, "I wander how God feels when He sees us worshiping Him".

Yeah, I get lost easy

Yeah, I know it's been a while since the last entry, please forgive me. Things on the homefront are going great. I have been busy getting my speaking packet ready again and sending out emails to student pastors and other student speakers trying to get going for 2005.

Well, lets get down to what the title says. I had the joy of taking my friend Jordan to get his truck at the shop (he had some work done on it). The trip for the day was going to include a run to Wal-Mart, some lunch, then pick up his truck. We started this journey around 1pm. I had the idea of going to the new Wal-Mart in the Garden District, however, I didn't really know how to get there. We drove and drove, finally we saw a post man, and ask him where it was located, his response, "It is across the other side of town". Jordan gave me the look. So, we decided to go to the one we knew how to get to. We go there get my stuff and go to Subway across the street. We order the meal, and THEN they tell us there are no cokes,that the coke machine is broken, grrrr. We ate, it was good. This now was around 3:30 when we left. Off to get his truck. Well, you know me, I thought I knew where I was going, but I didn't. I should have taken 610 to Paris street, I took 10 THINKING it would take us to Paris street. Oh yeah, not to mention the traffic was terrible. When did we arrive at the shop? 5:15pm. What should have been about 2 hours was almost 4 and a half.

The moral of this story, make sure you know where you are going, and listen to people who do know where they are going, it helps. The challenge for the day is:: If you do not know where you are going in life, talk with Jesus. He is a driver that knows where everything is at, and has driven the road many times.

OUCH!!!

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What's up guys? I hope that you guys had a great weekend. Mine was, well... a ride. Saturday night a couple of friends and myself went to Six Flags here in New Orleans. We were doing good, riding Batman, another good ride, bumper cars (where we got mean looks from the workers, we were hitting the little kids in their cars), and then we rode the ride. The wooden, metal rollercoaster. Two of the guys had ridden it before and said that it was rough, but we all chose to ride it anyway. We get on, and the journey began. They slam the leg bar down which was hurting my crouch area, and we are off. 3 hours later, not really, but to long later, the ride was over. It was the jerkiest ride that we have ever been on. Doesn't end there though. Derek and I wanted to ride this other ride called the Catwoman or something like that. It was a circle with little chairs that go in circles within the big cirlce, and the chairs flip you as well. We get in and the ride started. Not to bad, but then we notice that we are not flipping, instead we are just going around in circles going 5,000 mph. When the ride was over we were sweating like we had just broken a fever and our skin was glazed over. We realized at that moment it was time to leave.