Willis, where are you going?

Hey guys! You are right; it has been a while sense I last posted anything. I will admit I have been a little lazy.

Well, lets see:: I am still getting lost, that will never change! Still fishing. Still alive, yeah. Now to the deeper stuff.

It is amazing how I can tell someone to do something, yet I can’t seem to do it myself. I have been telling a friend of mine to simply rely upon God and run to Him through the difficult times they are going through. Yet, I look at my life and I am in what could be called difficult times, and I am not truly running to God. I find myself running to other things to fill my void. Therefore, the challenge for others and myself is to run to God.

Run to You
2002 Eric Christian, BMI

I’m hurting deep inside
There’s nothing, nothing within
I’m hollow through and through
My tears fall like rain
Father, hear my cry
I know one thing is true
You’re there to help me through
So I will…

Run to You with all my problems
You’ll be there, there for me.
I’ll pray all day long to feel Your love
Wrap me in the arms of Your tender care.

Bridge::
I lift it all to You
No more is it mine.
I trust You alone
To satisfy my needs.

It is my prayer that if you are hurting right now, there is hope and God the Father desires nothing more than for you to come and jump up in His lap and love on Him for a while.

The Cross

Hey my little cubbies,

I am starting to understand and realize what it means to be in leadership and be lonely. I have to truly rely upon Christ, yet I know that is what He wants. The cross is starting to play a huge role in my mind. I am taken away by what Christ did, and what the cross represents for believers. The cross is where we have hope and power.

“Then God made you alive with Christ, He forgave all our sins. He cancelled the record that contained the charges against us… He shamed them publicly by His victory over them on the cross of Christ” (Col. 3:13b-15).

Hope in the Cross


I once walked in the ways of this world
Walking in pursuit of my flesh
Full of anger, pride, and rage
Yet never seemed to satisfy the void

Halleluiah, there is power in the cross
Halleluiah, love and mercy for all
Now we dance, and sing unto our Lord
There is hope, and power in the cross

Christ the Maker died for my sins
Drops of grief He groaned upon the tree
He gave His life to show me His grace
What more could one man ever do

Halleluiah, there is power in the cross
Halleluiah, love and mercy for all
Now we dance, and sing unto our Lord
There is hope, and power in the cross

Wild at Heart

This past week was a pretty good week. I played beach volleyball Tuesday, took a test on Thursday in Christian Doctrine. I am not so sure how I did on the exam. It is one of those exams where you will have to wait and see. Friday night, I went to a Halloween party. We carved pumpkins, had dinner, and watched a movie. It was good times, great oldies. Saturday I hung out with some friends downtown, then we played games once we got back to the apartment. Yesterday I skipped church, yeah yeah, whatever. Then I went to a Fall Festival at a friend’ church, that was cool. So, in the events area it was good.

I am going through Wild at Heart again. WOW!! I am learning so much more stuff than the first time I read it. In junction with that book, I am reading Surrender to Love. I am being hit with a sledgehammer again that God is a wild man and He is passionate about His creation and me. Along with all that, I am truly beginning to see that men in today’s society are not leaders anymore, therefore, that is why we are seeing more women taking on the roles that men should be doing. It is my prayer for myself and all men that we would begin to, and for some, regain leadership abilities and to be one who a lady would desire to follow.

My challenge for the next few days is to meditate on who I am. To be a boy again. To play. To take on new challenges. Overcome some of my fears. To be wild at heart.

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.

The Journey

Well, here's the deal; Over the past year I have struggled with the notion of being a speaker and songwriter full-time. As of this morning, I have taken the plunge and will follow the call to do these things. My primary goal will be speaking. So, in turn, this website will be one where you can take the journey with me into the unknown. So, lets take a seat, strap on the belt and hold on.