Living is Simple?

I think I'll survive. There has to be some strikingly painful and salient changes. But I'm going to aim for survival. My music has really been picking up these last couple of weeks. The bass has been good. I'm enjoying music for the first time in a good while. And I don't mean that music has recently been a terrible chore for me. But to be honest, I hadn't been making music. It was only a movement. It was merely motion. And who wants to speak a love song when you can sing it? I think that's why I wasn't fully into it. I've been learning how to add color to the shadows. It's as if I'm able to paint inside the lines and the lines are all of the notes that have sounded so black and white. Maybe I'll turn some attention to my electric bass soon. One thing at a time though. I still have that desire to play in a band and make music with other people. But the core drive remains the same: ministry. Studying and teaching the Bible. Oh man! But one foot after the other, right? Baby steps. Bill Murray was so right. I played in technique class tonight. The unanimous response was that it was the best I've ever performed. That was very encouraging. Still, there were a few old kinks that flaired up in the most uncomfortable way. But now I actually have a desire to smooth them away. I want to really be concentrated in my effort. I learned what a priority is today. I just wish the context of the lesson hadn't been so painful. But pain makes it stick, I suppose.

www.shirt.woot.com. $10 with no shipping charge for a unique t-shirt. They start selling at midnight and are usually sold out by the morning. But it's a good place to check out if you ever want a sweet shirt.

Does it bother anyone else that the top 3 songs on iTunes right now are hip hop/rap songs? But if you want some solid-fine music (that hyphen is completely intentional), go listen to Matt Pond PA. He's real good. Gracias, Blake.

If you follow Reformed blogs at all (and who doesn't?), you might have seen these. They're real provocative thoughts on evangelicalism and its rampant failings. Ponder, if you will.
http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2007/10/24/can-i-just-start-a-new-tradition/#more-451
http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2007/10/26/michael-spencer-on-the-problems-of-evangelicalism/
http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/2007/10/28/characteristics-of-a-new-christian-tradition/

I still don't have a Halloween costume picked out. I think that's very scary. So maybe it's just appropriate enough and I shouldn't even bother dressing up. Or maybe I'll be a Carebear.

Lastly, this is for that dear newlywed sister of mine:

Your PB from J for today: "It fit so nice, he said I could keep it."