| Louie Giglio and Andy Stanley are part of the same ministry? Crazy. |
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| It's been a crazy past few months being married. Second to the way cool married life, my life has been very dominated by work. Granted, I don't have a job, but I've been working my butt off. I'm sitting here in the coffee shop doing my daily ritual on Tuesdays and Thursdays with my computer and cool MIDI keyboard (which turns a lot of heads) making music. It's what I love second to my God and my wife. And even though I sit here and praise God by doing what He has created me to do, the world says I'm a lazy bum. I don't have a paying job yet. I'm not doing I a job I hate. And I'm not gone from the house all the time. Therefore, the world says that I'm not working. Little do they know that I'm working the best job I ever could because I'm doing what God created me to do.
Now, I understand that I need to support my family. And believe me, I'm all for that. I'm still looking for jobs. I have an interview tonight with a church to lead worship for them. But, I no longer find my worth in the job I have. The thoughts and fears creep up from time to time, but I have vowed not to define work by the hard work it is or by how miserable I am. I've done that far too long, and I'm not listening anymore.
Along the same lines, it really saddens me to see art so ignored in the Church. Granted, I'm biased because I'm an artist, but I just watched an hour long DVD on the topic of how the Church, who is supposed to be the leaders in creativity (because we have God, the ultimate Creator, on our side), abandoned the arts to the secular world. Now, we want nothing to do with the arts, and we're struggling to even begin to speak to our culture.
I'm thinking specifically of all the churches that are stuck in traditions of the past. There's a church that was looking for a worship leader that I came across a couple months ago that only wanted the music director to work for 5 hours during the week. Let me tell you, effective creativity doesn't happen in a span of 5 hours per week. We have taken ourselves to the point where people are not interested in creativity. They are interested in getting the job done. It saddens me that as the culture is appreciating the arts, the church is fleeing from it.
We should reach a point where secular artists say, "I want to go to church because that's where creativity is happening."
P.S. My wife rocks my face off!! |
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| I'm getting married tomorrow!!! |
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| Humans are like napkin holders in restaurants.
They seem full on the outside until you open them up and find that there is emptiness within them.
And this emptiness can only be filled by one Divine Being. |
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| Don't you hate it when you have a dream of this way cool piano solo, but when you wake up you have no idea what it sounds like anymore...sigh...time for work. |
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