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Despite My Best Efforts, Life Just Keeps Moving On.

And it moves fast doesn’t it?!?! It’s already November and time for Thanksgiving. So I know that a lot of you are saying, “My Gosh… about time he updated!” Others of you are like, “He’s been away?” But alas, yes… I’m back. I don’t know… I just wasn’t feeling the xanga thing lately. Don’t know if I’m back in full yet either, but I’m at least posting now. I couldn’t sleep last night so I got up early (which is still after my wife left for work ).

So most of you know that I dreamt my wife was pregnant… so then I took a bunch of crap from my small group saying that God was telling me that she was pregnant in a dream because she is…. Well… She’s not.  SO HA!  No baby.  Not yet at least.  Not for another few years hopefully!  Unless we get one of them “oops” babies.

Other than that, we’re going to see the Trans-Siberian Orchestra on December 8th.  I’ve seen them three times and Sarah’s seen them once… but they put on an amazing show.  By far it is the best concert I’ve ever been to.  Tickets are always over $100 for two people… but it’s the best $100 you can spend on a concert!  At CedarCreek we give credit to TSO for making our Christmas Eve services cool.    If it wasn’t for their music we’d not have nearly as cool music to play.  We’re just really blessed because our band can perform at about 95% of the level of TSO…. that last 5% being left out due to the fact that we don’t have the money they have for better equipment.  I tell ya what… when we’ve got at least 3 guitarists that can play a flawless “Flight of the Bumblebee” on electric guitar…. that’s God sayin’, “Here… have some talent.”  And man…. is it nice.

For Christmas we’ve got a program designed this year that involves the song “Christmas Canon Rock” off of the new TSO album… Our vocalists can belt it out with the best of them… so that should be sweet.  We’re going to have a narrator talking through/between songs to depict the Christmas story as video and music take you through the story as well.  Then at the end there will be some worship and traditional Christmas songs… silent night with candles… etc.  Last year it snowed on the band… that’ll probably happen again too…   I love being able to use the arts to move people…. to soften their hearts to hear the Gospel.  I love being able to use modern technology to convey a timeless message of love and grace.  I love the fact that God uses a bunch of idiots like us to reach thousands.  I love my job.

Anywho, time to get ready for workie.  Then in a week…. turkey…. (I know… that was horrible.)