Life Snip #4

Playing Halo with Steve (he kicks my butt):

Bathwater

So Connor's in the bathroom right now...and he suddenly says, "I'm drinking water and it's cold." Please say it's not the toilet water! We ask if it's water from the bath tub? No. From the sink? No. *Shudder* From the toilet? No. From where? "The cup." Oh. We have a cup that sits on top of the toilet that we use to rinse Connor's hair when taking a bath, and since he had a bath this morning, there must've been a little water left in the cup.

Wendy tells him that's gross cause it's the water he bathed in, so there stuff in it. He says, "No, it's ok. It's just cold."

Hm.

Life Snip #3

Cosette & Grandma
(Parents are in town this week.)

Life Snip #2

Life Snip #2:
View from my building's entrance

Introducing: Life Snips

Just for fun, and also to give me motivation to post more often, I’ve decided to start a new series called “Life Snips”. Using my camera phone, I’m going to take pictures of different things in my daily life. The pictures won’t be as good of quality as our digital camera, but they will hopefully be good enough to give friends/family a glimpse into what life is like for me here in CO.

Life Snip #1: My Desk
This is where I spend approximately 8 hours a day! At least it’s nice furniture and I’ve got plenty of space.

Easter Sunday

There usually aren’t many times in your life that you can say that was the best “X” I’ve ever experienced in my life. I was fortunate to experience the best worship I’ve ever known on Sunday. Oddly enough, (or should I say “Cynically enough”?) church holidays like Christmas and Easter I’ve usually just “coasted” since it’s “all stuff I’ve heard before”, or geared towards non-believers, etc.

However, I made a conscious decision this Sunday to make an effort to engage in worship and seek God. CHA-CHING! Boy, did He meet me. The worship set prior to the sermon was 5-6 songs (about 20-25 min.), and then there were about 3 more songs afterwards during the offering/closing. There were several times I couldn’t sing because my throat was closed up, and tears rolling down, etc. I even attempted something I’ve never done in my life: lifting my hands up. I’ve never done it as a mix of self-conscousness and cynicism and plain-ol’ “I don’t wanna!”.

As the #2 sound engineer for church, I’m part of the creative ministry team, and we meet on the second Sunday of each month to discuss our roles in the church and worship/praise concepts in general. We are reading through Bob Sorge’s Exploring Worship as a group and discussing the chapters we read. It’s been very challenging and convicting. It is in this book (and our subsequent discussions) that have asserted that God describes in His Word not just suggestions on how to worship, but commands. Including vocally, hands-raised, kneeling, dancing, etc. I had always been of the opinion that it didn’t matter how you worship as long as you find a way that’s good for you. That view has been dismantled, and I’m currently re-constructing it based on what the scripture says…not how I want it to be.

So that’s why I raised my hands in worship on Sunday, and was drawn into a completely new experience of worship and God’s presence. Pretty dang awesome.

Addenda

(Addenda = plural of Addendum)

Addendum #1:
On a fun side-note, as I was changing into my jeans today, I was trying to get my belt on, and got a little frustrated when I couldn't find the hole/notch in my belt....because I was on the last one! No more holes! That's kind of a new occurance for me. Wendy and I had a good chuckle over that.

Addendum #2:
Remember how I ran in the snow this morning? Well, my brother invited me to go bowling with him and a couople jr. high kids he works with at church. The bowling is 2-3 blocks from his place, so we walked there. Wouldn't you know it? It was snowing pretty good on our walk back to his place!

Easter will be weird tomorrow if there's snow...I'm used to the whole "Spring" feel for Easter, rather than Winter.