Last weekend of freedom

Next week, I am about to start about a month of chaos, so, I think I am going to have to get up earlier each day to get that much needed...

breathing in time with the Lord before I... 

breathe out all day long...

Worship course starts on Monday though, that's very, very exciting! I am looking forward to what it's going to bring to the surface!

xSunday schoolx parachute application

I just put in the application to play at Parachute 2009, hopefully we get a cool stage or something awesome. That would be the coolest thing ever if we did, it would be extremely funny too, I will probably fall off my chair laughing. 

Let's wait and see.

Take it back!

I pre-ordered. It arrived. I am very, very satisfied as I listen. Take it back, you are the man. Right up there with Dogwood, right up there.

"You're just like your Father"

Ain’t such a bad comment for me I don’t think. There are a lot of things that you did Dad as I was growing up that I never got hold of until now.

“I do this because I love you, it says so in the Bible, but I do this in love, not in anger or hate...” That was a common one after a good smack, and at the time I used to be like “Yeah right...that totally makes sense...” But now I am grateful, I am grateful that I can look back on my smacks almost fondly. Sure, the pain is gone and the reason for them is mostly forgotten (there are a few I can still remember why...) but the lesson of them is imprinted in my heart. It wasn’t the smack, it wasn’t weither it was the hand or the belt, it wasn’t weither it 1 or 10, it was the “I love you” and the hug after that made me the man I am becoming today. I will never forget that, no one can forget your hugs Dad.

“If I could leave a tape recorder in there recording the dribble coming out of your mouth and show you...” Well, this one hasn’t changed yet. But I am working on James 3 and applying it to my life Dad. But remember this one Dad? - “Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.” I have never forgotten that one, and it is carried with me day and night now. I think I knew that scripture before John 3:16 hahaha. But seriously, I would like to think I could teach at least half as well as you do one day, then I will feel I have gotten somewhere. And the whole thing of your introductions taking the first 40 minutes of your sermons, well, you will pleased to know that last Tuesday I did my first “Introduction-only” sermon... I think I have that in my DNA that one, I was just in denial that it would come out of me too...

“You just try it again, and if you do, I can go out to your precious Honda and in 30 seconds have it so you can never drive it again...” Enough said with that one. That one makes you sound like a total bad-ass of a criminal, kind of Nicholas Cage in Gone in 60 seconds. I learned to never call you a “w****r” again after that one.

The way Gab looks at me when I start getting into a discussion about a certain brand of car, or electronic appliance, or guitar or World War II moment with someone WHO IS WRONG, and her look is saying only one thing “You’re just like your Father Dan Sheed.” Well, so I am, and damn proud to be too.

Dogwood are the best band in the world, and here is why.

Dear Dogwood. 

You are a band who kept me looking to heaven and to Jesus during my teenage years. It's because of songs like these ones below that I had a heart that was being filled with life rather than death. It is because of that I am forever grateful.

Faith

I have faith no one believes
I love a God no one can see.
You put your trust into thin air.
That’s what they all told me.
But I believed because of fear,
And I can see you crystal clear.
I know that you will, meet me here.

I walk the narrow path.
Perplexed and befuddled.
I’m persecuted, plagued and I’m troubled.

My past my history,
My future’s a mystery.
There’s only one certain thing
That’s for sure.

It’s my God who is so real.
He makes my life easier to deal.
With the aid of his goodness.
I experience true bliss.
Do you understand your life is in his hands? 

Confusion is my hat;
Centrifuge of hurt is where I’m at.
I request some help with that.

My past my history,
My future’s a mystery.
There’s only one certain thing that’s for sure.

It’s my God who is so real.
He makes my life easier to deal.
With the aid of his goodness.
I experience true bliss.
Do you understand your life is in his hands? 

I have faith no one believes
I love a God no one can see.
You put your trust into thin air.
That’s what they all told me. 

Never Die

Faith like a rock,
The size of a seed,
Eternal life,
It's all you need.

Work your will,
My life is yours,
Rejoice in You Lord.
My faith in you will never die.

Live fast,
Die slow.
Stand back,
Let go.
Choose life.

You'll see,
How awesome it is when God sets you free,
Live eternally.

Do or die

I killed the Son of God today.
I built the cross where He was slain.
My sins,
The hands that held the hammer that drove the nails through His skin.
Someday I win.
I want to make it up.
I want to die to myself for You.
It makes me fall apart,
When I think of all that You went through.
I owe my all to You. (I owe my all to You)

[Chorus:]
Because when it came to do or die.
You died for me,
Though I would be nothing perfect,
For human eyes to see.

My hands are Yours for works.
My eyes will seek until I've found You.
My legs will walk the earth,
Until You tell me my work is through.
I want to make it up,
I want to die to myself for You,
you are the one that i love,
i owe my all to you (i owe my all to you)

I met the Son of God today,
He said "I forgive you for My pain"
He took my sin that held the hammer 
that drove the nails through His skin,
He said I win.

I'm a new creation through You,
Created for You by You.
So make me worth Your while,
Put me to use.
you are the one that i love,
I owe my all to you (i owe my all to you)

I met the Son of God today,
He said "I forgive you for My pain"
He took my sin that held the hammer 
that drove the nails through His skin,
He said I win.

I'm a new creation through You,
Created for You by You.
So make me worth Your while,
Put me to use.

Just picked up my new devotional book for the year, "A life of miracles" by Bill Johnson. I have only had it a day, and am already 4 days into it. Must be good :)

Time to actually use this thing!

Or else, it would suck when people actually start reading it to find I only have a handful of things on here. 

Today, I commit to using this thing with a bit more effort than lately. Or ever for that matter.