As you may or may not know, I am a fan of local art, and think it's good for a person to be about supporting the locals. That said, one of the local guys I love put a couple songs online, in game format. It's pretty fantastic. So, I said to myself, why not share?
Here it is! Enjoy! (And trust me, I will ACTUALLY write something soon!)
So, I'm really trying to think of something good for you, but I am having a hard time getting my brain to get firing. It's been a long day. Good, but long. So, I'll leave you with a picture of luke from the other day. He is a huge fan of the outside. I think that's so great. Hopefully he can keep that going. Anyways, til I have something useful to say, here ya go:
Hey gang,
so I have a, guess he would be a facebook friend? we know a few of the same people, and have swapped an email or two...
anyways, so my facebook buddy Jeremy was a guest on another photographer's blog the other day, and posted this video. I'll put it below here in a second. Check out Jeremy's full website too.
But, here's what I think would be awesome. What if we did this? What if we all participated in this deal? It could be the coolest way to give someone a great Christmas, I think. I have some ideas in my head, but I would love to make it a big crew project. What do you guys think? Let me know! Here's the vid:
I am absolutely LOVING this idea. Let's do it! Who's in? If you're up for it, go check out http://www.help-portrait.com/ and get on board! I think this could be awesome.
Live deeper.
so I have a, guess he would be a facebook friend? we know a few of the same people, and have swapped an email or two...
anyways, so my facebook buddy Jeremy was a guest on another photographer's blog the other day, and posted this video. I'll put it below here in a second. Check out Jeremy's full website too.
But, here's what I think would be awesome. What if we did this? What if we all participated in this deal? It could be the coolest way to give someone a great Christmas, I think. I have some ideas in my head, but I would love to make it a big crew project. What do you guys think? Let me know! Here's the vid:
I am absolutely LOVING this idea. Let's do it! Who's in? If you're up for it, go check out http://www.help-portrait.com/ and get on board! I think this could be awesome.
Live deeper.
Wow, so I apparently haven't even stopped by my own blog in a REALLY long time. Not to do anything but check my blog and make sure it was still working at least. It seems I have survived the summer. School is back in session now, and I feel like I can take a breather for a couple of minutes. I loved my summer, don't get me wrong, but being gone for 4 out of 12 weeks is a LOT, especially for a guy not used to that many weeks gone.
But, that said, it was a challenge for me to be gone, to be on the move, and to still be a husband/dad/youth pastor/barista. Parts of it I absolutely loved, other parts I never want to repeat.
But, coming out of the summer, I have had a LOT of thoughts floating around in my head. Thoughts about who I am, who I am wanting to be, and how to re-learn living out of the deepest parts of my heart.
Part of what I realized this summer is my need to be bold. Listening to people speak at camps, I watched people speak boldly about their love of Jesus, and not be concerned with stepping on toes, or over-simplifying the gospel. I don't mind offending people because I think at it's core the gospel is quite offensive, but I sometimes try to make the idea so easy to grasp that I overdo it and strip out some of the depth and meaning unintentionally. I need to change that. So, I find myself in a place of retooling what and how I say things, and making sure that my trying to get the point across doesn't get lost in translation.
Another thing I have found from the summer that I need to fix is my being consistent, and living on intentionally. My wife, who is AWESOME at pulling out her "crap detector" has worked me over in a good way with that thing. Here's what happened: we got into a couple of "normal" spouse-ly brushes this summer, and I found myself saying the phrase "well, I didn't mean to _____" which in my mind was true, and not all bad, right? When out of the blue God jumps in my wife's mouth and smacked me upside the head with the point "yeah, you're not meaning to do ______, and you're not doing anything at all." BAM.
So, I find myself now in need of some changes, but changes for the better. I fight as much as I can to be genuine, and to live out of my heart, but it seems my heart needs a bit of work. I need to "not try to do ____" and "do _____" and be more a person of action. And even more so than that, my action needs to be rooted in love, which it wasn't always this summer, as I got caught up in being too busy, and not saying no to things.
Fortunately, I have found some friends to give me food for thought, and inspiration, they're called heartsupport. and they are awesome people. I have local friends to hang with for sure, and I need that community, but I love HS because it's a group of people who are there on purpose to be people seeking hope, love, and to live deep and from the right place. You should check them out, you might like them.
Well, off I go, to see a good friend and talk life and such. I love OkC, and this buddy of mine is deeply embedded in some amazing things in OkC. I am looking forward to what we can do together in the fall. Should be awesome.
live deeper. (for real, and from the right places)
But, that said, it was a challenge for me to be gone, to be on the move, and to still be a husband/dad/youth pastor/barista. Parts of it I absolutely loved, other parts I never want to repeat.
But, coming out of the summer, I have had a LOT of thoughts floating around in my head. Thoughts about who I am, who I am wanting to be, and how to re-learn living out of the deepest parts of my heart.
Part of what I realized this summer is my need to be bold. Listening to people speak at camps, I watched people speak boldly about their love of Jesus, and not be concerned with stepping on toes, or over-simplifying the gospel. I don't mind offending people because I think at it's core the gospel is quite offensive, but I sometimes try to make the idea so easy to grasp that I overdo it and strip out some of the depth and meaning unintentionally. I need to change that. So, I find myself in a place of retooling what and how I say things, and making sure that my trying to get the point across doesn't get lost in translation.
Another thing I have found from the summer that I need to fix is my being consistent, and living on intentionally. My wife, who is AWESOME at pulling out her "crap detector" has worked me over in a good way with that thing. Here's what happened: we got into a couple of "normal" spouse-ly brushes this summer, and I found myself saying the phrase "well, I didn't mean to _____" which in my mind was true, and not all bad, right? When out of the blue God jumps in my wife's mouth and smacked me upside the head with the point "yeah, you're not meaning to do ______, and you're not doing anything at all." BAM.
So, I find myself now in need of some changes, but changes for the better. I fight as much as I can to be genuine, and to live out of my heart, but it seems my heart needs a bit of work. I need to "not try to do ____" and "do _____" and be more a person of action. And even more so than that, my action needs to be rooted in love, which it wasn't always this summer, as I got caught up in being too busy, and not saying no to things.
Fortunately, I have found some friends to give me food for thought, and inspiration, they're called heartsupport. and they are awesome people. I have local friends to hang with for sure, and I need that community, but I love HS because it's a group of people who are there on purpose to be people seeking hope, love, and to live deep and from the right place. You should check them out, you might like them.
Well, off I go, to see a good friend and talk life and such. I love OkC, and this buddy of mine is deeply embedded in some amazing things in OkC. I am looking forward to what we can do together in the fall. Should be awesome.
live deeper. (for real, and from the right places)
Hello all! It has been a busy few weeks. So much going on! But it has been a journey to say the least.
Family is good, though loving family well is a challenge when you work 60+ a week. Luke is rocking the tooth bearing world, and about to start dominating the running/walking world. Also looking like he might be an awesome footballer. My guess is he could be the american wayne rooney. He's got some work left, but he's already on the road to a good strong kick. Courtney is doing a fantastic job with Luke. He's the awesome kid he is because he's got a great mom watching him all day. I don't give her enough praise & credit, but that doesn't make her work there any less awesome. We've got friends coming in soon too to hang out, and that will be fun too. Can't wait for that!
I started a new blog mostly in relation to design stuff that I've been doing. I got an awesome chance to do some graphic design stuff for wesley umc, and that was a blast to walk through the whole process. I've still got a bit of stuff to finish for them (customizing business cards with names/titles) but other than that it's all done. Helped finance my purchase of one of these. Been loving that purchase too. And I'm looking at my first big "speaking engagement" for a camp. I had a one night deal where I pinch hit for a friend, but this would be a legit week at a camp. It's kind of daunting to think I'd have something worth saying, let alone 4 days worth of something worth saying. But we'll see if it all pans out. I'm hoping it will. Could be a cool cool opportunity.
For those of you who haven't heard the whole story, here's the last 6+ weeks of life. I was told I was being let go on May 31st from my church job, and then May 11th they changed their mind and decided to let me stay. So, I was leaving, but now I'm here to stay. It was a heck of a process to have to go through, but the thing that was interesting was the way people came alive over this deal.
I have to be honest, it was insanely humbling (almost awkward) to see kids in the youth and the parents and volunteers rally for me and work so hard to help me keep my job. But it was a good, constructive conversation on all sides, the kids, the parents, the church leadership, and we're all moving forward and doing our best to join in a great direction from here out.
I hope we can keep up this energy as we get further away from this thing. The challenge of something like this is that people got passionate about something, and great things came from it, and now we have the task of moving forward and seeing what else we can do; what else God can do through us if we get passionate like this. I'm hoping that we'll see some amazing stuff come out of this. I really do.
And so starts week one of camp for me next week. 2 more plus the possible partial week of speaking. It's going to be a big summer. Praying that I don't spread myself too thin. But I think if I'm working on being intentional, it'll work out. It's life, you know? Give & take, hope and fight, peace & pushing.
Live deeper.
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