It looks like one of those weeks.
Weekend was great. Worship was great in Children's Church on Sunday. Cool thing. I'll post more on that in Fusion Worship when I get some time.
Aunt Dale was here and it was very cool to see her again. Talked about some of the cousins. I need to do some web-surfing and emailing and look them up.
Still fighting fires - in case I didn't make that clear last week, that means fighting problems at work. Not real fires, which could be easily confused here in CO this year!. Anyway, still having problems and getting further and further behind at work, and now looks like a busy week at church as well.
C'est la vie

FF:4 3-1!
Well it looks like I won this week, even with Daunte Culpepper and Randy Moss doing so un-spectacular. Lukily the other team did even worse. Unless Clinton Portis manages to lose 9 points for me tonight, which is doubtful. So, 3-1. Not too bad!

Falling out of a moving car
From Sam's Friends post:
oh well, whatever doesn't kill us makes us...well..bleed and hurt like heck!!!
LOL :-)

A GREAT Day
"Early in the morning, I will celebrate the Light", God of Wonders, Mac Powell - City on a Hill
Went and saw Third Day last night. They did God of Wonders. It was very cool. A great concert. Great music, great Worship. Mac Powell is truly a great minister of the Gospel! Its one of the reasons I really like their concerts. Not just great music, but great worship as well.
Today is a great day.
5:30 - Alarm goes off, gotta get up and head to prayer. Fall back asleep instead.
6:46 - Roll over and look at the clock. Yikes!
7:07 - In the car and on the way
7:15 - Green lights most all the way! Cool. Get to ICC
7:17 - Join in prayer @ Doherty with 17 youth and Pastor Rick
7:34 - It was a great time of prayer. Those guys/girls are sooo cool. It was just great praying and celebrating God. Great Day - crisp air, cold hands, sun shinning. God is a great God.
7:45 - Heading to work, sun shinning off the top of the "shack" on the top of the peak. Light dusting of snow. God of Wonders. What a great place we live.
8:05 - Stop @ Starbucks for a Triple Venti Carmel Machianno (however you spell it).
8:10 @ work - start of a great day.
I just lift up a prayer for all our youth. May they have a great day at school, or whatever they are doing. Be strong for God and make a great difference. You guys ROCK.

Third Day
Fire-fighting gives me many small amounts of time to post, when my brain is about to explode and I need to just stop thinking for a minute...
Anyway, Third Day's Come Together concert is tonight. That should be very cool. A chance to get away, go somewhere else, and really worship. Last time I saw them in concert, not only was it a great concert, but it was also a great time of worship. I'm really looking forward to it!

Fire Fighting
Wow... Tina's been asking me if I'm OK. Just a ton of stuff going on. Been fighting major fires @ work. That is cool, because it can be really fun to look into that kind of stuff... but man you just get really behind on your normal stuff. And then add in all the stuff going on in Fusion, etc., and it just adds up. And then Tina shooting herself with a staple gun. Just a plethora (for those that don't like the word "lots") of stuff going on right now. Really looking forward to Saturday. Mona Lisa's with Tina, Jaime and Nat should be fun.

FF - 3
So after two weeks I'm 2-0, and then this week I have the dismal score of 45 (compared to 113 and 108 the previous weeks). Something like that. Anyway, lost miserably and now am 2-1, along with about 4 other teams. Only 1 team at 3-0. I had a number of players on byes, so I'm dropping 2 RBs, 1WR and one other player I think. Anyway, hopefully the "new and improved" team will do better this week. I'm playing a 0-3 team... but with all the drop/adds allowed, it is kind of hard to tell for sure if that will matter.

Tif
Forgot to post that Tif & Brian were here this last weekend. Very cool. Was busy with work and church, but got to spend some good time with them. It was great seeing both of them again.

Which way is up?
Tina was helping Pastor Joe do some remodeling in the sanctuary yesterday and she went to staple some cloth to a wall, using an air staple gun. She had the gun backwards and shot herself with the gun, driving a 1.5 inch staple about an inch into her wrist. Lukily it didn't hit anything other than flesh, i.e., bone, blood vessels, etc. Sigh.

When was the last time it was this dry?
Since weather records only go back about a hundred years, these researchers in the university systems here have been studying tree rings to see when it's last been this dry in Colorado. Turns out this is the driest year since 1725.

Capturing the annointing
Tom asked me for any suggestions on capturing the annoiting on a recording. Its something we've talked about before. Your times of worship can be very annointed. You can feel that it is one of your greatest calls (more than the words/music sometimes). But how do you capture that? If that is the call, and all you end up with is a cd of songs, what was the point?
First of all, is it even possible? I think so. There are some great worship CDs out there where you can just feel it. I've had some great times of worship listening to Darrel Evans and most lately Third Day. The first time I heard Offerings, I could just feel it. So, it is possible, even without a live recording. And what Tom and I were talking about was a studio recording.
Not that I'm like the great experienced guy at this, as I've only done a full CD once, and helped out on a few before that... but I think the greatest thing is to just be real. I'm not sure you can engineer an annointing into a CD... most likely, lets hope not. After all, what we want is real, not manufactered. So, I think you have to have an annointed time of worship, and just happen to record it.
I guess one thing is, who is your target? If it is people who already know you, who think your music is annointed, who push into God's throne room when they come and see you... then what they want to hear is YOU. Listening to you play, as they've always heard you play, well bring back the feel and will help move them in. I believe one problem is when people try to get it too "right". They start worrying about the music and the recording, and forget about the WORSHIP! Then what you end up with is something that sounds pretty good, musically, and is engineered well, perhaps, but maybe has no soul.
So, get your stuff down, be prepared, pray it up, figure out what you want to do. Then just go in and WORSHIP God. Worship like you are doing a worship service, not like you are doing a practice, and hope that the medium captures the feeling. If your worship time doesn't feel annointed, most likely it isn't going to feel annointed when it is capture.
Maybe simple, but I'm pretty simple when it comes to worship. That's all I've got for now.

Sleep
OK... 4 to 5 hours of sleep a night is obviously not working. I've already drunk a liter of Mt Dew, and eaten all the rest of my Dark Chocolate Covered Espresso Beans, and I'm still not feeling very awake. (Note to self... never run out of Espresso Bean @ work. Always make sure there is a supply).
/me goes back to drinking more Mt Dew and continuing on with work.

Fall
Temps are dropping, and we are still getting rain every few days or so (yeah!). Driving in to work this morning I could see snow on the Peak. Finally! First time I've seen snow there in a while. Great view with all the clouds and stuff. Walking into work there was a bite in the air. Combine that with the snow and clouds, and it feels like Fall is in the air!

Argh
OK... so the second time I've messed up the link. Usually it isn't too bad, because you can always fix it. But the way the edit is set up on Blogger, if I hose the link, there is nothing I can do. I believe the problem is I forget to close the quote in the href. Anyway, trying again...

Created a blog for Fusion Worship I figured it would be good to have a separate blog for the youth worship team.

Fusion Worship
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