so it’s been eons since i updated this thing. but i have a good excuse. school has been hell for the last two weeks and doesn’t appear to be letting up anytime soon. so that stinks and it probably means that i’ll continue my slacking ways in updating this thing, at least for a while. but i’ll try to be better. i promise. so ya, i guess kind of a lot has happened this week. went to a couple of concerts, met a very talented musician, other general coolness, and lots of reading and writing.

another exciting event this week was the release of Derek Webb’s solo record She Must and Shall Go Free. this is a very powerful record that i highly recommend all of you reading this to pick up. after 10 years in the band Caedmon’s Call, Derek’s decided that he’s being called to a different form of ministry. each one of the songs on his records deals with a specific problem that the modern church culture has let evolve. i’ll leave it at that to whet your appetites, but definitely check the cd out and catch a show if Derek swings by your town.

other than that, not much has gone on. although i did get an answered prayer today, so that was pretty cool. i am officially going to start seriously pursuing entrance into a seminary. so yay for that. until then………

so it’s been two days since my last entry. AGH!! i haven’t even had this thing a week and i’m already becoming a bloggin slacker. ah well, such is life. not much has gone on in the past two days though. spring break is almost over and my life is going to be hell this next week because of all this school stuff that is due. so if you talk to me and i’m a little short with you, that’s why. but the end of the week is going to be gravy. two concerts in three days. so if you’re going to be in the houston area friday night, go check out Andrew Osenga at Second Baptist Church. or if you’re in the college station area, come out to the Caedmon’s Call/Jars of Clay concert on sunday night. both will be uber-excellent and i’ll be there, so you should be too!!

my friend jeanie has me totally hooked on emode.com. it’s this website where you can take all these different types of quizzes. personality quizzes, relationship quizzes, any kind of quiz you can think of, they’ve got it. and i’m now an addict. but not by my choosing. see, these quizzes started to piss me off because the results they gave are TOO accurate. so i keep taking more and more in a competitive attempt to beat the quiz (this is what i have resorted to in my boring spring break. sad, isn’t it?). i try to fool it by not answering questions like i would if i were to normally take the quiz, yet the results still come back as accurate as can be!!! it makes me think that there’s some secret database that emode has collected on every person in the country so if you enter your name as the person taking the quiz, then it’s gonna give you results based on “big brother” databases rather than what you actually put into the quiz. it’s a conspiracy i tell you. but i’m on to them. and i WILL figure it out. until then………….

so as promised, today’s entry won’t be as heavy as yesterday’s was. i’m kind of excited because i got a new cell phone today. this is good because the one i had before would NOT work in College Station, Texas (where i live for most of the year and go to school. Gig ‘Em!!). so now i have a phone that will work and life is good. and that’s really all i have to say. so not only did you get a non-heavy post, but you got an EXTREMELY boring post. so there ya go.

i guess i should say something about the way my posts are set up. some quite perceptive readers have queried on why every post starts with “so”. tis a very good question. it’s origin is founded in one of my all-time favorite books. Beowulf begins with the word “so” and i’ve always found that word to be a good conversation starter. it gives the feeling that you’re just continuing a conversation from an earlier encounter and allows you to just jump into the good stuff without a bunch of fake fluff. so that’s the way things will run and the only real reason that i’m writing about the word “so” is so i can direct people to this post when they ask in the future. from now on when i get the question i can just say, “well kind citizen, direct yourself to the post that was made on the 12th of march in the year of our Lord 2003, and you will find the answer that you are looking for.” and yes, i will say it exactly like that. well that’s all from me until the next time. so until then………

so i witnessed a pretty bad wreck today. a cab was making a left turn while a brand new corvette decided to test its power and make it through a fastly changing light. the vette guessed wrong. the cab’s front end was totally demolished, the front left quarter panel of the vette was detached, and there were several other holes in the vette’s body (why anyone would want a fiberglass car is beyond me). i, being the good citizen i am, pulled over and called 911 for the first time in my life. it was a very surreal experience and luckily (praise Jesus!), both men escaped without a scratch on them.

anyways, this event got me to thinking about how extremely breakable life is. i dunno, maybe God was giving me a wake-up call or something today. maybe i had begun to take some things for granted and He felt the need to break me by showing His sovereignty over life and death. i don’t have any profound or cheesy thing like “because of this i’ve learned that we should live life to the fullest” to say, but i definitely took notice of the fragility of life today. and i think it was the first time i’ve ever consciously done so. i’ve always been the kind of person who never got that. i’m a stoic and things like 9/11 or war or whatever rarely get to me. i don’t remember thinking, “wow. 3,000 people died today.” but today, though no one died in the accident, it got to me. maybe i’m going soft, but after thinking about it all day i’ve come to the conclusion that it’s one way that God’s preparing me for my life ahead. for my career in working with high school and college kids, for my marriage, and for fatherhood. i NEED to realize the fragility of life, because it’s only through that realization that i could make those three things work and it’s only through that realization that i could ever learn to really, truly, and deeply love other people. anyways, those are some things that have been swirling through my mind. maybe next blog will be a little less heavy. until then……….