Sorry for the lack of postage lately, but seriously, I have been totally swamped with schoolwork. I really don’t know what has gotten into my teachers lately, but they have been loading us up. Which has really made me look forward to this weekend a lot, because I am really ready for a break. One of the big things I wanted to do what catch up on my blog, so here it goes…
Last Sunday, our normal vocalist wasn’t able to show for Youth Group so Paul asked me to sing. I was hesitant at first, but then I decided to go for it. I have to say, it was a humbling experience in more ways than one. One of the many things that I am not gifted with is a high voice. So pretty much every song had notes that I was struggling to hit. On top of that, I’ve never played guitar and sung at youth group before. I’ve lead worship other times, but never formally at youth group. Let me just say, it is totally different than just playing guitar. After about three songs, I realized that if this was going to work, God was going to have to be right there singing with me. So I just prayed for exactly that, and I just made every song we sang, even in rehearsal, worship to him.
Then it came time to go on stage. Everytime before we play, the band goes backstage and prays that God would make our worship effective, and to his glory, etc. As we were backstage, I just asked the guys to pray for me becuause I was nervous and I have never really done it before, and they did. When I got out there and started the first song the monitors started sketching out and I couldn’t really hear myself, so pretty much I was on my own. Yeah, I made a couple of mistakes, and I didn’t hit every note perfectly, but It was worship, and that’s what matters. Really, that’s all that matters. So all in all, I really learned a lot from that experience about myself, and also about God.
Plus it was a buttload of fun
