A Good Day, A Great Song, and A Even Better Next Week…

So today rocked.

Like as in rocked my socks…off

I started off by going to here my dad preach at Parkview Baptist Church. And it was fun. A lot of fun, actually. He’s really like the stud-dog of the universe when I think about it. He has such cool illustrations. For example, in the middle of the church service he was using a big push broom as a prop (you have to remember here that there are a buttzillion old people in the service) and he says “What God is saying, is that we just need to get rid of the stupid broom!!” And he chucked the broom accross the stage. Like, chucked it. It was awesome.

Then I came home and ate some awesome taco’s as an alternative to nasty chicken soup my mom had made (don’t tell her I said that). Then I basically hung out and played guitar and worked on the song set for youth group for a couple hours. Then there was band practice. It rocked. We played a really cool song set where we rocked out and then closed with a hymn that happens to be one of my favorite songs ever written. It’s called O Love That Will Not Let Me Go (we also played Everybody Praise The Lord, Center, and For The Moments I Feel Faint-all of which are great songs). The lyrics go like this:

1. O Love that will not let me go,
   I rest my weary soul in thee;
   I give thee back the life I owe,
   That in thine ocean depths its flow
   May richer, fuller be.

2. O light that followest all my way,
   I yield my flick’ring torch to thee;
   My heart restores its borrowed ray,
   That in thy sunshine’s blaze its day
   May brighter, fairer be.

3. O Joy that seekest me through pain,
   I cannot close my heart to thee;
   I trace the rainbow through the rain,
   And feel the promise is not vain,
   That morn shall tearless be.

4. O Cross that liftest up my head,
   I dare not ask to fly from thee;
   I lay in dust life’s glory dead,
   And from the ground there blossoms red
   Life that shall endless be.

We played kind of a “Acoustic Punk” arrangement of it and it was really cool. And don’t think we “ruined the hymn” by playing it like that, we didn’t-trust me, it was sweet. It was just me playing my acoustic guitar and my friend Ryan Keene singing with me. It was a great experience, and it was a really cool song to lead worship with and to practice with the band.

And the whole song set was recorded, so I should be getting a copy of that soon and I’ll get to see what we sounded like which is pretty dang exciting. Then I ate pretty much a whole pizza after youth group when we were hanging out, which is always good solid fun.

And on top of all that I got some studying done for exams, and I am really looking forward to this upcoming week. I’m looking forward to having a week a little less stressful than last week…

 I’m out…