Closing
We close on our townhouse next week while we are in WI. Makes it a little more work, but I think it's all covered now. This is very exciting get our own place. And it's a cool place and everyone's invited to come hang out whenever.
Vacation to WI where Dawn can finally meet most of my relatives. Don't know if I'll get a blog in, as if I've been very consistant in the first place. Peace.
A Song I Don't Really Like...Here's Why
Here's a song I'm writing...
You're all I want
You're all I ever live for
Everything I do is for you
You're all I think about
I live for You alone
You're my God
Ok, that's no song and it's no song I'm writing. I would not be able to sing it very often. I'm thinking about how God has called us to worship him in spirit and in truth. John 4:23-24. In a conversation with
Pastor Jim last night we talked about what this means because I want to be the kind of worshipper who worships the way God wants. (On a side note, I do believe that God defines worship, not us.) I believe that to worship in Spirit and Truth means a few thing. 1) It is from our heart, or spirit. It is emotional. As God gives us his heart, we give him ours. 2) Only worshipping in spirit is not enough. 3) Truth is reality. And not just our reality, but God's reality. Pastor Jim showed me that the original context of that word is connected to learning and growing. Worship is to change. The truth is who God is. As He reveals that to us through worship, we are changed. It's more than emotional and more than intellectual.
So I think about songs like the one above, with many lines from other songs (even ones I've written); is it true? I don't live out any of those lines all the time. Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't. Sometimes it really is my heart, but I still don't. I know our heart matters a lot. But when I don't live the things that I sometimes sing about is that insulting? If someone were to say those things to me but live totally different I would be insulted. I view it as hypocrytical.
What do you think? Can one worship in spirit and truth with songs like that?
Disclaimer: I know that worship is a lot more that songs, but for now that's the context of the question. I am a music director.
Bills
Oh it feels good to have the bills paid. Last month I kinda forgot, but not really. See, I knew they were there, but I hadn't looked at them, so I really had no idea what they were (as if they change from month to month.) I do the bills at our house. Dawn is always asking me to make a list of our bills and due dates just in case anything happened to me and she had to do them, but I haven't yet. (But I did make a list of different online accounts that we have...that's pretty close.) Anyways, I paid all of our bills (phone, student loadn, energy, insurance) and it feels good.
Having no unpaid bills out there is a great feeling. Feels free. Probably why God warns us about going into dept. That's what makes me nervous about this whole buying a townhouse thing. It makes sense to me, but it's weird that in order to save money and gain equity, most people have to go way in dept.
This all reminded me that I have another doctor bill to pay. I just got a bill from the surgery I had on my thumb over a year ago.
Who pays your bills? Does your dept make you nervous ever?
