I can’t believe it’s actually happening! But indeed, it is…
Come experience the HOPE of Christmas with us LIVE!
Fri 12/2 – Rochester, MN – UTurn Event Center – 7pm – $10 Sun 12/4 – Rochester, MN – Rochester Convenant – part of am services Sun 12/4 – Rochester, MN – Private Event for Salem Road Covenant Mon 12/5 – Rochester, MN – Pat & Ray Anderson hosted HOUSE CONCERT Wed 12/7 – Marion/Cedar Rapids, IA – Echo Hill Presbyterian – 6pm Thu 12/8 – Omaha, NE – speaking at Tiburon Financial Fri 12/9 – Omaha, NE – PSCollective – 7pm – $5 Sun 12/11 – Nashville, TN – Brook Hollow Baptist – 6pm – FREE CONCERT Thur 12/15 – Nashville, TN – Charles Bass Correctional Complex Sat 12/17 – St. Augustine, FL – Anastasia Baptist – part of Sat pm & Sun am services Sun 12/18 – Palatka, FL – HOPE FM presents @ Palatka Church of God – 6pm – FREE CONCERT Mon 12/19 – Palatka, FL – meeting with Samson Society guys Wed 12/21 – Port St. Lucie, FL – Hope Lutheran – 7pm – FREE CONCERT Sat 12/24 – Port St. Lucie, FL – Hope Lutheran – part of services
It’s going to be a month long journey across the country for me and the Pilgrim Mobile* (not official title). I love that I’m doing several events in some cities – including private banquets and prison concerts! Oh, and that I get to spend Christmas in Florida is pretty awesome, too! I hope we get a chance to meet during December as I share the HOPE of Christmas with songs from my brand new Christmas CD.
If you’re anything like me, sometimes you feel like there’s nothing happening in your life…and perhaps nothing ever will. The dreams that you’ve been holding onto are slipping through your fingers. The hopes of some kind of breakthrough professionally or relationally are gradually drifting out to sea, leaving a tangleweed of cynicism behind for you to trudge through.
Then I had this crazy thought this morning, reading a killer book called “The Dream Giver” by Bruce Wilkinson. He dares to suppose that this time we’re spending in what he calls The Waste Land, where we feel like nothing’s happening and probably never will, is actually a very purpose-filled time. That it’s a time where we are being turned into the people that will actually be capable of carrying out the dreams and hopes we’re holding onto.
It’s funny how everyone who enters into the military knows they have to go through the horrid, near-torture of boot-camp. But they do it because they know that it is going to prepare them for what’s to come. The pain, struggle and conflict during this brief time holds great purpose for them and their greater mission.
“Why must my life be so hard?” I ask myself because I can’t find a spare stamp and still don’t have a record deal. High class problems, that really aren’t problems. Silly, right? Still, things are pretty quiet around here. Inquiry emails sent out rarely get responses. Phone calls are useless. How in the world am I supposed to have an amazing life if people aren’t willing to do their part to help me out? Sometimes, I’m just baffled by the amount of potential I seem to be drowning in.
A few years ago, in conversation with a friend, we decided that we could waste our lives waiting to be invited to all the cool parties. Meaning, sometimes it seems like the “people that have” (in the music industry, but really anywhere!) keep getting, and the “people that don’t have” don’t get anything. I’m talking about opportunities here, pardon the difficult analogy. But me and my friend decided that if we were tired of waiting to be invited to other people’s parties, the best answer would be to throw our own.
I'd love for us to keep in touch. I'll let you know about my journey--you know, stuff going on with my music - and probably even writing & acting projects, too. I look forward to hearing about your journey, as well!
