Nothing New

It's been a while since I posted anything on here. Partly due to my job with having 9-12 kids to take care of every other week for a job, and partly because I've been writing other places and not sharing it.
BUT - now that I have a decent amount of time off and not four days a month, I'll be doing a lot more writing -- but I can't promise it'll be here. Not that anyone reads this silly thing anyway.
So, let me give you the LD, as some kids call it (albeit those kids existed in 1995) on what I'm doing nowadays.

First and foremost: Jill and I are closing on a house. We are 90% there and praying nothing screws us over. This is the 4th house we've made an offer on and hopefully will be the one that doesn't fall through. I'm sick of looking for houses. And this one also the most beautiful we've seen. It's not a great part of town. It's on a little street in Marana with neighbors who, as we've witnessed both times we were there, fight pretty openly and loudly and play lots of country music. Do the two coincide? I think so. But even so, what a great opportunity. I've been praying a lot lately about discipleship and what role prayer actually plays in my life. My answer was a sad one. So I'm trying to be better at that. If our bodies are a temple, and Jesus said that the Temple was to be a 'house of prayer' then shouldn't that be where we start? Shouldn't that be how every day and every action start? And I've failed at that so badly. I repent of that and by the grace of Jesus, I'll become more apt to be more prayerfully minded.

Second - I'm working on a book that I posted the first chapter of a while back in here. That first chapter has been erased and replaced with something better (I think. I hope) and the shape of the story is coming to me now. I'm 8,345 words in and enjoying it. Didn't think that would happen. It's taken on a whole different shape from when I started. I don't know who said it, and I couldn't find it anywhere on the Interweb, but they said "The only original line in a story is the first one. The rest writes itself." I'm finding that to be true. I find myself wondering how these people will react to certain things and I'll tell you: I have no idea.

Third- I'm really, really, really ready to record new music. I've got a good dozen songs ready to lay down. My favorite of which is called Nothing New, which I think will be the title of the CD when it's done. It's a worship song about worship songs and it's pretty epic (again, I think. And hope.) And we traded in my accordion for a hammered dulcimer, which you should watched be played by Rich Mullins here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Ign854UiTk

That's all.

Goodnight.