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One step at a time…

I hope everyone had a wonderful Easter/Passover. For my part, I played with the Praise Team at Mildred. Lots of music and work, but it was all good.

The rest of the weekend I took off, as I’ve been trying to get over a cold for about three weeks now. So, I watched the Lord of the Rings, Extended Edition. Ahhh… Good times.

In other news, we’ve made progress on my car. The new part is now attached, and we just need to put everything back together again. That will by no means be easy, but it’s about halfway done now, so that’s good news. I’m hoping to buckle down and get it done in the next week or so.

And there you have it.

Merry Christmas everyone. There is plenty to talk about, but it can wait. For now, let’s all keep our eyes on Christ, our Messiah, and praise God for His first coming to save us from our sins.

Merry Christmas

Just a note to say that I got hacked a while back, and my blog feed has been sending spam to everyone. I apologize for not catching this sooner, but the situation is being taken care of. Thanks to Dan for making everything better!

Interestingly, I think this problem with spam and hackers stretches back pretty far, to RogueSkies.net (for those that remember it, for those that don’t, it was an online creative community). That site had several problems with hackers and spammers, largely because it was a Christian community and was a great place in general. In any case, due to my affiliation to that community, I’ve had a few problems with spam and such as well. Just an unpleasant reminder of the darker side of the internet.

Anyways, the problem is being fixed (or has possibly already been fixed… I can’t tell at this point). Thanks for your patience!

And there you have it.

Hey guys, you probably noticed I haven’t posted in over a month. Nothing bad’s going on, I just haven’t been posting. My posts are going to be more infrequent now. I’ll post every once in a while, and I’ll try to post more often than once a month.

Anyways, see you guys later!

To His glory.

It’s not every day that the nation’s attention is fixed on Minneapolis, Minnesota. We should all continue to pray for the tragedy that occured last night during rush hour.

Father, You are good, and You have a reason. We ask that You would help us all to do our part and that You would bless the rescue workers. You know why this happened, and You allowed it for a reason. Help us to trust You through this, and use this tragedy to draw many closer to You, not in a shallow way, but in a way that requires them to completely submit themselves to You. Thank You for the chance to grow through this, and may Your name be praised. May Your will be done.

“Now to Him who is able to keep you from stumbling, and to make you stand in the presence of His glory blameless with great joy, to the only God our Savior, through Jesus Christ our Lord, be glory, majesty, dominion and authority, before all time and now and forever. Amen.” Jude 24-25

Have hope.

So I can’t think of much to say at the moment. So instead, I added some links to a couple forums and prophecy sites I enjoy.

I’ve been thinking about music and creativity a lot lately. And worship. It’s been an interesting weekend.

Anyways, I should get some sleep soon, so I’ll catch up with you guys again tomorrow.

Have hope!

*deep breath*

Wow, what a day.

This has been quite a long, and good, day. First, let me make it very clear that I’m about to keel over from sleep deprivation, so the message I’m about to give you is of the utmost importance…

…Or it might not make sense… Either way, you’ll have to read on to find out.

So, having gotten about five hours of sleep last night, I woke up to get to Sar Shalom early for a men’s Bagels, Bibles, and Prayer. Good time, chatting with the men of the congregation. Worship at Sar Shalom went well… I actually knew most of the songs!

…Oh, a little side-note for the uninformed – Having grown up in a very white, suburban church, being in the middle of a Messianic community is quite an interesting experience. The songs they sing are almost completely different, in sound, texture, and lyrics. The keys are often minor (which I enjoy). Most of the songs I’ve never even heard of. A select few I do know, though, which is nice.

…Anyways, worship was good. Rabbi Dennis spoke about Mother’s Day. Is that really tomorrow? (Shoot, did that one slip out? )

This is where the day gets long. Following the message and the meal I stayed there until 4pm helping set up for tonight. Tonight was a fundraiser concert for the Rabbi and his family to help with their move to Israel (man… what an incredible opportunity..). At 4, we started to rehearse for the night.

The rehearsal went alright… But when we played live, it went a lot better. I told Dan before the night that the Holy Spirit was gonna show up and everything would fall into place… Sure enough, everything did.

Oh, there were rough spots for sure (like when I dropped my music, and the pianist had to start the song instead of me… and when I forgot to turn my guitar’s volume up on the other song I was starting…), but hey, Satan will do whatever he can to mess up a great thing, right? Not that he can really change much. God’s pretty much sovereign no matter which way you cut it.

So I finally got home about half an hour ago… And now I’m really tired and ready for some sleep. It was a good day, though. God was glorified, and that’s what really counts.

Breaking news…

Australia Gets Drunk…

Yeah, you read me right… Australia went on a drinking binge and woke up in the North Atlantic! ‘Guess that return trip to Australia won’t cost as much now…

Thought for the weekend: Life is too heavy to be serious about it all the time… Have some fun!

…And a great, big round of applause to all the friends and family back home in Minnesota!

Hey everyone, I think it’s time to kick off this blog. I just got back to Virginia from Minnesota after a great weekend seeing family and friends again. So again, to everyone stopping by from Minnesota, thanks for stopping by! Leave a comment so I know who’s from Minnesota. And please, let everyone there know that this blog is up now.

The point of this blog, for now, is to update everyone on what’s going on in my life (as the life of a G-Bo is often strange, twisted, and changes constantly ). As such, subjects covered will mostly be topics relating to my life. Sometimes it’ll be a rundown of my day, other times it’ll be a rant on the state of society, other times it’ll be humbly acknowledging the magnificent work of my Creator.

So again, thanks for dropping by! And if you’re looking for a place to discuss topics covered, or just say hi, stop by RogueSkies.net! I look forward to hearing from all of you!

As you may have noticed, my website got a complete make-over. I’ve decided to change the purpose of this site, and make it into a blog, so that people who know me can keep up with what’s going on in my life and in this strange head of mine. For now, you’ll find posts on whatever’s going on in my life at the time. As time goes on, I should begin narrowing down the scope of topics to more specific things.

Also, the theme will be changing, I don’t know when or what it will look like, but I want it to be spiffier.

So, for now, there isn’t much. Give me some time, and I’ll have more stuff up.

- Greg

(Thanks to Dan for setting me up with this blog software and for getting the site switched over… )

As of 04-24: New theme up.