it’s been hard to do anything recently. i’ve been busy with work stuff (which is good, but you know what i mean) and there have been a great number of distractions from working at the music stuff.

however, i am expecting a lull in work soon and hope to basically have an entire week to work on music exclusively. i might be at the beginning of that now even….! that thought is exciting.

that said i started writing again this morning. well to be fair i wrote something a couple sundays ago…but here’s what’s in the fryer now.

i haven’t worked with the thing i wrote a couple sundays ago but there may be some good lines in there.

it has occurred to me that there is generally a somber attitude associated with communion. which is fine, just not all the time i don’t think. i mean it makes sense because jesus died which is certainly not a happy thing, and it seems to me to be reverent to remember it solemnly and humbly sometimes. but the result of it is nothing short of joyous…i mean we basically got our whole debt paid off. it’s like you’d racked up a credit card debt the size of montana and someone paid it for you just because they liked you an awful lot. that illustration is awful i admit, but it helps to carry the idea. so i am working on a happy communion song to express the joyous parts of the fact that we can get to heaven at all and that God can look at us and see us clean.

i also wrote a new chorus this morning about the idea that if we knew, really knew for even one second who god was and that he actually honestly loved us, we would be free from needing everyone’s approval all the time because the only person with any authority on the subject has spoken and told us that he loves us. personally i can hardly ever grasp this. but in that second that i do, it seems utterly absurd when you look around and watch everyone trying to fill that hole with work and friends and lovers and sex and fame and stuff….it seems so obvious that we’re missing something and that all the stuff we’re trying to say is the missing piece must not be because it never fits right or for very long. anyway. trying to capture that idea in words. it can be difficult.

so that’s the scoop. when my week of music stuff starts i hope to start recording some versions of songs that i’ve finished and working out the instruments more.

now; on a totally unrelated note, we are singing in a wedding this weekend. and as best as we can figure it, between the two of us, this will be the 27th wedding either of us have sung in. isn’t that nuts?