remedy is coming...(something to really be excited about)

as many of you know i am a bit of a David Crowder aficionado. if you are not familiar with the name perhaps take a moment to click this nice little link and read up on the David Crowder Band or just take a little skip on over to their myspace and listen for yourself. now that we're all on the same page here and understand the movement that is DCB, i feel the need to express to you my sheer and utter joy and bewilderment as i impatiently await the release of the latest album called "remedy." so...tomorrow is the big day (along with halo 3, the new foo fighters and a few others) but i actually pre-ordered the cd directly from dave himself to be neatly packaged in bubble wrapped goodness waiting on my front door step tomorrow. bubble wrapped goodness will deliver tomorrow's dose of hope in the world...can't wait.

the excitement abounds on the b-log...

yes...i realize that woodworking is not the pinnacle of excitement that we often strive for in our lives. but for some it is a pretty nifty craft i suppose. our little project is coming along mighty fine right about now. just a couple more steps and we'll be ready to paint it and install it in the 3rd room...woo...

behold...

so we started a little project for the new 3rd youth room...what started out as a simple idea for a bar has turned into a monumental feat of engineering. by engineering i don't mean we just had to make a couple of changes to get it right...what i really mean is that it is taking a couple of real-life engineers, auto-cad drawings, and revision after revision to build this thing. this whole thing confuses me on so many levels...

explaining what we trying to build is pointless...i created the thing but don't even begin to know how to explain it...i will say that it involves about 6000 marbles and a whole bunch of light. so here are a couple pics. we'll update the progress as we get more done.

i figure that if i am going to do this whole blog thing then i might as well try to do it up right...make it interesting and what-not. so...let's start off with a little funny/controversial/potentially create an opportunity for you all to make that little awkward turtle thing with your hands.

a friend of mine posted this on his blog and I thought it was interesting. so there's a church just down the road in miami where the lead pastor is going "naked"...not really naked or nekked in the sense of nude, but naked in the sense of open, watched, filmed, exposed, genuine...

this is how it works...it started a couple weeks ago, but he'll be filmed 24 hours a day for a number of days, allowing the world to see what the church website calls "the good, the bad and the ugly." Go check it out...might be interesting...?

i can't help but wonder how many of us would be willing to be that authentic and open in front of all the world with our own, "the good, the bad and the ugly" of our lives... how about you?