No particular subject - just stuff

Well there you go - nothing in particular. This week has been good. It's just tuesday, but I feel like good things are happening. Hopefully El and I will get jobs soon - we have a few leads. And I believe that we're going to start getting more involved with a church here that we like pretty well. We really like the preacher at this church - we've heard good things come from his mouth - things that challenge us, things that make sense for today, ways that we can think about and apply our Christianity in a real way.

Last Sunday he was listing a few characteristics of the first church and one of them was that it was a worshipping church. He was saying that the prime purpose for worship is to praise and exalt God. It may sound simple - it may sound like common sense. But (and this may be a particularly applicable subject to ponder if your church employs instruments in worship) isn't it true that sometimes while worshipping, we're not actually lifting God up - sometimes we think about US. About how WE look, about how WE sound. Maybe even about how dang well that lead guitarist is pickin' those tunes on his electric. Anyway - it surprised me how such a simple teaching made me scrutinize my actions/thoughts while singing worship songs.

I've been playing around with a free picture editor that I dowloaded a while back called The Gimp. And here's one item that i've produced with a few of the tools that I've learned so-far:

It's an excellent piece of software and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes picture editing and gets miffed at Paint for its lack of tools and options.

Have a great day!

~Josh