The Board (For Now)

This is the rig. Not done yet for sure and i don't know that i ever will be, but these are the pedals i have now minus the Dyna Comp which is Mike's that i am just trying out. But hopefully the Barber Tone Press and Zvex Fuzz Factory in the near future. By the way this is a backwards photo due to the lack of a real camera. 

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Room 202

So this is for more of all my peeps back home, family members, etc. I just thought I'd share with you basically what goes down every night here at the apartment. I might be sharing this to see if anyone will respond with similarities so that i know that we are actually normal. There are several things that we do as an apartment that are both weekly rituals and daily. here are some of our obsessions/habits:

1. We have Guy's/Family Night on Saturday nights, where everyone in our apartment comes together to cook one big meal and sit at the dinner table and discuss what is currently going on in our lives/vocal,guitar lessons/girl stuff, etc.

2. We are all obsessed with Family Guy, and we must watch several episodes daily. 

3. We like to think that this one is weekly but its more of a nightly thing; We watch a movie almost every night of the week around 8-9 o'clock. Pretty ridiculous if you ask me.

4. We always on these nights where we watch a movie, eat the best snack ever!!!- SMORES POPTARTS! of course with a tall glass of milk. Its the best. Gotta have them. 

5. I must say we all say that this person is the messiest person in the house but im pretty sure we all leave our "Peanut butter and jelly Knifes" laying out around the counter sometimes.

6. Fill up a trash bag everyday.

7. Everyone is usually playing an instrument around 5-7 in the apartment so it can get pretty loud. 

8. But im pretty sure everday, we give eachother hugs cause we really love each other. This has got to be one of the best groups of guys that has ever been put together. 

- It is truly amazing to see how God has placed each individual person where they are supposed to be. Our apartment would be so much different if one of us was either replaced or missing. It is just too funny how perfectly God placed every one of us in this apartment. Moody, not moody, Crazy, Calm, Neat, Messy, Loud, Quiet. There is like a perfect mixture of all these things to really maintain balance. I love our Guys. 

Dis room 202 Son!

Majesty

The other day i decided to do some writing. I have been struggling with what to write for some time if you see in previous post. I lately have been feeling like i should keep writing what i love, and just what ever comes out but with more of God focused lyrics. I want to write worship more than anything but i want to keep my own style. So this is just something that came out from trying to put that idea down on paper. I hope yall like it. The lyrics need work and even maybe the melody. Please, please give feedback. If you have any suggestions about the lyrics or even melody please feel free. I am not the best lyricist so help out if you can! Here are the Lyrics:

Vs1.

The world fights many wars

Many loves walk out the door

Everything known becomes unsure

But You, oh you, you are the cure

 Vs2.

My body will surely break

My heart will surely hate

And my mind will wonder from you

But you, oh you, you are the answer

 Pre. Ch.

Hope and faith, fight doubt and debate

Love and grace, fight pain and hate.

 Ch.

Majesty, Lord, and King

Giver of breath, giver of life,

Make me new, kill my pride.

Majesty, I humbly sing

Cleanse my heart and cleanse my mind

Break the chains that hold me inside 

Something About Rithem and Rime

This is a song that i wrote while being bored in the apartment. I decided to put it back up because there were some peeps that were asking were it went on facebook. Well it will now be on here. To be honest i have been struggling with what kind of music to write. Because i love writing stuff like this but it kind of seems pointless at times because it doesn't at all bring Glory to God other than the fact that i am trying to exercise my songwriting. Not that it has a bad message because it doesn't. I think its a cute song. and yes i just said cute. ha. 

Fabio's hidious brother

Tonight i straightened my hair to see how long it really was. Not so much a successes. But we definitely have gotten some laughs out of it. Hope you enjoi making fun of these pics as much as i do. haha. I really think i look like the spaun of Fabio's illegitimate son and the Honey Comb Dude. 

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Da Gym

Well this weekend i had the opportunity to just relax and experience a great time of worship and bible study. I got to attend the Gym service which is our "overflow" service at Calvary Chapel Fort Lauderdale, for those who don't know. The worship was done very well and i thoroughly enjoyed having time to just worship the Lord without worrying about my guitar or vocals. This weekend the message was brought by Pastor Doug Saughter. Doug's message was about "Pain" and how much it can really effect our lives. He went on to describe the incredible amounts of pain he has been through caused by a torn ACL. He also described a lot about patients with Leprosy. It was very interesting because i never knew that the boils and rashes on their bodies came from their lack of feeling in parts of their body. If a patient, cause by the disease, lost feeling in his hands, he/she would have no idea that they might be touching something extremely hot. This is what causes the burns and boils that they have on their bodies. So scientists or doctors have been trying to figure out a way to keep that from happening. So what they did was, they created an alarm that went off to warn the patient that the object they were touching was causing harm to their body. But what they found was, the patient would turn off the alarm or just disregard it every time that they were doing something they thought they could get hurt doing. I just thought this was so interesting because we as humans can just be so stubborn. Another really interesting part of the service was when he went on to talk about how those without this disease have feelings or nerves that trigger when we are harmed to let us know so that we can do something about it. When some part of our body is hurt, the muscles, tendons, nerves all help to restore that part of the body to bring it back to full health. He related this to the body of Christ. And how us as the body of Christ, when someone or some part of the body is hurt, we need to bring attention to that specific part and be their to restore it. We need work together and surround the body and build it back up to full health. 

The message was just so different than what i am usually used to hearing every sunday. It was great to hear about something that we go through so much but i don't think is talked about enough. I loved his analogies and explanations of things. I really was encouraged to look at my pain as a reminder of those who are also hurting, and how God uses pain as a tool to bring us back to him. 

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Something New

So here i am finally making a Blog. I honestly never thought i would make one but i can see how insightful these can really be. But i am just trying this out because I'm not to sure how insightful i can be with my 4th grade level vocabulary. But i would really love to use this as a tool to grow and learn from a lot of you, especially you from the staff of OE. Speaking of OE, it has been such an amazing privilege and a blessing to attend this school and now be apart of the OE family. I can't express enough of how much i've learned while being here. It's funny how i used to watch my dad type in his blog and read what he would post, and i always looked at it as something older more wiser folk would do. Now I'm trying this thing out and its making me realize how much closer i am getting to becoming my dad. And trust me I have a long, long way to go and i never may get too close to becoming a man that my father has but it is just funny how i am starting to do things that he does now. It's just amazing how much i have started to imitate my dad, from the way i write with a pen, to how i speak, to views i have on things. This isn't a bad thing at all but i guess just a realization that i am so much like him. And i am glad because he is the most amazing man of God i have ever met. Hopefully i can start to learn how to gain the discipline and knowledge that he has retained over the years. I think the OE has been a great start to my journey!

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