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Our youth group is part of this thing where we get everyone’s new CDs to use as ministry tools.  I brought a couple home to check out.  One was Hip Hope 2007 with KJ-52’s song “Do Yo Thang”.  KJ-52 is sort of like a Christian Eminem.  I just found some of these lyrics funny so I’ll share:

You know you don’t fit in
When your own myspace only got 3 friends
It’s Tom your mom and a dude named Ben
And I don’t even know how I added him

And then:

I go to McDonalds aint got no cash
I just order hot sauce then I walk out fast

And lastly:

I don’t think the kid is well
He sends viruses to his own email
He got 5 text messages all from myself
Saying your wack dude LOL
I really used to keep it real
In my little mini van with the 10 inch wheels
Driving up to side just get my meal
Can I get fries, “sir this is Taco Bell”

They have no great meaning and aren’t hilarious, but it was funny at the moment.

Todd Agnew has some really great songs on his new album.  I especially like these lyrics from his song “Funny”:

It’s funny how the bright ol’ sun can hear Your voice along its way
Stop in the middle of the sky for an entire day
Because You said so
It’s funny how a donkey can hear Your voice
And talk instead of bray to set Your child on His way
Because You said so

And You speak to me all the time
Lighting my path with Your words of life
But I can’t obey You no matter how hard I try

Well, I can but I don’t, and I want to but I won’t
And I don’t do what I want to
I do what I don’t mean to
And I’m confused
It’s funny how a fish can obey You but I can’t

And then his song “If You Wanted Me” is filled with the questions I think a lot of people have asked God at one point:

I’ll admit I’m glad we’re not disciples
Out on a lake paralyzed with fright
‘Cause I’m afraid I might have laughed at Peter
Until he stepped into that stormy night

If you wanted me to walk on water
Why’d You make the solid ground seem so right?

I’ll admit I’m glad I’m not King David
Ruling over everything I see
‘Cause I think I’ve fallen for more than Bathsheba
Your creation’s a temptation for me

If you wanted me to love you only
Why’d you make the moonlight sparkle in her eyes?

I’ll admit I’m glad I’m not John the Baptist
In a jail cell waiting for my day to die
‘Cause at least down here I know what we’re chasing
And it’s hard to trust Your dreams are so much better than mine

If you wanted me to die to myself
Why’d you make me fall so deeply in love with life?

If You wanted me to surrender
Why’d You make these hands able to hold on so tight?

And if You wanted me to be like You
Why’d You make me like me?

I’m not smarter than a preschooler

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Lexi found Emma’s old Tupperware shape sorter and wanted to do it.  Heather and I were sitting with her in her room and as she picked up each shape, we asked her things like, “Where does the circle go?” “Where does the triangle go?”

So I picked up that six-sided-shape and unfortunately started talking out loud…”What’s this called?   Six sides…sex….sex…sexa…sexagon?  Uh, I mean, hexagon.”  Heather was of course laughing at me and then I said, “Sexagon, that’s not a shape, that’s what happens when you get married.” 

I’m so punny.

Scott’s surgery scheduled

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Scott will be in surgery tomorrow from 7:45 until around 10:15.  We’ve got his cousin coming over in the morning to stay with the girls until his sister comes to pick them up for school.  We should be back and have Scott settled in so I can go pick up the girls at 12.  Whew, tomorrow is going to be crazy I think.  Let’s just pray the surgery goes well through all that.

Voice Lessons

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That’s the simplest way to put St and my meeting today.  We basically went through about 10 songs we sing and took time on each one to figure out my key.  It seems to range from C-G.  Most of the ones he sang were in A, mostly too high for me.  Which now makes perfect sense.

So now I have to relearn all these songs and practice, practice, practice.

Crap.

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I can’t sing. 

I thought I could sing a little bit, but no. 

I can’t sing. 

Before I went to a two hour practice tonight with the band, I recorded myself and listened to it to make sure I wasn’t going to make a complete fool out of myself tonight or at youth tomorrow. 

And guess what??

I AM GOING TO MAKE A COMPLETE FOOL OF MYSELF.

It’s bad.  Really bad.  Like American Idol reject, show it in the first few episodes of the season bad.

What am I going to do??  I have practice in less than two hours now and am expected to sing.  I’m so depressed.  Why have people let me sing in the choir for the past 10 years?!?  I even asked Scott and he said with a smirk and a little laugh, it’s ok.  AHH!!  Why are you letting your wife get in front of 50 people and siiinnngg?!

Let me tell you, this is going to give a whole new meaning to the phrase “Jesus Freak”.  Lord, help us all.  Seriously.

Flickr pics

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Uploaded a couple pictures from my cellphone tonight at the church’s baseball game we went to.  Some other random recent ones too.

Beach trip

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So I thought our beach trip might be off this weekend.  Originally it was going to be 4 couples sans kids.  Then it turned into 3 then 2 couples.  Now it is us and our kids and one other couple staying at their condos north of Myrtle Beach.

We’ll probably leave Friday afternoon and return either Saturday night or Sunday afternoon.  Haven’t decided yet.  Emma is ecstatic about getting to go the beach this year as our family’s annual trip was cancelled this year.  I’m excited we get to go too.  Can’t have a summer without beach pictures.