Vacation / Balance

Had a great trip to Myrtle Beach to a nice resort. Had to sit through a time share presentation for the free trip, I hate those things, but this one was actually pretty painless. We got through in 63 minutes, woohoo.

Do you ever have trouble finding balance in our life? Lately (last couple of years) I feel like I am accomplishing less, and yet I am not sure it is actually true. I am involved in higher level events and missional activity, but the pace is really fast. I think it is possible that I have reached a new level, and with that has come a new problem. The requests I am getting to do things largely are what I believe I should be doing. Before the hard thing was to say no to good, but off vision requests. Now the issue is I am getting too many on vision requests. Keeping in mind I have a day job, I basically find myself booked out a year or more musically - crazy. (no it is not represented in my appearances yet). There will be more "gigs" that I will have to fit in, CD release concerts of course, but it does leave me in a fairly serious prioritization time.

One of things I am trying to figure out is how this blog helps anyone as it were. Does it help people track with me?, are their any topics you come back and look for?, please comment if there are strings you would like me to build on, that might help give some focus.

Project "New CD"

Most of you who have kept up with my sporadic blogging have endured the whining associated with what has been an incredibly busy and difficult couple of years really. Getting things done in the midst of all of the challenges has been hard, but I feel like I am starting to see a light, if only partially.



I just received back the first bass track for the new CD. Fergus Marsh who played on my first CD, is a busy dude as well, travelling all over the world playing with others. Well last night I got the first versions for the first song I sent. Cool. Starting to move ahead fast. While Fergus finishes bass I will be doing finish vocals. Getting closer.

Three Conferences - Vacation Time

Well, I just got back from a week in Ottawa leading worship at the Alliance general assembly. It was a challenging and fun time. Challenging because in the end I did not seem to find the ability to relax much in the midst of it all. Being sick all the way through didn't help either. Fun because the players and people that I had the fortune to work with were amazing. Of course some of them were old friends, and it is always fun to re-connect. From here, I work for a week at FTC and then we go to Myrtle Beach for a short vacation. Road trip...Woohoo!! After Nova Conference, BCOQ conference and now CMA conference I am ready.

Pics from the times to come.