Hey, yall. I figured i'd post. Why not? Right now, i'm sitting at the computer in our(mine and adam's) room waiting for Monday Night football(Packers v. Bears) to start. I got to play at New City last thursday, and i'm trying to make that a habit again, like it was back during the spring-summer season. I've also been working on two new songs(both scripturally based), and i'm trying to work on more. It's just so hard to find time nowdays to write without distraction. Plus, time management isnt really an easy thing for me...cause i've never really had to do it like i have to do it now. But anyway, dont really know what else to write. So i think i'll go ahead and post. Talk to yall later.

  posted by Andy @ 8:46 PM

 
Hey. I'm really. Really. Sleepy. So this is going to be a fun post, just because i have no real inhibitions right now...wheeee! Sorry that i dont post, but i'm just a little busy now, with school, and Bonners, and Yoke, and EPC, and youth group, and New City. And i also have to find(make) time for writing, and bible study, and prayer. My days are usually chock full, and the nights are very short. But not tonight. After i publish this post, i'm going to sleep, and not waking up until God wakes me up. Because, praise God, i dont have any morning classes. How cool is that? But, on the other hand, i do have to plan what i'm going to talk about on the middle east for a group discussion at the Bonner retreat. Cause if you know me, then you know that public speaking and me dont really mix too well...it's like water and...asphalt. Hey, if you want to, come out to New City Cafe(see the side bar for a link(they have directions on the site, which is really easy to navigate)) next thursday. I'm playing again for the first time since i've been up here, which has been about a month. It excites me to be able to go back to that great community of artists. There's always been so much support, and if any of you artists read this, know that you're always in my debt for how wonderful you've been (and are) to me over my growth as a writer and a performer(if i can call myself that). Well, i think it's time for me to turn in. Good night all, and grace and peace to you.

  posted by Andy @ 12:10 AM

 
Hello friends, may the grace and peace of our Lord Jesus Christ be upon you all, and in the words i write today. I havent been lazy, though i've certainly been less than speedy in putting a post up. If i could give a reason, it would be because i havent really had anything to say. I know you read because you care, not only about me, but what goes on in my life, and for that, know that i am very thankful. So i say this to say this: I'm sorry about keeping myself away, cloistered from my friends back home(and other places). I'm back.

Well, let's start with today(i'll fill in the preceding weeks later). Hold on...you have to have background to understand what happened today. So here it is. For the Bonner Scholars program, you have to work at least one service site for an average of 10 hours a week. The options i were considering were YOKE and Young Life. Both of these ministry organizations do very good work, and both with the relative age group to which i feel called.(YOKE does middle school, and YL does high school) I had to choose just one to do. Now that you know that, you can know that along the way i had about 80% of an intent to do YL, and about 20% to do YOKE. In my mind, YOKE never really was any more than an afterthought. So i went up to sign up to do Young Life, and talked to Scott, who said that the Qwest training sessions were scheduled to be on wednesday nights, which if you know me at all, you know that that's a very big problem. About a week went by before today, and he and i had been playing phone tag for a couple days about what to do, and i went up to the office to try to talk out a solution to the situation we had. Scott and i talked for a little bit, and he revealed that until about mid-March, all i would be able to get weekly for YL is a couple of hours(which was not what i needed). So i left, with no bitterness or ill will because it just wasnt my time to get involved with it. I walked down the stairs, went across the porch, and knocked on the door to the YOKE office. As i walked in, the woman(i think the staffer) looked at me in amazement as i told her that i wanted to work YOKE. Now for more background to understand my last statement...YOKE had four guys come back this year(that's one for each school that they have YOKE at), so they were in desperate need of guy leaders. So the staffer looked at me with that same look of amazement and said, "Wow. You are an answer to prayer. I just prayed that God would send us male leaders, and here you came knocking on the door." Suffice it to say, that answered any questions and any doubts i had about whether this is what God wanted me to do with the opportunity and time i had been given. I have my interview on friday at 1 pm, so be in prayer for me before and during that time. Also, the leadership retreat is this weekend for YOKE at camp(Ba-Yo-Ca). Well. What else? I joined Eagle Production Company and am helping to promote and put on concerts on campus. Well, folks. I'm going to get off of here...you got what you wanted...;) But seriously. Grace and peace be upon you.

  posted by Andy @ 7:10 PM