There's a new song up on the songs page. Go check it out. It's basically my working through the stuff i talked about in the previous post.

  posted by Andy @ 10:25 AM

 
Sometimes it's amazing how quickly the pendulum swings. These past two weeks have been basically like day and night for me. I'm still trying to process it in order to write about it, but here's what i understand so far. The disciple now weekend was absolutely awesome. It had been quite a while since i had felt so sensitively the spirit moving in my heart, and in the lives of not only the church, but us who went to minister to them. And it had been even longer since i had more plainly seen the work of Satan trying to thwart us. And then I come back home, and nothing, absolutely nothing goes right. From recording not happening to my flesh pulling a full out Benedict Arnold on me, nothing went right. But i sense, even in the confusion and even all-out rebellion that happened last week, there is healing in the hurting. Because Christ is there, turning the rot to rich, black, nutrient-rich soil that roots can extend through to find a firmer foundation. One that brings life, and that life, abundantly. Grace not without cost, but freely given.


The Silence of God by Andrew Peterson

It's enough to drive a man crazy; it'll break a man's faith
It's enough to make him wonder if he's ever been sane
When he's bleating for comfort from thy staff and Thy rod
And the heaven's only answer is the silence of God

It'll shake a man's timbers when he loses his heart
When he has to remember what broke him apart
This yoke may be easy, but this burden is not
When the crying fields are frozen by the silence of God

And if a man has got to listen to the voices of the mob
Who are reeling in the throes of all the happiness they've got
When they tell you all their troubles have been nailed up to that cross
Then what about the times when even followers get lost?
'Cause we all get lost sometimes...

There's a statue of Jesus on a monastery knoll
In the hills of Kentucky, all quiet and cold
And He's kneeling in the garden, as silent as a Stone
All His friends are sleeping and He's weeping all alone

And the man of all sorrows, He never forgot
What sorrow is carried by the hearts that He bought
So when the questions dissolve into the silence of God
The aching may remain, but the breaking does not
The aching may remain, but the breaking does not
In the Holy, lonesome echo of the silence of God

  posted by Andy @ 12:53 AM

 
Oh yeah...bit o' news...i shaved yesterday.

That is all.

  posted by Andy @ 11:32 AM

 
Morning, folks. (or evening if it's when you're reading it)

How is everyone? Spring break is almost here...by almost i mean tomorrow. And i'm excited about what God is going to do during this time.

So you might be wondering, "Hey Andy, what in the world are you doing for spring break?"

And i'm so glad you asked. My ever-talented roommate and I are going(with other people from my church) to Irmo, SC for the second year in a row to lead worship for the disciple now at FBC Irmo(or FBI as they call it). Be in prayer for us as we travel down there, not only for safe travel, but that the Lord's will would be done in our lives. Pray also that we would be servants, and have the mindset of such. Pray that we would also be affected by God's Holy Spirit: that we would not be immune to its moving in our lives.

After we come back on Sunday, I will begin recording for my cd that hopefully will be done sometime in april. If you'd be interested in buying one, that would give me more incentive to go and get them mass-produced, so let me know. My email is over on the link-bar, so do so if you have interest in that. Pray for me as i record, that the process will go smoothly, and that the right songs will be the ones that are on there.

  posted by Andy @ 11:22 AM

 
Hey folks, if you could, pray for my respiratory system...i can feel myself starting to get sick, and that's not a good thing. I'm not really bad yet, but i've got some pretty hardcore drainage going on, and my nose is about a third of the way stopped up. And it's already affecting the way that i'm singing...i figure that after i get a good shower, and have some chamomile with honey, it will probably be better, but still.

In other news, i finally went and saw the Passion last night. The overriding thought i had as i watched Christ being beaten to a bloody pulp was my realization that i am not worthy of him. But he still gave himself up, let himself be led as a sheep to be slaughtered. And all of this was for me. I truly am not worthy. But I am truly thankful for the blood that he shed, for it washes my sins far away.

  posted by Andy @ 10:44 AM

 
For those who have been wondering where i've been this week, i guess there's been nothing else important to report. I still havent seen the Passion as of yet, and dont really know when i'll be able to go see it. I'm hoping i'll be able to go tonight, but i really dont know if that will happen. But if there is a door opened for me to go see it, i'm running through it. I have been doing a little bit of artwork for my cd(which i'm recording for my spiritual growth and development class), and hopefully(again, if the Lord allows it), i'll be doing the bulk of the recording over spring break(the week of the 14-19th) at my church...or somewhere else...but that's really when i would like to do it. That's about all that is going on right now.

  posted by Andy @ 2:48 PM