fyi...
writing is under way for the next album and has been for the past few months,
I'm excited about how everything's coming along. Please keep checking myspace for new songs.


but I'm more excited about my little girl being born, just a couple of months away!!!


here are some pics of a Dnow youth conference we are at this weekend, it's a lot of fun, I like fog.




hope all is well in your world,

peace

r

Life has been fun lately. A couple of things, first, Genevieve my wife is 6 months pregnant, and she's never looked more beautiful, I'm so excited about her pregnancy, also we found out it's a girl!!!! We're chatting names right now but haven't landed on one, I like Melody, but we'll see. Second, I've been leading worship at our satellite campus Fiesta Fellowship(fiestafellowshipsa.org) and that has been great. I love the people and the team over there, it's been a real treat to be apart of that effort, I'm excited about continuing to help out in 08. I'll try and post pics of worship sometime, here's one though of a sweet little finger painting that a little girl did, I liked it.


so...

Here's a video of a new song I've been mulling over, the name of it is Lonely in my Dreams, this is from Joshua Cole Lee's CD release, I sang it that night. I hope you like it, at least this 52 second part of it.



This last weekend just about did me in, I was TIRED Sunday, I played a lot...but the beginning of this week is proving to be good recoup time, but Christmas Eve is coming, so it'll be right back to all the fun :)

Merry Christmas to all out there!

grace and peace

ryan

it looks like this!

We had a scary night this past week. This is my dad, his blood sugar dropped, so did his conciousness, so I called 911 and they revived him...what amazes me is Christ in all this, his presence and faithfullness, the verse below sums up our feelings lately...
Psalm 91
1 He who dwells in the shelter of the Most High
will rest in the shadow of the Almighty. [a]

2 I will say [b] of the LORD, "He is my refuge and my fortress,
my God, in whom I trust."

3 Surely he will save you from the fowler's snare
and from the deadly pestilence.

4 He will cover you with his feathers,
and under his wings you will find refuge;
his faithfulness will be your shield and rampart.

5 You will not fear the terror of night,
nor the arrow that flies by day,

6 nor the pestilence that stalks in the darkness,
nor the plague that destroys at midday.

7 A thousand may fall at your side,
ten thousand at your right hand,
but it will not come near you.

8 You will only observe with your eyes
and see the punishment of the wicked.

9 If you make the Most High your dwelling—
even the LORD, who is my refuge-

10 then no harm will befall you,
no disaster will come near your tent.

11 For he will command his angels concerning you
to guard you in all your ways;

12 they will lift you up in their hands,
so that you will not strike your foot against a stone.

13 You will tread upon the lion and the cobra;
you will trample the great lion and the serpent.

14 "Because he loves me," says the LORD, "I will rescue him;
I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name.

15 He will call upon me, and I will answer him;
I will be with him in trouble,
I will deliver him and honor him.

16 With long life will I satisfy him
and show him my salvation."

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This was just a great thought for me, hope it can be for you too:

“Having no more roll to play in these parts,
I moved on.”

Your self esteem ought not to be based upon your productivity, but on your essential person in Jesus Christ.

I am who I am not because of what I do, but I do what I do because of who I am.

Who I am proceeds what I do. If I define myself in terms of what I do, that is when the existential philosophy takes over, and experience becomes the sole definition of who I am.