x:Worship 16

text-fessional for October 7, 2007

REMINDER: It’s been a while, so just so you know… I lead worship for the Sr. High Student Ministryat Firewheel Bible Fellowship in Garland Tx, which meets on Sunday Nights.

Joel was transparent about a tough go of it he had yesterday. I had similar issues this week… I’ve been edgy lately over things I can’t exactly discuss at this point. I see things in situations that frustrate me which are very legit, but then I feel huge planks protruding from my eyeballs that remind me how wretched man can be. It has kept me sleepless at times, lying in bed staring at the ceiling, feeling a bit alone despite having my wife there snuggled up against me…. all this for another post, maybe today if i have time… but I digress… onto the worship confessional…

The usual suspects joined me and finally we had them all in place. James played percussion and Logan played drums, Travis was back on bass, Josh on electric, myself on acoustic, and my wife made her second appearance in a row! WOOT WOOT. < — that’s the most excited you will see me get during this confessional…

So, i was pretty distracted from the get go. Practice was a bit brutal. I decided to use my acoustic as opposed to my bro-in-laws. I’ll be switching back next week. Despite his doing a horrid number to the EQ of a system, it still fills out the sound better than my crappy Mitchell… On to the set…

Filled With Your Glory - Ab – (capo 4, E fingering) Dragged a little. My distractions made me screw up the words to at least three lines. Musically wasn’t too bad. And I still sing“Angels and Minotoars”

Wholly Yours  – A - (capo 2, G fingering) Our main service intro’d this song in the morning service… which made me long for a decent sound system and (here’s a novel idea) a sound man. Or at the very least an opportunity to lead worhsip from the main sanctuary (are they still called that in today’s “relevant” churches??) Jealousy does not get you far in life… Song went pretty well. It was too fast in practice, decent tempo in service. A little noisy on the percussive side (drums and aux.) but nothing too distracting.

The Splendor – A – (Capo 2, G fingering) This song just wasn’t clicking at all during practice. And it was really frustrating. Its a brand new song to the band, but it wasn’t their fault that it wasn’t clicking. It’s a slow tempo song that is easy to push because of the rhythm… We kept pushing it in practice, which leaves no room for buildup… In service I started it quite a bit slower and it ended up working out better than I expected. I really like the lyrics, not sure about the song itself. Perhaps I’ll record it for you and throw it up at some point.

Broken – B- (capo 2, A fingering) This is off the new Lifehouse album… It’s greatness. Not a bad rendition from us. At this point I was pretty much done. I had very little motivation or focus left … Where God chose to work through the worship in Joel’s service (see above), He chose to let me fight through the whole thing with no redemption. That’s okay, redemption comes in His timing. My voice cracked towards the end, which is always fun… and that was that.

Perhaps I’ll take it on the chin and next week goes better… perhaps I’ll pull a Richard Cory (not literally, but figuratively… google if you must)