Happy New Year!!!

I hope that each of you enjoyed bringing in the new year. I pray that your year is filled with God's best. Sharon and I enjoyed a wonderful service at Mount Sinai Church - where I serve as minister of music. It was a real "Praise Party." However, I am always amused at how many people find their way in the door between 11:30 and 11:55 PM on New Years Eve - people that you probably won't see in another service until the next New Years Eve.

Learning the guitar is fun. I've gotten my chromatic scales down. I'm learning a few chords. I'm just having trouble keeping my fingers off the strings that I'm not trying to touch. I'm used to playing the keyboard. I didn't know guitar was so tricky. But it sounds so good when I get a chord right!

Thursday is the big day! I go to the surgeon for what I hope will be my final visit. If all goes well I should be able to take off the brace and put a shoe on my right foot for the first time in two months! Hallelujah!!

Okay - so I stumbled across a long list of email addresses for people in the Gospel music industry. My thinking - use the email addresses! So, I sent an email to all of these people asking for their recommendations on my next course of action. The responses have been wonderful and informative. It also appears that it created a fresh buzz about the project. As I was looking at the email addresses and referencing the corresponding websites, I found a plethora of independent record labels. Wow - there are a lot of people out there that are doing what I am doing. It made it even clearer to me that effort alone won't get my CD heard by the masses. It's going to take God's favor and His wisdom accompanying my solid effort.

Intimidating? A little.

Me back down? No Way!

My THING for the new year (I know a lot of people don't like resolutions). Well, Sharon and I started a 40-day vegetarian diet. That's right - a 40-day fast from meat. That includes pork, beef, veal, chicken, fish, even deer! Accompamying this 40-day journey, I will again read Purpose Driven Life. I started reading it before but got really busy and stopped before my 40th chapter. I am also going to start a pretty interesting cardio/vascular/vocal workout. While my foot is still healing, I will be using my exercise bike and singing while going full speed ahead. That's going to be interesting! I think I'll start tomorrow. If you know any other great workouts for singers, I'd love to know. I want to try something I saw on Making The Band 3 - singing while running on the treadmill. But, I can't run yet.

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