Wake up, sleepy heads!!
let's take a look.  how is everything going?

which is more important to us right now? eternity or the present?  are we more concerned about republican/democrat issues rather than spiritual issues?  what about the church divisions over this dual (or should be duel) party system?

RLD played a show on saturday.  it was a free show at a church and it was pretty good.  we were thrown for a loop when we showed up and ended up mainly playing with jazz/folk bands.  i can't speak for anyone else but i was disturbed.  "how could we get booked for this!"  not that i was against the other musicians, but we were NOTHING like them.. they were all pretty and soft and i'm ugly and loud and a bit... bouncy.

so here we had division.  all because of style.  i prayed.. i prayed.. and i prayed some more... and i realized.. we all had something in common.  we all loved Jesus.. we were all Christians and we were all members of the same body.  the crowd loved our music, to our surprise. 

the following day, i was walking through a mall with a wonderful lady, and suddenly this person saw us.  as we walked past it was as if there was an invisible shield around us.  i saw this woman raise her hands up like she just hit her head and stumbled backward.  i could see that there was something not right with her spirit.  i smiled.  why did i smile?  not because i know that there are still people oppressed and possessed, but because they recognize who we serve.

so i have to ask everyone to take a step back and look at our lives.  are we serving God or are we serving our own special needs with God as a trinket?
it seems to me that the second option is what i have been falling under.  i am not happy with myself.  how can i sing against hypocrisy and blatant sins and evil when i am partaking in all of this stuff?  how can i cry out for unity when i keep calling my guitarist a "liberal".  and not really showing all the love i should (even tho its all just joking)..

we're all going to die.  no one is guaranteed another minute, but when its over, there is another place we go.  some may argue with me, but hey.. this is what i believe and i am going to say.. this is what i KNOW..

lets pray more, read more, worship more... be christians before punks, christians before goths, christians before metalheads, and christians before "normies".. (hehe)

that's all i have to say about that..
blessings
Bones


"i'm sick of rotten cake" - edie goodwin