Wednesday, May 30, 2007

Rock on Jesus

I get really nervous when I'm on stage. Last Saturday I did pretty well tho. Any mistakes that I made I blame it on the fact that I forgot my music and had to write it all out by memory. Anyway,
So to eliminate stage fright I borrowed a mic stand and a music stand from the church and set them up on my back porch. Along with my amp, plugged in guitar, and mic, I was rockin! Actually, believe it or not whenever I imagined there to be a real audience my hands fumbled on the strings. Ha... yeah, I'll get it.
I was totally in my own moment out there when I looked up to find a white man standing off in the grass watching me. UM! Yeah! I was on my back porch, and wondering who this guy was. He looked so happy tho! Come to find out he was my neighbor from up the hill (seeing as how we are in the middle of nowhere I just thought that all our neighbors were considered foreigners.) He said he could hear me from his garden, where he had been working. Haha.. cool right? He heard me playing and had to come down.
So his name is Bill. He used to be a wicked awesome guitar player and would play for bands and travel all over. Then he gave up the life to be an electrician and work 10 hours a day. About a year ago he gave his life to Christ. Since then he's been playing for his church praise team and teaching youngins how to play guitar. How cool is that? my NEIGHBOR! Haha. Bill said he's still getting to know Christian music, but loves what he hears. The dude plays by ear. He ran up and got his guitar and the two of us ended up jammin on the porch till well after dark. The plan is to keep jammin as often as we can and hopefully in the near near future I can join him at his church.
How awesome is God. I swear, I'm meeting the coolest people this summer. And it's all by His grace. If this is the way He plans on playing my life, then I say Jesus Rock On! (haha yeah, a little corny there.. heee)

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