just came back from a michael w. smith/third day concert. was good. i had a weird thought. michael w. smith isn't that good looking anymore. yeah, he's still cool. yeah, i'd like to meet him. yeah, i'd like to play piano with him or for him or something like that, but eh, i don't know. and it wasn't just his weird hair. kinda surprised me that i don't think that anymore. it's just michael w. smith... not as important as before... it's not something that happened at the concert. it's more of me and how i feel about real life and people i know. i think i've lost my awe-struckness of him and who he is. he's just some person... a cool person, but not the same to me as before. i think i'd shock a bunch of people if they heard me say that. i know jon would have something to say about that. jon and his theory. you know... this proves jon's theory though. it surprises me. hmmm... maybe i'll tell him tomorrow when i see him at the studio. but it was a good concert. i think i like third day better in concert than just listening to the cd. it's something about being at a concert. it was very encouraging being in an arena with fellow christians worshiping our Savior together. i don't know them, but i felt the connection... being part of the body of Christ, uplifting praises to our God. i love concerts like this. heard max lucado speak for the first time. only have read his book "you are special" to my kids. was interesting. i like his analogy about hurts and God's forgiveness... like throwing a match into the ocean. that's neat. near the end of the concert max lucado asked what was the one thing we would take back from the concert. right now, that's the thing that i remember most. oh... and michael w. smith's hair. long hair on a guy is so unattractive. clean cut is the way to go.

all in all the weekend was great. got to have breakfast with grace on saturday. i was so happy to see her. too bad she had to return to boston saturday night. i know she would have loved to go to the concert. was sad to hear that she plans to stay in boston. as her friend, i want to be happy for her and support her, but i guess in selfishness, i wish that she was closer to home. that's cool that she's enjoying life there. was great spending that time with her. after that, had ys practice. that was good. i'm definitely gonna miss being a part of youth service. it's been awhile since all of us were at practice. i'm glad we had a chance to pray together. that's one of the ways we got closer to each other... through our prayer times and devotion times. practice was great. after that, went to san bruno for ellen and howard's baby party. got to see baby chloe for the first time. she's so cute. she slept the entire time though! wow. and it was pretty noisy at the restaurant. cool. after that, had dinner with the teacher-gang. that was a lot of fun. james was actually pretty chivalrous. was surprised. tried to get him to shave his beard and moustache. i wonder if he will. after that, went to see ruth's play. it was alright. ruth was good, but some of the other parts were cheesy. had fun though hanging out with everybody. today was good too. the xp meeting was shorter than i thought. whoa... so much to do! i'm very excited though. wow. what a privilege it is to be working on this. i'm so excited. i'm excited and can't wait to see what God has in store for us and to see what awesome things God will do. wow.

oops... spent too much time on this... should get to bed... work tomorrow. good thing mondays are my easy days. i'll end this with my verse of the day...
"If you are really eager to give, it isn't important how much you are able to give.
God wants you to give what you have, not what you don't have".
--2 Corinthians 8:12, NLT

something to think about....