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The other night after rehearsal Joby and Albert spent about an hour recording a song I just wrote called “How Far Gone.” You can hear it on their MySpace page by CLICKING HERE.
We performed it in Phoenix Tuesday night and it was very well received (no pity claps…) so I think it’ll end up as a fixture on the setlist, at least for a while. It’s a song of disappointment, healing, and forgiveness, and I hope it speaks half as loudly to you as it has to me since I finished it last week.
To all who came out last night at St. Gabriel’s, thanks a TON. We had a great time and are looking forward to seeing you again on Sunday. To all on their way to NCCYM in Las Vegas, we can’t wait to hang out! Everybody should try to come by the hotel lobby on Thursday at 12:30 and Ballroom B on Saturday at 1:15. Other than that we’ll be hanging at the GIA/Disciple Records booth and the Aftermass Records booth.
Peace
Ryan
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Sometimes, when I’m feeling both brave and disgustingly dirty, I have to take a shower while Anna and I are at home alone. I shut the doors to anything potentially dangerous, give her a pile of books to read, and sit her outside the door of the bathroom. Normally, she sits there quietly reading her stories, occasionally singing a song when she feels inspired, and I semi-enjoy the shower with the door open.
Yesterday, Anna was feeling a little livelier than usual (and she’s an energetic kid), and decided that stillness was not her style while Daddy showered. I heard a loud *thud*, looked out the shower curtain, and asked her what she was doing. “Jumping.”
“Right, but why are you jumping there? You might slip on the wet tile and hurt your head.”
“I’m trying to reach the top of the door.”
Of course. Why wouldn’t I have guessed that my 2-foot tall daughter had her mind set on reaching the 7-foot doorway? “Don’t you think it’s a little too high? Why don’t you wait until I get out of the shower and I’ll help you touch it.”
Her response: “I can do it. I’m growing.”
Rewind to the day before, when I was informed that not one, but two performances we had scheduled 2 weeks from now were being canceled Now, I have just a BIT of an artistic tendency, which means that occasionally I go through a “WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING ALL THIS FOR?” phase. The answer, of course, is that it’s my vocation. It’s not that I couldn’t do anything else (Lord knows I’ve gone through my share of supplemental side jobs), it’s that I feel like writing songs and communicating the Gospel through music is the very best use of the talents that God has blessed me with and that I try to continue to build upon. I get discouraged sometimes when I hear a song on the radio that has poor structure or cheap rhymes, and I wonder why I haven’t achieved the success of some that don’t work as hard or even as well as I do. Sometimes it takes a 2-year-old to remind me, though, that the reason I\’m not “there” yet is that I’m still growing. It’s not that our band hasn’t been successful, just not quite as successful as I know we’re destined to be. So, like the life pundit that I call my daughter, we just have to keep on jumping.
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