I decided to fast from music one day a week. The day will be Tuesdays. The time period is yet to be defined. Likely for 5-6 months is what I'm thinking. I'll know about that after my meeting on Sunday. My first day has been...well, quiet.
This morning I completely forgot that playing the piano is music. Since I create the sounds and they don't come from a radio or computer I think there was a breakdown in my processing it as music. That probably speaks to a much bigger issue in my view of myself as a musician, if you want to get down and dirty about it. As soon as the realization hit I stopped playing.
So I'm quiet. Before God. Without music in my ears. I'm also trying to limit my TV intake and phone time on Tuesdays....but those things I'm not completely cutting out. The silence leave a lot of space for prayers. I'm anxious to see where my prayers take me. I have no doubt that this is going to be good. God's going to use this time. For the ministry, but also for me. You don't realize how much you use something until you give it up.
Back in college, in 2004 when blogging was hardly even a thing yet, I was here. Blogging before blogging meant anything to anyone. You can look in the archives for my past writings, but it was much more like a journal in the past. When we started fundraising, I messed around with the idea of launching something new for this new phase of our journey but actually hated that idea. I am a sum of all of my life and so much of it is here already. So I'm keeping it here. At least for now.
My main focus these days is blogging about our newest journey into the bizarre and wonderful world of gestational surrogacy. Posts dated 2013 and forward will trend heavily toward that journey. I don't promise everything I write will be about though. There might be other things that sneak in occasionally.
Please come along our journey with us. As the saying goes, "The more, the merrier!"
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