This onething I'm at.

I'm in Kansas City at onething, the International House of Prayer's biggest annual conference, and I'm having a marvelous time.

He is here.

A thrill of hope

A weary world rejoices

Oh, How He Loves Us.

"All of a sudden I am unaware of these afflictions eclipsed by glory."

Wordle.net

We're hanging out at Nick & Rachels.  Tonight Rach's sister Bekah got into town for Christmas so we got to meet her for the first time.  She's a school teacher.  She just introduced us to this website, Wordle.net.  You can give it any text from a document or even just a website address and it creates a collage with the words it contains.  The more frequently the word is used, the more prominent it appears in the collage.  I just typed in my blog address, and this is what it gave me:

The word want is huge.  Hm.  Interesting.

Recording while recording.

Recording worship songs at Matt's tonight.  I like singing music to God.  I've always felt like Keith and I weren't the most talented musicians, but what we lack in talent we make up for in passion.  I just love it.  I just love God.  And it's such a gift to get to commune with him through creative acts.

I love doing creative stuff more than practical-daily-grind stuff.  Hm.  Balance.  

My mom sang a lot around the house when I was growing up & I am so glad she did.  It just seemed normal at the time, but now I realize that it wasn't.  Not everybody's mom sang around the house.  It was a gift.

One of the plethora of songs she sang was Carly Simon's You're So Vain.  "You probably think this song is about you, don't you?  Don't you?"  I'm glad to know that song.