My turn to sing, Sunday

J Dan Brown · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 3:52 am Post subject: My turn to sing, Sunday

Is it my imagination, or is this like a ghost town around here? Oh. well! This Sunday morning is my turn to sing again. I am trying to brainwash (or pray) my 33 yr old son into doing a second guitar on a Casting Crowns' tune ("Prodigal") and mandolin on "Thousand Miles" by Caedmon's Call. He is so "running from" the Lord! He has been there or appeared to be in the past and he has issues with his wife's Church of Christ's no instruments in worship stand.

Christopher is a genius musician and he plays mostly by instinct, not caring to know all the technical parts. One can hardly lose him in adLib if the music makes any of the least sense. He picked up my mandolin the summer he turned 12, and after playing 35 days, we went to Mountain View, Ark., and he blew them away in the Bluegrass Gospel song circles in town square, even taking his solos on a nod. Of course mostly everything was in G and only 4 or 5 chords, but still hardly anyone would believe him only playing a bit over a month. He did the same with guitar when his hands got a little larger. I found him an roundback Applause for $75 when he was 15 with a cast aluminum neck with an epoxy fingerboard. The kind of guitar that would survive summer car trunks, hunting and camping out. When his Mother's Mother died, he received her Alvarez I had gotten her used and still has it and loves it. His playing periods come and go and he even once thought he was called to preach along with being really into Jason Upton's music.

I don't predict the Lord's necessary urging before Sunday, but only the Lord knows, and I do pray for my son daily. If I could get all my recording stuff going right from my new borrowed Tascam digital mixer, to my CoolEdit upgrades and to conquering a few new "looping" programs I have bootlegged. (sorry!) Then I could start on my two new CDs and could pehaps get him caught up in that. I think that his son, Ian Paul will play but he's only 3 now.

Please forgive me for burdening you 5 or 6 with my whining, but hey, who else would I tell? Razz

Blessed, in spite of mostly solo heart singing and playing, Dan

PunkStar · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:04 pm Post subject: Re: My turn to sing, Sunday

J Dan Brown · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 5:17 pm Post subject:

No actually, the church I attend and have asked him to play at is quite country Southern Baptist, and he has never attended the Church of Christ with his wife, so that's not what he's runnin' from, but just from himself. When he did attend he attended a even more "full Gospel" type of church. Regardless, it appears that I am solo for Sunday, so I will wallow in His mercy and grace and hope the message is understood and that the focus is on the Father and Son and not on Dan.
Blessed, especially by guitar in worship and praise, Dan

ATatum · Tadpole Joined: 10 Feb 2007 Posts: 24

I'm sure with the fathers help you'll do get.I have been having big troble with my blood sugar this week.It has never bothered me before.It would drop to low every few hours.I didn't know it would make you feel so bad.Have to go tuesday for results of all the blood test the doc ran.

J Dan Brown · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 4:59 am Post subject:

Thanks for the encouragement, AT! I feel led, that if I am to be solo, to change one of the songs, "Thousand Miles" to a Caedmon's Call tune named "The Word is Alive."

Your blood sugar is in my fervent prayers, as well as the Father's will to be accomplished! My 6+ years of seizures has proved to me that anything can be eventually accepted as God's trusted will and to be totally covered under the Romans 8:28 clause. Cool

Blessed, especially if all of you are blessed, Dan

Bates15 · Moderator Joined: 19 Feb 2002 Posts: 1084

Hey there.... A ghost town.... Well, I've been out for a a couple of weeks (went to Suriname with the fam) and had no internet in the amazon jungle.

Praying for you and your son. He is my age actualy, 33. Very hard guys to work with Smile

J Dan Brown · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 3:11 pm Post subject:

Thanks, Bates! We both can use all the prayer we can muster and even from someone Christ's age. Razz

BTW, that "Thousand Miles" song was a Caedmon's Call tune and the song I decided to do instead, "The Word is Alive" is a Casting Crowns song from the "Altar and the Door" project. Either way it's a fine piece, as is "Prodigal," the other Casting Crowns song I intend to do in the morn. The strings are newer on the Norman, but I hear the Guild whining to be my partner tomorrow, and she's right, she has earned some respect, so there.
Blessed, by my turn singin' to the Father and an old acoustic 6-string, Dan

J Dan Brown · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:16 pm Post subject:

Well, I was incredibly blessed at services this morning. My "special" music (I don't like that term) this morning was well received, especially "Prodigal." Seems like everyone has a part of their life that they can use to relate to the parable of the lost son. I felt good about my guitaring and singing, although our poor sound guy (a police detective) always mistakes what comes through the monitors in our small sanctuary and the hanging house speakers, mainly the guitar pickup. I get blasted, while the congregation hears little reinforced sound. We could go without sound entirely, and everyone could hear so it matters little.

But the songs were used, were understood and seemed to have provoked serious thought, which is all that really matters, isn't it? Praise the Lord!
Blessed, by being used a a voice and a tool, Dan

music wasn't part of me · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 4:32 am Post subject:

markm2553 · Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2008 7:42 am Post subject:

Dan, I blessed to hear your song went well Sunday!

AT keep a handle on that sugar!. Have you had trouble long?

I have been on a shot a day for about five years myself. Just so happens this very Sunday I gave myself a shot about and hour before heading to Church, and my suger bottomed out.
I don't know why that happens, I guess the shot makes it's way into my blood stream to fast sometimes. It is a rather common problem from what I hear, if the wife had not been there to help it might have been...
Anyway, after a bit I was back and almost normal by Service time. Wink