Still Here!

This is how this past week has felt. It's been a really good week, but a bit of a whirlwind pace. I don't think I've ever had this much space between posts -- I was starting to get withdrawal symptoms, but since Post-Charismatic went live last week, I've gotten a few extra emails than normal, which has kept me busy.

I've also been putting in a lot of hours at St. Arbucks in the final few weeks before YWAM starts for us -- that IS why we moved here in the first place, after all! And in my "spare time" (yeah, right...), I've been reworking our YWAM base's website. Let's put it this way: I'm not going to link to our base's site until I've fixed it. They haven't had anyone on base with any sort of graphic skills (or software) since 1998. 'Nuff said.

I've already added a text link in the "Articles in Drydock" for the Post-Charismatic project, and in the next couple of weeks, I'll probably delete the big blocky image for it.

The responses I've been getting via email have been humbling, encouraging, exciting, and thought-provoking. Thanks to all for commenting here, in the Post-Charismatic Forum, and in email. I'm a bit overwhelmed by the reaction at times, to be honest. I knew quite a few post-charismatics in the analog world already, but the online/email responses have taken it to a whole 'nuther level. A special thanks to Emerging Grace, who took the plunge and posted the first personal story in the Forum. Yes, I did ask her to, but I'm glad she took me up on it!

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Last weekend was Trisha Robins' CD release party for Lauren's Song; I had the privilege of playing bass on this album (Andrew Smith produced it), and as soon as I can get a link for the CD, I'll definitely be putting it here. This is a great CD (no, not because I play on it -- Trisha is a great singer/songwriter). Here's a clip from "Dream Thief", which kinda ties into some earlier discussions we had here on dreams and the death of dreams.

There's no deep reason for this picture; Marc over at Purgatorio had this posted a while back, and I just found it really funny. Look at it this way: Imagine Worf in a charismatic "deliverance ministry"... (low growl deep in throat) "Satan... You are weak and have no honour!"