[fuzz] the fight of my life

"Can I get up now?"
"Be still and know I am God."

That's a line from a new song by Kirk Franklin and Toby Mac called "I Am God". The whole CD speaks to where I am right now, and not just because the name of it is The Fight of My Life. True, I am fundraising, and yes, it's sometimes uphill, but what I feel is I'm coming out of the fight of my life. So every song on this one registers with me 'cause I've been there. It's gone.

My favorite on this CD is called "Still (in Control)":

I hurt when you hurt, I cry when you cry
Even the deep ones sometimes wonder
"Why am I going through?
I'm waiting but still no You."

He's still in control
He's sovereign and He knows
Just how it feels to be afraid
Have folk you love walk away
Be still and know
He's still in control

Same theme, but more of a worshipful feel than the Toby song. Kirk addresses not just personal submission, but corporate as well. In "The Last Jesus", we're:

Too busy
Forgive me
I've got problems of my own
It's easier to say
Your help is on the way
When I was you help all along...

Am I just too selfish to see
The love they need
You put it inside of me?

When the church understands how to meet needs right in front of us, needs everywhere start getting met. I'm not sure how that works, but it is the nature of sowing.

Here's the video of his current release, "Declaration (This is It)". Note who he's fighting...
[he was fighting himaself -- sorry, video no longer available]

[fuzz: post] books & readers

Okay, so I guess I'm updating about once a month. All I can handle for now. Hope to redecorate the site for Christmas, but not yet. That book club I mentioned is going to have to wait, too. Looks like I will be starting one at work rather than at church -- someone at work asked me to start one, and on Blue Like Jazz, no less! That was the original title I had wanted to start with -- how 'bout that for God (re)directing your path?

I'm now in full support-raising mode and it's keeping me far away from the keyboard (amen!). The Lord is bringing people across my path I haven't seen in forever. So it has been fun. Still, keep praying this will be done soon. I'd love to be there before the end of the year. Thanks.

[fuzz: post] Sunday nights

Went to morning service yesterday at Grace, and went to Crossroads evening service for the last time, for awhile anyway. My friend Mary Kay and I are starting a book club in the evenings at Grace, so I won't be anywhere else at night. Had to go sit with my Crossroads friends one last time.