Thursday, July 11, 2002

the buses are leaving.



it's that feeling like you just missed the field trip. i'm looking out my hotel window, and there go the buses: one to the dodgers vs. diamondbacks baseball game, the other to "the block": an anaheim place to go shopping.

i didn't go.

they're turning the corner now and i'm in my hotel room. alone.

it's been a long day of music and marketing, mexican food and hawaiian shirts.
there have been a few nice surprises, like getting to hear nichole sing this morning and meeting her mom. and making small talk with the new guy.

but there have been some eye-rolling, please-God-help-me-with-my-cynicism moments as well.
and now. well, the buses are gone. i hid out in my room, hoping not to get caught; hoping to write.

so. after a long day of worship cd after another being pitched like a new kind of gospel, i am alone in my room contemplating worship for my first relevant article. God, give me perspective. this is hard sometimes, even in california. my view from the window is parking lot then target then the crystal cathedral. and way behind, clouded by smog or fog or whatever it is tonight, foothills.

i look to the mountains, from whence cometh my help.

Tuesday, July 09, 2002

californication and me: a business trip



well, there's no telling what kind of blog time i'll get over yonder, there. the plane takes off tomorrow and i am not my own for the next nine days.

first: sales conference
second: cba convention.

if you're not familiar with the world of ccm, then you have no idea what kind of long days i have ahead of me. oy.

i'm hoping to get some sneaking out time with lovely friends like marlei, who is celebrating her big four-oh, cancer-free, and ccm-rockstar, nichole, whom i wish lived in nashville.

so. i am off to sunny anaheim, holding out for a date with the big mouse at some point.
i'll bring back a california back-scratcher for y'all--or at least my sister, cathy.

keep in touch. leave comments. let me know you're out there. and i'll update when i can.

until then, here is isaiah 49:15-16
i never could forget you.
see, i have engraved you
on the palms of my hands...


(love never sleeps.)

Monday, July 08, 2002

at 5:01 pm, i realised...



the words, like provision, always come.

keeping pen at hand. you've got to be ready for the rabbit trails...