Wow. A second Xanga entry in 2 days. Can it really be? lol

Yesterday went really well at church. God moved in a major way and the people really entered in with their worship. I got to sing one of my favorite songs to sing, this crazy hot joint that my brother in law wrote. We just came out of a 2-week "healing revival" and we had a bunch of testimonies from people after worship was through. It was really a tremendous time of faith-building for our congregation.

God is just always so awesome and so faithful. Sometimes I will just be doing the most mundane everyday thing and all of a sudden, I'll just have this great realization of Him and it just freaks me out....in a really good way. lol. :D I've really been slacking in my personal worship time the past couple weeks, which I believe is definitely an attack of the enemy, considering the opportunities that have been coming my way in that area. My worship is false if it's only offered during church service around my peers, and not in my personal, intimate times with my Father.

So, that is definitely something I am going to vow to improve upon in the next few days.

I also have to finish getting this massive weight machine put together so I can get back to working out. I look at myself in the mirror now, and I see my face with all this extra stuff around it, and I'm like "that can't be me." lol. But, alas, it is. I just feel like my health is in the crapper right now, thanks to my eating/exercise habits, so it's a good time to get back to it.

Ok. I'm rambling now. hehe. But I'm really NOT that exciting. :P

The big Mase comeback CD is in stores tomorrow, so go out and snatch up a few copies, and give them away to friends. (Keep one for yourself of course). ;)

Oh yeah. I just want to say that  Paul Hamm is my hero for the week. He's shown great strength of character, in my opinion, in the midst of an onslaught of propaganda and media over-blowing. I read this completely assinine article on MSN today ( http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5790612/ ). My opinion...this clown didn't work his a@@ off for his entire life, giving up everything to train, thus he has no right to dish advice on what Hamm should or shouldn't do with the Gold medal he rightfull earned.

Some people just really irritate me sometimes. It's just like with the work I do at CMCentral. People would be amazed at the rude emails I get (and I'm sure the ones Mike, Chuck, and others get), and maybe I just need a thicker skin, but it gets on my last nerves when people post things aimed at Mike like "no news for a week!" I just don't see where people get the nerve to talk smack about other people's lives and jobs.

I mean what if I walked into their accounting job and was like "so and so hasn't prepared a tax return in THREE DAYS!!" It would be pretty tacky.

Ok. I think I'm finished ranting. haha.

Back to the original point of what I was saying...God is good. Word. Amen.

Dang. It's been over a month since I did this...Everyone say it together: Greg is a slacker.

It's late on Saturday night and I should be going to bed soon, but I figured I'd take a minute to update my bizzy lizzy o gizzy. Our worship leaders are out of town this weekend, so I'll be leading worship along with our music pastor and my singing partner, Ashley. Ashley and I led worship at our church's Bible College last year (and will again this year) and also go from church to church doing special worship services whenever asked. Now that our worship leaders have taken a position at a larger church in South Carolina, we will be the new team at church. So, that's always exciting.

Singing and worshipping God are the 2 things that I love to do and feel compltely happy and fulfilled doing. And God is always faithful to grow us and use us, if we are faithful.

Musicwise, I've been listening to a lot of Tonex and Kierra Sheard lately, as well as this local choir, the Richlands Tabernacle Choir. They're from the church I grew up in, and they are massively talented. It's a pretty kickin' CD.

This week I watched Apt Pupil starring Brad Renfro and Ian McKellan. It's a great, great film, superbly acted by both actors. I kept expecting it to take these annoying plot turns that a similar movie would likely take, but they never did. It was very well done.

Also watched Kill Bill 2 and Pulp Fiction this past week. Kind of a Tarantino festival. I thoroughly enjoyed both, especially Kill Bill 2. Uma Thurman hands-down deserves an Oscar nod. I liked the fact this one actually had a lot of heart and even some...*gasp*...sweetness to it. Darryl Hannah was also superb in her showdown scene with Uma. hehe.

On a more spiritual front, my sister taught at church last Sunday morning on Praise & Worship and it was honestly the most awesome, comprehensive and Biblically-based teaching I've ever heard on the subject. It's inspired me to start studying the Word on a more regular basis the way I used to. The Bible is an awesome adventurous book and I always really really enjoy it.

My vision A.D.D. is fading a little bit. I have 2 clear cut visions that I am going to pursue right now and I'm pretty equally excited about both. So, if anyone reads this, keep that in  your prayers! lol

Hmmm. That's about all for now. I promise I shall update this thing more often. ;)

Shew. It's been over a week since I updated this thing. So, here goes.

I'm sitting at work right now taking a break between stamping books and putting sensitizing strips in them. (Oh, the excitement!!) lol

God is good, though. I have a couple really artistic types of ideas running through my mind right now that I'm just wanting to run with. I need prayer, though, because I need to have what I call Vision ADD...I get the vision for something awesome, and start following through on it, until another vision catches my fancy, then I just drop the one project and start thinking about the second one.

I just need to focus on what is before, and do it before moving on to the next.

Many of you know I've been on this kick of watching all the well-reviewed films of 2003 so I can make an educated year-end list. Well, there were 2 films that I had been avoiding, because they just didn't full interest me. Tuesday night I went ahead and rented them, just to say I'd seen them.

One was American Splendor, a terrific, quirky little indie film about comic book author Harvey Pekar.

The other, surprised the heck out of me. It's now one of my favorite movies I can ever remember watching...the title of it is Raising Victor Vargas. I posted all my thoughts about it over at CMC in the Movies/TV thread, so check it out if you want. I'm too lazy to re-post it.

Hmmm. Not sure what else to say except that I love and appreciate my friends. God is doing a lot of healing in many areas in me, and it's great to have people who "have my back" and understand me, or sometimes are willing to just listen without judging. It has meant more than you will know.

Now....show of hands. Who bought a Mars ILL record in the past week? hehehe

Peace, Love and Hair Grease!

-G

WAZZUP homies. Sitting here chillin' with the Mary Mary cd that I broke out of retirement today. hehe.

It's been a nice calm weekend for a change. My dad came in and we actually had a really good day/evening today. My sister, brother in law, grandmother and stepmother, as well as me and dad, went to eat at this country cookin' restaurant in town. Then they came over to see my apartment and sit on my new couch that my sister had been preaching about to them for weeks apparently. haha

Things went well, though. Definitely some major healing going on there. I'm doing a special during the offering at church tomorrow morning. Singing a song I wrote, and leading worship a little bit. So, that's exciting. My dad and stepmom are coming, and hopefully my grandfather and his wife are going to come. Which is a big thing, because my papaw hasn't been to church I don't think since he and my granny divorced several years ago. It's a long story, but suffice to say, it will be awesome if he comes.

So, anyway. That's all my personal biz from today.

Also watched the classic film 12 Angry Men this afternoon. I enjoyed it.

Chart Survivor over at CMCentral is getting fun already. Especially with all the espionage and behind the scenes plotting. hehe. But thank God, Derek Webb is still safe...and, no, he's not my cousin as far as I can tell. :P

God is good. :) I've been having an awesome couple days with Him and His friendship just never ceases to astound me. I don't know why He fools with me sometimes, but man, He just stays right there like this rock that just never, ever moves. It's a beautiful thing. Praise God.

I definitely need to spend some quality time before bed tonight. :)

Well, goodnight homies. Don't forget to go buy a Mars ILL record! Word.

Aight. Here comes my first real entry. *deep breath*. hehe

It's been an odd week, with the strangest relationship I ever had coming to an abrupt and unexplained end. I hate not having closure, but I feel like things in me have been awakened that have been dormant my whole life. So, I guess it's true everything happens for a reason, and I'm not stressing about it one bit. Just gotta keep on movin... I know who I am and I still fully believe that I am going to have many awesome relationships (I'm talking more friendship, obviously, hehe) and I just love that feeling of possibility.

This is going to be an odd weekend, because my "father" who I haven't seen in almost 2 years is coming into town to visit his sister. He wants to come to our church Sunday morning to hear us sing (my sister and her husband are the worship leaders and I will be singing a song I wrote, along with the praise team and choir).

The relationship I have with him is hard to describe, because things were not really good with us for a long time. I don't feel that I've ever had a relationship with him at all. He is now born again and actually pastoring a church, but it's one of those deals where it almost feels like things aren't salvageable. I mean he missed out on my whole life and I missed out on having a father, so what do we really need each other for now?

It's kinda sad, but I've certainly learned to cope over the years. I just can't wait to have children of my own one day soon, I hope. I want to use the hurts of my life in a positive way, and try to make my kids the coolest little people alive.

Anyway, I'm kind of numb about the whole thing, but we're taking him to lunch after church, so that's definitely gonna be new...spending Father's Day with my father. lol.

It's 12:15 am and I am wondering why I'm still up and on the computer. hehe. I have to work at 7:45 am. Oh well.

Whew. Can't really think of much else to say at the moment. Thanks for reading and much love to all my peeps. Holla at ya boy!