Entrance is crucial and it's not without pain...Nickel Creek, coffee highs, and praise

I'm addicted to several things. But I'm just gonna name a few. This side or scotch and chocolate by Nickel Creek both grab my fancy,also I think I've forced myself into a coffee addiction in the past 36 hours due to exams. And I'm ok with that. Furthermore, I've been blessed with some great new songs, that surprise myself? to say the least. Notably because they are all praise songs... which is amazing for me (as a writer) because I don't sit down and set out to "write a song". Every time I have done that I don't get what I want to come out. The best stuff is just from an overwhelming need to write about whatever is weighing on me in order to release it...I'm weird of enough to usually have a chorus or a catchy line pop in my head sometime during the day from something I see somewhere or hear, and from that songs are made...So to have 4 to 5 songs of praise is something I'm so thankful for receiving in the past 3 weeks...just to have them as my own is awesome, but to know that I'm seeing God so much around me is the best part of the whole thing. It makes every single thing better... where I'm at, everything I love, all that I fear, all that I lack, and anything that is painful or uncertain...has become and is just another way God has blessed me. Recording is going to be difficult this summer due to band member schedules so I'm excited about how things are going to turn out. Blake (bassist, original saboteur & confidant) will be gone all summer so we're trying to get what we can down with him while he is here. Greg is going to be an hour away, so everything is everywhere...It seems like we're gonna have to puzzle piece the whole thing together instrument by instrument and pray that we can get something that sounds great after everything is all said and done. but we'll see how she flies.

-joe