Like Brenda said, Dishwater Blonde was AWESOME!!! I had so much fun just listening to and watching those guys on stage. I guess I would discribe their sound as funk. Pure, get-down, yo-mama-didn-raze-no-fool FUNK. (now back to reality after that whatever-it-was with too many hyphens) And (again, to reiterate Brenda) listening to them pray, you could tell that they are guys who love the Lord. They understood that music was not the focus. They understood that it may be the fun, it may be the job, but Jesus is the focus, and that ends up coming through in the music. We can't help but write what we're passionate about and what we struggle with. I certainly hope we're passionate after our Lord, and I know that living for Him is a struggle in this present world. The next one's gonna be so cool! They've got a website at dishwaterblonde.net that's in the process of being moved, but you can check out this one if you want concert dates. And if you ever get to hear Davis's testimony, definitely listen to it. He's been from beggar to a prince in the King's court. He's an awesome guy and he was so good to us (as were they all). Brenda and I were both thinking 'We're opening for THEM?! They're awesome!'
Anyways, I've got to get out of Kat's house, since she's already in bed and I've got work to do back at the dorm. Please pray for us as we finish out the semester. It really will be a miracle to make it through this one it seems like. But hey, everyday's a miracle. I love you guys. God is my Father! And He is!
Posted by A. Whipple at 11:36 PM
Well, it has been a night! This evening we went to the Jefferson City Life Care Center (it's a nursing home in layman's terms, but we all have to be PC these days). We went and played and sang hymns from about 6:15 to 7. We actually didn't do any of our songs except for Joyful Joyful. We did the songs and talked with the patients and just spent general quality time with folks. There's not much to be said, except that I know that God ministered to them through us being there, and I know that He certainly did a number on us as well. They asked us to come back some time soon to sing again. So hopefully, we'll get a chance to do that soon. Thank you for praying for us. Please continue to do so! God bless you!
Posted by A. Whipple at 2:13 AM
Just put the new pictures up (FINALLYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!). They're the ones from the Florida trip and the New City Cafe concert. Later.
Posted by A. Whipple at 11:31 PM
I absolutely despise temptation and sin! Whew! Now that I've got that out let's move on. Please pray for Katrina's friend Jeremy. Pray that we would all have faith and peace in God's will and that he would remind us in all our circumstances to be His servants and to glorify Him Alone. I guess that's all I've got. Not much else can be said, because God's will is sovereign. I love you all, good night.
Posted by A. Whipple at 10:02 PM
I also have a long way to go. I have been shown that I take this whole music thing (and a whole host of other things) way too seriously, when they're not really serious matters at all. And if I do music for myself, then I don't help anyone, but if I do it because I love the Lord and because I love people, then I will not have to worry about that sort of thing (like I would anyways). I'm really jazzed on Perkins coffee right now, so sleep is something which may or may not come, but here's some news. We're not doing Fuge. God has led us away from that, so we're not going to the preview weekend.
Please pray for Brenda's voice to get better, she's got laryngitis (does anyone really know how to spell that word?). I'm going to go back and talk to the security guard (Dave) at the front desk. Hopefully I'll get sleep tonight. I can feel the caffiene starting to wear off.
Posted by A. Whipple at 3:19 AM
Can you imagine actually washing someone's feet? Think for a minute of the dorkiest person you know (maybe it's me ;) but anyways). Think of a guy or girl who's not good-looking at all, who doesn't really have social skills, who tries way to hard to make friends and ends up making a fool of themself. Somebody who you might be nice to, except for the fact that they irritate you. Maybe you know somebody like that. Maybe you feel like that person. If you feel like that person, think of the people who you want to be your friends who shun you and treat you badly. Now that we've all got someone we quite possibly dislike very much in mind (I've got one too), think of that person walking a long way in shoes with no socks on a hot muggy day. Think of them sitting down in your room with you. Now try to imagine how difficult it would be to take off their smelly shoes and use your bare hands and a bowl of water to wash their feet. Can we even comprehend what a humbling experience it would be to wash the feet of those who we disagree with or dislike most? Those who might smell horrible and might not even understand what we're doing! What a drag! What a completely horrible experience! What a disgusting thing! What a show of love!
Not much can be said, except that few of us live up to such a claim of love. We are travelers on a journey, fellow pilgrims on the road.......Brother let me be your servant, let me share Christ's love with you.
A hymn that many can sing, but few can fulfill.
Posted by A. Whipple at 11:19 PM
I really get irritated at computers and making websites, 'cause I'm not any good at it. Maybe somebody else will be gracious enough to do it for me. Doubt that........
Posted by A. Whipple at 10:54 PM
I'm excited about what God's doing in our lives. Elissa's not going to be going to Nashville, and I'm not sure if Brenda and I are going either. But that just means that God has something better planned. I won't mention my own wishes here, or hopefully at all, because God's will is supreme. The important thing to me is that God is moving in our lives, and that's AWESOME!!! I've printed flyers to put around campus for the concert at New City Cafe, so hopefully, there will be some publicity from that. I can't get in touch with the guys from Dishwater Blonde (and frankly, I can't find a website or anything), so I hope they don't get peeved at me for using their name in flyers and such. Yes, I did just use the word 'peeved'. God is good, all the time, God is good.
Posted by A. Whipple at 10:48 PM
So the whole thing is getting closer now. I'm almost getting butterflies in my stomach, but everything will be alright. I guess that the prospects of actually doing this Fuge thing are hitting me, but that needs to be ignored. Anything good that happens is the work of the Lord. My job, our job, is to do nothing. Nothing except love, and even that is something that we haven't the capacity to do completely without Jesus.
I am continually amazed at the righteousness and the wisdom of those around me. I am also amazed at the pain and suffering that others put themselves through just to avoid letting go and loving. Things should not be this way, but they are. As my friend Landon said, it's amazing that God is still a happy God. But I am grateful that there is joy sufficient enough for all.
I've got to work on Counterpoint now (that's medieval choir music to you, punctus contra punctum, unless, of course you're a music major or you're just interested in that sort of thing - I'm not sure why you would be). So I'll see you guys later. Know that our Lord is always with His children. Grace and Peace be unto you!
Posted by A. Whipple at 9:58 AM
She doesn't know I'm watching her.....
Posted by A. Whipple at 10:26 PM
I'm watching Brenda type on the blog two computers down from me. I wonder what she's typing....
Posted by A. Whipple at 10:26 PM
We've been sitting here in the Carson Newman library preparing for our Fuge audition. Things are really starting to pile up against us, and I think that God is really going to make us trust Him through all this. That's good, though. Something that Kat always tells me is consider the source. And I can't help thinking that if all these hardships are from the devil, then he really doesn't want us to go do this thing, which means that it's really going to bless some people's lives. This is truly a tiring and a taxing endeavor, but all of it will be a blessing in the end, so long as we trust God with our lives. "In all things, He works for the good of those who love Him." May the Lord be glorified in His house, in the hearts of men!
Posted by A. Whipple at 10:25 PM
Leaving the front desk this evening, I saw Bill for a little bit. Bill is one of the security guards at Carson Newman. He's between 60 and 70 and he'll talk your ear off. While he was talking my ear off, as he's done many times before, I thought about how I could possibly witness to somebody so much older than me. How could I possibly have any sort of testimony that would speak to someone like Bill (if you've talked to him for more than ten minutes, you probably know his life story, because after ten minutes, you'll be there an hour). There's one other security guard that's an old man. James. James isn't as talkative as Bill, but he's a good guy. I've asked him if there's anything I can pray about for him before, and he nearly took offense that someone such as myself (a young man of twenty) would offer any help to someone with James' years. It was kind of disheartening. I can't remember if I've asked Bill if I could pray for him before or not.
I think God has just told me that in truth, much of what old folks like that want is company. Just someone to sit with or talk with. Talk about nothing at all. Like Ten Bears on Dances with Wolves said, at his age, a warm fire and a good pipe are worth a lot (or something like that). Some old men just want someone to sit and listen while they ramble on about nothing. Maybe it's just cause they want to feel like they're worth something to someone. I wonder if I'll be like that at that age. Probably so, considering how much rambling I do at this stage in my life. There are some people that age though, that I could sit and listen to for hours on end. My great-grandfather is one. He was in the cavalry at Fort Oglethorpe in northern Georgia (where my mother was born). He's got stories upon stories in his head. And he's one of the most patient men I know. He has this beautiful white hair that scantily covers his stooped head. It'll be good to see people like that in heaven if that sort of thing is the way it's going to be there. To see people you've looked up to and see them even better than you knew them on earth. All thanks and praise to God in His Glory and Love for that! Anyways, I've got to stop rambling myself and get to bed. God bless you all!
Posted by A. Whipple at 12:25 AM
I'm sitting here talking to Kat about her evening. We had a good time this afternoon watching Finding Nemo and playing Nintendo. That's original Nintendo. We had fun playing Super Mario 3 and taking each other's controllers away from each other.
You know, sometimes we have those days when we all feel like Wile E. Coyote. You know, those days when nothing seems to go right and we don't succeed at anything. Those days when the light at the end of the tunnel turns out to be a train. But then, we have to remember that eventually, we'll hear "That's all folks!" and we'll remember that life is good, because God is good, all the time. Sorry if the Looney Tunes reference escaped you.
Please pray for us all this week, because we're getting ready for the audition this coming Friday at noon. We're going to have the fun of getting up at about 5:30 or 6am, in order to leave at 7 for Nashville. My church has just moved across the street to a new building, so things are really hectic there. I've personally got several things to do there (I think, I'm usually uninformed until the last minute). There's a lot going on in November for Nothing Done (as you can see), so please pray for us as we fly by the seat of our collective pants. Sorry that this post is so random, but I'm talking on the phone and typing at the same time, and, being a guy, I can't multi-task very well. Anyways, I'll talk to you later. May the Love and Peace of our Lord Jesus be with you.
Posted by A. Whipple at 9:35 PM
// John 5:30 // we are the pen; God is the author
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Caedmon's Call
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New City Cafe
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Andy Vandergriff's blog
Andrew Peterson
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