Playing Bass and Finding a Place

   Last weekend I served on the worship team for what might be the last time in a long while.

It was a pretty fun weekend musically, and I really enjoyed serving my home church one last time in this way. I hope it's not the last, but I know that I will be moving on to other things in other places.
   As small as it seems, this has been a main focus in my life for the last 3 years. I would like to think I've grown as an artist a little, since my time off the mission field. The worship arts culture at my home church was in the middle of a sort of mini renascence by the time I got back in '09. Certain influential people and visions they cast resonated with many, me included. As a result this gave me a new perspective on culture, expression, and the pursuit of excellence in the church. This has deepened my worldview to large degree.
   I think I know a few things that helps me find out my ultimate calling (however specific or general that happens to be) to know that God gives you good gifts, holy passions, and desires not just as an end unto themselves. He uses the things he puts and grows in you. You wouldn't expect to be a teacher if you had a strong desire, passion, and skill to be a lawyer. I think it's the same thing to a large degree.
   I have no idea what my weird mix of passions and skills will yield in Christ, but I do know that all I posses to do is to the end that he has for me. All that by his growing, cultivating grace that has been at work in me for years.
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Peace.