My iPhone served me well when I went away for a couple of days. I didn’t get the data plan because it is too expensive. In fact, I had it blocked because my first month I was charged for using it. I didn’t use it, but somehow my iPhone used it a couple of times. Now I just use it when I’m in free WiFi service areas. So while Lisa and Casile were getting ready yesterday morning in the motel room, I checked my emails, moderated my blog, checked my art and print sales online, and updated facebook. Very useful and usable… in a pinch.
I realize the lyrics to The Killers’ song isn’t 100% accurate, but I took poetic license. The line, which caused considerable confusion when it was released, strikes a chord with me. I like it, and I like the song.
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Based on a popular song by Carrie Underwood. I always leave it to the last second. What about you? Anyway, Lisa and I are taking our 16 year old daughter Casile on a road trip today and tomorrow to Bangor, Maine, just to shop, eat different food, and browse their huge bookstore… Borders. We’ll slap everything onto our Visa card. Foolish. Take the wheel! I’ll be checking in.
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For those of you who might not get this inside joke, it’s a reference to U2’s new album No Line on the Horizon. I downloaded it from iTunes, and I’m enjoying it. The album cover art is inspiring to me. If you are familiar at all with my art, you might notice that the minimalist style is similar to mine. The title of the album too has a mystical ring to it, kind of like The Matrix’s, “There is no spoon!”.
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Well, after I did the draw of names this morning, I’m happy to announce that the winner is Kathi Sharpe in North Carolina, USA. Congratulations Kathi! I’ll need your mailing address and the cd will be shipped off to you asap. For those of you who mentioned that if you didn’t win you’d like to order the cd? You can download it HERE. Thanks everyone for participating. That was fun! We’ll do another contest again soon.
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Hey everyone. On Friday I started a contest which ends tonight, Sunday at midnight Atlantic Time. I’m giving away a free cd. All you have to do is enter a comment on Friday’s post. GO HERE to enter. Have fun. It’s a nice cd that will be shipped to the winner, anywhere in the world, for free!
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Hey everyone. Yesterday I started a contest which ends tomorrow night, Sunday at midnight Atlantic Time. I’m giving away a free cd. All you have to do is enter a comment on yesterday’s post. GO HERE to enter. Have fun. It’s a nice cd that will be shipped to the winner, anywhere in the world, for free!
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This is an up and coming band from the Halifax area in Nova Scotia Canada. One of them, Aaron Ewer, a friend of mine, is married to a friend of mine who is a daughter of another friend of mine who is a Vineyard pastor too (uh, figure that out!). Anyway, they’ve just come out with a cd. It’s got some really good stuff on it. The one I chose to stream for you today may not be their favorite, but it’s mine. Here’s the deal: just make any kind of comment on this post, any kind at all, and your name will be entered into a draw to win their brand new cd, “Something in the Sky”. The contest closes Sunday midnight Atlantic Time. I’ll announce the winner Monday and the cd will be shipped out to the winner anywhere in the world! Good luck and have fun. You can check out their official website HERE.
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Greg from Burns Lake, British Columbia, in northern Canada, wins the Fray cd, “How to Save a Life”. His name was drawn out of the ice-cream container this morning. Hope this warms you up a little Greg. Thanks to everyone for making a comment. Stay tuned for another contest again soon. Many requested I put another painting up for dibs, so I’ll bow to the pressure.
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Win this cd, The Fray, “How To Save A Life”, just by going HERE and making a comment. Interesting topic and discussion has already taken place! Your name will be entered the draw. Go ahead and make a comment. Your name will be entered once. This contest closes tonight midnight Atlantic time. Have fun and good luck.
I want to give something else away, so I’m giving away my The Fray cd, “How To Save A Life”. It is a great cd, but I’ve burned it onto my hard drive and I’m good to go. Played once! You can comment as much as you like, but your name will only be entered into the draw once. The contest ends Sunday midnight Atlantic Time. I’ll mail it out free to the winner Monday. Have fun and good luck!
Okay, so I’m going to get really naked right now. About a week ago, a friend of mine who has a gift for “seeing” things, wrote me an email because she had been praying for me and had a vision. I’m struck by this because a couple of other people have recently told me that they sensed this same sort of thing coming my way. So, I’ve been warned. It reminds me a bit of the “Oracle” in The Matrix. It seems certain, and I can confirm that I do feel like I’m being pulled down, down, down into the darkest depths. I hope I will survive. This is what my good friend saw:
I saw a picture of a black lake. A small black lake in a grey and hazy landscape dappled with fir and spruce trees that almost seemed coated in a smoky frost. It felt like it had recently snowed a very cold and icy snow. But everything was so calm and still it was other-worldly. I have seen this lake once before. It was when my Aunt Sue was diagnosed with cancer. I prayed for her that she would live, but the Lord showed me she was walking into the black lake and death would consume her, but she was going to be able to face it with courage. I refused to believe it but sure enough she died and faced it amazingly. Now, my picture for you has nothing to do with anybody’s death or about anyone dying. It is about grief. I saw you walk into the lake and wade in until you were up to your neck and you just stayed there. I felt like you were experiencing deep sadness and desolation for other people. It had taken you to a new place… a deep place that was altering you forever. You were all alone but you but sharing the deepness and loneliness… losing something that once had life. It was a place of new understanding. Inside of it all it was so calm, almost pristine, but so dark. It was not a bad place, but a necessary place. God will use it to break and broaden you and shape your humanity even more and give you new revelations… places of wisdom that only suffering can bring. I felt like it was in relation to all of the recent tragedies that have been happening in your community.
This feels right to me. I sense it to be true. It is serious, scary, but at the same time, I feel it is to be and it is ultimately for good. Ooooo! I just can’t wait to see what your thoughts are on this one!
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David Hayward is an artist trapped in a pastor's body, stripping to the essential.
