Best things 2015

I love making lists. Every year in my personal journal, I come up with a list of the best things that happened in the year. Here's my list of the 10 best things related to praise and worship in 2015 in no particular order.

1. Finding Planetshakers
2. Tiff Joy's self-titled album
3. Singing one of the songs I wrote at one of our district church services
4. The iLead Escape frontliners calls
5. Listening to K-Love
6. Attending Chicago's Gospel Fest
7. Crushing my New Year's goal to consistently update this blog
8. Being able to attend a culturally different church and experiencing P&W there
9. The funny memes
10. Getting a church musician. God is still in the miracle business!

Here's to a great year and an even better 2016 - in Jesus's name! :)

Getting my life in 2015

As the year comes to an end, I like to reflect on how the year went for me. In short, 2014 was not hot!

This year I felt like an old, young church lady. (Huge oxymoron, but I know you feel me on this.) Even though I'm the head worship leader, I also serve as the lead for children's church. Besides the activities we do in our church, I also report to our district and participate in the district activities. This year, I believe we had 2 district youth fellowship days and an over night youth retreat. I attended them all. Now maybe it's just me, but I feel like my entire life centers around church and I don't mean this in a good way. Church activities cannot be my entire life. It shouldn't be my source of "entertainment" or what I do for fun. (At least it's not what I want to do for fun even if it is fun sometimes.) Does this make sense?

I've decided that I am going to find some real hobbies in 2015; hobbies that have nothing to do with church. I'm leaning toward cooking classes, tap dancing lessons (which I've done before), bowling lessons, or singing lessons. I'm interested in learning jazz. Maybe I'll even start back working out. Hence, I already informed the district youth leader that I'm out in 2015.

I've also decided that for 2015, my sole church priority will be, wait for it, being a better P&W leader. I am personally tired of my mom (aka the pastor) pestering nagging encouraging me/us to step it up. So I'm thinking we should take her request seriously and step it up. Hence, my aforementioned goal of adding 12 songs to our repertoire. I'm happy to say we're on our way.


Part of my boring life has to do with having a 2-year-old and no real babysitter. That's gonna change next year. "Momma gotta have a life too!" (In my Baby Boy voice.)

When we get to the end of 2015, I hope to be able to say that the praise team is in much better shape because I made it a priority. And I hope that I'll be leading a more balanced life by carving out time for the things I enjoy and not over-committing to church activities. I am only thirty-ish after all!

Blessings