It’s been an awesome day….yeahness!

#1  We finally got our pictures hung.  We had to wait for the new addition and then for the new roof and now that both of those are done…..it was picture time!  We set them all out and decided what pictures looked best where.  Ben is the official picture hanger….and I stand back and make sure they are straight.  If I tried to do the picture hanging, well, there would be some casualties I’m sure!

#2  It was a beautiful sunny day here (finally) and I got some pool time.  I have friends who can’t stand to just lay out by the pool….but there is nothing better to me than listening to some great music, relaxing and letting the sun wash over me!  It seems like my weekends have been rushed for the last month, so it was great to be able to slow down today!

#3  I wrote a song today!  When I headed over to the church this afternoon to work on some music, I had the “feeling” that a song might be coming.  I can’t explain this, but sometimes I feel the urge to go to the piano and I don’t even have an idea of what I’m going to do there.  Sometimes it is just singing songs out of the hymnal.  Sometimes it is singing songs that I’ve written.  And then sometimes, I just let my fingers wander over the keys and see what happens.  This afternoon I was about to wrap things up…I’d finished what I needed to do and decided to go into the sanctuary one more time and play.  I sat down and thought about something that had been on my mind this week and wondered if there was a way to put how I was feeling into words.  I think I accomplished that.  It’s personal and vulnerable.  The test will be that I will take this song to the writing retreat I am going to this weekend.  I am anxious for another writer to read it.  At the same time, I am scared because this is so personal….yet I’ve found that the songs I write from drawing deep into my well of experiences, are the songs that most relate to people.

I am so excited about the retreat.  It’s probably all I will talk about for the next five days until I leave.