What a day!

Let me tell you about the day of September 28th, 2009. It was quite an epic day...

I had a really hard time getting up that morning and got to work just a tad bit late. But the thing was that Greg and Chris weren't there yet, so does that mean that I was actually late? I'll let you ponder on that for a bit....okay, that was long enough.

Chris and I started working on the lights in the auditorium because a lot of them were out. By then end, I think we changed about 10 lights. Now, to change all of these lights in the auditorium, you could use the genie, which is a scissor lift, but for the other, you would have to use this super freaking huge ladder that has to way lots and is really hard to move around. Now I would have to climb all the way up it and then change the bulb while not actually touching it because they are special. Okay, so it isn't that hard, it just seems like it when all you are doing is yawning while you work. About mid-morning, we decided that we needed to get some liquid caffeine and so Chris got some coffee and I got some DP! yeah, woot woot for the DP. Although a vanilla latte would have been just as good. So after our short break we get back to work and finish up the lights and start to work on the sprinkler system in the auditorium. Each sprinkler head has a cap that goes on it and some had been falling off. Now, the place to get to the pipes in the ceiling requires going up to the very top and climbing around on 2" wide pieces of metal that are holding drywall up and the metal is held up by wire. And so if you take a wrong step somewhere....down you go. And so I climbed around and got to this hole that I had to go through. It was like a fire wall that has this small 2' by 2' access hole and well...I yet again had to step on 2" metal that is more flimsy than the first set. So we work on the system and figured out that there was nothing that we could do for it at the time and so I went up there for essentially nothing. But all the same, I love climbing around up there and doing stuff and it was a lot of fun. And so not it is about 12:15 and I have to rush off to my next thing for the day.

A good friend, Justin Marks, wanted to take me to get a message at the Student Center. We tired to do it on Friday but they were all booked and so we rescheduled for Monday. I get there and we wait for just a bit and then it is my turn. I sat down in the chair and he starts going at it and it is just awesome! It only lasted for 10 minutes unfortunately but as Justin is getting his turn, I get to sit in one of those chairs that you see in malls all the time. It was this robotic chair messager thingy and I decided that I need one in my house. I can only imagine they are super expensive. Well by this time, it is time to head off to class.

I get to class to see an unfimiliar face at the front of the room. Apperantly our teacher got a cold and had this sub come in for the day. He has been an audio engineer for a couple of years now and is not really a teacher. He even admitted that. It didn't really seem like he wanted to be teaching and I guess he thought we didn't want to be there. Although, I would have to say that it is one of my favorite classes right now. And so he fly's through the powerpoint and after class there is a classmate asking him a question and I was sticking around just to make sure that I understood. And we start talking some and he is showing me some of the mics that he brought in to class and he asks if I want to come and see his studio some time. I was like, REALLY??? And I said sure, I got his number so that I could call him some time to come and see the place. I couldn't believe it. Hopefully, this might even turn out to be a career oportunity. We will have to see what God has in plan. Another class comes in and he has to teach and so I head out and go home.

I am home for a bit just to realize that I had locked my keys in the truck...again! I did it about two weeks ago. I think I need to go and make a spare copy. I call AAA and they come and get my keys out and then I decided that it was time for a nap. After all this excitment in the day, I was tired. I dose for a while and get up to work on some homeworkness before I have to head out to the observatory to do some astronomy labs.

That place was packed. I was in a group of about 40-50 people memorizing where things are in the sky. I had so do another lab of looking through a telescope at the moon. And the deck where the telescope was at had about 20 people on it. Now this deck wasn't very big. When I was final able to look at the moon throught the telescope, I was just amazed! The moon as so beautiful and bright and it had so much detail on it...I can't describe how cool it was to look at it. This just gives me more evidence that God created such a thing for us to look at. That is his beauty that we are looking at in the night sky.

Our God is so cool. Just the small things in life can bring us so much joy. Things like while you are at work climbing around in the ceiling, or having someone message your back, or getting a number to go and look at a recording studio, or looking at an amazing moon! What a day it was to live in God's presence. He is always there and he does care about us. Although we may have good days and bad days, he loves us all the same!

Psalm 136:1
Give thanks to the LORD, for he is good.
His love endures forever.

Psalm 136:7-9 (emphasis mine)
who made the great lights—
His love endures forever.

the sun to govern the day,
His love endures forever.

the moon and stars to govern the night;
His love endures forever.

Just let go

Today, I was reading in Luke 9 and right at the very end where it talks about The Cost of Following Jesus.

As they were going along the road, someone said to him, "I will follow you wherever you go." And Jesus said to him, "Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head." To another he said, "Follow me." But he said, "Lord, let me first go and bury my father." And Jesus said to him, "Leave the dead to bury their own dead. But as for you, go and proclaim the kingdom of God." Yet another said, "I will follow you, Lord, but let me first say farewell to those at my home." Jesus said to him, "No one who puts his hand to the plow and looks back is fit for the kingdom of God."

I started thinking about this passage and well, I was pretty convicted and still not quite sure where I stand with it. Jesus said to these three men to follow him. But Jesus hit them at the heart, where it hurts the most. He told them that they had to let go of certain things before they could start to follow him.

I had to take that and apply it to my life. How much am I still holding onto? I can say that I am still running and following after Jesus but what am I holding onto that is behind me and keeping me from getting closer to him? It is like you are running as hard as you can in one direction but you are not getting very far because there is a parachute attached to your back with the wind blowing in the opposite direction. All you have to do is release the parachute so that you can run. I know that as life goes on that I will let go of a lot of things and I will cling to many others. That is sadly only because I unfortunately love this sinful-broken world. I wish it was not this way and that Jesus would take me home already but as Philippians says, I am still here for a reason.

I can only ask you this as I realize what is holding me back...what are you still holding onto?

Pretty much awesome!

The bass guitar has to be one of my favorite instruments in a band and I have to say that this is pretty cool



And as far as more classical instruments go, the violin would be one of my favorites, but this too is pretty cool



But I love running sound the most!

Let me catch you up some on life since El Paso. I told my boss at Stanley Steemer that I would be able to stay till about mid-august while most everyone else came back on August first. I let the peeps who went back on the first borrow my car because they needed an extra car to go back and the few of us that stayed were going to be able fine without it. Well, I didn't think to check the oil and neither did they and so my car died. It blew a piston rod and is no longer useable. We sold it for what the body is worth and going to save that money for a new car. Well, new car to me...probably used. Because my car died, my parents and I are going to be a two car family until we get another one.

I am still doing sound for The Rock (www.rockrevolution.com) and for Summitview (www.summitview.com). We just had out first service last Friday....and that seems to be worded wierd. Anyway, it was freaking awesome. The service was great and God did some pretty awesome stuff. The week prior, I was working to get out new place ready, which turns out to be an awesome venue. Last Friday though, before the Rock, it was seemed like chaos all around. Partly because we have a pretty young crew as to what they are doing in their ministries and so I had to help out all over the place. I felt like I was being pulled in a million different directions. But with God's help and strength, I made it through the night. By the time I got home, my legs just ached and I was ready for bed.

Instead of working nights at the church building as a building attendant, I am now working days there as Chris's side kick, the facilities guy. I just started this week and I worked on sprinklers with Chris and Greg, our boss. It was much fun.

I am also now on a new team...or rather a combined team. The discipleship team that I was on just joined John Larsen's team to make a huge team. We had our first team yesterday and it was fun. We are going through Philippians and we started with 1:1-18. We are finishing out the rest of chapter one next week. There are now approximately 20 or so people on our team. I am super excited to be on the team. I think God is going to do some awesome stuff with our team in ways that we probably won't see or understand.

I am taking classes out at Front Range again this semester and I have to say that I am kind of excited for some of my classes. One class that I am excited for my Audio Production class. I get to learn about recording sound and all that fun stuff.

So that is Zach's life as of right now, I'll keep you post for later things