By now, most of you know the story.  My mind won’t even allow me to comprehend what the Chapman family is going through today.  Keep them all in your prayers.  I don’t think there is anything that could possibly be harder in life to go through.

Late last night, after I heard the news, I got up to check on the boys.  I stood there a little longer than I normally would have.  I realized how much I take for granted in my life and the lives of my boys.  Hug your kids a little longer today.

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You know the rest.  

I just wanted to throw a quick post on here to ask for some prayer for a friend of mine who is currently sitting in a doctors office waiting room, twenty-minutes after his appointment was scheduled, waiting to speak to a neurologist to find out if he has something wrong with his brain.  

For several weeks now he has had severe headaches, and after a bunch of visits to “regular” doctors was referred to see a specialist.  This on top of several other things that have added stress and tragedy in the lives of our friends.  So if you are a praying person, now would be a great time.  Thanks.

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Blogs are a powerful community. I think most people that are in to blogs get that, but sometimes there are stories where a blog quite literally is more of a community than a regular one. Just this week I heard of a musician diagnosed with Leukemia and with no medical insurance raise nearly double the amount of the medical costs from his online community. Another funny story but one that spoke loudly to me was when I joked about needing money to keep me out of jail. I received several phone calls throughout the day from people telling me that they were organizing fund raiser things to find me the cash. And these don’t all have to be associated with money.

Just today I got an email from a frequent commenter, Melody here on my blog.  I have never met Melody but because of the community here she felt comfortable enough to share.  She writes: 

 I posted a brief special “prayer request post” on my blog for my precious aunt, Stacey Adams (in Texas) who is undergoing a massive brain surgery today to remove a tumor. I know that the surgery and recovery are going to be very difficult and intense and I was hoping to have lots of people out there praying for her. I’d also like to have some of those same folks go to this special prayer request link and post an encouraging comment for her to read as she is trying to heal and recover throughout this trial. It’d be great for her to know people from all over are praying for her.

 With all that said - you and your family came to my mind as someone special I could ask to help. So, thank you for taking the time to read over this and God bless.

I think it would be great for all of us to head over there and offer some encouraging words and obviously keep Melody and her aunt in prayer.  This is really what it’s all about.

This is the same mentality that I try to explain to these bands when I am taking to them about blogging and it’s especially true within the Christian music industry. These are the communities that are so amazing to be a part of and I believe have the ability to bring people closer together.  They are also the communities that have the ability to do great things for the industry, great things for people personally, and great things for the Kingdom.

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Pray for our friends. Pray for his wife. Pray for his kids.

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Every once in a while in life it seems like there are more questions than answers and more chaos than peace. Lately it seems like the questions and chaos are stronger than I have seen before, and not just in my own life, but in the lives of so many people around me.

In the past month, a friend of mine lost his brother to suicide, another friend is loosing their house to the poor economy, another loosing a business, and all loosing faith. Not only is their faith suffering, but because of the difficult times, their marriages are suffering, their children are suffering, their friendships are suffering, and even their hope has all but disappeared. And all of these people are Christians. All of these friends have at one point or another been on their face in front of God begging for answers.

I don’t begin to think that I have answers, and I am realizing that I have just as many questions, today as anyone else, but I am realizing that maybe we aren’t supposed to have answers. No one had answers on this day years ago after Christ was killed on Friday, and had yet to rise. What did they think the day between? The “Saturday”? Did those close to Jesus even have the ability to pray? And if so, who were they feel like they were praying to? Everything they had ever believed had been shaken to the ground and there were no answers. How many of us are experiencing “Saturday” today? How many of us are looking to the sky for answers and hearing nothing but the quiet?

The only thing we can do is keep that strand of hope that is “Sunday” and know that things have to change. Anyone else already experienced “Saturday” and made it through to “Sunday”? I know there are plenty of people reading this that need to hear what “Sunday” is like.

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