Hopeforthehopeless’s Weblog

I’ve decided that the easiest way for me to be a decent blogger is to constantly live my life, and at the same time watch my life as an outsider. My first realization of this was last friday. Let me fill you in first:

I just got married to Jadie on June 7th

I just moved into a different house as soon as we got back from our honeymoon 

I came back to work 2 weeks before the biggest event we do all year

I have had pretty much 3 days of rehearsals every week until today.

Oh yeah, the house had been vacant for 2 and a half weeks before we moved in. So needless to say, in north Florida, it’s time to cut the grass. Oh yeah, one more thing, Jadie’s mom and step-dad were coming in on friday. Friday was my first opportunity to cut the grass, and our yard is huge. This is where, looking back, I learned that I am just 24 and I don’t know everything.

Mistake # 1

I didn’t want to get my nice jeans dirty, so I grabbed some old ripped jeans from the drawer, and went outside. 

Mistake #2

I woke up early, but took my time actually getting going…let Jadie sleep, made some breakfast, watched some T.V.

Mistake #3

Didn’t have a great plan for the most effective way to cut this grass.

Mistake # 4

Didn’t look at the weather, or pay attention to the tremendous heat that I felt days prior.

Mistake #5

No Sunblock

Mistake # 6 

Too much pride and drive to stop early and put some Sunblock on.

RESULT:

Much Pain 

And after almost a week of Aloe…

So I say to myself, “Remember Clint, you ARE just 24…idiot.”

This week starts crunch time. We have 4 days till the prep clock hit’s zero for our July 3rd Community Celebration. Thousands of people from all over our respective area will come together to experience an event that RCC has the opportunity to plan and execute by way of Hundreds of AWESOME VOLUNTEERS. Not to shabby for a rual community.

So here we are. The pressure is on. Let’s see where God takes us.

Just a quick post to say that last night,jarrod and I had the opportunity to facilitate a service gor the students at the we care leadership cnference.
God moved in a HUGE way in spite of all the tech issues and musical uncertainty. It just reminds me that we only tools that is used to accomplish G
od’s will.

This morning at rcc we had planned on working on our multi-site video shot. Saturday we worked and worked on cables and what not. This morning when we walked in at 6am there were issues upon issues. Most of them were fixed on the fly and the rest we have a plan for.
Also in the mist of the day my ‘92 gibson les paul fell out of it’s stand and splintered the headstock. Sad stuff. So it’s getting fixed this week.
I’m looking forward to these next few weeks. I’m sure it will just get busier.

I’m so glad we are on the brink of Summer. Life needs to slow down for a little bit and give me a chance to regroup my team. I feel like there are so many areas I’m not hitting par at that I need a good month to regroup.

In the midst of all of this, Jadie and I are only a few weeks away from lift off. So that is a little extra stuff that’s on my mind.

Don’t let my negative word’s fool you. I am excited about everything going on in my life: the wedding, moving houses, and what God is doing at RCC. I’m just a little spent….

That’s the word…Spent

I love my job. But I hate stress. Therefore, my deli ma is: How can I continue to excel in my job and eliminate stress?

No witty answer for this…I may explore it more, but I’m ready to hear from outside of my own thoughts.

Very creative Video. Thanks to Jadie for this.

First, let me say that RCC was strait up rockin on Sunday April 12th.

We had a guest speaker who also does chalk drawings. (his name is Jason). He blew it up. He nailed it every service. It’s always great to work around professional people. So that was an obvious win.

However, I want to brag on RCC musicians. Wednesday night rehearsal was the greatest rehearsal I’ve been apart of since I moved here. Everyone showed up with their A game. We were able to run the entire set with no stops and were even able to take a 10 minute break. In fact, I was so amazed at Wednesday Rehearsal, I was ready for a “not so solid” rehearsal on Sunday Morning. However, once again, the RCC team threw down. Each service was great musically and I finally felt free enough to lead worship without worrying about chords, structure, or timing.

Even though, all of those were wonderful wins, the best part of Easter Sunday was that there were about 40 commitments to Christ, first time and recommitting. I felt honored to be a part of an organization that is missional and cares about creating relevant environments to connect people and God.

Great Easter.