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I'm feeling worn out. I keep wondering lately if my life will ever slow down. Work has been hectic, my classes and serving at Watershed take up a lot of time, I have unfinished projects at home, and I just found out every weekend except for one is booked on my calendar through Thanksgiving (as are the three weekends following Thanksgiving, as these will be the final dates of my next MBA course). I'm sure everybody has felt spread pretty thin before, and that's a period of my life that I'm experiencing right now.

So, about that free weekend. I was just asked to help lead worship at Breakaway in Iowa City on those exact dates with a good friend from my college days. It would be fun to serve with him again, but should I do it? I have a hard time saying no to things, even when I know my life is already really busy. On one hand, it would be nice to know that there's one weekend before Christmas that I wouldn't have to go anywhere or do anything (the weekend happens to be before finals week, so that might make it stressful enough). On the other hand, I know that God has given me my abilities in music for a reason. This is something I'll need to pray about before making a decision.

Despite being busy, I can't complain about life. God has been teaching me some important things lately, for which I'm thankful. So, maybe life will get less busy when I finally graduate (again) in December 2007, but I'm guessing the busy-ness will fill up with something else. I just need to stop living in the future and try to "be all there" where I am today.

On a completely different note (no pun intended), I've just started taking private sax lessons again. I can't believe it's been nine years since I graduated high school and decided to fully concentrate on guitar instead of saxophone. Pastor Tye (the middle adult pastor from my church) is teaching me. We've only met twice so far, but he's a great teacher and very encouraging. Hopefully I'll get my "chops" back and even improve beyond where I was when I left off.