Man, what a great party/concert last night at the Red Eyed Fly in Austin. I've gotta hand it to Brandon Jones of the band Fairfax -- he knows how to book a show. Man, the people came out in droves. That lil' club was packed. My friend Daniel Tucek, who helped me set up and took some rad photos, told me he had to pee, but he was holding it because he didn't think he could make it through the crowd! That's always fun when people show up. The bands were rocking.
Josh, from Hundred Year Storm (who are included in this next issue's "Pick of the Litter," by the way) played his last show with the band, as he's heading off to Kansas to join up with International House of Prayer. He was so tickled (did I just say "tickled?") to see his picture with the Drama Dust girls in the last issue. He told me he'd been getting a hard time about that (but now those girls are famous, thanks to the ABC show Wife Swap).
The great slam/beat poet guy Peter Nevland was there, just hanging out and enjoying the show. It is always neat to catch up with him and get his perspective on what God is doing, his zany travel stories, and whatnot. Being real is real cool.
1 Corinthians 13 says:
"Love is patient, love is kind, and is not jealous; love does not brag and is not arrogant, does not act unbecomingly; it does not seek its own, is not provoked, does not take into account a wrong suffered, does not rejoice in unrighteousness, but rejoices with the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things."
I love being reminded of this and seeing where the standard or "the bar" is at so I can try to measure up. It's nice to say "I love you," but when you realize a good definition of love, you see that's it's an action verb (not a sentimental feeling).
I like this definition, too:
Love is a commitment to serve; no matter what.
PS I bet our former ad sales director, Wesley M. Denton, is having fun today at the inauguration. He works for a senator in DC. I hope security is super tight there.