Doug Van Pelt

Tomorrow is only a day away

Sometimes when you're a dad you listen to music that's truly "for the kids," and thus I heard a few songs from the Annie Soundtrack on the way to work this morning.

"They will tell of the glory of Your kingdom
and speak of Your might,
so that all men may know of Your mighty acts
and the glorious splendor of Your kingdom.
Your kingdom is an everlasting kingdom,
and Your dominion endures through all generations..."

Even prior to the messianic fulfillment work of Jesus, the Holy Spirit was inspiring the Bible authors (King David is credited with writing Psalm 145) to spread the Word that God was great. It only seems obvious that anyone who has a true encounter with the Living God will come away impressed and wanting to share. His is great and mighty.

"The Lord is good to all;
He has compassion on all He has made."

This is good news in and of itself (even apart from salvation through Christ, but ever more so now).

"The Lord is faithful to all His promises
and loving toward all He has made.
The Lord upholds all those who fall
and lifts up all who are bowed down."

This is really good news to all of us (cuz we all fall), and even more special for a people that endured the slavery in Egypt. Anyone who is depressed, dejected, and beaten down is a prime candidate for His lifting up mercy and attention.

Yesterday all the proofs for the magazine were online at our printer's server, which allowed us to "soft proof" each page. This was about the fastest I'd seen our printer's staff work on pre-production/pre-press. The things I look for at tis stage are glaring typo's in headlines, making sure backgrounds "bleed" off the page properly (.125" or more, to be exact), looking for proper "text flow" (like making sure the last word on one page flows into a complete sentence on the next, with no text "lost"), and making sure there is no color on black and white pages (I had to make some corrections on two ad pages for this, as the ad file was an "RGB" PDF file that should have been "grayscale"). This is the first issue I've designed that is "Perfect Bound," which means it has a spine on it, with printing on the spine, etc. That was fun. I'm also pretty blown away by the kindness showed HM by P.O.D. for the special photo shoot and kind words said in the story, and the columnists and many of the advertisements have a shout-out to HM. That is so cool. I can't wait to see this next issue.

Posted by Doug Van Pelt at June 2, 2005 08:40 AM