I am planning on doing something kind of vulnerable in the near future. I'd sure like to finish the book of Mark that I started blogging about a month or two ago. I think I will try to finish that up before I begin with something new. But this new thing is a 40-day challenge called The Love Dare. It's a book that started out as a plot device for the movie Fireproof. The movie makers actually wrote a book around this plot device and it's become quite a popular seller.
The book is a serious 40-day challenge to re-think and re-focus our love and our marriage partners. Because this is so personal, and because this might get intense, I cannot promise anything going in (like finishing it), but I am going to say "Damn the torpedoes!" and forge ahead and do this thing. There's risk involved. I haven't read it in advance. I only know that my marriage will certainly benefit by doing so. I hope that it edifies those reading this blog. I won't be able to help myself by commenting on musical stuff as it happens in my life around the same time, but that won't be the focus, I'm sure, but just the background of my life as I go through this book.
If you want to follow along, I dare ya to do so. Comment as you wish. You can find the book anywhere, I'm sure, at places like amazon.
This is also a good time to bring up my twitter account. If you like the anecdotal comments about music I'm listening to, what's going on at HM Magazine right now, and lots of other random stuff, etc, it's like a text-only web cam that gives a description of that kinda stuff. My facebook account is basically an HM Magazine facebook account, and both my twitter posts and this blog are posted there, as well.
Well, I posted up the Lee Strobel interview. Tomorrow I'll plan on posting a band interview, like Ruth, Jonezetta, The Showdown, or The Almost. I've got a cover story on The Devil Wears Prada to write today.
Posted by Doug Van Pelt at January 12, 2009 09:39 AM