Heading into an interesting season…

This year has been interesting to say the least. Late last year, I felt like the Lord was challenging me to fast from one different thing in my life every month of 2008. I wrote last year about the idea of killing off ambition in my life. (By the way, did you know that in Galatians, when Paul lists out the fruits of the Spirit and the fruits of the flesh, he calls ‘selfish ambition’ one of the fruits of the flesh? Crazy. I never caught that until I read it recently.)

I’d love to figure out what godly ambition looks like, but I haven’t yet.

Back to the fasting thing… so, I’ve spent this year fasting from different things that have held my attention in recent years… Sodas, French Fries (silly, I know), poker, the purchasing of shoes, and currently… hamburgers. You don’t know how much I’ve wanted to pull into a 24 hour burger joint on the way home from studio this young month.

I want you to know that I’m not flaunting my fasting. I really do want people to hold me accountable. In July, I’ll start getting ambitious. TV. Yep. The old ‘boob-tube’ is being unplugged from my life in the month of July. August & September are still undetermined, but I know that in October, I’m going Atkins… no bread, no fried stuff, no sugar… and in November, maybe the toughest test of all… I’ll be fasting from Chick-fil-a.

I went into this year yearning for surrender in all areas of my life. I wanted to truly trust God to do the work of bringing my dreams to fruition. I’m telling you… it’s the greatest struggle of my life to let Him enact and dictate His timing and intention for my life.

And, surprise… He is absolutely doing just that. I can’t talk much about what has happened in the last couple weeks, but sufficed to say… through absolutely no effort on my part, something really amazing has happened for Dana, Sean and I. In the next year, you may very well see our influence grow and our music spread in ways that we have dreamed about for years.

I’ll end with this thought that a monk of no great consequence espoused 200 years ago…

“When we work, God rests. But, when we rest, God works.”