Well, in defense of breaking my once a week resolution...I've actually written a few things on Facebook, and write at least twice a week to my Hawaiian (Hawaiian as a resident, not a native) cousin, Stephanie.  And my emails to Stephanie are quite lengthy.  I seem to purge the writing bug through that outlet.  Then when it comes time to write a post ideas flit in and out of my head like tiny homeless birds.

I've been thinking, though, that I would like to try to put into words how music has affected and shaped my life.  Talk about lofty aspirations...how hard is that?  How does a person attempt to describe emotion, revelation, change?  To discuss the merits of Huey Lewis vs. Sting vs. U2?  To make another understand how I felt when singing Mozart's "Requiem" in college or when leading worship in the present day?  To convey the frustration of having dozens of poems and lyrics at the ready but lack the understanding of theory and composition to finish them?  

Maybe...slowly but surely, I'll let the words find the way.  Perhaps in the midst of all of this sorting, shaping, and revelation...I'll figure out how to finish those songs.  Perhaps I'll find the music hidden somewhere, deep in the memories of my past or in the hope of the future.  

Perhaps all I have to do is to simply give everything to God and try again.