Look-a-Like Saturday

You tell me... are Ace Frehley and Muammar Qaddafi one and the same?

H1N1

Is it just me or is this fashion designer trying to say, "Stay away Swine Flu!" I think so. I just ordered mine with sleeves (of course) and an LSU logo! WooHoO!

For health!

dh

Nashville Renaissance

This is a bit weird for me. I'm staying at the Nashville Renaissance. It's not quite swanky-swag but it ain't the Super 8 either! It's a fixture of downtown Nashville and has been well-utilized by the music industry for years - in ways beyond parties and events! Twenty-one years ago I roamed these "hallowed" halls NOT looking for my room or the suite of my manager or A & R team. Nope. As a starving musician, I prowled these halls looking for trays sitting outside of rooms so I could scarf-up leftovers!

I quit Nashville in 1989. That was the day the music died. Fast-forward about twelve years - in my basement, in the coffeehouses of Baltimore, in Way of Life Community Church (mywayoflife.org) - something started happening. The music was being born . . . again.

And here I am at the Renaissance - French for rebirth. Did I mention this is weird for me? I'm a bit nostalgic, sad, hopeful, delighted. Sounds like I'm in the mood to write some tunage!

Peace and love!

dh

Look-a-Like Wednesday

OK... today it's US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and the mastermind behind "The Body" of Beta III, Landru from Star Trek (TOS).

Cheerio!

DH

Look-a-Like Monday

I know I'm getting a little carried away with this . . . but don't you think the freaky-deakyness of Madge's frame and the Body Worlds of Dr. Gunther von Hagens deserve an honorable mention? Just sayin'!

Look-a-Like Friday

Is it just me or do Rosa Delauro (Democrat, Connecticut) and Ron Wood (Rolling Stones) look alike?

Teaching from the Heart

As a pastor, I am constantly speaking to a live audience. And if that is not enough, I drone incessantly to an online audience as well. You'll find my mug and muddle on vlogs, blogs, tweets and other "social media" forums. I can't help myself! I'm a "teller". I tell people stuff.

Lately, however, I've been much more extemporaneous, especially in my live audience formats. I've been teaching from the heart. Jesus said, "Out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks" (Matthew 12:34). I have some heart-stuff ... in abundance. That heart-stuff is the subjects and topics that fascinate me, things I've studied and stewed on for years. It's the stuff that resulted from probing, provocative questions propelling me into seasons of deep research and contemplation. It's the stuff about which I'm irreversibly, unabashedly passionate!

And I must say, I've been having a Hee-Haw time! It's not that I was never extemporaneous in my delivery. It's not that I forced myself to speak only on things about which I was dispassionate. It's just that I've had an epiphany. Like ... it's time to say THESE things. Like ... I've been released to go HERE ... NOW. And I'm lovin' it!

I don't know if this makes sense to you but it does to me. I'm following my heart and having a blast!

Peace and love my beloveds!

dh