The World According To Chris Brewer

Yeah, baby. Tonight I had the full pleasure of not having to worry about being called into work on a Wednesday night. Since our shop is done with all the summer events (i.e. Air Force band concerts, special presentations) that always happened on Wednesday and interfered with my need to attend church, I now have freedom to go to youth group every week. It’s something I always took for granted until now. When you only get to go to youth group once in the past month and it’s something you really enjoy for many different reasons, you get really super pissed. But now I’m back in full force.

So that being said, tonight church was really awesome. We had a great time in worship, and we sang good song after good song. For some reason, tonight it was easier than most nights to get into the worship. I think it’s because there was already a good atmosphere of worship in the building. Some people had to have been praying for the Holy Spirit to move tonight in a way that would relate to the youth, and you could feel God’s presence during the worship service. There wasn’t a big display of shouting, running, jumping over pews or swinging over lights — instead it was a movement that involved everyone standing, raising their hands, lifting their voices with everything that was within them and worshipping God.

It was awesome to see, and a huge encouragement. It also made me realize that I am going to miss Lakeside Church when I deploy to Iraq, and I had to stop singing for about half a song and actually take it all in. I realized this was the most active, close-knit youth group I’ve ever been involved with. It’s amazing. Great people who are dedicated to the Lord first and then each other. That’s what it’s all about. No more, no less. I love everyone there.

After worship, there was a guy who came up to speak. He came from John and Barbara’s (our worship and youth leaders, respectively, and dedicated readers of my blog — thanks guys!) old church, Bethel Temple, and what he had to say was really good. I want to say his name was Jerry, Bill, Steve or something like that. Wish I could remember it. But anyway, he spoke about how we all need to honor God and strive to be holy in everything we do. He exhorted (good Bible word there) the youth group and told everyone that we were one of the best youth groups he had seen. It made me proud to be a part of it, once again.

I need to say once again how amazing Melissa is. She has these awesome black stiletto boots that are just absolutely stunning, captivating, mesmerizing, etc. at the same time. Those boots are awesome. There are not enough words in the English language that can adequately describe how wonderful the boots are, so I will make one up myself. Magnamarificious. Melissa’s boots are absolutely magnamarificious.

So magnamarificious, in fact, I can barely type. Esfs seojtkggrocv. ere,m ekeso-3. #Skf$?

Uh, anyway…she wore the boots to church and told me she wore them just for me. What an amazing woman. She came over and sat by me, we stood in front of the church with everyone worshipping, sat together during service (listening intently of course) and and we talked for a bit afterward. Good times in the Lakeside Church sanctuary.

In other news tonight…
- No hurricane yet. COME ON STORM. I WANT TO TAKE PHOTOS OF YOU IN ALL YOUR DESTRUCTIVE GLORY.
- Tomorrow I have to go on an all day video shoot. Bleeecccchhh.
- ITunes 5.0 is the best audio player available, in my opinion. That being said, I have actually started purchasing music from it instead of illegally downloading tunes. Amazing.
- This site will be UPDATED, BIG TIME, in the near future. It will include a lot of videos and songs I have made.

That’s all for now. Rock on with your bad selves, don’t do anything I wouldn’t do, and have a great night!