This is where I’ll be this weekend!

Check out the worship pastor of this church’s Blog… Bryan Patrick is his name and his blog is at:

http://pursuingyahweh.net

Love,

Vicky

Hey friends…. Just led worship at an event in Edmonton Canada called “YC”. What a great weekend!!

I tried out two of my new songs and was so excited at the response…. thanks for your feedback and for singing so loud

Above is a newspaper article written today and published online about the event. Here are a few more photos…

Any of you Blog readers from Canada? Or have you guys been to Canada?

Love,

Vicky

This is the view from where I work!…. What’s your office window view like?

Vicky

This is a picture of me writing songs in the early hours of the morning this past week… A friend of mine snapped it with her iPhone. I love the grainy-ness and the moment that she captured. I was feeling pretty inspired at that moment and I’m loving the new things I am writing!

Do any of you guys feel more creative late at night? When is your best time to write songs, paint, write poetry, or whatever your creative outlet is?

Love,

Vicky : )

Today I’m shamelessly stealing a Blog post from my friend Wendy Beechward’s blog!

Check out this video…. and thanks to Karen Kipley who was the person who told Wendy about the video!… I love how great things spread from friend to friend!

This verse from the Message paraphrase sums it all up perfectly:

Micah 6:8

‘But he’s already made it plain how to live, what to do,
What God is looking for in men and women.
It’s quite simple: Do what is fair and just to your neighbor,
Be compassionate and loyal in your love,
And don’t take yourself too seriously—
Take God seriously.’

Enough said…
Vicky

My friend Kathryn Scott just launched a brand new website - it’s really cool, so check it out! She wrote the song “Hungry” and has tons of other great songs… if you don’t have her albums, go get ‘em! I love her heart… she is all about Jesus and totally the ‘real deal’

Vicky

Hey guys!

Watch this video… it made me laugh so hard tonight, then get really sad, all in about two minutes. Thank you to my new friend Danielle Strickland (who heads up the Salvation Army in Australia…check out her Blog here!)

I laughed because it is such a clever reminder of our secret motives and ambition to be on stage and in the spot light… And because someone was bold enough to create a video to communicate that message.

It also made me really sad, because worship MUST be all about Him. It’s a great reminder for me as I go into the studio here in San Diego every day this week…. a reminder to make sure I’m focused ONLY on Jesus. If it’s not about Him, then there’s no point writing another note or singing another word. Lets all keep each other accountable to make Him our ONE focus!

It reminds me of John The Baptist in the Gospels. In John 3:28-30 He decribed himself as a “friend of the Bridegroom” – the ‘Best Man” of the guy getting married. John writes ” ²⁸ You surely remember how I told you that I am not the Messiah. I am only the one sent ahead of him. ²⁹At a wedding the groom is the one who gets married. The best man is glad just to be there and to hear the groom’s voice. That’s why I am so glad. ³⁰Jesus must become more important, while I become less important”or other translations say “He must become greater and I must become less”.

John was simply a sign post pointing to Jesus. Imagine on a wedding day if the Best Man had an ego complex and tried to make it all about him! How weird and awkward would that be? Imagine him jumping into the Bride & Groom’s ‘couple photos’ or making any excuse to get the Bride alone and engage her in deep conversation. That would not be cool! In the same way, we mustn’t do that when we lead worship. Our only role is to lead the Bride to the Groom and make it as smooth and comfortable an experience as possible.

Let’s do it well!

Any thoughts on that?….

Vicky