Starting fresh, finishing up, starting fresh

My subscription to Squarespace ended last week, and since I'm, as they say, poor, I have decided to go with a blog service that is more of the free persuasion. And this is it. That's the first "starting fresh."

As for the "finishing up," I'm almost finished with my last semester at William and Mary. While that is most definitely without hesitation a good thing, it does feel kinda weird. Williamsburg has been home for the past 5 years. For that matter, Hampton Roads has been home for the past 19 years. And in about a month, it won't be anymore. Now don't get me wrong, that is some of the best news I've had the privelege of announcing. I am absolutely ready to be out of Williamsburg and Hampton Roads, and I look forward to getting out of Virginia and the US eventually. But even for those of us who have (suffer from?) wanderlust, change is a weird thing. Exciting-weird, but weird nonetheless.

So it looks like I'll be moving up to the DC area sometime in May. That's the second "starting fresh." I'm not sure what I'll be doing yet for a job, or where I'll be living. Well, sort of. One thing I plan to do this summer is get the ball rolling on starting my own business. I was thinking about things a few weeks ago, what I like to do, what I'm good at, what's important to me, etc., and I figured that there's no reason those things shouldn't all come together in what I do for a living. For me, one thing I love doing the most is audio recording and production. I've been doing it since high school, and (if I do say so myself) I've gotten fairly good at it in the past few years. It's something that allows me to flex my creative muscles, while helping other artists achieve the sound they want to create with their music. To me it's both a career and a ministry. It would give me inroads to the music community, a great way to meet people and form relationships through which I can demonstrate the love of God. The reason I got into this as seriously as I have is because people used it as a ministry/relationship tool and taught it to me. The reason I had a professional quality CD recorded 2 years ago is because someone who could have charged a whole lot of money wanted to help me out as a young artist, and did it for free. THAT is exciting to me. I want to pay that forward, several times over.

So if you pray, mention me and this new endeavor when you're talking with God. I really believe this is an idea from Him, and I know I'm gonna need a whole lot more help from Him if it's gonna work. You can pray that He would connect me with the right people, those who need this service as well as those who want to support me in this. I'm not really equipped to do any kind of large scale projects yet, and the equipment for that is far from cheap. Also pray for direction on employment for me starting this summer, because I obviously won't have enough business from this to pay the bills right off the bat.

So that's it for today. I have aspirations to update this regularly...we'll see what actually happens. May His face shine upon you today.