Solo tourin'.

I'm sitting here in my friend Bob Kauflin's guest bedroom, which he has graciously allowed me to use while he is on vacation and I am on a three-day empty gap during my tour. I've been touring more and more, and am looking ahead to 2007 with excitement and slight trepidation, as more opportunities open up to play band, solo, and house concerts.

It has been an exciting month, including:

• my first Northwest concerts ever
• a weekend of sun, sand, and shrimp in beautiful Charleston, SC (leading worship at the Proximity Conference with Cason)
• and now an extended trip through Virginia and Maryland (with a swing up to Philadelphia for a house concert on Thursday)
  

Highlights from the tour so far:

• having brunch with old-school Indelible Grace contributor Brian Moss in Seattle
• catching up with my former pastor, Scotty Smith, in Charleston
• Exploring Charleston (Motto: "We're the clean New Orleans!"), including eating amazing barbequed shrimp and grits at 82 Queen
• hearing The Morning over the PA before my Danville, VA concert (a reminder that God is in the process of setting all things right)
• being surprised by my parents, who drove up to see the Danville concert
• passing by Jerry Falwell's personal airport and wondering what the cosmic implications of that must be
• the surreal experience of playing "All I Owe" (with a cellist, no less) in front of the fuselage from Oceanic Flight 815 at Fairfax Community
• Recording a vocal today for a song called "I Come Running To You" for a new project based on The Valley Of Vision by Bob's Sovereign Grace Music [Update: They aren't going to use my vocal on the final record. Zuh?]
  

Tomorrow I hope to do some writing for my new record, as well as catch up on responding to emails. If you live in the greater Baltimore or Richmond areas, please come out to the concerts this weekend and be sure to say hi!