2007 has been a crazy year. i can't say i'm sorry to see it go. it's been full of great highs and the lowest lows i've yet seen. here are some highs:

jan: got to visit san diego, and nyc for the first time. great trips to visit great friends.
feb: justin land and roseangela rugiero came on staff at NSC to help me manage the worship ministry here. HALLELUJAH!
march: was easter in march? if it was, it was awesome... over 10,000 people at church. and my brother got married. i was the best man.
april: jonny turned 28, anna turned 29. everybody's getting older.
may: blankenship got married in san antonio. i was the best man. (twice in one year... i am rich in friends).
june: got LASIK surgery. goodbye glasses. justin, jeremy and i write a bunch of songs for the album recording in the fall.
july: i turned 30. i went to hawaii. i went skydiving.
august: primetime begins. over 800 people received Christ at NSC. and we got to play with flames onstage.
september: got to play a couple of sold out shows at the handlebar doing keys for Needtobreathe. that was fun.
october: visited boston. recorded an album with justin and jason hoard.
november: was a blur.
december: visited nyc again. had a ball at the 6 NSC christmas services.

other awesome discoveries in 2007: Budda Amps, Chuck, Matt Chandler's podcast, the sartorialist.

all in all, i'm tremendously thankful beyond comprehension. i have a life i do not deserve, full of great people, great work, and a Great God who reveals to me more each day just how desperately needy i am.

even though i have done some really fun stuff this year, there have been some really trying times... moments where i have come face to face with just how dark and rotten my insides are. this process is still going on, still moving forward... and as i look back on my journal, i totally asked for it. "Search me, O God, and know my heart! try me and know my thoughts! and see if there be any grievous way in me, and lead me in the way everlasting!" - psalm 139:23-24. i don't think God needs to search me for his own information. he has been searching me so that i don't get any lofty ideas of my own holiness. and through it all, he whispers... "i'm still here, kid. i'm not going anywhere."

so, bring on 2008! bring the joy, bring the pain... bring all the pace and the volume. who knows what's next!