i am an offering

Are you a life-long learner?  I used to be so bored with school and used to not care about it at all.  I am working through some issues in my life that really hindered how good of a student I could have been.  And I am finally learning to actually want to learn.

Part of learning is being responsible.   And unfortunately for me, I’m learning responsibility the hard way.

If you have (or are planning to get) a nice instrument (for example, a Martin DXME Dreadnaught acoustic guitar), take care of it!  You know that little booklet that came with it that says, “The care and feeding of your Martin guitar?”  Yeah.  Read it!  You know the advice that the people at the music store give you?  Yeah.  Listen to them!  You know those little humidifiers that you can buy to keep your instrument in good shape?  Buy them and use them. You can also get a hygrometer which monitors the temperature and relative humidity in your instrument case.  Way cool.

Unfortunately, a temperature change and me not taking responsibility for my instrument has caused the top to cave in and dry out.  There is maybe some hope that with re-humidification I can salvage it, but I’m not getting my hopes too high.

 So, the lesson I have learned is that if you have an opportunity to learn something new, do it.  Don’t just glance at the instruction booklet and toss it to the side and hope you’ll do things right.

With that in mind, if you are a life-long learner and you are interested in knowing more about things involved with worship within the church, Worship Leader magazine is going to be offering online correspondence courses that look awesome!  They range from song-writing to production to sound mixing to personal accountability.  They are going to be offering these courses for $39.  You can find the general information here or you can register here.  The only problem I have with these is that they are only 1-hour long classes.  $40 for 1 hour seems a bit steep, but at least they’re offering them!

So, always keep learning, and hopefully you’ll avoid learning the hard way.

Please let my guitar be okay, please please please

*Well, as of today, March, 2nd, my guitar is actually looking like it’s going to be revived!  I’ve been making sure to keep it humidified and trying to get it back to the right level of humidity, and right now there’s still a little bit of a warp in it, but it plays beautifully again!  Hopefully it will completely un-warp.