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Get Up

Proverbs 24:16, “For a righteous man falls seven times, and rises again, But the wicked will stumble in calamity.

Getting back up is hard. It’s extremely hard. I mean, what do you do when you wake up in the morning and the day before was a total flop? These are some of the things that have been banging around in my head for the past few days.

But the thing not to do is to beat yourself up about it. Then it’s a lose lose. If we are supposed to love others as we love ourselves, it’s not exactly in our favor to kick ourselves while we’re down. The thing to do is to accept God’s love, mercy, and grace, and know that God fully anticipates the fact that we will fall (not that that necessarily has to mean sin).

A righteous man may fall seven times, but the wicked stumbles. It’s like the wicked is trying desperately to avoid what he has coming. A righteous man, however, accepts his fate, learns, grows, and gets back up.

So what are you waiting for?

Get up!

November 8, 2025

Christianity, Hope, Jesus, Perseverance, Proverbs, Righteous
Bravery and a Coin Toss

Have you ever come to an important decision where you could truly go either way? That’s how I felt today. I was faced with a very big decision — and I was torn, even on the peace I felt from God.

As I knelt in prayer, it felt like a coin toss in my soul — a 50/50 offer to the Holy Spirit to lead the way. Part of me was excitedly curious, and the other part was terrified. And in my soul’s eyes, mid-air, it was as if God grabbed the coin, smiled, and said, “Why don’t you just be brave?”

I felt more than peace — I felt an unexpected freedom. How many authoritative figures in our lives set the stakes on decisions and hold us at a metaphorical gunpoint over the outcome? Yet in that moment, on my knees before God, I felt the freedom to fail. If it all goes sideways — if the ship sinks — if I go a direction knowing it may not go as planned — at least I’ll always be able to look back and know I showed bravery in the face of risk and the unknown.

Because after all, why leave fate to a coin toss when you can grab the coin mid-air and run?

November 1, 2025

Bravery, Christianity, Growth, Jesus Christ, Prayer, Reflection, Unkonwn
Sleep and Sacrifice

For over a month now, I’ve been committing to at least 7–8 hours of sleep a night. It’s been incredible—and frankly, life-changing. The problem is that it’s also a constraint that’s preventing a good amount of work from being accomplished.

Someone recently made the point to me that “death to self” includes sacrificing sleep much of the time. However, I’m adopting the perspective that God gave me this body with a need for a certain amount of sleep, and getting 8 hours isn’t fleshly—it’s God’s design and creation. It’s simply a constraint I’m meant to work within.

I also don’t have kids, so…

We’ll see how much my perspective changes then.

October 25, 2025

Christianity, Discipline, Sacrifice, Sleep
The Ultimate Pendulum

John 3:30 — “He must increase, but I must decrease.”

It’s a pendulum, and it can only swing one direction at a time. Either Jesus is increasing and I’m decreasing, or it’s the other way around. What fascinates me about this is the question: what if God has called me to build or create something? Isn’t expression the act of exuding oneself? Is it possible to let Jesus increase in my life by embracing who He’s made me to be and simply going for it?

There are so many practical things I still want to figure out. I want to learn how to walk, talk, think, build, and refine the way Jesus wants me to. To let Him increase in my life as He works through me in the way He chooses.

Ultimately, God has already given us countless commands in His Word to obey. And honestly, that’s enough. In striving to obey, we’ll feel the flesh dying while we sense Jesus rising up in all kinds of situations.

Let’s commit to this pendulum.
Let’s let Him increase a hundredfold.

October 18, 2025

Christianity, Devotional, Humility, Jesus, John
Changing Lives

We have the capacity to change lives.

Sometimes it takes nothing more than a smile, a kind word, an encouragement—or maybe something bolder and more direct. The opportunity is always there. So why don’t we take it?

This has been my prayer: I want to change lives. I want to take life by the reins and say, “God, go for it. Give me the words. Give me the thoughts. Give me the Scriptures. Give me everything I need to change one person at a time for the better.”

And that’s exactly what God has been doing—day in and day out. It’s wild. It’s fun. It’s work. It’s effort. It’s joy. It’s everything I’ve wanted—not just to hope I’m making a difference, but to actually see it unfolding every day.

And this is only the beginning. I know it.

October 11, 2025

Christianity, Gospel, Hope, Transformation
Consumed With God

I want to be consumed by God.

The phrase “on fire for God” doesn’t cut it. I want to be burnt to a crisp.

I want it to be undeniable that God has seared His hand into my heart—so deeply that people have no choice but to give Him glory and reconsider their path.

I remember what a wise older man once told me: “The more on fire you want to be for God, the more you should read His Word.”

I also think of the verse: “Without wood the fire goes out.”

So by God’s grace, let me pile wood upon wood—the wood of His Word—and let His grace take it from there.

Amen!

October 4, 2025

Analogy, Bible, Jesus Christ, Metaphor, Seeking God
Memorize God’s Word

Of recently I have been beginning to memorize God’s Word much more. It’s life changing. It gives backbone to decisions and clarity for moments that I otherwise either wouldn’t know what to do or wouldn’t have the courage to do it.

The decision to becoming more serious about memorizing God’s Word seems to have sparked a new era of adventure. There have been many more trials and challenges, but it’s pretty exciting.

Super pumped to see what God does.

September 27, 2025

Adventure, Bible Verse Memory, Gospel, Jesus Christ, Seeking God
Looking Back

I came here to write a blog post, completely unaware of how shocked I’d be by the previous one.

I had no idea what I was going to run into 3–4 months later. Zero idea. And there’s no way you could have convinced me I’d take an absolutely massive, insane pivot. No chance.

A few hours ago, I was explaining to my wife how much adrenaline is coursing through my veins because of the nature of this journey. The two months following my last post, I felt like quitting—time after time after time. But something kept me up late every night: that nagging sense, “I’m called to this. I don’t know where I’m going, but it has to happen.”

I’ve joked with her while watching shows or movies, “I feel like this is a multiverse and we just happen to be in the one universe where they survive, because the chances are so low.” And today I said, “That’s how I feel about how we got here and where we’re going. Nothing’s even truly happened yet, but I’m already riding that one scenario where the odds were so low that we have to see it through to the end.”

God gave everything so far—the ideas, the people, the encouragement, the resources, the opportunities, the conversations. All of it. God put something in my chest, and a large part of me knows I’ll go insane if I don’t get it out. I have to. I don’t have an option.

In a few months I’ll be stepping into the world’s arena—the market as a whole. The big stage. I feel like a David going up against a Goliath.

And I’m so pumped.

I need it.

I want it.

The journey is about to get brutal, and I hardly even know what I’m signing up for—but my God is the God of the universe, and He’s calling me to something I can’t possibly fathom.

Watch out, world.

I’m coming.

Soon.

#Skydeca

August 22, 2025

Skydeca
No Turning Back

This phrase has been ringing through my mind.
I can’t turn back. I’ve come too far. I’ve sacrificed too much.

This is also a fallacy that is many people’s downfall to be sure. They just can’t seem to learn their lesson. They just aren’t cut out for whatever venture they want to do are think they are capable of doing.

Maybe I’m in that boat.

Maybe I’m not.

But there’s no turning back.

God’s called me to something. And I honestly can’t even say I’ve been able to put my finger on it yet, but I know I’m on the path. I have to be. After all the prayers I’ve prayed and people I’ve known and talked to. After the peace I’ve felt… I know. I can’t turn back.

There’s something straight ahead. I’m going to find it. It could be miles. It could be lightyears. But it’s there, and God wants me there. And regardless of how far, I’m just pumped I’m on the path. It’s a calling. I hear it. And after all I’ve known and experienced, I’m really, really thankful to look ahead and think…

“No Turning Back.”

February 6, 2025
On Creating
I suppose writing on a blog (or writing in general) is a skill. It takes a healthy dose of refining. Since I hardly write on it, I’m hard pressed to say that it’s refined at all. I’d wish that I would write on it more.

I think I’ll just vent a little bit of what’s been weighing on me for weeks and months.

I’ve been depressed because I’m a creative, and I haven’t been creating…

I want to create.

Desperately.

But for whatever reason it’s been burned into me that one of the highest ideals to attain is to be a well rounded person that doesn’t fall short of any of the responsibilities in my life. Let’s take a look at the responsibilities……
- Devotional walk with God.
- Marriage.
- Housework & chores.
- Yard work (because it’s a beast of its own).
- Friendships to sustain.
- Church involvement.
- Music project for friend #1.
- Music project for friend #2.
- Short-term project for friend #3.
- Looming easier project for friend #4.
- Podcast editing.
- Exercise (well… it’s been awhile on that).
- Sleep (never thought about it as a responsibility until now, but I suppose I owe it to my body).
- Day job, of course.
- Misc (I know there’s more… just not coming to mind…)
Why do I have to be well rounded? Why?! I feel like when I give all my time to be well rounded there’s no time left to create. For my inner creative to breathe and ebb and flow. I know the time is there if I’m willing to make it. Right now I’m trying to finish some music projects for other friends, and I keep telling myself I WILL SAY NO TO PEOPLE AFTER THAT.

Going to say this again for definitive understanding.

I WILL SAY NO TO PEOPLE.

Since this is turning into a rant I’m going to own it.

This season has felt like the first season in my life where I’m learning to actually stand up for myself and for my time. It’s like… technically speaking I don’t owe my time to anyone in specific except to my family and to God. They have a claim on my life. Yes, I want to serve others, but since I’ve drained myself dry with others, there’s no time for me to grow into who I need to become in order to best serve God and others in the future. Thus, the beautiful word, “no.”

At the end of the day, I just want to create music…
I just want to express…
I want to release something on Spotify for crying out loud.
Please, Lord. Please.
April 14, 2024