So, yes…it has been a while. Let me just cut to the chase of what is going on here: I am 15 days away from my due date. That’s right. Sometime within the next two weeks (please, Jesus!) I will be birthing a child. I am too scatterbrained to say anything profound or clever about it. All I want to ask is that, if you are reading this, you would please stop and pray for this new little life.
It has been a long nine months. And then sometimes it seems to have flown by. We have been so blessed as a newly married couple to be part of some amazing things in this city. Eleven of our teens from Dirty Vagabond are becoming Catholic this Easter. And there are new waves of teens coming in all the time. It feels like the highest privilege to quietly witness the hand of God moving someone’s heart. The important thing for all of these kids and for us, I think, is that we are part of a family journeying to heaven together. It’s easy to forget that that is the real reality we are living in. That’s what it is all about.
And then somewhere in the middle of all this, I have been recording a new album to be released this summer. Pretty weird timing, I know. I ate so many baked potatoes in the studio I almost turned into one. And I had to pee about every five minutes. So it made for some interesting sessions. But, it’s just a batch of new songs that have been on my heart. Simple as that.
I miss home still, but it is getting sunny here and the snow is melting. Living in Ohio makes me really really love spring. Stay tuned for updates…I have nothing to do over the next two weeks but think of ways to coax this child into the world. Pray for me! ~KPL