little gifts from God
Everywhere I go, good things happen to me. You know…its like God wants to remind me that in middle of some of the suckiest events in life (well, I guess we are in the aftermath of the worst of it) he is still there.
Tonight, I let Olivia go over Grandma’s to play for a couple hours while I work on the anthem of hope website. We are all set to launch April 1st, so there’s still much left to do. Well, I decide to multi-task and go somewhere to get dinner while working. I bring my laptop into Jesse’s Cafe in West End (Long Branch, NJ) and who do I see but an old friend, Derek. He is sitting there about 90 seconds away from starting his jazz set. Derek used to play guitar with me when I led worship at Calvary Lighthouse. He is a wonderful player and I’m not sure I could have picked a better background to have while I sit here and work. I’m almost done my quesadilla’s now and have to get working…so I’m going to go.
But this was nice. And you can see a video of my man Derek in the right hand column…just scroll down a little, below my twitter updates. I just sent it from my phone.
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UPDATE: I just got home. Two quick things:
- Derek played “I get Misty” – and it was beautiful. Have you heard that song? One of my favorites for obvious reasons :)
- I had a great dinner. There are really only a few places that go all out bringing you the most healful food possible; Jesse’s Cafe is one of them. If you are in the mood for eating well, and in a nice little place by the beach stop in. Let me know if you go.
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I miss Derek. He was a great player and he taught me some cool “cat” life lessons.
I googled Jesse’s… def looks like some place that I should check out. And…not to be picky or anything…but a 6 second video of a “great jazz guitarist” is such a tease! :)
Glad you had a good night.
Darren,
you love Jesus so much you LOOK for Him around every corner, so you find Him! That’s what I try to help people see. He’s there, if you look.
So I’ll still an idiot with this blog thing. I don’t know how to link. Looks so easy went I see someone else do it. I do want to link this blog to mine. But here’s my address if you want to link from your end.
http://yvonnemoss.blogspot.com/
“I get Misty” is one of my all time favorite songs. I’ve heard it a couple of different ways, but Ray Stevens version is the best IMHO.
Have a great day!
I look for those short video clips of your daughter. They put me in the best mood – I just love them :) She is too cute !! I bet you can’t stop hugging and kissing that baby. ;)