I know Brody asked you to come by and tell me that you like the song, but it was pretty cool to hear from so many of you. Thanks for your encouragement….

A few days ago my friend Nick told me about this site.  It’s a site that takes a bunch of text that you provide and creates “word clouds.”  Pretty cool.

Then this morning I saw that Amos Lanka did a post about this site….so I had to try it out for myself. 

I used Psalm 90. 

Brody Harper started a new project, where you find out who your top five referrers were from the past month, and express gratitude by thanking them for pointing people your way.

I actually didn’t know that I could check who my top referrers were….this was a fun project.

Hope you enjoy.

1. Blonderenstroms- This is my wife’s blog. She started it as a way for our extended family to keep up on Bennett’s life, and it’s turned into something she really enjoys doing. Danielle doesn’t journal a ton, so she has really used this blog as a way to mark the day-to-day life of our family. Any of you that have met Danielle know that I married far out of my league. She’s an awesome mom, and I think the blog reflects that.

2. Brody Harper- I think it’s really crazy that I’ve never met this guy in person, but he feels like such a great friend. I wrote him an email a few months ago asking some music/business type questions, and he responded with a really long, helpful email. No one else knew that he was doing this for me - he wasn’t helping me out to get more blog viewers or anything like that. That’s really the way he has been since then. He has gone out of his way to be kind to me, for no reason that I can figure out. It’s been a huge privilege to get to work with him. One thing that I’ve always thought was so cool about Brody, is that most people that are involved with the christian music world don’t have many good things to say about it. But Brody seems to genuinely care about the direction of this industry and wants to invest effort into making it better.

3- Rebecca Schlieman- Rebecca is a friend of ours who also happens to be an amazing photographer. She took some pictures of me a few months back that I’ll be using for some advertising very soon. I’ve know Rebecca for a while now, but just got to meet her husband for the first time when we did the shoot. It was fun hanging with them both…we hope to do it more in the future.

4- My Facebook and Myspace- They are actually #5 on the list, but it’s kind-of lame to end this list with Facebook and Myspace, so i’ll put them both as 4 and get on to another referrer.

5- Andria- I’ve never met Andria either, but she is one of the people who has read and commented on my blog from the very beginning. She is also involved in music and always has such helpful/insighful things to say.

This has been a lot of fun. You should do the same….Brody’s blog has all the instructions. So go check it out.

1. Zach Lind, the drummer for Jimmy Eat World (which is one of the most fantastic Rock and Roll bands of our day), has a blog that is consistently very interesting. He posted some great thoughts yesterday about how we often find our identity in the wrong things… about how we can easily feed our egotism even while doing good things if not for the right reasons. I hope I’m paraphrasing him well. Go check it out yourself here.

2. Enjoyed reading Brody’s Positive Post Tuesday. It’s a really kind post about his wife…who sounds like a cool person. I have been meaning to join in on writing a Positive Post Tuesday myself….I’ll start next week.

3. I golfed in a tournament at this golf course today. The word “tournament” is a very generous term for what my foursome did today….we were 12 over par…..and it was best ball. But that was enough to get us second place in our handicap strata. Sorry no pictures.