I am a project on God's workbench, being shaped in Christ Jesus to do the good things God had in mind for me all along.
I grew up wandering around the mountains and bad lands of northern Wyoming. It was there I learned that normal people make music. It was there I first started learning about God. It was there I first understood that to really appreciate the country, you have to slow down and walk through it. And it there that I took up my first instrument, the euphonium.
In between studying music in college, I got into long-distance back packing. It quickly became obvious that I was going to have to either give up on music by the campfire, buy a large horse, or find a smaller instrument. The first option was not seriously considered, of course, and there was no way I could afford a horse. Thus began my long friendship with the penny whistle.
These days I live at the base of the Wind River Mountains with my beautiful wife and daughter, an intrepid but goofy dog, a vegetarian cat, and an impractical number of chickens. Life is beautiful, always challenging, often uncomfortable and painful.
But that's what God's Grace is for.
I just want to be a reliable instrument through which God can breathe his music into a weary world.
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