Large Scale Projects

Large scale projects…

… suck. Jacque and I are currently working on a project that involves over 20 different actors ranging in ages 1-70 and it’s complete madness! We’re working from the beginning of Ecclesiastes 3 (a time for love/hate, speak up/stay silent, laugh/cry, etc.). Each segment is only 10 seconds long but requires a TON of preproduction – planning, scheduling, storyboarding to the finest detail, et al. – and to make it all better… it’s due to 2.5 weeks! Well, not it’s due in less than a week, but… yeah.
Large scale projects. Man, are they a pain in the butt or what? I’d have a better time with all this if the due date weren’t so close – from the very beginning! If we can pull this off… oh man, if we can make this video awesome, I’ll be proud as a peach. The Lord has really been pulling through for us. We’ve had to think on our feet and drop things and change things and deal with things (and memorize every version of every storyboard we’ve conjured for this video) and it’s been such a stretch so far that I’m frightened to go into the editing room with the footage.

Oh, and I must never forget how important it is to have team members who don’t flake or whine or lollygag or make excuses or contribute nothing but headache. I must never forget that, because working with people who don’t do much but cause more stress is not worth it – I’d rather work with less people, because in the end we’re doing the same amount of work because this extra useless person wasn’t doing anything anyway! Ugh, frustration.

Let’s see if this “A Time for Everything” video comes together. We’ve been working our butts off, but the audience doesn’t care – the audience only sees what we show them in the end, no matter how long or hard we worked on it, no matter if someone gets shot or poisoned or ran over in the process, no matter how late we stayed up editing or how early we got up to shoot – the audience is ruthless, but if it wasn’t, this wouldn’t be a challenge, and if this wasn’t a challenge, then would it ever be fun?

Peace. It's going to be awesome :)

Trust and No Waiting for Tomorrow

Trust is a funny thing. I trust my mom – I trust her with my life – but sometimes when she’s driving things get a little crazy. I grip the safety handle and grab my heart and say “WHAT are you DOING?” She looks at me and replies, “I’ve been driving longer than you’ve been alive. Relax!”


This is similar to my trust in God. I’m a willing passenger in the vehicle of my life and I’ve gladly let Him take the wheel, but every now and then crazy stuff starts to happen. I grab the dashboard and grip the seatbelt and say “WHAT are you DOING?” He looks at me and replies, “I’ve been God since the beginning. Can’t you trust my driving?”


So there you have it. I trust God – I trust Him with my entire life, this one and the next – but my trust in Him must be greater than my trust in my mother’s driving abilities. Every day my trust must grow tall like a tree, strong like an ox, deep like the sea. I cannot let my trust stay as such a dismal level. An infant has more trust in its soulless, inanimate pacifier than I have in our soulful, living God. Why!?


There is no waiting for tomorrow. This is not a diet plan I’ll pick up after the holidays. This is not a paper or email or task I’ll put off ‘til the afternoon. My trust in God is strengthened right now, and every moment preceding this will be all the more peaceful because of it. Amen.

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