There, I said it.

I can't believe we've had this blog for almost two years and we've never really talked about the thing that most people associate us with...music.

It's funny to see where I am now in comparison to where I was two years ago. Let's see, I think it was almost two years ago to the day that we announced to our church in Hudson, Ohio that we were leaving the music ministry to join Wycliffe. I don't really want to be honest about this, but I probably should be. I was ready to be done with music as a job.

There, I said it.

Don't get me wrong, I loved what I was doing. I loved my church. I loved the people who served wholeheartedly alongside of me. I loved having an incredible amount of creative leeway in the context of corporate worship. (Those of you who know the crazy ideas we somehow executed at Hope know exactly what I'm talking about! Remember the sanctuary waterslide, mountaintop waterfall, and figuring out how to get those stupid curtains to open until 4am the morning before the performance?)

I was ready for something new. Something exciting. Something that had nothing to do with what I had dedicated the majority of my life to.

I was rebelling.

I know...it's a quiet sort of rebellion. Like Tie-day Friday when seemingly everyone else in the building is wearing jeans. Normal people in my position would just toe the line of dressing a little more casual than business on Casual Friday. Me? I throw on a tie.

Even when I was given the opportunity to be EnterMission Coordinator when I was first asked to take this role, I rebelled against my musical roots. Does it involve music in any capacity? No thank you. I'm going to be a Bible Translator.

Funny story. I've been working in Orlando for about 6 months now, quietly rebelling against my musical background. Now...somehow I've found myself full circle as not only EnterMission Coordinator (a weekly gathering of Wycliffe USA staff: including coordinating and leading worship weekly), but coordinating and leading weekly musical worship in my church, being asked to be the worship leader for Delegate Conference with Sarah, thinking and praying about the possibility of being an Arts Consultant/Ethnomusicologist in the not too distant future, and most recently, hanging out with a friend yesterday for almost 12 hours to brainstorm/compose music together for a potential video project.

That'll show all of you! I won't be a musician, I just won't!

All of that is to say that God is humorous. As Julie Melon would say while I was doing swing dance and hip-hop evangelism throughout Western Europe, "God is NUTS!" (Although now it seems like I was the one who was nuts for doing swing dance and hip-hop evangelism in Europe as a 16 year old for two months.)

I feel like He is somehow rebelling against me, though I'm not sure of the theological ramifications of this.

Oh, and I'm loving it all, in case you were wondering.

-Trevor