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Exercise your right to vote by going to ourstage.com and voting for my song, "The Face of All the World" in the folk section. I'm currently in the quarter-finals!

Thank you for exercising your rights as a concerned citizen!

Last Thursday we played our first real show at Opening Bell Coffee -- a venue that has been on my personal list of places to play for several years. The show went really well, and I'd definitely like to thank all who came, as well as the fantastic people of Opening Bell who made the evening so wonderful.

Also, today, I celebrate my first year of marriage, and I think to myself -- It's been a great year! Our marriage is wonderful, we have shelves abounding with books, two cats that we love, and Adam's excellent job situation has put us in Dallas, where opportunities to play gigs like the one last Thursday abound. And that is only the beginning of the blessings. I am very thankful today.

We've been going to a lot of open mics lately. A coffeehouse in Hurst, called Seekers has a great one. Last night was our second time to attend, and, unbeknownst to us, this open mic was a contest, called "seekers idol." Well, we walked away as one of the top three winners, which puts us in the running for the grand prize: $50 and an opening slot for one of the main acts. If you'd like to see this happen, please join us on Monday, June 30th, so that you can vote in the finals.

My favorite part of the evening was that we didn't play any songs with traditionally Christian lyrics, or talk about faith at all, but after the evening was through a man came up and told me that my singing reminded him of Eric Little in Chariots of Fire, who ran because he could "feel God's pleasure" when he ran. That made me feel hopeful that we are doing something right -- that love songs, even sad ones, can reveal the hope and light and creativity of Christ to the listener.