Okay, so I'm sitting here in a dorm room, trying to write a new blog...with nothing to say.

Oh yeah...almost forgot! "All Avalon" has a website! The place to go now is All Avalon. The name of the board has been changed to All Avalon :: Official Forums, and it is now connected to the website. Speaking of Avalon, did you hear that Melissa Greene has left the group? When I first heard about it, I was shocked, surprised, and sad all at the same time. I mean...beautiful voice, and the girl can just hit those high notes!! :) Well, now I'm excited for Melissa, that she's leading worship at Gracepoint Church in Franklin, and I'm also excited for Avalon, their new member Amy Richardson (Jeremi's wife) and the new album Reborn. Yes, I will miss Melissa's gorgeous voice, but you can't "grieve" forever; at some point you have to "get back up and take the next step" (from Melissa's song "Next Step"). That's what she's done; it's what Avalon has done, and it's what we fans must do! Let's learn to move on, because if we don't, we might miss out on all the amazing and exciting things God has planned for us!

Over at Relentless, we are keeping track of Natalie Grant's new song "Perfect People" on the AC chart. It's still moving up! Yeah! Woo hoo! :) I've wanted to type that all day. lol

I love the message in this song, which is one that Natalie really takes a stance on. It's so easy to just wear a mask and hide what's behind it from everyone. When people ask the rhetorical question "How are you?", we're told the "polite" response to give them is "I'm fine, thank you." But when you say that, are you really fine? Probably not. More than likely, you've got something going on in your life that only God, you, probably your family and maybe a few really close friends know about, and you want to keep it that way. But you're not perfect, and God sees what's really there anyway, so what's the use in trying to hide it from Him? Or anybody else, for that matter? Why are Christians probably some of the biggest masqueraders? And to each other? It really doesn't make any sense to me at all. We've been set free! The Light of Jesus Christ has come into our darkness! What reason is there to hide anything? I highly commend Nat for taking such a stance on this! :)

Well, I guess I wasn't exactly as bored as I thought I was. :)

There's a beautiful hymn that says: "Great is thy faithfulness, Lord, unto me." I listen to that song, and even sing it on occasion, but I sometimes wonder how my faithfulness is to Him. I mean, I don't seem to be very faithful in much of anything. I'll get started on some huge ambitious project that I strongly believe in, and the whole thing ends up taking so much time, so much patience...which I desperately need more of anyway, and then I'm such a perfectionist; I am never, ever, ever satisfied with anything I do until it is completely complete and perfectly perfect. Well, of course it takes a lot of time and patience to get everything right, and to work out all the kinks, so much so, in fact, that I might have to end up enduring a little frustration, which I'm terribly prone to. Sometimes I just get so frustrated, or overwhelmed, with a project I had previously invisioned and dremt of doing; I just give up on it. When I think about how God never gives up on me, I am truly amazed. I mean, if it was me, I would have been done with this crazy little girl a long time ago! I guess I just think that way because I'm human. God is always faithful, even to those of us who admit to being terrible slackers, procrastinators, and impatient people. He is always faithful to us, even when we're not faithful to ourselves, our tasks, or even Him. I'm still so amazed at that, even now as I sit here and type this!

Well, I have decided to start doing this just for my boards. I said for a long time that I wasn't going to let myself become enslaved to these Internet addictions, but sadly, I have; what with MySpace and all those things.

Well anyway, my almost-two-year-old board is All Avalon, a discussion place for fans of the group. We have eleven members, two of which are currently heavily active. If you're an Avalon fan but not currently a member, come on over to the Newbies forum and drop us a line. If you are a member we haven't seen in a long time, come check up on the board. We have a set of featured topics where you can see what is currently being discussed. We're obviously talking about Avalon's new Greatest Hits album and Melissa Greene's new solo release, Next step; but there are some other things too. Come to All Avalon and join us!