The Russell-P Project:

My first tattoo...

So after much debate, much thinking and a few drunken nights of wondering, I have decided on the tattoo that I am going to get this Thursday. I have decided to go with a cross in between my shoulder blades. Now I know a lot of you are wondering why the cross, well I will tell you why.

For a good part of my life I when I was younger I was an extremly religious person. I went to church every Sunday and I had a great relationship with God. Well when I was growing up I had a few things in my life happen to me that really made me start to lose my faith. Then when I got to college a few other things happend that made me kind of drift away from the church. Well finally I have gotten back to where I belong. I have gotten back to where I have a good relationship with God and I am not afriad to admit it. The symbology behind me getting the cross tattoo on my back is for the fact that no matter what happens in my life, I know God/Jesus will always be their watching my back for me. This will also remind me that I turned my back on him before and for me to never do it again. That's the reason I am getting that tattoo. Here is a picture of the one I am going to get. Nothing to fancy because I am getting it for the meaning and not to have a cool tattoo. I am also going to get my other ear pierced when I am up in Austin.

On a side note I am getting ready to go do a photoshoot with the band and I will let you guys see the pictures when we get them back. It should be a fun time and maybe I will be able to finally get somenew pictures on my MySpace page.

Rejuvenation

It is nice to know that no matter how many problems you have in your life, no matter how tuff things are, no matter how hard certain decisions you have to make are that there is one place where you can go and someone loves you. That places is church.

This time I am in right now is the toughest time in my life that I have ever gone through. There are a lot of choices that I have to make and a lot of things that have happened to me that make it hard for me. Well it is good to know that I can always go to church and God is there for me. It's just sad that it took me this long in my life to figure that out, but I am glad I did figure it out. God really is amazing and the feeling you get knowing that he is watching over you really is a great feeling.

Hopefully I will make the right decisions in my life in the upcoming weeks or so and things will work out the way they are supposed to.

I need help finding a good church...

So these last few weeks I have been going back to church. In fact I have even gone to church on a Wednesday here and there. You see once again in my life I realize that church is important and it makes me feel happy to go. Back in the day at my old church I used to not really get that feeling.

Well here in lies the problem. You see I am not really sure what church to go to. As of now I have been attending 2nd Baptist here in Houston and I have enjoyed it but the only thing is that it's about an hour drive from my apartment. That's a bit of a far drive for me to make on Sunday morning when my band has shows on Saturday nights. This means I need to find a church that I really enjoy going to that's a bit closer.

The other big problem with the 2nd Baptist is that I don't know anyone who goes there. That means I have been there on my own a couple of times and that is kind of hard for me to go to a church on my own. I need to find some people who I can start to go to church with on a regular basis.

So for any of you people who live here in Houston, what are some of the church's you go to and what do you like about them? With me I enjoyed 2nd Baptist because it was a large church with a non traditional style of worship. They were big into singing and I really enjoyed the music.

My moving weekend...

So Russell-P has had quit a moving weekend. I have had the chance to go and do something that I have not done in a while but yet I feel I have really been missing in my life. I had the chance and opportunity to go back to church.

Last week I got the guts to walk into a church that is here downtown and ask to speak to the Priest. He came to talk with me and it was a great experience. I have realized that the hole that I have felt in my heart for the past years was from the fact that I have been not going to church.

When I was younger church was something that I went to every Sunday and something I enjoyed. Then due to the fact that I had some things happen in my life I got away from the church for a bit. Now by the grace of God, and I really do mean that, I have been blessed enough to have a great girl come into my life who has God in her life and who has helped me get back on the track where I should be. It truly is a blessing that I have met my girlfriend and that because of her I now know that I am going to be getting back into going to church and getting my life right with God.

She truly is the most amazing gift that God has ever given to me. I can not explain how much I love this girl. Not only for the fact that she is the best person in the world but also for the fact that she is the one who is going to bring me back to the church. It's amazing how God works. I just really do thank God every night that he has given me a gift like her. She makes my day so much better whenever I see her. No matter what is happening to me if I just stop and think about her it makes everything else go away and brings a smile to my face. I really am blessed to have someone like that in my life.

We ended up attending church together this past Sunday and it was a great feeling. It's amazing how much of a hole has been in my life due to the fact that I have not been going to church. I am just glad God brought her into my life to bring me back to him.