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Today is a rare, precious and beautiful day off in KeynoteLand. Let me catch you up!

This week presents a little bit of a shift in direction here. Our classes ended last week, and this week is totally devoted to all-day rehearsals with our bands. We've been running our show start-to-finish, focusing on everything from musical accuracy, to our stage presence, to the actual content of our verbal transitions and speaking parts. Keeping track of all that stuff at once is actual pretty tricky... but we've had a lot of help. Our team is PHENOM.

One week from today, June 7, is the day that my band rolls out of Westfield and heads south! We'll be hitting a variety of venues throughout Florida, North and South Carolina, and Georgia, but the vast majority of those shows will be in prisons. We have 19 tour dates lined up for the next few weeks... which is a ton, by the way, even for Keynote.

In the meantime, I'd like to invite you to Young Isaac's dress rehearsal on Monday, July 5, at 8:15 pm! The physical performance will be held at Keynote's East Street Studios facility, directions here. Not in the Indy area? No problem! The Keynote dress rehearsals will be streamed live over the Internet at keynote.org/sp/live. So either way, watch us!

Prayer requests:
- The hearts of our audiences, that God would begin to prepare them now for what they'll be hearing from us in a few weeks. We could play every note perfectly and speak every word with eloquence, but if the Spirit of God doesn't go before us... we're just making a lot of noise, when what we really want is for God to rock worlds. We live in the fascinating tension of working hard to perform well, but being completely dependent on Him to perform actual life change.
- Energy and alertness for my team and I, outside and in. Sure, our voices and fingers get tired from playing music, but the mental exhaustion is a little tougher to deal with. We're getting along famously at the moment, but as our schedule gets even busier, we're just gonna need an extra measure of grace to have love and patience with one another.
- ...me. God is starting to push a lot of stuff around in my heart, challenging old patterns of thought, and draw my heart to ministry. I begin to sense that this has some pretty big implications for life after Summer Project and even life after college, and while being extremely cool, it's a little scary. Pray that He would help me make sense of all this stuff swirling around in my mind.

Thanks for loving on me... I am definitely one lucky duck to get to do this. Grace and peace!