I finally got tired of not being able to use my media keys for Rdio so I took matters into my own hands. I downloaded a utility that allows you to setup global keyboard macros in osx called Keyboard Maestro. Since I couldn’t remap the actual media keys I decided to map the function keys under them since I never find myself using them.

For the picture inclined here is a tutorial …

First things first get the Rdio Desktop

1 - Add a new macro

2 - Give your new macro a name. In this case it is “Rdio - Play/Pause”

3 - Click New Trigger and select Hot Key Trigger and use F8 if you want to be like me … or if you want to use the function key under the play/pause media key

4 - Click New Action to open up the action dialog

1 - Add the action to Activate a Specific Application

2 - Select the Rdio Desktop from the application dropdown

1 - Add the Type a Keystroke action

2 - Tell it to use the space keystroke

3 - Add the Switch to Last Application action

Now repeat this for the Next (control + right arrow) and Prev (control + left arrow)

We fly our early tomorrow morning (6:15am) headed for Haiti by way of Miami. Thanks to all my amazing friends and family who donated to make this trip possible, I was able to raise all my funds necessary. Please be in prayer for myself, Chris Harris, Michael Bowles, Tommy Ray, Monica Maxwell and Mark Gumm. Mark is the director from World Orphans who is facilitating the trip.

Or travelitenerary (in CDT) is as follows:

Saturday, October 16th
6:15am ➠ 8:10am ● Birmingham ✈ Miami
1:10pm ➠ 3:10pm ● Miami ✈ Port-au-Prince

Wednesday, October 20th
9:20am ➠ 11:30am ● Port-au-Prince ✈ Miami
6:45pm ➠ 8:45pm  ● Miami ✈ Birmingham

We will be partnering with Mission Dela 1 Eglise De Dieu Dela Bible ENH, a local Haitian church. We will worship with them on Sunday then visit the 20 families who are housing orphans from the earthquake on Monday and Tuesday. We currently have families in our church sponsoring the families so you will get to see pictures and video of what your money is providing for them.

There is a good chance we will be speaking at the church on Sunday as it is the custom to offer the guest an opportunity to preach or give a testimony when they arrive to worship with them. We are not sure exactly what opportunities we will get outside the church itself but we will also be telling the people we meet of God’s great love for them. Many of the Haitians practice Voodoo and I am not sure what they have heard of the true gospel, so pray that theirs eyes are opened to truth.

Lastly, we will be planning for a return trip scheduled for early 2011. We will be looking for areas inside the church as well as in the neighboring community.

I can’t wait to meet our brothers and sisters in Haiti. Please be in prayer for us as we go, and for our families that we are leaving behind that have made it possible for us to go. Also, if you wanted to come by keep Sara company or bring a meal and eat some dinner with her I know she wouldn’t complain :)

We are a little over a month away from leaving for Port-au-Prince Haiti and I am getting more and more excited as the details are starting to come together.

We will be partnering with a church that has taken 20 orphans into various families in the church. The goals for the trip are primarily to assess the needs of the church as a whole and decide where we can help the most. We will visit the families that are taking in the orphans and gathering information (pictures, video, biographical) so those supporting the orphans can better pray for the kids. We will visit the church on Sunday morning and begin building a relationship with them.

There will be a larger trip, most likely February of next year, where more people will go and take action on the needs that are assessed this trip. Pray that we will be like minded with the Haitian church and the Spirit will unify us. Pray, also, that God will gives us discernment and wisdom so that we will be able to best decide the next step of our partnership. Also, pray that we will tenderly love and care for these orphans who are still suffering from the traumatic effects of the earthquake.

What a beautiful way this will be to put James 1:27 into action.

I was needing to get a few things done right after Isaac woke up from nap. As you can imagine that is not easy to do with a 2 year old, so I called on my old friend Netflix so see if it could be of any use. I pulled up some Dora (or Dorie as he pronounces it) and pulled up a chair and let him sit with Daddy while I finished up a few things.

It was actually pretty nice for both of us. Except now he wanders into the office saying “I watch Dorie” quite a bit now.

Every now and then I decide to take a page from Crumley’s book and tonight began a new page to pull from. I decided I would run without a watch or a phone (I use the GPS for distance) and just enjoy running. How long will I run? Until I get tired of running and head home.

I normally enjoy running with my iPod so I can listen to an audiobook but now the iPad has converted me back to a person who actually reads instead of listens (thanks Kindle App). So without the distractions of music or audiobooks, or questions like “what is my pace” or “how long have I been running”, I found it was quite nice to just be quiet.

After the first hill, which requires some concentration because I am a little out of shape right now, I began to meditate on scripture that I was memorizing. I was meditating on Galatians, and it is leading me to a new understanding on freedom in Christ and what it means to be heirs with Christ. But that is a topic for another blog post, one I will write soon enough. This is about finding the joy of just running with no agenda.

This freedom from the clock and the pace monster is a great way to be alone with your thoughts and there is something so natural about running. Even if you are slow or just generally bad at it I recommend getting out there, but leave the watch at home and just run.