Catching Up

Catching Up


Soooooo, it's been a long while since I touched down with a blog..... Well, I've missed ya'll too! lol :)

A lot has happened within the past year, so here is a blog on me helping you all catch up with me. On June 7, 2011 my wife had our 4th child, Joshua Emmanuel Cook. He was born healthy and beautiful, and he was the last  of our family. We were done having kids...... Sad to say on August 8, 2011 our baby boy died, unexpectedly and unannounced from SIDS... His death has caused us to go on a CRAZY journey spiritually, hanging on the cross of Christ for our lives..... We've been through A LOT!! My wife has had about 7 miscarriages throughout our 10 years together, but losing our baby that we held, kissed, changed, bathed, smelled, hugged and so on was TRULY different.

It's been a process that we have been walking out towards healing, a HARD arduous experience.

Other than that, all of you or some of you may know that I've been on my music grind hard. I put out "Certified" my first mix tape in January of 2011 and now I'm on schedule to release my second mix tape "My Lot" on January 1, 2012. With the first video and single off the mixtape debuting on November 21..

This process has been EXTREMELY hard as well, starting and building from the ground up isn't a easy thing. People have a hard time giving unknown artist or "nobodies" a chance of which I fall into that category. So all around it's been a VERY hard journey for me through this past year.

Concerning my faith....... I've reached a place where I look at where the church (the western church) is and I'm disgusted. I'm not satisfied with what I see and I want more of what true christianity is. I don't want to be involved with a lot of the stuff I see and or hear, I don't want to be around the fakes and the phonies, I don't want to be around the pharisees and sadduccees, I don't want to be around the zealouts who have no grace, mercy or compassion. I realize more and more just how sick I am and how much I need a physician to heal me and save me. And Jesus is that doctor. I realize more and more how I have NOTHING to offer HIM, even my body isn't much of anything unless HE stirs me up and uses me HIMSELF!!!

So, here's a quick catch up, just like 2 Corinthians 3:3 says, " Your very lives are a letter that anyone can read by just looking at you. Christ himself wrote it—not with ink, but with God's living Spirit; not chiseled into stone, but carved into human lives—and we publish it."

So, here I am, again, the good, the bad and the ugly all wrapped up into a fallen body that has been redeemed by the perfect one -JESUS..

But through ALL this trouble and turmoil, I have one thing that I do know and it's set in concrete, and that's

GOD IS DOPE!!!!!!!