Rick Mang Music (RM2): What . . . 12,775 total pageviews of this blog . . .

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

What . . . 12,775 total pageviews of this blog . . .

Wow!

Thank you Riva, and Floyd, and others who check this blog out regularly.

Thank you Melissia Mason for encouraging me to give blogging a chance.

12,775 total pageviews of this blog!!! And still counting.

God's grace still amazes me . . . ><>

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Welcome to . . .

Maker of a Joyful Noise - RM2 . . . The blog of Rev. Rick Mang ...

-Ordained United Methodist minister / Senior Associate Pastor
-Certified Therapeutic Music Entertainer,
-Stephen Ministry leader,
-Men's Ministry leader/speaker,
-and Boy Scout Chaplain (local troop and Philmont Training Center)

Rick provides therapeutic music entertainment . . .

-To children in hospitals (as a TME volunteer for Hugworks)
-To seniors at area nursing homes and retirement centers
-At community or church camps and retreats
-For after school and public library programs

Rick also provides musicial entertainemnt . . .

-At local RV parks, campgrounds, and for BSA events
-At local restaurants, coffee houses and house concerts
-For civic groups, community fairs and festivals
-For weddings and funerals
-and at House Concerts

Schedule permitting . . .

Rick is available to be the song leader / music performer at Sunday worship services, mid-week services, Men's or Family retreats, andVacation Bible School (still his favorite music venue).

Instruments that Rick plays include . . .

-6 and 12 string guitars
-tenor banjo
-and baritone Ukulele/Cuatro

In addition . . .

Rick is also a son, husband, father, grandfather, uncle, cousin, efforting Christian, Bible student and teacher, collector of Tilley Hats, folk music historian, folk philsopher, Texas-Arkansas-New Mexico folklorist, wildflower gardener and photographer, multi-species fisherman, day hiker/beach bum who loves the Texas Gulf Coast, the Texas Hill Country, the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas, and "God's Country" in the plains and mountains of Northeast New Mexico.

Thoughts about singing and music . . .

"I've stopped trying to make life work and started to make life sing." - Leonard Sweet

"As long as I have my guitar, I'll be fine." - Willie Nelson

"How can I keep from singing?" - Robert Lowry

"To sing once is to pray twice." - Augustine of Hippo (354-430)

"But music was his life, it was not his livelihood,and it made him feel so happy and it made him feel so good. And he sang from his heart and he sang from his soul. He did not know how well he sang; it just made him whole." - Harry Chapin - chorus of Mr. Tanner.

The "Disclaimer" Thing . . .

It goes without saying, but here it is anyway ....

The thoughts, opinions, ideas, stories, meditations, prayers, and other information written anywhere on this blog are usually my own ramblings and responses to things I have seen, heard, read or witnessed. I write out of the ever changing and conflicted struggle that exists between my head and my heart as I try to live out my life mission in the best and most productive way I can.

What I write or share in no way reflects the views of any church, denomination, political party, friend, relative, writer, musical group, musician friend, artist, fishing buddy, felllow hiker, walker, other blogger, city, state, county, nation, or for that matter anybody else you could ever hope to think of.

Sometimes, the words and thoughts of others are so well written, and touch me so deeply, that I am moved to share them. When and if I share the words and thoughts of others, I honestly try to give and acknowledge appropriate credit, and will do so if you bring it to my attention that I haven't.