Temple Veil

Greetings to all,

We are a few weeks into this new year already! At the turn of each new year, we all tend to reflect on the successes and failures of the past year and set goals for the upcoming year. Did you make any new year's resolutions this year? Where are you with those resolutions just a few weeks later? Studies show that 88%-92% of all new year's resolutions fail. Why?

The answer is simple. Distractions. We live a world that constantly bombards us with more and more distractions. Our brains are constantly being fed new bits of information that eat away at our ability to focus. Digesting information any longer than a text message or status update has become difficult for many of us. Some of us even crave these distractions. We check our phones and Facebooks in the middle of anything and everything out of sheer habit without even realizing that we do that. If you're even still reading this blog and you haven't already been distracted it's a miracle.

So we set awesome goals for ourselves, but goals take hard work and continued focus. We set out excited and focused, but soon distractions set in, causing our focus to be lost, and we fall right back into our old habits and complacent lifestyles. In the midst of so many distractions and so many things demanding our attention, where should we set our focus and what should we orient our goals toward? The answer is found in Jeremiah 32:39, "And I (God) will give them one heart and one purpose: to worship Me forever, for their own good and for the good of all their descendants."

See, our only purpose here on this earth is to worship our Creator and to be His enjoyment. Worship is much more than an act, it's a lifestyle. When our focus becomes set on a lifestyle of worship, everything else falls into place. A little over a year ago, we embarked on a new journey called Temple Veil with one goal. The goal is to live a lifestyle of worship to our Creator and to travel the world to inspire others to do the same, using whatever means we have been blessed with.

The music industry is a tough business, and it's very easy to get sucked into the latest industry trends and doing whatever it is that will take you to the top. While we are called to be good stewards, and there is an important business side of life, every goal and decision should point towards a lifestyle of worship. The key is always balance. We live extreme lifestyles in an extreme society making balance so critical to attain, which is only achieved through a lifestyle of worship.

So after one year on this Temple Veil journey, we have had the opportunity to do and experience some amazing things beyond our dreams. Our adventures have taken us across North America with over 200 stops in 40 US states and Canada as well as the release of our debut record and radio single. None of those things could have ever happened for us outside of a lifestyle of worship.

We have many goals for 2011 as we are sure you do also. Some of ours include beginning work on a full-length album, making a music video, building a new website with lots of cool features for you, and of course making as many tour stops in as many places as we possibly can. But each of these goals are just ways to contribute this year to the ultimate goal which remains unchanged a year later and for every year to come.

The key to all of us reaching our goals this year is to set them under our single goal and purpose of worshiping our Creator. So next year on New Year's Eve, the question won't be about how many pounds we lost, or whether or not we got to go on that dream vacation, or how many albums we sold. Lives based on those types of goals are never satisfied because no mater what is attained, it is never enough. The question at the close of 2011 will be did we live a year of worship that was pleasing to God? If the answer is yes, then 2011 will be a truly satisfying year, and anything else that happens along the way will just be an added blessing instead of the focus - just the way God intended it. Let's all do this together and hold each other to it for 2011!

Brysson

DeRock

~Temple Veil