I’m a family person, first and foremost. I think I look forward to being around family more then just about anything. Well that might have not been true when there were still new episodes of Veronica Mars on? (Currently Loathing The CW)

Writing has been in my blood forever. In the past few years I realized how much it really means to me. Through my grandfather, God showed me the passion I have for it. I love creating new worlds, full of interesting and passionate people that I come to care about. Stories can be every powerful and I think if I can move one person with my writing, I have accomplished my goals in writing.

I’m very interested in film. I’ve studied it and screenwriting for a few years now. There is so much you can do with films and teles. That you can’t do with novels - and vis versa, of course. I would like to get into that sometime down the road. God willing, after I have published a novel.

I’m currently working on a supernatural thriller that has a lot of action, drama and heart. I hope to have it finished in the next few months. I’m also working on a couple of spec screenplays for television.

I also write weekly for the Christian Writers Forum Blog - which follows each writer as they deal with the struggles of everyday life, while trying to fit in writing along the way.

And of course I have my own blog, Leave Out All The Rest. I like to think of it as ‘pop culture from a Christian perspective.’

Leave Out All The Rest, is my way of surrendering my writing to the Lord. I’ve asked God, “Please leave out all the rest. Leave out all the doubt, all the fears, all the worry. Leave out the influences of the secular world. Leave out everything but You, Lord. Please just put all of You into my work and make what You want of it. I surrender it to You. Leave out all the rest.”

I design websites under this banner. I’ve worked on the Christian Writers Forum, TheCteen, my website and currently working on a site for a friend on addiction, the Office Installation Specialists Inc. website and logo and also helping to improve the Seniors Foundation (of Lincoln) website. I also just finished some ads and a book page for up-and-coming suspense author Mike Dellosso. I will soon begin working with Life Coach and author Kathy Vick to improve her site and build an online magazine entitled “Run Like A Girl” - which is based on her up coming book “Run Like A Girl” (Releases In 2009). If you are an author/writer and need help with a web project or online promotion, I can help.

The name represents my relationship with God, my faith, my life, my soul, my pain - all being intertwined. And it’s also like how everything in life is connected. How you can look back on your life and see every event is connected and God working in your life. That might not make any sense to you all, but it makes perfect sense to me and that’s all that really matters.

If you’d like me to help you with your web project or online promotion, you can e-mail me at dustin [at] dustin-lee [dot] com.

The Motions By Matthew West

This might hurt, It’s not safe, But I know that I got to make a change, I don’t care if I break, Least I’ll be feeling something,

Because just okay, is not enough, Help me fight through the nothingness of this life,

I don’t want to go through the motions, I don’t want to go one more day, Without Your all consuming, Passion inside of me, I don’t want to spend my whole life askin’, What if I had given everything? Instead of going through the motions,

No regrets, not this time, Gonna let me heart defeat my mind, Let your love make me whole, I think I’m finally feeling something,

Because Just okay, is not enough, Help me fight through the nothingness of this life,

Cause I, don’t want to go through the motions, I don’t want to go one more day, Without Your all consuming, Passion inside of me, I don’t want to spend my whole life askin’, What if I had given everything? Instead of going through the motions,

(Take me all the way), Take me all the way, (Take me all the way), Because I don’t want to go through the motions, (Take me all the way), Now I’m finally feeling something, (Take me all the way)

I don’t want to go through the motions.

In Pieces - Backstreet Boys

So I lay awake another hour, Just like the one before, The shadows play a game with my head, I can’t take this anymore. I hear the sound, Of my own breathing, It makes me miss you more.

Wake me up when it’s over, After the ending, When the damage has all been done, I don’t wanna be somewhere, Where you can watch me , As I bleed, Just leave me here in pieces, In pieces.

I can’t take the chance, Of running into, You running into me, So lock the door, And close the window, I just wanna see. Until the day, Inside my future, When I’ll be on my feet.

Wake me up when it’s over, After the ending, When the damage has all been done, I don’t wanna be somewhere, Where you can watch me , As I bleed, Just leave me here in pieces, In pieces.

If you want you can find me, On the dark side of the sun, Babe I dont wanna see what we’ve become, The damage has all been done.

Wake me up when it’s over, After the ending, Wake me up when it’s over, When the damage has all been done, The damage is done, I don’t wanna be somewhere, I don’t wanna be somewhere, Where you can watch me as I bleed, Somewhere where you can ?help me bleed baby? Leave me here in pieces, Just leave me in pieces, Just leave me in pieces, Just wake me up when it’s over, Just wake me up when it’s over.

Unsuspecting Sunday Afternoon - Backstreet Boys

How come I was the last to know, Took the stage then you stole the show, Another unsuspecting Sunday afternoon, I was captured by that stare, Now I’m shattered, but I don’t care, And the people walking by don’t have a clue.

That I kissed your face, Till the sun was in our eyes, Till the afternoon arrived, And I can’t explain, Last night I saw the fireworks, The kind of pain that never hurts, The one you hate to love is made for you, Another unsuspecting Sunday afternoon.

Monday is a funny thing, Still waiting for the phone to ring, Will my imagination take it slow, After Saturday, my life is changed, In a moment it was rearranged, Strange how easy it is letting go, And I miss your face, Like the sun was in my eyes, And now I’m running blind.

And I can’t explain, Last night I saw the fireworks, The kind of pain that never hurts, The one you hate to love is made for you, Another unsuspecting Sunday afternoon.

This sweet relief, Unexpected things, Is this the end or only the beginning.

I miss your face, Like the sun was in my eyes, Like the afternoon, Now I’m running blind (running blind), I can’t explain (can’t explain).

Last night I saw the fireworks, the kind of pain that never hurts, The one you hate to love that’s made for you, Another unsuspecting Sunday afternoon, Another unsuspecting Sunday afternoon.

Any Other Way - Backstreet Boys

There you go, caught you crashing my dreams again, Just when I’m trying to get over you. I tell my heart but, I can’t seem to comprehend, A day without you.

Now you’re gone, Got a life, But I wear the scars, Reminding me by the hour, That it’s time to accept it’s the way the things are, I wish I could but…

Can’t imagine it any other way, A world without you is only wasted space, You’re gone and I’ll always wonder, Why it can’t be any other way, any other way.

Since you drained all the color out of the sky, How am I supposed to feel, It’s like I’m living in somebody else’s life, Tell me it’s not real.

I can’t imagine it any other way, A world without you is only wasted space, You’re gone and I’ll always wonder, Why it can’t be any other way, any other way. Can’t imagine it any other way, A world without you is only wasted space, You’re gone and I’ll always wonder, Why it can’t be any other way, any other way.

Like we never had a falling out, Like the tears, they never hit the ground, Like you’re still here, you’re still here.

Since you drained all the color out of the sky.

I can’t imagine it any other way, A world without you is only wasted space, You’re gone and I’ll always wonder, Why it can’t be any other way.

[Why does it have to be, why does it have to be]

A world without you is only wasted space, You’re gone and I’ll always wonder, Why it can’t be any other way, any other way.