Some wonderful men and women in the Northwest have posted an entire album of original worship music which you can download. The words are God-honoring and meaty. Not only are MP3’s available, there are PowerPoints and chords and other aids. One of the artists is Michael Card.
See The By/For Project.
I got 75% right.
Perhaps you should consider an audition on “Jeopardy!” You have a fantastic knowledge of Texas Trivia and it’s likely you would make a great game show contestant.
The Lord has been willing, lately, to show me just how low and inadequate I am. I pray that I may learn how powerful and high and adequate and glorious and fulfilling he is.
I pray that Psalm 6 will speak to me, and possibly to someone reading this. It seems very appropriate to me at this time.
1 O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger,
nor discipline me in your wrath.
2 Be gracious to me, O LORD, for I am languishing;
heal me, O LORD, for my bones are troubled.
3 My soul also is greatly troubled.
But you, O LORD––how long?
4 Turn, O LORD, deliver my life;
save me for the sake of your steadfast love.
5 For in death there is no remembrance of you;
in Sheol who will give you praise?
6 I am weary with my moaning;
every night I flood my bed with tears;
I drench my couch with my weeping.
7 My eye wastes away because of grief;
it grows weak because of all my foes.
8 Depart from me, all you workers of evil,
for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping.
9 The LORD has heard my plea;
the LORD accepts my prayer.
10 All my enemies shall be ashamed and greatly troubled;
they shall turn back and be put to shame in a moment.
There are five books that I have put in front of me as high priority for the New Year. Actually, I should have already finished these books, but as part of my general recovery of discipline (see previous post), I am writing them down publicly so someone can hold me accountable.
This blog has been neglected! As a new year’s discipline, I’m going back to blogging. Perhaps shorter and different, but something, and frequently.
John Dowland’s lute music is amazing. Dowland, a contemporary of Shakespeare, wrote music that exactly captures the spirit of that Renaissance time period for me. Watch Nigel North play Dowland on YouTube. Then buy the two CDs from Naxos (part of a 4 CD projected series, I am told). Lute Music vol 1 Lute Music vol 2
Perhaps at some point I will be able to write down my thoughts on Eric and Jenny’s wedding, but for now I will post the photos. These are not the official wedding photos, just a combination of mine and my dad’s.
In other news, there is still a granddaughter out there, and here are a batch of new photos of her.
Um, we already knew this before Eric was one year old. But apparently the psychologists only just now discovered it. Perhaps no psychologists are parents?
Babies not as innocent as they pretend - the Telegraph
HT: the Desiring God blog
OK, I don’t like these games of tag, OK? ok.
But my buddy Philip has challenged me to tell eight little known facts about myself. I’m not sure there even are eight facts about myself, but I’ll try.
1. I played football. Yes, it’s true. In the 5th grade. There is actually a picture of me somewhere with a jersey and pads on.
2. My son Evan has not yet had hair longer than mine was in high school.
3. One of my dad’s favorite experiences with me was when I went out with Andy Martin in a sailboat at Scout camp, and we turned the boat over in the middle of the lake. With a storm coming.
4. Meanwhile, I never made Eagle Scout. Never even got close. I think there might have been two merit badges sewn on my sash.
5. My first car was a blue 1966 Ford Falcon. When it hit a 1975 Mercury Monarch in the side (not my fault), it crushed the Monarch but didn’t even break my headlight.
6. I love Lubbock, Texas. Hub of the Plains. I went to school there. I didn’t like the sandstorms though.
7. When I was a student in Lubbock, I had my teeth worked on by a former Republican candidate for Governor of Texas.
8. I’ve been eating Pizza Inn Thin Crust Sausage Pizza for as long as I can remember eating. Which is a a long time. And I still like it.
Well there it is! Now maybe I can think of someone to tag.
This is what I’ve been saying for longer than Peggy Noonan, but she says it so much better than me.
