Hooray - we have an organist! At least for SOME Sundays. She and her husband have 6 children and several grandchildren scattered hither and yon, so she doesn't want to have to commit to being available EVERY week, but I will have some relief ( Read more... )

 Sometimes I think accepting forgiveness is almost as difficult as forgiving. We like to wallow in self-pity and we tend to hang onto things past, instead of just letting them go. Accepting the fact that we are washed clean and made new is challenging; what if we mess up again? Yep, it's gonna happen. There are things that I have said and done that ( Read more... )

As I squeeze my eyes shut and put my fingers in my ears in an attempt to escape all the negative campaigning going on between our two main presidential candidates and their running mates, I turn to God to ask him to help me make sense of it all. Why can't we have a "clean" campaign? Is it because Americans are addicted to sensationalism, gossip, ( Read more... )

I love directing the choir at St. John's, but our interim organist quit suddenly a couple of weeks ago, and now I am having to play for the services and try directing the choir from the piano, which is down the steps and off to the side, and we can barely see each other. Plus I don't have training to direct and play at the same time. I can barely ( Read more... )

Ugh - it is raining again today ( Read more... )

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More than I've ever seen last weekend. I am waiting for spring...

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Nimbus the wonderful cat was hit by a car and killed on Halloween morning ( Read more... )