Sunday, April 20, 2014

Easter Sunday







The above are photos I took of tulips I drew to include in notes to my Compassion kids on April 11.  (I adore tulips.)

Our church formed a choir for Easter.  I must say I was skeptical as to how it would turn out, only because for various reasons (March break, illness, other church commitments, business trips), this morning was the first time that the entire choir all practiced together.  During the actual performance, I found it extremely difficult to gauge the congregation's reaction.  (I thought, "We're either seriously disharmonious or they underestimated how we'd do.")  So it was extremely gratifying to hear afterwards that people had enjoyed it.  One of the regulars in the worship band even told us we'd made her Easter.  I'm so glad, because our director, Triscilla, poured so much of her time into the process.  I'm sure the team working the sound board did their best, too, to make us sound our best, by evening out the levels and all that other good tech stuff.

Off I go to take a walk around the neighborhood in this gloriously sunshiny 15 C afternoon before it's gone.

Saturday, April 12, 2014

reflections

I've appreciated the music of Steve Bell for a long time, whether I've seen him in concert with his band or solo, or listened to recordings.  He usually interweaves his songs with stories; he's a marvellous storyteller.

At some point, I subscribed to receive news releases from Signpost.  True story: a few years ago, when James and I were driving to Dauphin from Winnipeg, we received a call on the cell phone and it was Steve Bell himself, confirming contact info.  It must have been during an off-tour season, or perhaps before Signpost had its full complement of office personnel.

Consequently, I receive email notices of updates to Steve's blog.  No big surprise here, I guess, but I don't always read in detail everything that turns up in my inbox(es).  Many times I skim over items and think I'll hang on to them for a later date.  Fortunately, however, I opened both of the posts from the Steve Bell blog this week.  As usual, every time I read anything he writes, I'm blown away; he's able to express his thoughts so articulately and considerately.

Here are the links to "The God of Rahab Has Sent You" and "Lazarus Saturday."