Evendays

I’m off to the French Ascension (yes, Thursday is Ascension) Retreat in the Ardèche region. I’ve only got a teen class and a pre-teen class to prepare, along with KP and other duties. 
The teen class is on The Body of Christ, which leads me to John Michael Talbot’s melody of Teresa of Avila’s prayer:
Christ has [...]

April 26: I woke up on Saturday morning at 6:45 AM. Our company had already left. Actually, this was the first time we’d had folks stay with us without us seeing them. The Marseilles church football team (soccer to USAers) arrived after midnight and left around 6:00 AM, I think. They were welcomed by Sons [...]

Son 2 is back from Marseilles (the spiritual internship program). He leaves on Saturday. I have been unable to post as there were studies to prepare (still are) for a retreat and lessons to get ready for the weekend. Wife and I are both doing a race on Saturday. I will attempt the 20K of [...]

When F. finished yesterday’s Bible study with me (he’s a teen and we meet once a week at a local cafeteria), he took out his study sheet and wrote in big letters on the bottom of the page: 16/20. I asked him what it meant, and he said that on a scale of 20, he [...]

Mom lost a very dear friend on Sunday. Her sister, Aunt Mary, died suddenly, unexpectedly, in her home that afternoon. I do not know why it happened.
Mom and Mary would call each other several times a week, burning up the phone lines between Arkansas and California. They talked when Pappy was bad. They discussed [...]

Yesterday afternoon I traveled with 100 other singers to a foothill valley some 30 miles from Lausanne, a place called “Romainmotier”. This medieval village has the foundations of one of Switzerland’s oldest churches, going back about 1500 years. The present church is romanesque. As a reinforcement tenor for the all high school choir, I made [...]

On Tuesday evening, Wife, Daughter and I were heading home from the Marseilles Chorale concert in Geneva when the 10:30 PM news came on the radio. The reporter announced the arrest earlier in the day of a senior from Daughter’s High School at Daughter’s High School. The young man was pocketing a loaded pistol, along [...]

Last night, the Chorale Harmonie from Marseilles sang in the nearby mountain village of Leysin. It’s a good group, especially the tenors, and not just because one of them is Son 2 (of course, that helps). The accappella chorus sang gospels and hymns, praise and spirituals, in French and in English. The audience at the [...]

Many outsiders (and quite a few insiders) find the story exceedingly cruel: God asks… um, tells an old man to sacrifice his son on a far away mountain. And for what reason? God does it to test him.
One of the blessed characteristics of the Father is that he sees what man is incapable of seeing. [...]

I received an iPod Classic for my birthday that will hold about 60 trillion of my "favorite" songs.
Any suggestions before I start loading stuff onto it? 
What about podcasts?