History of Worship Music!

I picked up this book at a local bookstore here in Winnipeg, and have found it to be a most revealing treatise on the gospel and CCM music industry and how it got to where it is now. It's almost scary when he starts to describe the way people approach gospel music as composers and performers - he is very clinical and factual when describing how people believe.

This is not part of the worship books I alluded to in the previous post.

Quotes to come later over the summer - I want to read it a second time before I put quotes in.

Until I can figure out how to stick these on the side, I'll put them inside the posts.

This is the first of three books on worship that I'm in the middle of (firgures, eh?), so I can only give a little bit of what he is talking about. The best quote so far is this:

As a worship leader I was replaceable - God could have used anyone for the
events that we'd been priviledged to be a part of. But as a son and as
a child of God, I was indispensable. There could be never be another me -
a child is irreplacable.

The book is The Unquenchable Worshipper by Matt Redman. I'm only in chapter 3 so far..... More to come.

We picked up a man!

We go for a walk last night, and we meet this guy - Ezra turned on her charms, and he walked with us a while. He stayed with us until his owners turned up. "Duke" was a most gentile guest, and only got upset when we turned in for the night. Mojo didn't like him sniffing her....... , but Ezra liked it....
Didn't realize the girls were so alluring to the opposite sex.

SOme pictures....

So....

Now that I can post pictures here, we are going to have more posts - Since we got a digital camera at Christmas, I've been wanting to put pictures on the net, but didn't want to subscribe to another way of doing it.
As you can see, we are all quite pleased with this development...

(sung to the can can)
Na
na na na na
na na
na na na na
na na
na na na na na
na na na na na na na (repeat)

It worked!

Hey - it worked...

That's Ezra - our second oldest "child" - and the one who most often refuses to eat. Right now it's the heat that turns her appitite off, not that I blame her. With the humidity, it's over 40C, and I don't blame her for spending the entire afternoon napping.

I'm trying this for the first time - hopefully this picture gets up here.  

The Zoo

Went to the Assiniboine Zoo Today - Nathanael was all excited, although I think the most exciting thing for him was the playground. He did enjoy watching the Brown Bears swim. We also saw lemurs - to which Nathanael and his friend Evan said "just like Zaboomafoo!!"

Linda's Party

We just arrived back from a birhtday party for Linda (39 for the 21st time!). We went to an Italian restaurant and then to a family member's for dessert. Seeing Nathanael interact with the other kids there was great to see.

One comment by someone at the party really mad me think - it was regarding Canada Day. I'm paraphrasing:

"It doesn't show patriotism for your country when you use the holiday as an excuse to dress in as little clothing as possible."

'Nuff Said

long time no post

hey....
Life flies by... and this blog got neglected for quite a while. oh well. Life rolls on....

Nathanael started Kindergarten at Springs in September. He's been enjoying it, although when I met his teacher today and she told me the class (11 boys, 5 girls), I just started laughing. I don't know why... it just seems so funny. I imagined 11 boys bouncing off the walls....

School trucks ahead. I have an amazing number of students in Band this year - 47 in grade 7, 47 in grade 8. Senior band is small - 14 students in 4 grades. The choirs are large - 30 in Grade 7/8 and 23 in Senior 1-4. The Jazz Band and Vocal Jazz have continued, with enought students in both to keep them running.

The new subject for me is grade 7 and 8 computers. Now I teach every student in both of these grades. I have never phoned so many homes in one month before September of this year. It was a lot of fun.

Suzanne has been enjoying the time off - Nathanael is gone 2-3 days a week (full day Kindergarten), so she gets to walk the dogs, visit friends, shop etc, without a little boy around.

In other news, it looks like I'll be going out to Alberta this spring - been asked to adjudicate a msuic festival out there. March 14-15 are the dates, and the place is Vegreville. Should be a lot of fun.

More later. Don't want to put a lot into one post.

Chris.

Little boys being sick

Not the best way to wake up - Nathanael came into the bedroom, lay down beside me, and says "Daddy, I have a big burp." (Means he needs to throw up) That's one way to get me out of bed!!

Suzanne spent the weekend up at her mom's, so I got to nurse a 5 year old through his first real experience of being sick. He hasn't been less work - just a different type of work!

He's better now, though. Had some toast before bed.