Chapel! Chapel with the sounds of CHILDREN!!! The most unnatural thing about Chapel at the Synod's International Center is how quiet it ...

I was utterly blown away by receiving this at the Making the Case Conference in Collinsville this past weekend: I am humbled beyond...

Born early this morning to Lauren and Dean Herberts, our fourth grandchild and second grandson. He'll be known as Flynn. And here he is ...

After I got my first iPad, I saw the keyboard that a friend of Dean's had and fell in love with it. A logitech. I got one and it worked ...

...and the way it accompanies the heights and depths. This past week I played for a wedding last Saturday (including a risky Trumpet Volunta...

That's how long Cin and I have been married as of today. And we've been friends for the past 44 years, and this year we both turn 55...

Daily Prayer for Morning, p. 295. Psalm 29 A reading from Romans 11: Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of Go...

In the name of the Father and of the Son and of the + Holy Spirit. Amen. Let us pray. Eternal God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ...

It's the capstone of the semester Domini and the entrance to the semester Ecclesia, the Feast of the. Holy Trinity. We celebrated togeth...

New toy.  Blow money well spent, thank you Dave Ramsey. Can't wait to go for a long ride!

With lawn work DONE. I did our yard and trimmed the roses. Cindi's doing her dad's and has weed whacked.  We both enjoy doing it, bu...

...well, almost. In consultation with Dean (the family's acknowledged Bike-meisterr), ordered a Giant Sedona hybrid. Maybe here tomorrow...

Slept in a bit, and then made breakfast for Cindi and me before she headed out to work. We finished praying Matins together as a storm rol...

That's what Carlo did with choir this year. When I think back on what he's pulled off, I'm amazed. The Rutter "What Sweeter...

What a joyous feast day! For preservice, Carlo gave us Durufle's Veni Creator. Choir sang a Gounod "Spirit of God" and then al...

Sofa arrived and Bekah is checking it out... Despite the sad funeral (still having difficulty wrapping my mind around it), a wonderful day. ...

So, my son persuaded me to give it a shot. I took some of my clericals (which hang like bags around me!), a couple shirts, and a pair of pan...

...a glorious week of staycation beginning. We have a funeral for a dear friend tomorrow that we're singing for (truly, "in the mid...

...been almost six months since a return to strictly primal eating and exercising. (You might recall that it became really difficult to figu...

Earth, I think, will not be found by anyone to be in the end a very distinct place. I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn ou...