Monday, December 22, 2003
I won't be updating my Blog until after the holidays (most likely, anyway). But, I wanted to leave you all with a thought from one of the songs from our cantata. In my mind and heart, it sums up the beautiful and universal message of the Christmas Season ... as well as the heart of my daily ministry!! Merry Christmas to all!!
Some children see Him lily white,
The Baby Jesus born this night,
Some children see Him lily white,
With tresses soft and fair.
Some children see Him bronzed and brown,
The Lord of heav'n to earth come down;
Some children see Him bronzed and brown,
With dark and heavy hair.
Some children see Him almond-eyed,
This Savior whom we kneel beside,
Some children see Him almond-eyed,
With skin of yellow hue.
Some children see Him dark as they,
Sweet Mary's Son to whom we pray,
Some children see Him dark as they,
And, ah! they love Him, too!
The children in each diff'rent place
Will see the Baby Jesus' face
Like theirs, but bright with heav'nly grace,
And filled with holy light.
O lay aside each earthly thing,
And with thy heart as offering,
Come worship now the Infant King.
'Tis love that's born tonight!
Sunday, December 14, 2003
Okay ... here's another example of ME being a victim of a random and anonymous act of kindness. Our Christmas cantatas started on Wednesday. We have 7 concerts in 5 days. Whew!! On Friday evening, I came into the auditorium about a half hour before the concert, as usual. Sitting on my music stand was a cute little foil-wrapped Hershey's chocolate, just waiting for me. :-) I figured that someone must love the orchestra, so I looked around to see if everyone else had gotten a little, foil-wrapped Hershey's chocolate. Nope .... just me. :-D Somebody must love me!! :-D Whaddya know!! Of course, I had to wait until AFTER the concert to EAT my little, foil-wrapped Hershey's chocolate. SOOOO.... to the person who cleaned off my car ... and to the person (the same person?) who left me a little, foil-wrapped Hershey's chocolate. THANK YOU!!!!!!!
Sunday, December 07, 2003
Yup ... I may as well be in Buffalo THIS week ... 20-something degrees out every day. UGH!! Anyway ... here's a cool "human interest" story. It snowed overnight on Thursday into Friday, and again on Friday into Saturday. Now, I have two cars ... an SUV that I take on road trips and when the weather is bad, and a little, incredibly gas efficient hatchback that I love to drive around town and for normal commuting. So ... when I got up to go to my rehearsal on Saturday morning, I scraped the ice and snow off of my SUV and took off at about 8:00. After the rehearsal and several errands later, I arrived back home around 3:00 or 4:00 in the afternoon. As I drove through my parking lot, I noticed that all of the cars that had not been moved since before the snow hit were still quite covered. So, as I pulled into my parking lot section, I looked for my little blue hatchback under a pile of snow. GET THIS PART!! Someone had not only brushed the snow off of my car, but had scraped the windows bone clean. I was amazed!! There were lots of other cars that needed cleaning, but some kind soul did mine. I have absolutely NO IDEA who it was. The likely culprits (a wonderful upstairs neighbor couple) insisted that they didn't do it, and I don't really know anyone else around here. I can't imagine who ... so, in lieu of thanking him/her, I am putting this in my blog so that you can get a good idea about maybe doing the same sort of anonymous favor for someone else!! :-) Go for it!!
By the way ... our Substitute Teacher Assignment Network at school is named S.T.A.N. (get it ... SSSSubstitute TTTTeacher AAAAssignment NNNNetwork!!??) There was a huge piece of paper on my front seat that I put there as a reminder. It said, "Call STAN!!!" in big letters. Whoever it was that was cleaning my car could NOT have missed seeing that piece of paper. They must be thinking now that I have a wonderful man in my life named STAN. LOL!! I assure you that I don't!! HAHAHAHAHA!!!
