How Was Celtic Woman?
March 30, 2007
Every bit as good as I expected them to be. They sang one of my all-time favorite songs—and here ’tis!
And two more they sang, for good measure; here’s Hayley with an old Simon and Garfunkel classic:
And a showstopper performed by all the ladies:
A Concert I Can’t Wait to See: Celtic Woman
March 27, 2007
Tomorrow evening, Karen and I and two other couples will be heading downtown to the historic Fox Theater to hear Celtic Woman in concert. This is a great group of ladies; enjoy this!
Next to Elizabeth Edwards on your Prayer List
March 27, 2007
Goes Tony Snow, White House spokesman, who has suffered his own cancer recurrence:
Tests Show Snow Suffering from Recurrence of Cancer
Tony is a great human being, and as we pray for Elizabeth Edwards in her courageous battle, let’s pray for Tony as well.
Wayne Brings Tears (Again)
March 24, 2007
I catch some grief from the two top posters on this site for my unashamed devotion to the music of Wayne Watson, who they (incorrectly) suggest is a relic of the ’80′s. Whatever. All I know is that his music has spoken to me for 20+ years, and still does. One of the things I appreciate about Wayne is that he has allowed us a window into his life as a father by writing songs to and about his boys as they grew. “Watercolor Ponies” is probably his best-known of these; on his Field of Souls album, he sang “Class of ’95“, written to the graduating class of one of his boys. Having just digitized a lot of my Watson tapes, I’m doing some work and listening to it as background music. Just a few moments ago, a song came on with these lyrics, and I found myself misting up:
Oh Lord, won’t you let this little child be a little child awhile,
Doing things that children do,
Give him time for building castles in the sand,
Until time’s unfailing hand
Takes my boy from life as child to his place to life as man.
My oldest son turns 21 on Wednesday, the age at which, legally, he is no longer a child in any way, but a man. It is utterly astonishing how fast time has flown; it is literally unreal to me. Crazy Teenager turns 17 the following week, and my practically-perfect daughter will be a teenager herself within the year. I find myself gripped regularly by the brevity of time. I don’t know that I have any conclusion to reach, or profound thing to say, except that if you happen to be blessed at this stage of life with young children, thank God for the privilege, and love them while you can with everything you’ve got, because you will not believe how quickly time flies.
Joe Carter Bursts the Rudy Bubble
March 23, 2007
Joe over at Evangelical Outpost believes that all the hype about Rudy is so much hot air, and I think I agree with him: this man is unelectable, and will prove to be so, and Republicans had better figure that out now if they want to stop the Mrs. Bill Clinton bandwagon (or the Obama Bus, or the Edwards machine, or the Kucinich tricycle, or…):
Irrational Exuberance and the Rudy Bubble
Genocide Chic and Jim Wallis: Iraq Just Ain’t Cool…
March 23, 2007
Joe Carter has a tremendous post over at Evangelical Outpost about the apparent double standard being employed by Christian leftist Jim Wallis regarding the Darfur genocide versus the Iraq genocide. You really, really need to read this one!
Genocide Chic: Jim Wallis and Saddam’s 600,000
Yes, Darfur is a tragedy, no doubt about it; yes, we ought to do something about it, “for God’s sake”. So, uh, just why is doing the same thing in Iraq “an offense against God”?
Move Over, John Williams: StarWars with Grits
March 23, 2007
Tip of the ACC co-champion Virginia Cavaliers’ hat to Rob for this wonderful rendition of an old standy:
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
Osborne: A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God
Schlossberg: Idols For Destruction
