To the next day

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For the last while I’ve been dealing with what appears to be GERD (reflux acid from the stomach going up the esophagus).  This often results in scarring of the throat and worse.  The cause can be both physical and stress related.

My physical symptoms would be easy to deal with if it were just pain.  The nausea is what concerns me more.  I end up distracted and sometimes left in a fog.

Funny how mentioning this to a group you soon find others with similar conditions.  You can place yourself as to the severity of your symptoms based on their experiences.  I’ve learned that I definitely have the outward signs. 

In a week or so I’ll have a scope go down my throat and look at what is happening.  Should be fun – in a warped sort of way. 

For the moment I’m on various medications and trying to see how well balanced they are.  The last two mornings have been less than stellar – maybe that’s what morning sickness is like?

So, my hope is to awaken tomorrow a little better.  We’ll see!

Upon reading a prophecy

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We had to turn on our furnace today.  The winds are blowing and the mercury on our thermometer is going lower each night.  

After a bit of anxiety over a problem that I encountered, I returned to a “fix” we had paid for a year or so ago.  Looking back over the past helps us for the future winter.  With that fix in hand, I’m glad to forecast that things will continue to get colder.  I think I’m fairly safe in that prophecy.

Now, the past often needs to be consulted to form a usual result for the future.  Sometimes the past must be overlooked to obtain a “new” result.

I was reading in the Worship Leader magazine a quote that was tucked in the midst of a review of a new CD – “Leeland – Love Is on the Move.”  Here is the quote found on page 56 of Worship Leader for September 2009:

However, here is the significance of this release:  If you want to know what congregational worship is leaning toward next decade listen to Love Is on the Move.  It won’t change overnight, but as the Millennals begin to overpower the Boomers and the X-ers in sanctuaries across the country sing-along songs will trend toward concert cuts.

I thought we had fought this fight before.  Will contemporary Christian Music soon go the way of the Church Choir?  When Church Choirs began to present more and more special music in church services, and congregants did not have to participate, or when they were asked to participate the music was too difficult, we became spectator churches.  The Worship renewal in the last few years was about participation.   And the usual church choir disappeared in many churches.  Is the death knell for Worship Bands being sounded?  What would replace the Worship Band?

Or, is there a “new” result that should replace our current definition of worship?

Goose Fest Parade 2009

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I was out of the house by 9:15 this morning.  My civic duty was calling.  I was to be a judge at our annual Goose Festival parade.  The day was beautiful – a little breeze and some cloud cover on a seemingly summery day.  Shortly after 10:00 the judges paired into teams to check out the 70 some entries.  Marcia and I wandered up and down, judging various categories (subjective criteria for judging – we made it up as we went along!!).  In a small town you can show up in a tractor, or put a poster board on a golf cart and you end up with a reasonable entry.  The line up went for blocks – the marching band was close to the front and the fire trucks at the back.  And the town was out in droves!

Goose fest parade band 2009

Goose fest parade tractors 2009

 Goose fest parade cadets 2009

Goose fest parade fire trucks 2009

Tallest man in Canada

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Unofficially!  That’s who we saw tonight.  He is originally from Fiji and is around seven feet, eight inches.  Strong, with a heart for God.  A good ending to the day – to watch feats of strength and realize the greatest strength is found in God.