Singing Along the Journey

Over the past week or so, I have been thinking a lot about my experiences at the song festival in Granada.  In particular, I have been thinking about the last masterclass that we did. It took me a while during that class to realize that, what the guest teacher was trying to get from me [...]

Yesterday, the congregation at the Calvary Baptist Church gave me a present.  They probably don’t know that they did, but they did…a great big, warm, sloppy wet kiss of faith and love.  And all they did was do what they do best — be the best they can be at being the community of Jesus [...]

I will confess — I have been on vacation.  Those of you following my writings might say, hey, weren’t you just in Spain?  That, my friends, was not vacation.  That was work. But the last couple of weeks have been what I call “real vacation”…no true responsibility, no deadlines, no demands greater than walking the [...]

The “dog-days” of summer are taking a toll on my productivity right now;  starting up any projects in these two weeks between Spain and my next travels has proved, well, impossible.  But I have started working my way through a new book:  Resounding Truth:  Christian Wisdom in the World of Music, by Jeremy S. Begbie [...]

Yesterday, I filled in for Pastor Leah at Thomas House.   My adventures at Thomas House, have, well, been very formative for me in this my spiritual quest (you can read about my first solo visit here).   And I have high hopes that my organ playing will improve now that my friend Elaine pointed to me [...]

Someone pointed out to me today that, I have been home for several days and had not blogged once since my feet landed on this side of the Atlantic.  That was, however, the problem.  My feet and body were here; the rest of me had not yet arrived. I have spent a lot of time [...]

There are moments when we face a seemingly little choice, but how we choose can change the whole course of our lives.  Funny thing, we don’t always see those moments when we face them.  Luckily, yesterday, I did. Right now, I’m on the train between Granada and Madrid on the final leg of my journey [...]

My darling beagle, Gracie, has a number of tricks she performs on command, but to me, one of the most interesting is her ability to balance a ball on her nose.  I really don’t know how she learned this trick.  In the beginning, she could only balance the ball for 10 seconds without moving her [...]

Last year, I declared a moritorium on two things:  taking classes and travelling to sing.  And it served me well…I needed to sit and listen.  From that decision to basically stand still, a lot of good things came…I heard more clearly the call of God in my life, I was baptized, I was licensed, I [...]

I’ve been thinking alot about the reasons why we as singers sing.  Obviously from the other entries here in this blog, you know that I think about that topic alot.  But being in a context in which I am watching a lot of other people sing, and singing myself, certainly makes it come to the [...]