a great prayer site

If you're looking for something a little different for you daily office, consider Sacred Gateway. It walks you through a short time of contemplative prayer. Nicely designed and the questions really make you think.

See it here -->

some vintage sanborn

Here's Sanborn playing at the 1988 Grammys with Billy Joel. Gotta love that tone!

at test at last

On Monday, April 30 we said our final farewells to Dad. The service was beautiful. My daughters sang "Thank You for Giving to the Lord". I cried in spite of the obvious theological shortcomings and country twang of the tune.

My son, nieces and nephew all said some nice things about Dad. Doug Diehl, the pastor from Crossroads Baptist, read some scriptures we found including Matthew 25 where Christ talks about the reward of those who serve "the least of these". He also sang a song at the end.

The pallbearers were my son Matthew, my nephew Jason, Dad's friend Doug McDonald, our family friend Tom Cooper, my niece Jackie's boyfriend Adrian and Joy ex-husband Joe.

The trip to Fort Sam Cemetery was crazy! Anyone who knows Dad has heard of his famous "shortcuts" that always take twice as long as the normal way. That made his last ride fitting. It was pouring rain all through the service and during our trip. San Antonio is famous for flash flooding, and it was in full swing when we pulled out of Sunset Northwest. We started up Loop 410, but traffic came to a complete stop at San Pedro. The escorts did an amazing job - taking us off the freeway and to the back roads. At one point, the water got to be more than a foot deep, so we had to detour yet again. What should be a 30 mintute trip took an hour, but we finally got there.

The full military honors were beautiful and moving - complete with 21 gun salute and the playing of Taps. We haven't been able to visit the grave yet because of all the rain. They say that we need to let it dry out a bit before we try to go out there.