Amazing Kids

I am constantly amazed at what children can do with high expectations, discipline and encouragement. I love listening to the Tolzer Knabenchor (boys’ choir). They start with young children, and within a very few years they train them to be amazing musicians. They are still kids, though, which is what makes them so endearing. Tom [...]

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What Will You Do Without Him?

I wanted to post this today from the Havergal blog because it is so beautiful and so true. What would we do without Jesus? Well, we’d be heading for eternal doom. Thanks be to God who gives us His unspeakable gift, the Lord Jesus Christ.

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Mahler’s Shimmering Gem

The entire last movement of Mahler’s Third takes half an hour. It is deeply moving and evokes so many emotions listening. When I’m sad, I listen to this music, and it expresses everything I feel wordlessly. Tom has played this symphony and told me that playing the brass choral part is every trumpeter’s dream. This [...]

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We Should Always Remember

Tom loves history as much as I do, and if you visit our home, you’ll soon figure that out. Tom and Will have re-staged the Battle of Britain with models of Spitfires, Stukas, Junkers, Messerschmitts and Hawker Hurricanes that hang from the basement ceiling. On a shelf, you’ll find sand in a glass jar that [...]

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