Prayer Request

John Schroeder of Blogotional asks for prayer for his parents, who were in a serious car accident this afternoon.

Please pray for them, at their advanced years recovery will not be straightforward, and in my father’s case it remains uncertain, though likely.

Your Favorite Hymn, Please

 

A couple of years ago, I asked people to tell me their favorite hymn and then those hymns were used as the Sunday’s Hymn until the favorites list ran out, which took several months, as I recall. I’d like to do that again, first of all, because it was a whole lot of fun, and secondly, because it saves me a whole lot of work.

 

In the next few weeks, youngest son will graduating, youngest daughter will be moving out, oldest daughter will be moving in, plus there are all the other more regular year-end activities to attend to, and if I’ve ever needed help keeping the blog going, it’s right now. So help me out here, okay? Tell me one of your loved hymns in the comments to this post, and I’ll feature it in one of my upcoming Sunday’s Hymn posts. While you’re at it, tell me a little bit about why you like the hymn you’ve chosen.

 

If you participated in my previous call for favorite hymns, please participate in this one, too. If you like more than one hymn, give me another of your favorites, but if you are one of those one-hymn wonders (and I know a couple of those in real life) then I will allow you to nominate the same hymn again, although I might add you to my list of most boring people on the face of the earth at the same time.

 

If you have a blog, I’ll link back to you when I feature your hymn. If you don’t have a blog, consider this your chance to get some of the glory of blogging without any of the pain.

Random Playlist Meme

Summers are short here, and once the snow goes, we have about 2 weeks to clean up the yard , fertilize it, till the garden, and plant the vegetables and flowers. I have a big yard and a big garden, so I’ve been a busy person. That means the blog has been neglected a bit and it may continue to be neglected for at little while.

But here’s a little meme I do have time for. I copied this from my friend Scott at Magic Statistics. Here are the instructions:

Get your ipod or media-player of choice, select your whole music collection, set the thing to shuffle (i.e., randomized playback), then post the first ten songs that come out. No cheating, no matter how stupid it makes you feel!

It’s pretty difficult to embarrass me, so I’m game to play the playlist game:

1. A Song for You by Whiskeytown from Return of the Grievous Angel: Tribute to Gram Parsons
2. Just One Time by Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler from Neck and Neck
3. Workin’ at the Car Wash Blues by Jim Croce from 50th Anniversary Collection
   
4. Blue Skies by Willie Nelson from Stardust
5. Morning Ride by Mark Knopler from Screenplaying
6. Canon for 3 violins and basso continuo in D minor by the English Concert from The #1 Baroque Album
7. Mama Told Me (Not to Come) by Three Dog Night from The Best of Three Dog Night.
8. How Deep the Father’s Love by John McDermott from Great is Thy Faithfulness
9. Myers: Cavatina by Norbert Kraft from Guitar Favorites
10. Don’t Stop by Fleetwood Mac from Rumours

If you’ve got an iPod and a playlist, why don’t you play along, too? 

Update on Wednesday, May 23, 2007 at 7:13PM by rebecca

Juanita plays along, with a list that includes a few things piratish.

Update on Thursday, May 24, 2007 at 11:57AM by rebecca

And now the two Kims:

• Kim in ON
  
• Kim of Hiraeth
  

Update on Friday, May 25, 2007 at 7:58PM by rebecca

 Warren has also joined in.