Essentially finished the hymn and recorded me singing it in four parts (click here to listen) so as to give some idea of what a group of voices will do to it - the words are by Isaac Watts as follows:

My God, the spring of all my joys,
The life of my delights,
The glory of my brightest days,
And comfort of my nights.

In darkest shades if he appear
My dawning is begun;
He is my soul's sweet morning star,
And he my rising sun.

The op’ning heav’ns around me shine
With beams of sacred bliss,
While Jesus shows his heart is mine,
And whispers I am his.

My soul would leave this heavy clay
At that transporting word,
Run up with joy the shining way,
T’ embrace my dearest Lord.

Fearless of hell and ghastly death,
I’d break through ev’ry foe;
The wings of love, and arms of faith
Should bear me conqu’ror through.

Rode with the Guesses to witness Dr. Benjamin Rogers and Amanda Autrey's wedding and ate some cake.

I began to compose my first Sacred Harp-style hymn.

Out of 15+ adult men and women playing limbo, ROY won - congratualtions, it was a sight to behold.

I am ever convinced that certain good music combined with good lyrics is a blessing of God which he purposed to nourish the soul.

A week reprieve and feeling fresh as a daisy ought to put me back on the map of digital civilization!

This is just cool.....

Piggly Wiggly was the first to:

provide checkout stands.
price mark every item in the store.
feature a full line of nationally advertised brands.
use refrigerated cases to keep produce fresher longer.
put employees in uniforms for cleaner, more sanitary food handling.
design and use patented fixtures and equipment throughout the store.
give shoppers more for their food dollar through high volume/low profit margin retailing.
franchise independent grocers to operate under the self-service method of food merchandising.

(wikipedia.org)

Played some casual frisbee and some intensely serious basketball which was very refreshing!

A glorious day in the House of the Lord with a packed house for singing and a timely sermon from Bro. Dwayne - I love that man.

WOW - another one bites the dust - yay for Molly and Daniel!

wedding wedding wedding

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I love it when my whole family is home!!!!!

How fickle is man....that Thou art mindful of him!

I love to read - a lot. ("there's a double meaning in that!")

It may be useful to know that it is very difficult for a perfectionist to trim a hedge well.

To cap off a splendid weekend (in which, for one, I had no anticipation of going back to school when over) We enjoyed the preaching of my first-cousin-once-removed Elder Phillip Green - speaking of elder, it just coccured to me how funny it would be if someone's first name was "Elder" and he got ordained...

Congratulations Seth and Rebekah for completing your bachelor's degree and for a splendid celebration party last night!

Worked, read 50 pages in John Adams, babysat Kyle, watched a little basketball - commenced a new blog you should check out.

For Kathryn's birthday we enjoyed an evening of Fiddler on the Roof at the Orpheum, starring Topol himself - it was magnificant!

Tonight, we had the distinct pleasure of being under the sound of Elder Dwayne Shafer's preaching.

Goodnight school.

My first 8-hour day at ACH since last summer and my mp3 player had the guts to quit on me - however, it was nothing compared to the wonderful fact that I read 120 pages in John Adams, which puts me at 170/651.

An exceeding goodly day.

Had a really good day in the gospel according to St. Matthew.

Worked a full day at ACH for the first time since August - ready or not here I come!