Greetings from Idaho

This writing comes to you from Hope, Idaho, where my family and I will be staying the week. Among the 18 members of my family, we’re staying in two spacious three bedroom condos right alongside the lake, and the view from our balcony is incredible. I’ll try to figure out how to edit in a picture of our space in the future.

Saturday afternoon we had the memorial service for my grandmother. A memorial service is a really beautiful thing, because the people who come to these services come because they were really touched by the life of that person, and usually have some incredible insight into their life and they way their life has impacted the family and friends. You learn about what that person truly means to you, and the way that they impacted your life. But when you hear other people say the same thing, you realize the legacy this person left behind. My grandmother taught all 18 of us how to love, how to cherish people, and how to live life valuing the good and not the material.

I missed all of you from New Song this last weekend. I’ll be back on Wednesday. Next week we’ll have Haley Montgomery playing at Seven24, so I get a few weekends off. I’ll see all of you New Songers next weekend…