Good morning, Indiana

Snow/Ice/Snow

I got into Lexington, KY, hours before the snow started to fall. By mid-morning it turned to freezing rain. Then it snowed on top of that. There were lots of downed trees and power lines because the ice got so heavy. Thank the Lord, I had power and heat the whole time.

It was certainly beautiful!

5.5hr turnaround

Because of the beautiful ice and snow in Lexington, my flight was canceled. I didn't get into JFK until after 10pm, and in order to catch my 7:31am flight to Indiana this morning I had to get up early enough that I needed to set multiple alarms. One of them is an application on my Treo in which I can punch in the wake-up time and it will start counting down. It told me, rather bluntly, that I had less than 5.5 hours to sleep. Pray for coherance and stamina at my department head meeting for the MasterWorks Festival tomorrow.

Touchdown in Lexington

I flew from Boise to Chicago to Charlotte to Lexington, and I landed early!

The Greatest of These Is Love

I got to perform "Stay Here" near Boise, ID this morning. I've been performing the sketch since college. If you were tracking http://RichDrama.com/Itinerary you may have noticed that I was scheduled to perform a different piece with the pastor of the Friends church here, Ken Redford. He and I wrote that piece in college. But late in the week Ken felt led in a different direction.

Not surprisingly, almost every song fit the new theme. I've seen this happen so many times over the years, and since I'm in so many churches across the land I've also seen similar themes play out as the Holy Spirit guides his people on a larger scale than we sometimes imagine.

In "Stay Here," Ken played Jesus and I played a fellow who had scheduled to spend some time with Him. Ken placed the sketch after his great sermon.

Here are my notes:

Ready, Set, Grow
1. The best use of life is love.
"Let love be your highest goal."
1 Corinthians 14:1

"These three remain: faith, hope and love."
1 Corinthians 13:13

Why love?
Love is what life is all about.
Love is all that is going to last.

2. The best expression of love is time.
"Let us not love with our words or tongue but with actions and in truth."
I John 3:18
Time is our most precious commodity.
The most desired expression of love is concentrated time.
To say time is money cheapens time. We can get more money, but you cannot get more time.
You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving.

3. The best time to love is now.
"Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all people, especially to those who belong to the family of believers."
Galatians 6:10

The Christian life isn't so much about imitating Christ, but living in intimacy with Him.

"Look carefully at how you walk, not as unwise, but as wise; redeeming the time, because the days are evil."
Ephesians 5:15-16

Super Zoe!

I'm staying with my dear friends, Ken & Tresa Redford. I've known Ken since Jr. High and Tresa since college. Ken's now a pastor, and I'll be performing at his church tomorrow: http://RichDrama.com/Itinerary

Their 8lb dog was attacking me until I gave her a treat.

More skiing shots

I've posted more skiing shots here.

Chillin' with Bonzi

From Skiing Mt. Hood 1/22/09

I've been staying with my brother and his wife...and their Weimeraners. Bonzi was chillin' with them in this shot while Uta was in the wings.

An extraordinarily happy boy

From the heights

Heading to the highest

The glorious view!

What a call to worship!

Ascending

SO glad they were wrong...

..about it raining today!

Heading for Hood

LA Times featured CITA

I just had lunch with Wayne Harrel in Portland, OR. He told me that the LA Times wrote an article on last year's Christians in Theatre Arts National Conference: Christianity playing a role in theatre.

I taught a workshop there on sociodrama and that's also where I recruited last year's stage manager for MasterWorks.

First run

After last night's performance of A Clear Leading, my play about John Woolman, who spoke against slavery 100 years before the Civil War, a friend (and Friend) from college, Steve Fawver, showed me his first run edition of Woolman's Journal, printed in 1774, two years after his death.

After reconnecting with a number of friends and Friends, including college professors and MasterWorks applicants, I closed out my visit to Newberg, OR (The 'Berg), with a descendant of Woolman, Dave Maurer and his wife Jen.

Thanks for everything everyone!

Newberg Friends

In about 90 minutes I'll perform A Clear Leading here at Newberg Friends Church, where I attended, between internships at other churches, while I was a student at George Fox ( http://GeorgeFox.edu ).

I'm flying over the moon!

Not really, but it sure looks like it.

I composed this on the flight up from Phoenix.

No skiing today

This is a lake where I skiied in college. There's frost on the ground, so I'm taking a pass for now.