random musings

1. "Christ is Risen" by Matt Maher started playing today at the prayer room. Four years ago, I heard the song and immediately liked it. I wanted to play it with WCEC worship team for "Gospel Jam" coming up, which was a big youth group concert, essentially, with our sister churches. Anyway, Carolyn and I were at Northwestern, actually in EP, when I was telling her that I wanted to play this song. I remember playing the song in Claudia's apartment, and she said, "Okay, we can do it," in the definitive, yet casual way Carolyn speaks.

2. Maybe a few days before my grandmother passed away, she suddenly had the desire to sit at a desk and put her head down. She didn't want to be bedridden, but didn't have the energy to stand up either. So the alternative was a school desk. I remember she commented that she felt like a school girl again, sitting but head down on the desk. A woman in her 80s, lying on her desk, like a sleepy child at school.