Handel's Messiah

It was a cold 11 degrees this morning when we got up, it was really hard to pull ourselves out of our toasty warm bed onto the cold farmhouse floor. Did I ever mention there isn't a lot of insulation on this 150 year old house. That is slowly changing, Mark had the basement insulated and 2 sides of the house insulated and wrapped but the east side we felt cold air blowing in through the wall this morning. Enough so that Mark went down into the basement to see if a window down there was broken. Nope it's just that the walls are that thin.
We had a really great day today. Two Spirit filled sermons and then an amazing afternoon and evening spent at Grace church in Morton listening to Handel's Messiah. Phil Witzig was the conductor, one of his daughters, Larissa was the soprano soloist and another daughter an alto in the choir. We could see Phil's HUGE smile as he was conducting. Truly this was so beautiful that it hurt my chest. God allowed us a small glimpse of what heaven will be today.

The sound of music filled the room to the rafters. At the end it was hard to leave the church, it was like a huge family reunion with people from the past all glad to see each other. Many many happy voices raised in greetings.

We joined Tim & Joan's family for dinner at the Pizza Ranch. That was crowded with people that had also attended the concert. Just as we were getting ready to leave Matt Larson came up to say hello. Matt was on Ben's gradeschool basketball team. 

Melissa posted a pictures of Xerxes (Marika x Valiant) at his new home. He looks like he has settled in fine.