Are you doing what you are doing with Passion?

Have you seen this guy?  Are you throwing yourself into whatever you are doing with joy and passion….whether it is working at a bank or raising a child? What would happen if you did? 
As part of a natinal music program in Venezuela (really a program to transform society…) Gustavo Dudamel started taking music lessons [...]

Liz turns 19

Liz’s birthday dinner this year was at Shogun Japanese restaurant where they put on quite a show when the Japanese chefs prepare the meal at your table.  Then back home for a Mocha Buttercream Cake!  Of course, the music jam began right after the singing!

 

100 cards for Lois

My friend and amazing scrapbooker Wilna asked some of her cyberfriends to send a card of encouragement to her friend Lois.
WHY?  She writes here:
I have a friend, Lois. She is 40 years old and has cancer. She is in pain and needs positive, uplifting people to remind her continually to live and that life is [...]

New Fusse Website….

New Fusse website is unveiled….and Fusse merchandise is now available!
Visit www.fusseband.com
Remember to reserve your tickets for March 1’s performance at O’Connell’s in Mission Valley.

Come alive..

Worth repeating….

“Don’t ask yourself what the world needs; ask yourself what makes you come alive. And then go and do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.”Howard Thurman
What makes you come alive?

The Message

Have you heard 1 Corinthians 13 from the message translation?
“Love never gives up.
Love cares more for others than for self.
Love doesn’t want what it doesn’t have.
Love doesn’t strut,
Doesn’t have a swelled head,
Doesn’t force itself on others,
Isn’t always “me first”
Doesn’t fly off the handle
Doesn’t keep score of the sins of others,
Doesn’t revel when others groven,
Takes pleasure [...]

Amazing guitarrist.

Everything you hear, he is playing on the guitar. 

Refreshing the Heart….

What a joy and privilege it was to present a message to the 250 or so women who attended the “Refreshing the Heart” event at Messiah Lutheran Church in Lincoln, Nebraska this weekend.  It is put on by the Men’s Ministry……and they went all out! My message was entitled, “Trust in the Lord….and count it [...]

The day finally came…

Our new mission was approved by the City Council tonight. After two years of negotiation and after receiving a denial by the Planning Commission…..the City Council reversed the decision and unanimously approved the new mission on Otay Ranch! 
You can see a video clip of the historic vote at www.concordiatogether.com

Snow in St. Louis

There were truckloads of snow being hauled off the runway as we landed in St. Louis on Friday.  It was a beautiful, bright weekend though as we gathered for the Lutheran Women in Mission’s Board of Directors meeting. Chairmen of the national committees plus the 40 District Presidents from around the country meet to coordinate efforts [...]