Do You See What I See?

At CELA, we're preparing for a Christmas carol concert where each class is singing two songs. My kiddos are singing "Do You See What I See?" and "Love Came Down At Christmas." They're rock stars. I told them they could bring any instruments to play along as we sing, and so far I have two kids playing piano (I have to choose only one though... blast), two kids playing violin, one xylophone, one recorder, on Chinese flute, one drum, and one harmonica. Pretty sweet, hey? Too bad I don't know anything about actual choral direction or instrumental arrangement. Thankfully, Heidi has offered to help with that, but it also might be fun just to wing it and see what kind of music we come up with.

In other news, there was a wild and crazed cat locked in the basement of our school that we heard meowing on Monday morning. The big gate to the basement was locked and no one has a key to that. The only way up and down is with the elevator. Which meant, the only way the crazed, hungry, angry cat could get out of the basement was... on the elevator. Let's just say that a few boxes, towels, a can of tuna, a bowl of milk, a broom and four teachers later, the cat WAS actually safely removed from the basement and released out in the wild of campus. This is a funnier story that could be worth a lengthy retelling later, but we'll see if I get to that.

Finally, I just wanted to share that this morning I saw what may have been one of the most beautiful sights I've yet seen here in Taiwan. I was out for a run at about 6:30am. This used to be well after sunrise, but I guess as the days are getting shorter, the sun was still just coming up over the Eastern mountains as I left today. It may have also seemed special because it was a clear day. I could actually see the mountains. There was fog/mist, but it was all really low along the ground. It looked a lot like the mist in one of the last scenes of Pride and Prejudice when Mr. Darcy is walking across the field in the morning. At any rate, the mountains were pretty much a dark outline against a sky that had sun beams coming out from some unseen point hidden by the mountains that I assumed was the sun, just behind the one mountain peak. It was really spectacular. I wish I had been able to capture it somehow to post on here. Then, as I kept running south along a road with the mountains on my left hand side, I saw the sun as it broke out over the mountain top. It made the sky considerably brighter and warmer. It was a great run. Praise God for those moments when we can glimpse the beauty of His creation! And praise God for legs and eyes that work to see and experience these things. Truly, we have so many blessings that we so often take for granted!