so for the one person who reads this from cedarville - enjoy. for the rest of you....just suffer through:)
we would sit in chapel everyday at 10:00. i remember hearing all the time that when we graduate we will stop at 10:00 and remember chapel. hmm...well, i do, from time to time. i often hear the song Christ is All We Need. while i'm sure it is a great song...let's just say it isn't my favorite. now the rare Mondays when Dr. Dixon would sing I Woke Up This Morning...oh yeah, i liked that one. i also remember singing the same hymns each week depending on who led worship and loving chapel on fridays with the student government. we started singing Shout to the Lord and i remember one of the girls raising her hands...that was a bit of a new thing for us students!
there are several sermons i remember vividly. sitting in a blackout listening to tony evans preach. one kid was smart enought to record it on his hand held. i remember alistair begg because i loved his accent. we also had this missionary guy that smuggled bibles and he spoke really fast and had a short mustache. i liked him too...
but just this week - at about 10:00 i was immedietly taken back to chapel with dr. dixon. he would give this great speech every spring. we loved it. sometimes we would place bets on which day he'd give it. it was always the same and frankly, i'm not sure why it was so huge.
it was the dandelion speech! and this week while i lamented over the dandelions in my yard i immedietly thought of him. he would always lecture about the sidewalks. we had plenty of them and they connected to everywhere and that is where we were expected to walk. the grass was well taken care of and for our enjoyment, but boy, he really wanted us to use the sidewalks. UNLESSS!!!! there was a dandelion. and dr. dixon did not like those. so we were given permission each spring to walk in the grass to pluck the unsightley dandelion and put the grass out of it's misery. weird huh? weird that all 1200 of us students would live to hear that sermon. there weren't many chapel cuts that day. in fact one year someone made him a dandelion cake and presented to him in chapel.
so as i looked at my dandelion yard i rejoiced over the fact that dr. dixon would approve of me sending my kids to pick them.
hubby must despise them just as much because he doesn't just pick them, he digs them out of the ground!
we would sit in chapel everyday at 10:00. i remember hearing all the time that when we graduate we will stop at 10:00 and remember chapel. hmm...well, i do, from time to time. i often hear the song Christ is All We Need. while i'm sure it is a great song...let's just say it isn't my favorite. now the rare Mondays when Dr. Dixon would sing I Woke Up This Morning...oh yeah, i liked that one. i also remember singing the same hymns each week depending on who led worship and loving chapel on fridays with the student government. we started singing Shout to the Lord and i remember one of the girls raising her hands...that was a bit of a new thing for us students!
there are several sermons i remember vividly. sitting in a blackout listening to tony evans preach. one kid was smart enought to record it on his hand held. i remember alistair begg because i loved his accent. we also had this missionary guy that smuggled bibles and he spoke really fast and had a short mustache. i liked him too...
but just this week - at about 10:00 i was immedietly taken back to chapel with dr. dixon. he would give this great speech every spring. we loved it. sometimes we would place bets on which day he'd give it. it was always the same and frankly, i'm not sure why it was so huge.
it was the dandelion speech! and this week while i lamented over the dandelions in my yard i immedietly thought of him. he would always lecture about the sidewalks. we had plenty of them and they connected to everywhere and that is where we were expected to walk. the grass was well taken care of and for our enjoyment, but boy, he really wanted us to use the sidewalks. UNLESSS!!!! there was a dandelion. and dr. dixon did not like those. so we were given permission each spring to walk in the grass to pluck the unsightley dandelion and put the grass out of it's misery. weird huh? weird that all 1200 of us students would live to hear that sermon. there weren't many chapel cuts that day. in fact one year someone made him a dandelion cake and presented to him in chapel.
so as i looked at my dandelion yard i rejoiced over the fact that dr. dixon would approve of me sending my kids to pick them.
hubby must despise them just as much because he doesn't just pick them, he digs them out of the ground!
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