A little Latvian music

Here's what I'm listening to now. Although the website has the songs in English, I'm listening in Latvian. It's great! Unfortunately my favorite doesn't seem to play on the website - "How Wonderful Your Name." This weekend I was in a missions conference and we sang this in Latvian. The chorus is simply "Alleluia". As we sang I could feel the praise being lifted to the Lord, no matter what our native language. And I could almost sense the angels singing with us. A little bit of heaven right here in Riga! Check him out. The website says he will be in the US in April/May. http://www.valdisindrisonoks.lv/

Something from my devotions last week:

Real training for service asks for a hard and often painful process of self-emptying. The main problem of service is to be the way without being 'in the way'. And if there are any tools, techniques and skills to be learned they are primarily to plow the field, to cut the weeks and to clip the branches, that is, to take away the obstacles for real growth and development. Training for service is not a training to become rich but to become voluntarily poor, not to fulfill ourselves but to empty ourselves, not to conquer God but to surrender to his saving power. All this is very hard to accept in our contemporary world, which tells us about the importance of power and influence. But it is important that in this world there remain a few voice crying out that if there is anything to boast of we should boast of our weakness. Our fulfillment is in offering emptiness, our usefulness in becoming useless, our power in becoming powerless.
from Reaching Out by Henri J.M. Nouwen