December?

Sufjan Stevens - Once In David's Royal City

I hope you had a nice Thanksgiving, mine was a good time.
I’ve been busy, not just on side projects but I’ve actually been busy at work. Crazy right? My main project is still on hold but I’ve found some other things to work on, so it’s been fun to be in the office again.

This Sunday starts Advent and we’ve been working on a series of videos for service that sheds some light on some people who have really exemplified giving. This is the first of four videos.

Sacrificial giving – Advent from Praxis Church on Vimeo.

I’ve been listening to Sufjan Steven’s Songs for Christmas non stop lately. I’m usually not into Christmas music at all, but I just can’t resist his music. He recorded five small albums of traditional and new Christmas songs and now you can get them all in a little box set for $20. I high recommend it, there is even a great version of Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing. Sufjan’s Episcopalian, it’s easy to hear the biblical references in any of his albums. I honestly don’t listen to much ‘christian’ music these days, so it’s especially nice to hear a good hymn.

Looks like I’ll be in Boise from December 23rd until the 3rd of January. For a few days I thought I might be in New York for New Years on some business, but it all fell through. I’ve never been to NY and there are few things better than traveling on the company dime… but it would have cut into my time back home. It’ll be nice to have more than a week in the city of trees. Hopefully I’ll see you there. :)

Posted: November 28th, 2009
at 10:25am by David Hildreth

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  1. Hey David,
    I just stumbled across your blog this evening, trying like crazy to find anywhere that had a picture of just simply “beloved” in Hebrew, instead of the much more common quotation out of Song of Solomon. Does the tattoo you have simply mean Beloved, or is it attached to the name David specifically as well? If it does only mean Beloved, is there any chance you’d be willing to send me a straight forward shot of it?

    Also, fantastic choice of Christmas music – it is some of my favorite. And I just moved to California from New York, N.Y. is certainly a wonderful place to be for New Years. I am sorry I’m going to be missing the snow for this time of year.

    God speed.

    Rivkah

    Rivkah

    1 Dec 09 at 00:00

     

  2. My translation is described here:
    http://biblical-studies.ca/blog/2006/07/22/more-hebrew-tattoos-you-dont-want/

    It’s basically the object of someone’s love. I interpret this to mean that God loves me.
    http://davidalsolovesfiles.com/images/beloved.gif

    BTW, I like your photography!

    David Hildreth

    1 Dec 09 at 15:53

     

  3. Thank you so much. It is very much appreciated.

    Rivkah

    1 Dec 09 at 16:20

     

  4. I really liked the video! See you at Christmas.
    Love ya, prayin’ for ya

    Dad

    2 Dec 09 at 16:13

     


 

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