We visited our son Noel, at Taylor University this past weekend, for Parents Weekend. On Friday, we ate at Ivanhoe’s Drive In, relaxed and played guitars, and saw the movie, “The Prestige.”

Saturday we had breakfast in Noel’s apartment, watched some college football on TV, walked the campus, watched some live lacrosse, visited the Brown collection of books and writings of C.S. Lewis, George MacDonald, and may others in the library, bought some stuff in the bookstore, got coffee from Steve Morley in the Student Union, visited with Noel’s apartment buddies John, Brent and Kyle and their parents, went out to a Mexican restaurant in Marion with everyone.

On Sunday we went to church at First Church in Muncie, and ate lunch at the Dining Commons with some more of Noel’s friends, including our niece Ali. We watched the first half of the Bears-San Francisco game, and headed home. Basically, it was a very relaxed, fun time with Noel. He’s doing well, and we look forward to having him home for the winter holidays, then watching him graduate in the Spring.

BTW – We witnessed an amazing dramatic interpretive performance of “The Misery of Job and the Mercy of God” (a book by John Piper), by Mark Tilghman and his wife, at First Church of God in Muncie. You can download this performance on iTunes.