Trust me, what's below ties into this week's edition of 3 Chords & the Truth. To find out how, you'll just have to listen, now, won't you? Download it here. You'll be glad you did. Really. Be there. Aloha. 1 Corinthians Chapter 13 1 If I speak in human and angelic tongues but do not have love, I am a resounding gong or a clashing cymbal. 2 And if I have the gift of prophecy and comprehend all mysteries and all knowledge; if I have all faith so as to move mountains but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give away everything I own, and if I hand my body over so that I may boast but do not have love, I gain nothing. 4 Love is patient, love is kind. It is not jealous, (love) is not pompous, it is not inflated, 5 it is not rude, it does not seek its own interests, it is not quick-tempered, it does not brood over injury, 6 it does not rejoice over wrongdoing but rejoices with the truth. 7 It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. 8 Love never fails. If there are prophecies, they will be brought to nothing; if tongues, they will cease; if knowledge, it will be brought to nothing. 9 For we know partially and we prophesy partially, 10 but when the perfect comes, the partial will pass away. 11 When I was a child, I used to talk as a child, think as a child, reason as a child; when I became a man, I put aside childish things. 12 At present we see indistinctly, as in a mirror, but then face to face. At present I know partially; then I shall know fully, as I am fully known. 13 So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.

Human communication is all about dynamic range -- kind of like music. And, like a badly mastered, overcompressed and severely squished (technical term, there) recording, it just doesn't sound right when everything we have to say to one another is via screaming. YOU NEED dynamic range. In addition to the screams, you need the whispers, too. Me, I come from a family that was a lot better at screaming than whispering. Not a good thing. Just like it's not so good when folks just can't let 'er rip now and again. So that's what the theme of today's Four Songs is all about . . . from a whisper to a scream. It's Four Songs, the bite-sized program of musical wonder from Revolution 21.

Sometimes, you got to suck it up. And offer it up. Your suffering, that is. Trust that your suffering will be joined to Christ's suffering to make crooked lines straight . . . somehow. The past week, I've felt like crap. Lethargic, even. I've felt bad enough that I couldn't muster the energy to do Four Songs this week. But there comes a time when you just have to suck it up. I decided that if 3 Chords & the Truth were worth doing at all, it's worth doing even when I'd really rather just slump in the big blue chair and become a sniffling, coughing, snorting vidhead. So here you go . . . this week's edition of 3 Chords & the Truth, which certainly must be the audio version of a viral video. Cough.

Life is hard. So sometimes you got to rock. Hard. I'm in one of those moods. So sue me. On the other hand, sometimes life can be pretty sweet. After all, we did just get done celebrating Valentine's Day and all that. So we can play around on the lush side of life, too, on 3 Chords & the Truth. I guess what I'm saying here is that whetever mood you're in, we just might have it covered on this edition of the Big Show. Drop by, tune in and download now . . . won't you? Really, I'll bet you've never heard anything like 3 Chords & the Truth. In a good way, naturellement.

Here's another special audio presentation: A bit of nostalgia recorded off the TV in the early '70s in Baton Rouge. I remembered this recording when I heard of the death of Jules d'Hemecourt, a journalism professor when I was in school at LSU . . . and the man behind "The Cajun 12 Days of Christmas" when he was news director at Channel 33 in Baton Rouge. This must have been recorded by me, off the air, sometime around Christmas 1973. Maybe '74. D'Hemecourt, who also was the Channel 33 news anchor at the time, introduces the recording on a holiday newscast. Back in the day. Enjoy.

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