God Laughs

This week one of the professors asked me to teach her class how to use a digital audio recorder. "Sure," I said. "No problem." So then she brought me a simple recorder like I have used before and two very sophisticated recorders that I had no idea how to use. I was confronted with unfamiliar terms like "Sample Rate" and "Low Cut." And I had one day to learn how to use these devices and then decide how to teach them to a class of Spanish-speaking graduate students. It was a challenge.

Archie with a student (Rena) to translate. 

Kristine tried to encourage me. "God put you here for such a time as this," she said. "Yes he did," was my reply. "After all the serious business he has in the universe, he decided he needed a good laugh. So here I am!"

There were 24 students in the class.

As it turned out, it went pretty well. The students were very nice to me. Rena did a good job of translating what I said. Students learned how to use these devices to record languages and help those without a written language to develop one.

One of the students came to get my "expert" advice on how to use her own recorder.

Something occurs to me now as I sit before my computer looking at these photos. God isn't laughing at me...he is smiling at me. That thought makes me smile, too.