
I know that it would make much more sense if I were to blog about Taize in sequential order, but I don’t feel like it. And isn’t it great to know that you don’t have to do something just cause you don’ t feel like it? If only more of life (thinking of a&p in particular here….) was like blogging.
Every morning at Taize we would have bible study, and then we would break off into international small groups to go more in-depth on the bible study. The bible study for the fifteen and sixteen year olds was led by a monk called Brother Tim, who was really, really nice.

This here is Brother Tim, explaining a bible story in the rain. You can’t see me even when the photo is big, but I was sitting next to the guy in the hat and the bright orange shirt. If you’ve ever seen the Andy Griffith show, you might remember that one episode where Andy and Barney keep describing people as “nice”? Well, Brother Tim was nice. Someone actually said that he “radiates niceness”, which he does. Once we were chattering away in our tent and one of the chaperones came in, and all she heard of the conversation was “Brother Tim”. She said, “hey, you guys aren’t being nasty about Brother Tim, are you? Cause he is so nice.” And everyone went, “No! We love Brother Tim!!!”. Just to give you an idea of what a nice monk this guy was.
And now every time someone puts a photo of brother Tim on facebook, the rest of us have to comment and go, “Ohhh, BROTHER TIM!” or “Brother Tim rocks” or other various supportive messages.
Here we have a variety of photos of Brother Tim:

Day one: he teaches us Taize-style dance moves: “Can you do the funky chicken??”

Day Two: He explains why it is in fact very fitting that we are learning dance moves at a monastery, because in Isaiah there is a story about followers of Jesus that do many popular dance moves, and “the brothers we try to emulate that in our own lives.”

Day Three: Umm, dancing? What’s dancing?
NOTE: ALL PHOTO CAPTIONS ARE LIES.





