Wonderful thing for Monday, 2 March:
Churchill had it; Lincoln had it; I get it every now and then - the proverbial black cloud.
I think it has to do with this illness that keeps its grip on Blaine, even though he is slowly getting better. We're in the same house, and we do our best to minister to each other, but this illness necessarily puts a barrier between us, which opens a chink for more barriers. We've been just the teensiest bit testy with each other today.
We are both dealing with some emotional/spiritual/physical gloomy weather.
The wonderful thing? We reach past the darkness, continuing to minister to each other and to do our best in our work. We forgive easily. We find things to laugh about. Comfort is just a prayer away.
Man, I love this mission.
Fun thing:
Blaine acts so cute sometimes.
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Tuesday, March 3, 2015
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
tender mercies and belle giornate
Wonderful thing for Monday, 2 February:
Knowing that our family is being cared for. First of all, let me say what a blessing it is to have basically daily contact with our family - it's mind boggling when I think of how hard it was to communicate with loved ones forty years ago. Nowadays, I have to struggle for balance, so that I'm not continually stalking Facebook to make sure everyone's okay and that I'm not missing out on anything. In a way, it's more of a challenge now to really put our family in the Lord's care, and turn my full attention to His work.
Notwithstanding that challenge, to which I am earnestly applying myself, I know He understands my motherly yearnings. Yesterday was Andrew's birthday. We figured the best time to try to call him would be during his lunch hour, 11:00 a.m. his time, 6:00 p.m. our time. He warned us that it might be kind of tricky - and it was. We tried several times, to no avail.
Since we had already paypal-ed a gift, sent a jib-jab card, sung "Happy Birthday" in Italian on his voice mail, plus a little video (at Sara's request) recounting the day he was born, we didn't feel too badly. However, seeing that one of his patients made him a birthday cake, and not just a birthday cake but a beautiful, yummy birthday cake, just set my heart at rest.
I know for sure Sara and the fam gave him a super fun party last evening, which makes all the difference; let's just say that knowing someone "extraneous" cared enough to do that is just like a little tender mercy from the Lord to me.
Fun thing:
another "family" entry. We skyped with Ben about some "business". There's snow in Rexburg! It's funny to see. Here we have a lot of rain, but sometimes, like yesterday, Groundhog's Day - don't know if that's celebrated here - we have a bella giornata: a beautiful day. Seriously, it was gorgeous.
Knowing that our family is being cared for. First of all, let me say what a blessing it is to have basically daily contact with our family - it's mind boggling when I think of how hard it was to communicate with loved ones forty years ago. Nowadays, I have to struggle for balance, so that I'm not continually stalking Facebook to make sure everyone's okay and that I'm not missing out on anything. In a way, it's more of a challenge now to really put our family in the Lord's care, and turn my full attention to His work.
Notwithstanding that challenge, to which I am earnestly applying myself, I know He understands my motherly yearnings. Yesterday was Andrew's birthday. We figured the best time to try to call him would be during his lunch hour, 11:00 a.m. his time, 6:00 p.m. our time. He warned us that it might be kind of tricky - and it was. We tried several times, to no avail.
Since we had already paypal-ed a gift, sent a jib-jab card, sung "Happy Birthday" in Italian on his voice mail, plus a little video (at Sara's request) recounting the day he was born, we didn't feel too badly. However, seeing that one of his patients made him a birthday cake, and not just a birthday cake but a beautiful, yummy birthday cake, just set my heart at rest.
I know for sure Sara and the fam gave him a super fun party last evening, which makes all the difference; let's just say that knowing someone "extraneous" cared enough to do that is just like a little tender mercy from the Lord to me.
Fun thing:
another "family" entry. We skyped with Ben about some "business". There's snow in Rexburg! It's funny to see. Here we have a lot of rain, but sometimes, like yesterday, Groundhog's Day - don't know if that's celebrated here - we have a bella giornata: a beautiful day. Seriously, it was gorgeous.
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