Evendays

This weekend in Lyons, France I’ll be giving a seminar on Job called “Lessons from suffering.” While reading away in the first chapters of that book, (the ones I kind of understand), I found a couple of good reasons (among others) to hate The Accuser.
One: The Accuser takes what is good, loving and perfect and [...]

It’s time to break a “rule”. It’s not an Even Day, but it is Son 1’s birthday. 19 years ago today I almost missed it because at 9:00 AM in the birthing room I told wife the car needed to be moved. She threatened me. I stayed. And Son 1 was born at 9:06.
One thing [...]

I’m going back to the future on this post, written on the 28th but dated the 26th. We’ve been busy recuperating from stuff: Selling a house, a weekend retreat, and selling a house.
The weekend was a father-son retreat in the Ardeche area of France. Son 2 had really wanted to go even though I knew [...]

Wife and I had a great time at the fair. Free tickets in. A slow start in the Canada section where you could buy acreage in the forest outside of Montreal. That made me laugh because Wife’s dad bought a lot 35 years ago that is worth so little that the family is giving it [...]

The house belonging to Wife’s parents went on the market on Tuesday. So we’ve been cleaning it up, getting things sorted and sold for the last four months.
The phone has been ringing off the hook since Tuesday. I dropped by the house this afternoon to clean the terrace and FOUR people came by to look [...]

If you walk up the hill about a kilometer (.6 miles, Randy) you’ll find the convention center which is the site of the Comptoir Suisse (the Swiss Fair). It lasts for 10 days and makes parking really difficult.
It used to be that the Comptoir was the Swiss answer to the USA shopping mall. Most shops [...]

The folks who stayed for our AGAPE meal have just left. A good group this morning for church but only 17 for the meal. It was still fun. We sang and sang. I thought people would get tired, but it wasn’t the case. We had the digital camera out and took a lot of pictures, [...]

Here’s a picture of the family taken at the wedding in Marseilles a week ago. Son 1 and I are a little squinty-eyed, but that’s because we aren’t all that used to the sun here in Switzerland. Marseilles is much farther south than Lausanne and it has much better weather. Meaning more sun.
Daughter never wears [...]

There is a foot-race series in our canton (or state, as you probably call it) that both Wife and Son 2 have been participating in. It is called “Le tour du pays de Vaud” (Zee tour of the Vaud countryside, Vaud being our canton). For the last 4 weeks, every Wednesday, they have been running [...]

Our weekend was busy as we drove down to Marseilles and back for the wedding of one of the evangelists there with the church secretary. We had a great time. This was the second wedding that I’ve been to in that chapel. The first one I officiated 4 or so years ago on the hottest [...]