Evendays

My blogging buddy at Ocular Fusion tagged me, or booked me, as he’d write… So here we go:

One book that changed your life: Max Dauner’s 80 page study on God’s Eternal Plan changed me and the way I look at the Gospels. I’ve never taught them the same since. (Only available in French…)
One book that [...]

Talk about a rude awakening. We left hot , sunny Fresno (102), semi-hot D.C., and got off the plane in Geneva to a chilly, Swiss summer. Friday afternoon was gorgeous with a cool high of 68. SIXTY-EIGHT. (Someone left the frig door open.) This is not August weather. Did we change hemispheres?
Saturday afternoon the storms [...]

Thanks for the prayers. We arrived home safely after several airports and several more problems with baggage. It seems that America West did not want to transfer our bags to our TED flight. But after a 7 hour wait they showed up in time for us to place them in the hands of British Airways [...]

Just got back from a fishing trip. Good food, company, beautiful stars and lots of fish. Thanks Mike! 
I’ll be off-line for a while. The family is heading back to Lausanne. It’ll just take us a couple of days to get there. Fresno, Las Vegas, Washington D.C., London (Heathrow), Geneva, Lausanne. Hope they have nice airports.
Be [...]

I read a report yesterday that about 30% of the kids who are in Fresno elementary schools have English as their second language, and that there are over 70 languages represented in the school district. This reminds me of Lausanne where over half of the first graders in our neighborhood are not French mother tongue.
I [...]

We will go see Grandma T. today. At 94, she lives in a care-facility. Last furlough she was still at home, able to make cookies and tell us where the drinks were, show us pictures and explain long-ago faces to us. Though her mind is still sharp, her vision has dimmed. She is frail, unable [...]

Yesterday was a very affirming day although it was a day of meetings. Bryn and Blake were at College church to report on the Let’s Start Talking project. About 20 children sat around them, listening intently to the two college students tell about their work in Lausanne. None of the little guys, ages 5 to [...]

Last night, dad took 14 of us out to the Fresno Grizzlies’ game. At the end of 10 innings the score was tied at 14. Somehow Fresno won in the 11th, 17 to 16, after picking up 25 hits.
This morning, I took the family’s biggest/smallest baseball fan out to get donuts. Braedon was singing, "Take [...]

Nothing in this post will be news to you. But it’s all new to me. We still have rabbit ears on our Sony, picking up 2 Swiss stations and 3 French ones. We watch about 5 hours a week, unless it’s World Cup week or Federer is playing in a major.
Difference between here and there [...]

Wife and I were in Wes’ old shepherding group on Sunday and about 40 people were present. I started my part of the class talking about the difference between mourning and celebrating… That it would be appropriate for us to mourn Wes’ death because we will miss him. His wife and grown children, and their [...]