Evendays

I am getting better. Not that I was ill or anything, but I really am getting better. At some things, that is.
I’m still in need of daily, sometimes hourly, doses of grace.
I do get amnesia and forget way too often all that I’ve been given.
My voice dries up when I don’t praise, pray or confess.
And [...]

January is the official “sales” time in Lausanne. Used to be that only in this month and July could sales take place. The rest of the year, you just paid the “controlled” price, pretty much the same in every store.
I kind of liked the old system, in the sense that you didn’t have to [...]

January 24 is the date of our canton’s independence from the Bernese (that is, the kind folks from the Canton of Bern). Unfortunately, it’s still a work day.
Today, Son 2 and daughter (along with 221 others) made the solemn promise to uphold the constitution of Switzerland and of the Canton of Vaud. They now have [...]

The word “hospitality” in our New Testament comes from the Greek PHILOXENIA. I know. I looked it up. I really did.
It’s evident that words evolve over time. This word at one time meant “affection for the foreigner, for the stranger”. Yet it is consistently translated “hospitality”, a word defined in most our churches as “having [...]

For some people, the opportunity comes around every day. For me, it happens about twice a year. And when it does, I tremble.
It’s when you tell the story of Jesus and they hear of his death for the first time. And then they read about his resurrection.
No other Jesus-event seems as foreign, as strange [...]

Son 2 had the public defense of his Senior Project last Friday. He did a wonderful job integrating his 24 hour, in-the-snow survival with that of polar expeditions past and present. The “expert”, that is the guy who sits with the advisor and analyses the work and helps with the grading, was very demanding… But [...]

Check out Biblos for Theobloggers for ch. 10 of Yancey’s book. And please, share your thoughts.
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About 35 Pepperdine students arrived in Lausanne all through Wednesday evening. Thursday night there was a reception and Wife was able to meet many of the young women and men who will spend a semester “studying” in Lausanne. We hope [...]

Thanks for the kind remarks on the last post!
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I love being in a Bible class and asking the question: What’s faith? For, in most of these classes, you’ll get the response (and it’s a good one):
Now faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see (Hebrews [...]

Aujourd’hui est le 8 janvier, as they say here in Lausanne. It’s the 22nd anniversary of our arrival in Lausanne. 22 years…
22 years before I was born, World War II hadn’t yet started. 22 years from now… Who knows?
But 22 years ago today, Wife and I got off a plane with 6 duffle bags and [...]

Saturday’s headline in the local paper informs us that only 37 people died on roads in our canton (Vaud) during the year 2006. In 2001, 69 were killed, then 62, 61, 56 and 45 in the following years..
Actually, the paper said that “37 too many” were killed in accidents. But the police are happy [...]