Martín y Hazel Frost Nuestra Vida en Argentina

(Here’s another helpful piece by my friend and colleague Larry Hurtado) Bousset and “Early High Christology” by larry hurtado I’m teaching a segment of our masters core course this semester, my bit focusing on the emergence of “Jesus-devotion” in earliest Christianity, and in discussions with the class and with others over recent years, Wilhelm Bousset’s [...]

To remember that day and what it has brought about in Venezuela. A few years ago, I posted my memories of the day Chavez attempted his failed coup. 20 years ago, I was awakened by the phone...

Sometimes its a mistake to see a movie full of pathos right after you’ve just had your own gut-wrenching personal experience of loss of a family member. So, it was with some trepidation that I went to see the new star-studded and widely praised film with Tom Hanks, Sandra Bullock, a brilliant but mute Max [...]

I'm sitting here watching the 2010 film Fair Game . . . within the first 15 minutes, one of the main characters travels to Niger.  Except, it's NOT Niger!  It can't be.  The cows are...

This is the street in front of our apartment.  You cannot see the snow coming down, but it was still snowing and VERY COLD!The weather here in Hungary is generally a little milder than what we...

It's hard to haul yourself off through the freezing dark streets. However for Café Philo on Wednesday we were quite a good gang, we must have been almost 20 people. The subject under discussion was...

'Ban likita ba.  Babu magana.  Ni, mai ba da tafiya.' 'I am not a doctor.  I don't have any medicine.  Me, I'm the owner of the giving of walking.' Three sentences I use...

I've been wanting to blog about this for some time…today seems like as good a time as ever… When I was young and people started talking about babies (a conversation I usually steered clear from) I...

It is a beautiful sunny Saturday morning here in Nairobi, Ava and I are just finishing breakfast before heading to the hospital to see mommy. We want to thank everyone who has been praying for...

I am glad I can have complete confidence in you. 2 Corinthians 7:16 Issues of trust seem to be present in all aspects of life, particularly in the field of medicine.  Do patients trust their doctors...

The trip to Budapest ended up being really cold (at times -25F) but uneventful. The cold temperatures made for picture-perfect weather. Wish I'd had time to stop along the way and take real pictures,...

For the last few weeks, I’ve been hearing a phrase, “We need you, mzee.” This Sunday, we’ll have a treat. Jana’s dad, Mzee Gaston Tarbet will preach for us at CCR. I hope you can attend. ...

True Buddhism or Not? If you have ever read anything about Thailand you may be led to believe that Thailand is a majority Theravada Buddhist nation.  Some would say 95%. While it is true that the...

Usually I don't post about things like this, but this is something that has caught my attention for a number of reasons – which I will explain in a moment. But first a little background. The...

A new kitten is a great way to occupy a week or two. Throw in a poorly child; nothing majorly wrong but just "Not Right", and there's a beautiful distraction from the fairly major surgery planned for child number two.

But there does come a time when, no matter how cute the kitten, the headline news on the radio is that patients admitted to hospital on a Sunday are 16% more likely to die than if they are admitted on a Wednesday, including planned admissions, and the "la la la I'm busy, can't hear you" stops working, and you realise you are in fact heading that way in just two days' time (and yes, going in on the Sunday). It is, however, significantly better than the outlook this morning, when I misheard 16% for 60, and was considering calling the whole thing off.

I could drive myself mad wondering whether there really will be a statistically significant difference for the Little Princess between our Sunday admission and our originally planned Monday admission, but ultimately it's out of my hands, and I either trust the staff (and God) or I don't. We're going in.

But, in the meantime, if the sight of a very confused little kitten trying to suckle an equally confused neutered adult cat isn't distracting enough, then I have a lovely bag of yumminess to explore.

It occurred to me, in one of those pre-dawn-ugh-I'm-not-awake-back-off-world moments that there may well be a considerable amount of down time over the next week. We'll be aiming to keep the Little Princess nicely comfortable, and that should hopefully mean a fair bit of her being asleep. And then of course there's the op itself on Monday when I'm absolutely certain she'll be unconscious and there won't be a great deal for me to do, since for some reason they don't seem to like parents to be involved in the surgery.

And, with a new kitten in the house, crafty type stuff is having to be on the back seat - pretty photos aside, cats and knitting just aren't a natural combination. Hmm, a cat free week; what can I do with that? Legitimate knitting googling; hurrah!

I found myself here (warning: link could be hazardous to anyone keen on rather splendid wool). Free patterns, marvellous! Free patterns for some extremely delicious fair trade hand dyed gorgeously textured ouchily pricey wool. Hey, it's Fair Trade - buying it is a Good Thing, yes?

Just one problem; hospital admission on Sunday, and today is Friday. Our local wool shop doesn't stock the right wool for the pattern I've chosen (although it does stock the silk and lace yarns, check them out!). I call an internet supplier. No problem; they can arrange a delivery for Saturday. Small problem; they don't have the colours I want in stock. I take a look at another site and decide I don't actually have time to arrange a second mortgage. I check a third; equally ouch. I call another supplier, Yarn Box. Handily, Nicola is about to sort out the day's post, and will pick and pack my wools as she does. Even more handily, Yarn Box turns out to be based very locally, and she will drop the yarn round herself - now that's definitely service! And here it is:

Pattern downloaded and printed, needles ready and waiting, and it is only the kitten lying on my lap playing with my hair which is preventing me from making a start already. Roll on Monday; I'm almost looking forwards to it now!

Tia

This metal monument has become a somewhat of a symbol of Ixtapaluca. But what is it? After asking a few people – who weren't sure – I finally went to see if there was some kind of plaque explaining...

January 19-21             About a year ago, God gave myhusband a vision to help reach rural Paraguay more efficiently.  For the past...

Today's Pic of the week is a simple one.  This is Dogi and Onon playing Cori's guitar and ukulele in our living room. Renee' meets with several girls on a weekly basis for prayer, fellowship and...

I finally have some happy news to report. Mark Galli, senior editor at CT liked the Good Grief articles so well, that Christianity Today is turning them, plus another 35 pages of my reflections that don’t turn up on this blog, into an e-book which you can read on Kindle, and see the pictures in [...]