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| Ti Boone (new security dog) waits most mornings for his pat on the head |
This week has been a waiting game while we continue to do things around the house to make the professors feel at home: doing the final laundering of sheets and curtains in their rooms, laundering towels and sheets from the smaller home on the compound as we will have 4 more guests coming in next week and two will have to sleep in that home; baking cookies; baking muffins, and revising the 4-week menu planner to reflect what is currently in the cupboards and the number of guests.
Dorothy waited for her tooth to start feeling better while the amoxicillin took away the inflammation of an abscess and we ask you to pray this week that it is cleared up and that she can wait until we come home during the first week of December to see a dentist. She has been advised by our dentist that she will likely require a root canal and would prefer to have it done at home and not in the US.
Dorothy waited for her birthday this week. She is now officially an old age pensioner (So now you know how old she is, you can immediately forget it!). Stacey and Matt had a lovely supper for her on Tuesday night with candles and all.
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| Water pounding in at Black Beach last yaer |
We waited for water on Thursday morning. We lost power around 6:00 a.m. in the middle of someone’s shower (not saying whose shower). When the power goes out the water shuts down. The generator was turned on about 10 minutes later too late, however, to get the rest of the shampoo rinsed out.
We both waited for our anniversary on Friday. Unfortunately, we didn’t fly away to a tropical island because we are already here, we didn’t have pork tenderloin for supper because that is nearly an impossibility here but we did both remember this year to bring one another lovely cards and we reminisced about our lives together. We are so, so happy that we both love the Lord and that He is the centre of our marriage.
One of John’s older sisters, Buffy, had triple by-pass surgery on Monday so we waited for news of the outcome on Tuesday. Her husband let us know through e-mail that all went well and that she looks good even with all the paraphernalia sticking out of her. We, along with others, have been praying for her and we ask you to pray along with us that her recovery will be quick. We always want things in our time, don’t we, not His time? It takes a lot of patience often to wait for His perfect timing.
We waited for the first day of returning to class for the students this past Monday. It was so great to hear the first swell of a hymn from the students, Oh happy day when Jesus washed my sins away. We have a very special friend who is a student. He came over to see us following classes. His English is much improved since we first met him in the fall of 2007. He asked us how we “passed” our summer and we asked him what he did on his school holiday. Some holiday he had! He preached, lead Bible study classes with several different groups each week, tagged along with Pastor Job (whose school St. Andrew’s supports) up to Grison Garde where they did some evangelizing taught Sunday School, sang in the choir and the list went on and on. After hearing his list of things he did on his summer vacation we felt bad after telling him we were in Ireland for two weeks.
And lastly, we have been waiting for the ants to retreat. There seems to be a plethora of them. They were in the cupboards, in the drawers, in the bathrooms and almost everywhere else. We sprayed them with “Baygon”, a product that is available here, (We’ve been told it has Agent Orange in it.) we’ve washed them down with bleach and squished them. Dorothy remembers asking a question last year about the same time. Why did God put ants on the ground? The answer comes in the Bible, Proverbs 6:6. “Go to the ant, O sluggard, observe her ways and be wise, which, having no chief officer or ruler, prepares her food in the summer and gathers her provision in the harvest,” and Proverbs 30:25, “The ants are not a strong people, but they prepare their food in the summer.”
In closing, Dorothy noticed an advertisement in a magazine she bought in the US to poke through while on the way here. Picture this – in very large print, “be well”. Underneath is a bottle with a lot of soap bubble floating around it and on it. The words on the bottle say, “Every day give yourself a good mental shampoo.” At the bottom of the page in the right had corner read the name Sara Murray Jordan, MD, Physician, 1884-1959. Dorothy thought the words on the bottle should read, “Every day give yourself a good spiritual shampoo by reading God’s word.”
Now may the Lord of peace Himself continually grant you peace in every circumstance. The Lord be with you all! 1 Timothy 3:16
Now may the Lord of peace Himself continually grant you peace in every circumstance. The Lord be with you all! 1 Timothy 3:16
