From August 22 "He was there all the time"
It is hard to believe we have been home from Zambia for almost two weeks. I have had a busy time since returning. Doing what? Well, at the end of the school year I backed up all of my planning and curriculum documents on a portable hard drive. I had a total of 80 GB of material that I use in teaching classes for grades 6-8. I placed it in a very secure location so it would not get moved when the custodians cleaned my room, or when the IT folks installed the new computers. You guessed it, I can't remember where that secure location is?
The last ten days have been spent re-creating my curriculum. It works out great for me, because it gives me the opportunity to clean up, re-organize and re-create. I have hard copies of the handouts and I can scan them and copy them. I had my 8th grade curriculum on a CD, so it was easy to recover. This opportunity made me stop and think about what I want to teach during the coming year.
We are finally moving into the digital age. Our CRT television has begun to fade and flicker, so we have taken the plunge and bought an LED TV to replace it. How does it look? It was out of stock when we bought it, so it has to be shipped. I love customer reviews, but in this case it made the choice difficult. I did buy an extended protection plan so it can be replaced if anything goes wrong. Lynne is looking forward to football on a big screen (it is only 42"). Someone just said something about BluRay movies on an LED TV. We have a VCR and DVD player, not a BluRay. Maybe that will be our next step into the 21st Century.
There has been rain almost every day since we came back to Georgia. After 6 weeks of no rain in Zambia, it was nice to see rain . . . the first couple of times it rained. Gardens require rain, but too much can be detrimental to their health. Lynne harvested cucumbers today, and most of them had worm holes in them. She soaked them in salt water and the worms came out. Normally she would spread some diatonaceous earth around the cucumbers to prevent the worms from infecting the plant. However, if it rains the treatment has to be re-applied. With it raining every day, she would have to re-apply it every day. The corn has silked but the steady rain has prevented the pollination process to take place. So the corn may not fill out.
Lynne and I ventured to the Atlanta VA Medical Center yesterday for my upper esophageal endoscopy. My appointment was for 9:30, and they finally called my name at 11:45. The entire procedure took 45 minutes before I was walking out the door. They took some biopsies to test for H. pylori since apparently I have gastritis and duodenitis (inflammation of the gastroesophageal sphincter and the upper portion of the small intestine). Most of the time H. pylori is the cause (95%). I will find out in August whether they are going to put me on antibiotics to treat it.
I listened to an interesting sermon by Francis Chan on Psalm 23 today. He emphasized that most sermons on Psalm 23 are exegetical and do not look at the Psalm as a whole. His example was studying the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. He talked about the absurdity of an egg sitting on a wall, and picturing "all the king's horses" trying to put the egg back together. It was an interesting and funny illustration. His point was that taken as a whole, Psalm 23 should inspire and encourage us to live a fearless life for God. His sermon took me to John 16:33 where Jesus tells the disciples He has already overcome the world. Are we living our lives as defeated, or as "more than conquerors?"
The last ten days have been spent re-creating my curriculum. It works out great for me, because it gives me the opportunity to clean up, re-organize and re-create. I have hard copies of the handouts and I can scan them and copy them. I had my 8th grade curriculum on a CD, so it was easy to recover. This opportunity made me stop and think about what I want to teach during the coming year.
We are finally moving into the digital age. Our CRT television has begun to fade and flicker, so we have taken the plunge and bought an LED TV to replace it. How does it look? It was out of stock when we bought it, so it has to be shipped. I love customer reviews, but in this case it made the choice difficult. I did buy an extended protection plan so it can be replaced if anything goes wrong. Lynne is looking forward to football on a big screen (it is only 42"). Someone just said something about BluRay movies on an LED TV. We have a VCR and DVD player, not a BluRay. Maybe that will be our next step into the 21st Century.
There has been rain almost every day since we came back to Georgia. After 6 weeks of no rain in Zambia, it was nice to see rain . . . the first couple of times it rained. Gardens require rain, but too much can be detrimental to their health. Lynne harvested cucumbers today, and most of them had worm holes in them. She soaked them in salt water and the worms came out. Normally she would spread some diatonaceous earth around the cucumbers to prevent the worms from infecting the plant. However, if it rains the treatment has to be re-applied. With it raining every day, she would have to re-apply it every day. The corn has silked but the steady rain has prevented the pollination process to take place. So the corn may not fill out.
Lynne and I ventured to the Atlanta VA Medical Center yesterday for my upper esophageal endoscopy. My appointment was for 9:30, and they finally called my name at 11:45. The entire procedure took 45 minutes before I was walking out the door. They took some biopsies to test for H. pylori since apparently I have gastritis and duodenitis (inflammation of the gastroesophageal sphincter and the upper portion of the small intestine). Most of the time H. pylori is the cause (95%). I will find out in August whether they are going to put me on antibiotics to treat it.
I listened to an interesting sermon by Francis Chan on Psalm 23 today. He emphasized that most sermons on Psalm 23 are exegetical and do not look at the Psalm as a whole. His example was studying the nursery rhyme Humpty Dumpty. He talked about the absurdity of an egg sitting on a wall, and picturing "all the king's horses" trying to put the egg back together. It was an interesting and funny illustration. His point was that taken as a whole, Psalm 23 should inspire and encourage us to live a fearless life for God. His sermon took me to John 16:33 where Jesus tells the disciples He has already overcome the world. Are we living our lives as defeated, or as "more than conquerors?"
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