Spring is here

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I love it.  Life!  This week, I was out in the sunshine trimming fruit trees, raspberry stalks and dragging a heavy rake-like instrument across a newly plowed garden and feeling like I was free again!  The winter was long but when the life that Spring brings eventually shows up, it happens all of a sudden and… delights!

The family is fine.  Pris is doing well and back on top of things after a bout of illness that knocked her about.  The kids are busy with school coming in to the end of the school year.  Jesse is studying Physics and grateful for help from Shane and Blake (A Canadian teacher who is here for a couple of months).  Jesse and Marie go into Kiev once a week for several hours of Ukrainian study.  They are stretched, showing aptitude and loving it.

The little girls have been waiting for a month until they could go outside in shorts and a T-shirt.  We’ve made going “bare feet” a kind of celebration in our home – something requiring twenty degrees on the temp. gauge.    We’ve finally arrived and they love it.  Angel found this long icicle during the melt of the late snow a couple of weeks ago.  It seems incredible that all that snow has gone now.

Yes it snowed

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All good

It is Wednesday afternoon.  I’ve finished preparation for the Bible study tonight and am somewhat free.  We are going through the Book of First Peter and tonight will be looking at the subjects of serving in the church and what it means to love fervently.  Should be good.

 

I’m healthy.  To tell the truth, I was surprised to hear the doctor inform me that I’m healthy.  I went in last Wednesday and gave blood for a series of tests.  They called me the next day and asked if I could come back in and give some more blood.  (The natural assumption was that they needed to double check a reading that came up that was worrying for them.)  As it turned out, they just hadn’t taken enough blood for all the tests on the first try.  Anyway, the cardiologist gave me a cardiogram, looked at the results of most of the blood tests and told me I was all good. 

 

Electricity is useful indeed

What a week-end!  All things considered, it was pretty special.  Friday, we had a good group of students over.  They once again heard of their need for a saviour.  We generally just hang with them for a few hours before they have to return to their dorms by 10:00.  The last 15-30 minutes, we read a verse or two from the Scriptures and then talk about it.  I like the analogy of men being added to an army until the army is too powerful to stop.  I hope that we are adding men to an army of reasons for these young men and women to accept Jesus as Saviour and Lord.