People

We meet various types of people here and in Tel-Aviv. Some very interesting and beautiful people. Some very lovable and talented people. And people with lots of trials and tragedies in their lives. Also the most miserable of all--those who don't know their misery, an expression we learned from the Dutch. There are multitudes of them in the U.S.
As you can imagine, we also have many interesting discussions with some of them. We see a little progress and we have a lot of hope. And there's a long way to go.

Isaiah 62:6-7 I have set watchmen upon thy walls, O Jerusalem, [which] shall never hold their peace day nor night: ye that make mention of the LORD, keep not silence,  And give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

Glad and Sad

I follow a couple blogs. One is Shevet Achim, an organization that does heart operations on children from countries around Israel. Many of them come from Iraq, where there is a higher than usual number of heart defects due to people marrying their cousins. Sometimes I pick one of the patients to pray for. Recently one of my little friends, Jacoob, who was having a long difficult time recovering from heart surgery, improved to the point where he could walk up and down the hall.

Another blog I have followed is the one for Lucy Jarrett, who died yesterday. I hope they will continue the blog, though I suppose at some point they will rename it.