Coming up for air
Like whales that surface now and then to get a lungfull of air before going under again, I'm surfacing tonight with a bit of news and then diving out of sight for a day or so.
Translation work is unpredictable, except that a general rule is that there is no work at all (sometimes for a week or so), then as soon as one job comes in, several others come in one after the other, and there'll be a week or so of work with little time for a break. The current jobs are due Wednesday, so tomorrow and Tuesday are pretty well set aside for translating.
Since my last posting Tuesday, the reports on our principal health concerns in the church are as follows:
Marcia: had her second chemotherapy Thursday. Her husband, Jose Carlos, reported today that her hair has started to fall out. She's still sticking close to home at this stage of her treatment.
Jackie: had a bad day Wednesday or Thursday, but bounced back, and seems to be on a steady, if slow, road to improvement.
Raquel: gave her parents a good scare Thursday night, when she started coughing, then stopped breathing. There were some tense moments until they were able to get her breathing again. The whole family was at services this afternoon.
The church services today, and particularly this evening in Portuguese, were encouraging. We had 5 or 6 first-time visitors, and another family that returned to the church after being out for almost a year. The principal encouragement, though, is not in the number of persons present, but the evident presence of the Lord in the Word and the worship. We are not the same people we were last week, or yesterday. In yet some small way, we stepped closer to the Lord through the ministry of His Spirit today.
If I disappear from the blogosphere for a day or two, be assured I will be resurfacing as soon as possible. Whales can't stay submerged forever, and neither can I.
Translation work is unpredictable, except that a general rule is that there is no work at all (sometimes for a week or so), then as soon as one job comes in, several others come in one after the other, and there'll be a week or so of work with little time for a break. The current jobs are due Wednesday, so tomorrow and Tuesday are pretty well set aside for translating.
Since my last posting Tuesday, the reports on our principal health concerns in the church are as follows:
Marcia: had her second chemotherapy Thursday. Her husband, Jose Carlos, reported today that her hair has started to fall out. She's still sticking close to home at this stage of her treatment.
Jackie: had a bad day Wednesday or Thursday, but bounced back, and seems to be on a steady, if slow, road to improvement.
Raquel: gave her parents a good scare Thursday night, when she started coughing, then stopped breathing. There were some tense moments until they were able to get her breathing again. The whole family was at services this afternoon.
The church services today, and particularly this evening in Portuguese, were encouraging. We had 5 or 6 first-time visitors, and another family that returned to the church after being out for almost a year. The principal encouragement, though, is not in the number of persons present, but the evident presence of the Lord in the Word and the worship. We are not the same people we were last week, or yesterday. In yet some small way, we stepped closer to the Lord through the ministry of His Spirit today.
If I disappear from the blogosphere for a day or two, be assured I will be resurfacing as soon as possible. Whales can't stay submerged forever, and neither can I.
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