Weekend Catch-Up

It's Saturday morning ... time to do the laundry before I run away tomorrow evening for cities south of here .... the weather is warm enough to dry the clothes, I hope. We've had a few days of humidity and rain so hanging clothes outside really wasn't worth it. I think they might dry today.

Outside of that, this is also time to send along some pictures of the past few days. I forgot my camera a couple of times so there were times with folks that don't have pictures at the moment.

Thursday lunch with the women in WanHwa at the Pearl Family Garden was fun once again. I have to say i smiled a little when a couple of the women were rather loudly "discussing" something. I felt right at home!!! I wish I knew a way to record the singing without embarrassing folks. I don't so I have to just remember all that and the story about forgiveness .... one woman telling me how she was caring for someone else who had 7 children and none of them take care of her .... lots of stories, lots of pain BUT women together singing, praying, sharing, eating, thinking about each other and what they might do to support each other. That's a good start. I'll tell you about some home businesses in another blog entry -- businesses they are trying to get off the ground to get some of these women out of prostitution..

In the meantime, last evening's prayer meeting ... we were a couple of hours ahead of Immanuel's Friday morning prayer group ... I actually prayed along with Vancouver folks while I was on the train home after the meeting ... I was on my way to bed and truthfully, I'd rather have it than the half-awake way I show up at the morning prayer meeting ....





You know that I have to put these pictures in somewhere ..... the massage that followed ... it's all Doris and Fritz' fault of course .... I came to visit them and they wanted to do this !!!!!!!! You can imagine how they forced me!





And then it was climbing on transit to get close to home meeting in the home of old friends .... I told the leader he hadn't changed a bit in all the years I've known him, except .... his hair line has changed a bit!!! Haven't we all had changes in our hair?!! Some of us hide the changes and other of us just slide along. Great fun. Birthday for Fritz with yummy cake. It's lovely to buy a cake that is actually pieces of all different kinds of cake. I'm not visiting the doctor for a while after I get back!






If there's a baby I'm gonna have a moment ..... what a cutie this one is, not afraid of my foreign face .... was sound asleep on my shoulder a few minutes after this picture ....