Category: Tagebuch

Today was another beautiful day, so I decided to sit on the patio to translate the Friday Fax. It started out pleasant, with a nice breeze, but I was being fried after 45 minutes, so retreated to the cool of the house. (Yes Mary, I used the suncream, so didn’t get burned 🙂 )

Things are hotting up for the conference. The Steeles had a difficult evening yesterday, and are still trying to work out how to respond correctly (no more details here), John White also came under attack yesterday, and the Dales had a significant distraction too. Someone, somewhere does not like what is going on!
Dawn this morning, shown in the photo, was a beautiful contrast to the events.

For those of you who doubt, the morning photos really are taken each morning! The weather here is very predictable at the moment: it starts out clear, sunny and cool (at least until 8:30), warms considerably during the day, thunders at 3pm, sometimes with very heavy rain, and clears up for the evening. It’s really a climate I could get used to 🙂
This morning, we had breakfast with a couple who heard God calling them to simple church. He handed his ordination papers back to the group he was working with, and they are now waiting for the Lord’s leading. It is very encouraging to see people like that, demonstrating their faith in their actions.

Today, many of the members of the Steele’s old house churches gathered here, plus a few new friends – all told, around 25 people. We started off with a time of prayer and talking about what Jesus is doing in everybody’s lives and why we do things as we do (to answer questions raised by the people here for the first time). Then came lunch and an afternoon of talking and playing games. I found the number of people and the volume somewhat tiring at times, but the conversations were good. All in all a great day.

We had a lovely meal this evening: squirrel steak, pond scum (the gravy, with floaty bits), congealed blood (the red sauce), children’s teeth (the yellow bits), and, rather boringly, Continue reading “Squirrel steak and pond scum for dinner!”

Mike likes to ride motorcycles, and looks surprisingly different when he does!

Yesterday evening, we were in Colorado Springs. Looking back towards Mike and Chris’s house, we saw a beautiful thundercloud: white in the fading light, and more active than I had ever seen before; flashes of lightning illuminated the cloud every few seconds. Mike videoed it for a while; the photo shows one flash. To give an estimate of the size of the cloud, the buildings in the foreground are less than 1 kilometer away; the cloud is more than 30 kilometers (20 miles) away. I’ll try to put the video up at some point, but cannot convert it to a reasonable size at the moment (the original is 89Mb for just over 1 minute…).

I have just updated the page formatting so that blog entries look better when printed.

Ich habe gerade die Formatierung verbessert, damit Blog-Einträge besser aussehen beim Ausdrucken.

For anyone looking at the photos I take every morning, here’s a series from this afternoon’s storm:

There has been an afternoon storm almost every day for the past week, but this was the heaviest yet.

I’m mobile again! My driver’s licence just arrived – unbelievably, I had forgotten it in the rush to pack between returning from Salzburg and coming here. America without a driver’s licence? 😮 . Mike found out this morning that his insurance covers me to drive his cars, so I’ll be mobile in the coming weeks, if need be.