Blogging

Is it odd that I can tell if a blog or article has been written by a man or woman, without knowing in advance? I've been researching some different recipes and found that I just knew instinctively. Began to check up, and sure enough, I haven't been wrong so far!
I know, that is highly important to your life and you are so glad you came here with your morning coffee.
I'll definitely never be one of those bloggers that people go to every day with their morning coffee to read for a laugh or to just enjoy the good writing. But then, I've never aspired to that.
For me, blogging is sometimes therapy, but mostly a way to communicate with many people at the same time while being able to hide behind my computer screen. You can stay updated on my life (which I know is vastly important to you), ministry and prayer requests; I feel not so isolated by being able to share urgent needs or praises or just little stories.
But really, my blog is about my adventures in faith. Hence all the prayer requests. It is about the journey of faith and recording just a little of what God does so that we can all see how He is at work today both in the world at large, but particularly in my life and in the lives of those who surround me. It's an interesting journey. God is never boring.

Fun and Games

Well, mostly just games, not of the fun kind.
Tonight my parents' neighbor came by asking about our visas. He's a local pastor and apparently "the government" has been asking questions about anyone on a religious visa. Like, what exactly are they doing? Not a good sign for all of us in ministry.
It'll be interesting to see how this develops and what it does to the visa situation in the future. Mine expires at the end of summer. They've already been cracking down on where you can get them renewed from. Interesting times ahead, that's for sure.

Little Prayer Request

I pinched a nerve in my back again today. Don't know how or what happened. Was going along fine and then all of a sudden in so much pain I could barely move! Thankfully, my roommate got me some ibuprofen (although even after five of those I can still only move gingerly--whine, whine, whine) and I was able to get in to our "doctor"/masseuse (think pain and agony massage, not rest and relaxation) this afternoon. Hopefully, it will let go and dissipate over the next couple of days. Please pray for that.
On the good side, I have two maids/roommates right now to wait on me hand and foot, so I should probably take advantage of that while I can. (Julie, Myriam, that could be the ibuprofen speaking.)