A New Day.

I know it happens every day but I'm just thinking...a new day for doing. And this morning we are doing a run to the airport once again with good friends Joe and Sarah Ellen. The weather was a bit of an icy worry yesterday but the roads are in great shape. No problem for sure. So another car trip to send the Mamlins on their way to Kenya for a month's visit, once again to connect with folks they worked with during their 20 years of living in the medical world in western Kenya. We wish them well. Among other things, Joe was the first to bring the treatment of Aids to this part of the world. Sarah Ellen brought the Child Life Program to the hospital in Eldoret. It is a totally new way of treating children during their time of hospitalization. These are two revolutionary folks have demonstrate evidence of making a difference to the least of these as Jesus has taught. The house repair guys are in their final morning of work picking up all the equipment needed in their work. The large trailer will finally leave the driveway with scraps of this and that as well as all the forming equipment needed to do all the good new siding, window and shutter work. We have enjoyed visiting and hearing many stories. The pounding was not a disturbance as we had thought. The next thing to arrive is the guttering which will come soon. We use the word soon a whole lot in so many conversation. The rest of the week seems pretty tame. Not much planned but there is always something to come along. They are called surprises or something like that. That reminds me of a prayer Dick Hamilton prayed at the beginning of the Golf War one Sunday at church...Surprise us oh God, by your power and your love. We need that surprise again.