I’m taking a sign language class, we meet twice a week, and it’s one of the highlights of my week. There is a great sense of satisfaction when I actually understand what my teacher is signing (if he does it relatively slow).

There is a 70-year-old man in the class. He’s retired, wakes up anytime…

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TV is back

In a previous post, I said we canceled TV.

Correction: We canceled cable TV. We still have a TV. Now we have Netflix.

What movies do you recommend? The parameters are – not rated R or above, not a sad ending, not a silly romance, no excessive violence or brutality, prefer humor and clever storyline (Sherlock Holmes), science fiction ok (Star Trek).

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My highlights of the past few days:

1. Spoke at my friend’s women’s group on Saturday.

2. God gave me the message to speak on.

3. I learned a lot from my own message.

4. The ladies, including my sister who came to hear me, really liked it.

5. I got a phone call from Vietnam.

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Yesterday the sermon in church was on knowing God, the foundation of the Christian life.

I heard a couple of comments that the content of the sermon didn’t fit the title. They were expecting a different type of sermon about knowing God.

In the sermon, our pastor talked about knowing God as holy, a prominent…

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