Monthly Archives: January 2008

This Sunday I will lead a discussion on one of those interesting characters of the Bible.

He was strong, but the not silent type.  History shows he was concerned for construction, a builder and a rebuilder.  Set up an irrigation pond hundreds of miles full of water.  A hanging garden to impress his wife.  Lots of religious buildings were refurbished or built under his patronage.

That’s good old "Nebby". 

Of course, you wouldn’t have called him that to his face.  Or to his shoes, or even to the back of his head!

When he was upset, he could easily order a whole employment grouping killed.  Even if the culprits were very few in number.  A crematorium was a good option!

Decades of rule, and yet no book written by him.  Today’s culture would have seen hundreds of biographies, both authorized and unauthorized.  Blog sites would have extolled him, or excoriated him.  His picture would be on every tabloid and business magazine.

Do you have to like the guy?  No way!  But you do have to reckon with a man who has found his place in history.

I guess my thoughts from Monday somehow didn’t get saved!  So here are the basics from our Monday visit to Saskatoon.

A few things I found out — I have B+ blood (this information is for my sister, Bren), mentioning bilateral knee surgery constantly got a quizzical look as though I were doing the unusual (which I guess it is), and the hallways in City Hospital all look the same (good thing there is signage throughout).

People seen:  Admissions clerk, then to blood work, then to heart tracing, then to a video (I guess that would be a person on tape!), then to physio, then to general information personnel, then to medical specialist, then to XRAY,  then to blood donor clinic personnel.  And that’s just for surgery.  We also did some shopping for ourselves and the church, and brought someone home with us who had stayed over in Saskatoon.

In all, denial is pretty well over with.  This surgery is going to happen next Monday!   We were told to be there at 6:00 in the morning — any who want to join me to "see me off" can come a 6:00 and say "Hi".  I think I won’t be doing much blogging next week, while I’m in hospital, but I’ll let you know how things go as soon after as possible.

A friend of ours bids farewell the end of the month.  Tonight she sang her way through the hearts of her friends.  Her friend, Wayne Gibson, played the piano and sang with her.

Thanks, Jacquie, for your voice, your enthusiasm and love for the Jesus!

Today we sat with some new friends.  We took the couple on a tour of our house.  They also have a house in town.  Every house  needs renovation (probably even the new ones!).  So we talked about what we had done and what we would like to do.

Then we found out she loves music and has a background in composing and singing.  So I showed her some music I had been working on — and a CD I had helped to produce.  She headed home to send me a music file (MP4).  I played it — nice voice and definite musical ability.

The lunch hour stretched to two.  Just plain fun.  They enjoyed their time, so did we.  Hopefully this friendship can continue to develop — you never know what might come!  Another friend or two never hurts!!