Missed opportunities?  I have had many the most recent was the chance to travel to Afghanistan and help at a school for street children and orphans.  The doors closed on that when the ex-president of Afghanistan was assinated at the compound next door to where were to stay.  I have a mixture of regret and relief about this.  



My most recent new challenge is starting a non-profit to organize the local churches to work together (share the load) to ease the needs of the homeless and needy in Tigard, Tualatin and Sherwood.  We should be opening our clearinghouse before the reunion, God willing.  It seems like a slow process but we want to get it right seeing as Who we are representing.  

 

As many of you are probably doing, I am caring for my elderly, infirmed mother.  It seems a thankless task but I know that she probably thought the same thing when she was caring for me for all those years.  We try to make the best out of all of the challenges that come along being quick to forgive one another when it seems difficult or trying.



I hope that any of you that have better English language skills than I will not look harshly on my grammer and other writing mechanic errors.  



Here is to long and healthy or healthier lives.