It is hard to figure out why I should feel sorrow over the execution of a foreign leader who I personally had no interaction with. In fact no one I know has had any kind of personal interaction with him or the regime which caused so many Iraqis distress and pain. So it seems as [...]
Entries from December 2006
December 29, 2006
Seeing God in the "commonness" of the day.
“It is not God we’re missing. It is the awareness of God in the commonness of life that we fail to cultivate.” Called to Question by Joan Chittister p 40,41 Journaling the events of the day and paying attention to the places where I have been aware of God’s presence during the day not [...]
December 28, 2006
St. Theresa of Avila on Prayer
In her book Interior Castle, Teresa of Avila describes various stages in the prayer life of a person who is seeking God. As her life of prayer develops; as she comes closer to the state of union with God, nothing becomes more important than doing God’s will. It becomes the chief desire. She describes the [...]
December 27, 2006
Day one of vacation
Today is the first of a few days off. Yesterday and Monday too were stat holidays but the next few days are simply off. Buisness gets real slow between the two holidays so we generally just close. We would rather be home than waiting for patients who forget to come; we would rather be sleeping [...]
December 23, 2006
The Night Before the Night Before
I have been running full steam all day. I think we are going to make it. Presents are wrapped – mostly. It always seems to be about now that I realize that one of the kids has no requests and I have no clue as to what they want. Cold hard cash always seems to [...]
December 22, 2006
Good as new
I think I spent a small fortune today for the privilege of parking at St. Paul’s Hospital in Saskatoon. Maybe Patrick was just nervous but we were at the hospital a good 5 hours early. A bit of misunderstanding and definitely not wanting to be late. So I stayed with him a couple of hours. Since [...]
December 21, 2006
Staff party
We always have a couple of parties at Christmas. There is the sort of formal invite your spouse party that we have catered. This year that one happened back on the 9th. We ate a great meal drank a fair amount of good stuff and then went glow bowling, where some of our illustrious staff [...]
December 20, 2006
Tonight the tree crashed
What more can one say. I lost a very beautiful handpainted ornament that was a gift from a staff member and a couple other handmade things as well. Stupid tree stand.
December 19, 2006
That's talking
Can you imagine being a six year old boy in the middle of rural Congo being handed a cell phone and being asked to talk to your father on it? That is what Massa and his son Joseph were doing via my phone at 5:30 am our time. Massa said his son did [...]
December 18, 2006
What a weird day!
Today half the scheduled patients did not come. In their places we fit in all sorts of the kind of emergency that happens just the week before Christmas – the teeth that have broken unexpectedly both front and back, crowns that come off at strategic moments, last minute finishing up things before insurance runs out [...]
