When I'm not in out little classroom hut or burying my nose in our homework there is great beauty to behold all around me. The Judean hills are so different from the fertile Midwest flatlands or the Minneapolis concrete jungle that I am used to looking over. Even as we read at prayer meeting last night, "The earth is the LORD's and the fullness thereof, the world and all those who dwell therein..." (Ps. 24:1)
Studies are going very well as we approach the half-way point in the first 4 week course on Jonah. Once that course is complete I'll be staying for an intermediate course in Genesis 1-3 that is offered for the following two weeks. Rachel is driving today through some of that fertile midwestern flatland as she and Benaiah go to celebrate Independence Day with her family and stay until my return.
Thank you for your prayer on our behalf - for courage, perseverance, focus, discipline, joy, and communion with God.
הודו לאדני כי טוב כי לאולם חסדו
Give thanks to the LORD for he is good, for his steadfast love endures forever.
