The Burning Bush: An Advent Study

Posted by Lisa Laree to Beer Lahai Roi

I've been pondering the approaching Advent season, wondering what approach I'd like to take in reflecting on the season.

If you've been around here long, you know I tend to be somewhat... unconventional... in my Advent musings.

This year turned out to be no different.  The refrain that I heard repeated in my spirit when I considered Advent was  ...I have seen, I have heard, I am concerned, I have come.

 Of course, this is from Moses' encounter with God in Exodus chapter 3:

The LORD said, 'I have indeed seen the misery of my people in Egypt, I have heard them crying out because of their slave drivers, and I am concerned about their suffering.  So I have come down to rescue them...'  Ex. 3: 7 - 8a, NIV84

That is a nice little four part statement, worth exploring for the four Fridays of Advent.

Dec 1 - I have seen
Dec 8 - I have heard
Dec 15 - I am concerned
Dec 22 - I have come

Dunno how deep or how profound this will end up, but then, that's the fun of it.

Popping In

Posted by Lisa Laree to Beer Lahai Roi

Just a note, really, because it's been way too long since I posted here!

My Sweet Babboo had some rather major surgery on Wednesday to remove a cyst.  Turned out to NOT be the type of cyst they had believed; it was somehow related to they lymphatic system and appeared to be attached to the pericardium (sac around the heart). But it was completely benign and now it is gone.

But he had a huge incision wrapping around his right shoulder blade to his ribs and, after he spent a couple of nights in the hospital being monitored,  yours truly now has nursing duty...keeping a soak-it-up pad over the drain site and cleaning the glued-up incision a couple of times a day.

Something of a challenge for someone who's been known to get woozy at the sight of blood.  But so far so good.  I have noticed that his persistent cough seems to have disappeared...which was what started the whole journey.  So that's a praise!

 I will share one  note...the instructions for his first day post op were to walk 5 laps around the hall on the floor.  (19 laps is one mile).  I spent most of the afternoon with him; we did a fair bit of walking,on top of what he'd done before I got there.  When

I left to go to choir practice about 5:30 PM, he had walked 90 laps.  He asked them what the record was, and they told him they thought it was 105. You know he had to beat it.  He ended up with 120 before the evening was over.

And that, my friends, is why his FCF moniker is 'Walkin' Stick'... :-)

'Walkin' Stick' in full gear for Buckskin testing September 2014


Thinking about the coming Advent season and a new little devo for the month.  Hopefully I can pull that off. ;-)