Start Close In.
Whyte is able to get at what Caputo describes as the "event" and I love it, thanks for sharing this poem - I have not heard it for a while and was able to hear it fresh again tonight.  There are tones in it that resonate so deeply, so profoundly, so purely.  Somehow it is deep confirmation of the path I am on and have been walking.  This third way, making our own way is unavoidable and I am so grateful to have found you and  Ted.

I have missed you deeply this week as well.  It does not take away the terror of the ride, but at times it sure is comforting to have your best mate strapped in next to you as the roller coaster plunges!  We have been playing card games at night and usually ending the night with a game or two of "sardines" - or as Gabriel likes to call it "skeletons and spies".  The boys are doing well - thriving really. It has been wonderful to see them grow and develop.  God has been so faithful to us. We have made friends with the folks across the street slowly, our boys have led the way.  And it is good to have people so close who will knock on our door and sit at our table.

I am headed to London tomorrow to visit a buddy that I worked in Mexico City with  - will be there for the day, eat dinner with my brother and take the train back.  It will be good to see Scott - he pastors the American church in Paris and is a great guy.  

There has been much on my mind concerning "the church" that I have been talking to Fraser about - things I want to bounce off of you.  I am so glad that I am here doing what I am doing, I cannot tell you what an absolute gift this is and I am so glad that amid the terror, fear and doubt that I came.  I have realized that the 'thorn' in my side is the anxiety that I seem powerless over still at times - but Seattle showed me the bottom of it and that I can live and be faithful in the darkness and wait till the light comes. I will and am learning how to live with it and befriend it - like Jacob I might walk with a limp, but I will walk damit.  Even darkness is light to you oh God the psalmist says. Even hell is not a god forsaken place Ray says.  I too know this because of our friendship.

Be well my friend, savor these days.