I think it’s hot here. In the last few weeks I have seen my thermometer at less than 90 degrees in my room once or twice in the morning, I believe. I’ve put it in the window in the shade and it’s easily gotten over 100. I’ve put it in my window in the sun, […]

Recently I was talking to a friend here who is a German teacher. It was exam time, so she was talking about having to spend a lot of time grading. “The problem is the class size,” she said, since she only has 3 classes. “If they were just a little smaller it would help.” Her […]

(This post was written yesterday, Tuesday, but didn’t get posted until today, Wednesday.) Sometimes life here just wears me out and I don’t know what to do. Consider these three situations from the last 5 days. What would you do? What would Jesus do? What should I do? (And hopefully the “names” I’m giving people […]

Thanks to those of you who ventured replies to my last post. Here are the “right” answers. 🙂 The lady from church was very upset and mad at someone else, and the friend was telling her to calm down. Think of our expression, “boiling mad.” If you were boiling mad and someone poured cold water […]

This morning a friend told someone else from church, “Pour cold water on your heart.” Why? What was the meaning? What was she supposed to do? Also, just now someone told me that I was a “person” and that I “acted like a person.” Is that a good thing or a bad thing? Did I […]