“May I be patient! It is so difficult to make real what one believes, and to make these trials, as they are intended, real blessings.”
… John Henry Newman (1801-1890)

Well, I am actually down in Los Alamos, New Mexico right now visiting Lori’s sister Diana and her family. I thought it would be easy to still send out devotions from here, but there is a small technical problem we can’t seem to figure out. The consequence is that I’d need to input all my email addresses from scratch. Maybe I am lazy because I am on vacation, but I decided to input a short list for people I hear from frequently… realizing I do so at the risk of offending those not on the “short list”… but after a morning trying to fix the problem I decided to get over it.

This morning we went on a hike along one of the mesas, which was very interesting and fun. It was humbling to think that hundreds of years the native people lived in the cliffs we were walking in. Boy, the things I take for granted. It was very beautiful.