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Now about those Iranian nuts…

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Journal,

Nathan, Lane and I made a trip to MD Anderson in Houston yesterday to be with Richard Spurgeon and his family. Richard was having a brain tumor operation. The short side is that Richard came through the surgery with flying colors. The doctor felt certain that the tumor was completely removed. Richard will be there for a short time for recovery and evaulation, and then return home. (Possibly even this Sunday.)

The upbeat in all this is how the Lord ministered peace to Richard and Trudy before the operation. He gave both of them His perfect peace. Richard was assured of the Lord that He had things for Richard to do. One of those things was to be able to speak into his son’s life and into the life of his grandson.

Well, after all this is what the Bible teaches. Did not the Lord say to Moses, “These words, which I am commanding you today, shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your sons and shall talk of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way and when you lie down and when you rise up.” Deu6:6,7 nasb

We had prayer with Richard before the surgery and was able to be with him after the surgery. As we were about to leave, these were the words in his mouth, “Jesus Christ is Lord! Jesus Christ is Lord! Jesus Christ is Lord!”

It was such a pleasure to be with the family during this time. Even the trip from Pineville to Houston and the return was quite enjoyable. (Though long and tiring.) We had time to catch up on a great deal of fellowshiping.

Whats this about Iranian nuts?

Don’t want to mislead you. I have a brother-in-law in Houston who is originally from Iran. He and Betty’s sister, Karen, have taken us at times to an Iranian restaurant for a meal. Persian food is simply awesome. Anyway, right next to the restaurant is a Iranian store where you can purchase all sorts of eastern food including a variety of ‘nuts.’

As you may suspect, Nathan and I decided to include this Iranian store in our ventures to Houston. We always end up buying a goodly supply of nuts. Course now that we have Lane addicted, he’ll be wanting to take that venture with us in the future. 

So, that’s the story on the Iranian nuts. Nathan and I both love the pistachio nuts that are made with a special seasoning. Course the salty taste does do wonders for your tongue.

Hope to have some pictures on the blog…

I’ve wanted to upload some pictures on my blog to make things a bit more interesting. I’m sure most of you would like to meet General Claudius Josephus. (CJ for short.) He is truly a handsome bloke.  Course you’ll get to both mine and Betty’s smiling face at times. Then I’ll include some interesting pictures of ‘whosoever will.’ 

Don’t laugh. You are most likely one of the whosoever wills. 

Anyway, Nathan is going to check this out for me. I thought about doing this on my own, but ‘my own’ has a tendency of making a mess of things. Then per ole Nathan has to try and fix daddy’s mess ups.

Ah shucks — I don’t know about all these newly fired inventions. We was just getting use to the telephoney party-lines when they come up with all this privacy stuff. At least back then you could keep up with neighborly gossipy things. Don’t know what this world is coming to.

Let’s see ….. Hmmmmm. Guess that is pretty much it for now. I do have a request to provide a study on ‘prayer’ for our Hebraic-Foundations study group. Sure need to get on that one. Yes, believe I’ll make that my next adventure.

Much love to you,

Buddy