Amazing and Not-So-Amazing

Beloved:

     So very glad to be back at work after a lovely three weeks of vacation.  I joined my husband in Seoul, South Korea for two weeks then came back to Bloomington for a few days and spent the last weekend with all the kids at my daughter’s house in Cincinnati.

     On the very first day of vacation I got some not-so-amazing chicken salad in the Detroit airport.   Thankfully I ate it on the plane, so the food poisoning didn’t strike until a few hours after I landed in Seoul.  Then again, forty-eight hours later, it struck for real.  Carl’s Korean students got me to Dr. Yoo, a wonderful English-speaking doctor who ever so kindly shepherded me through an entirely different and far less complicated healthcare system.  I bounced right back and had a great time roaming a foreign city by myself and eating amazing food.  I went to parks and museums and markets and a martyr’s shrine.  I read lots of books, took lots of naps, knitted, quilted, gardened and played with my dogs.  I tried (and failed!) not to read the news, so I had to pray and journal and breathe deeply more than should be required on vacation but to a good end all the same.

     This week’s passage is Acts 17:16-34, should you care to read ahead.  Bible Chat will meet on Thursday at its regularly scheduled time.  I’ll be away from the office this afternoon and tomorrow afternoon (Tuesday & Wednesday) to attend services for Vaughn Delong.  My heart just aches for Nate and Nick and Julia as they tell their daddy good-bye.  What comfort they will have in being so well fathered by a man who loved and served the Lord as Vaughn did.  I look forward to seeing you on Sunday morning.  

​~ peace & prayers,
​pastor annette
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     Hakyoung attended Global Women’s Gathering when her husband was a student at IU ​in 2014-2015.
We had a wonderful evening and dinner with her family at their home in Seoul.  Sweet!

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​​Statue of a Christian family martyred in the 1860’s. 
​Parents and their adult son.

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​BauHouse is a cafe with dogs, literally.  Beeta was very friendly and shared a booth with me.  Seoul also has cafes with cats, sheep and raccoons.  See my Facebook page for more pictures from BauHouse -- or not, if this is just too weird for you.