While we were in seminary, our housekeeper decided to brush Taza's hair. Somehow she managed to pull out huge chunks of it (she swears Taza didn't complain). As you can see, it's growing back darker and coarse. Not so lovely.
Have you ever seen anything like this? Or even heard of it? A huge circular rainbow crowned the sky this afternoon as Tim and I took our picnic lunch to the beach, trying desperately to extend the summer as long as possible. 
Hello from the Lima airport. We're waiting to board a plane to spend one night in Panama (a voluntary extended layover) and 7 in Colombia. 
As I was killing time at a friend's house last week, I came across this ad in a November issue of People magazine. I think I spent more time contemplating it than any of the articles. I was baffled. It seemed to me that some marketing guy had looked up 1 Corinthians 15:30-33 and thought, "Gee, this would make a great ad for a Las Vegas hotel!" Here's what the apostle Paul says (from The Message version of the Bible):And why do you think I keep risking my neck in this dangerous work? I look death in the face practically every day I live. Do you think I'd do this if I wasn't convinced of your resurrection and mine as guaranteed by the resurrected Messiah Jesus? Do you think I was just trying to act heroic when I fought the wild beasts at Ephesus, hoping it wouldn't be the end of me? Not on your life! It's resurrection, resurrection, always resurrection, that undergirds what I do and say, the way I live. If there's no resurrection, "We eat, we drink, the next day we die," and that's all there is to it. But don't fool yourselves. Don't let yourselves be poisoned by this anti-resurrection loose talk.
