A Good Day and Something New

What a nice day we had today! Paul and I went down to Federal Way to help our dear friends Bob & Lyn Rasmussen move into their house. It's wonderful to have them SO close now. (45 minutes away beats Blaine, WA or Turlock, CA any day!!!) Bob & Lyn have been such strong support for us during Ben's cancer. Lyn is a bone marrow transplant survivor, so they understand cancer and all the ramifications so very well.

After we got home, Ben and Lisa came by for a while. It's been a week or so since we've seen them, so that was nice. Ben's taste buds are quite whacked out (meat tastes like it is rotten to him right now), but beyond that he seems to doing quite well. We are very grateful for that! They are an amazing couple.

I'm singing with Cedar Park's choir now. At first I felt guilty for wanting to go, as if the Lord would have said to me, "Fine, you can go, but I'm not happy about it." But after sitting down and asking, "Lord, is it really okay with you? I don't want to be part of this if it's not," I sense that my being there is a calling: "This is where I want you to go. Daniel (choir director) is going to have a tough year and he will need your prayer support." That's very freeing. I am the new kid on the block, though, in this choir. I need to be bold in reaching out and being friendly, which is always challenging for me when it comes to meeting new people. Lord, give me your grace.

Being part of the CP Choir, I'll get to be part of the first production of Generations next spring. That is thrilling. Generations is a musical theater work that Daniel Perrin has been working on for several years. Also one that I have been praying about for many of those years! It deals with 3 periods of time--Warsaw, 1942; Toledo, Spain, 1492; and Jerusalem at the time of Christ. The heart of Generations is to show Jewish people that God has always been with them through their suffering. He has always cared for them. He loves them with an everlasting love. May the Lord open the eyes of His people, as well as the eyes of non-Jews, to see His heart of compassion. May they see with new eyes the purpose of God in the Person of their Messiah.

Shalom,

Jenifer