View looking down the Getty's entrance stairs
Thank You, God, for a wonderful day yesterday!
I’ve always wanted to go to the Getty Center, but never got around to it. But yesterday, we went with our friend Faith to a Seminar on Illustrated Ethiopian Manuscripts.
an image from the Getty's website
The seminar featured 3 experts in the field — and lots of marvelous images from the late 1300’s to early 1400’s which is Suz’s favorite Time Period.
As it happened, Faith had just returned from Ethiopia were she had been the guest at a seminary and toured monasteries. I love it when You do that! You bring exhibits and people together in ways we couldn’t arrange if we even thought to try.
I bet we don’t see even a tenth of what You arrange for us! Oh? More like one thousandth . . . yeah . . . more even than that. Thank YOU!
And, speaking of thank you — I wish I had thanked the Ethiopian speaker who flew in from St. John’s College in Minnesota where he teaches. I really liked what he had to say. I especially liked his sensitive response to the man who embraced the idea of Christianity coming to Africa via Ethiopia — not the Europeans.
I so understood his question, God. Alas, the ones who BRING Your Word — bring themselves with it. And we are such clay vessels. Only, No, it is far more than that. The damaging key problem isn’t that we are all flawed and human. It is that the Europeans came with a culture of MASSIVE DISRESPECT for the people they wanted to “save.” Respect vs. Disrespect?
Respect — to resee — can we resee others and even ourselves through YOUR EYES? There is a wonderful quote from Paul Watzlavwick in which he says that the PRIMARY purpose of human communication IS TO CONFIRM OUR EXISTENCE as human beings. And, God, I have found it true that when a person’s existence as a human being has been confirmed, secondary problems, tertiary problems are far easier to resolve. Now, God, what is to be done with that thought? Help me, God, to ponder that.
Story teller,
A Moment with God 
I think you know this but not sure.
Dr. Susan Bolman spent ten years as a medical missionary. She chose as her job, teaching mothers how to keep their babies alive and made the mothers promise to tell 10 more mothers. Usually the babies brought to her in many different countries were close to death when she fed the baby boiled water with salt and sugar. In about 45 minutes the baby woke up? Her last post was Mosambique Africa.