In my last post, I described the death of our neighbor's child, and our other immediate neighbor, Evert, preached the sermon at the funeral. Two weeks after he preached that sermon, we got another morning phone call and this time ran out to Evert's house, where his son (our son's best friend) had awakened to find his dad having suffered what seems to have been a heart attack. Isaac gave Evert CPR, and we found ourselves at a loss about next steps when there is no 911, no ambu

We had a lovely family Christmas at home, relishing the age our children are at where everything is magical and delightful. The day after Christmas we were awakened by an early morning phone call, and Isaac rushed our neighbor and her one-year old daughter to the hospital, and was with them there when the daughter passed away an hour and a half later. We shed a lot of tears that day and the next, especially every time the family broke out into the weeping and wailing lament t