Joyful Journey

My perspective on things really does matter. I have a choice at how I look at things. I can look at it from eye level, from below or from above. Things look differently from each view, don't they? Case in point, Joel's photo of Sydney snapped while looking directly down on him. (One of Syd's "tricks" is to leave a piece of food or doggie biscuit on his nose until you say "okay," at which point he snatches it, seemingly out of the air, and catches it before it hits the ground.) What a good reminder this photo is though of making sure I am looking at things with the correct perspective. Whenever I encounter what, at least from my perspective, appears to be a difficult situation, maybe all I need is to look at it from a different view. I don't have the ability to truly see the big picture. Not like God does. The view from which He is working all things, seemingly good or bad, for our good. With the Psalmist, I desire to say, in all circumstance,...

Bob is back in Europe for a couple weeks and while in Zurich, he visited a number of apartments. He has put our name in for 3 of them, and we hope to hear sometime this upcoming week! Thought you might like to see two of the apartment buildings we are looking at. The first photo is in Zumikon (town very close to downtown, but good taxes and many English-speaking individuals as there is an international school in town) where we are looking at a top floor flat about 1450 square feet, and the bottom photo shows the apartment house in Kusnacht, town farther down the lake and this apartment has great lake views (orange and yellow building, first floor flat, approx. 1200 square feet). He also put our names in for a place out in a small town which looks very much like you would expect Swiss villages to look. The town, Reidt bei Neerach, is about 30 minutes via train and bus to downtown Zurich. We continue to pray that the Lord will place us where He wants us. Our selfish prayer is t...