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I saw this posted on a Filipino Job website: No word as to when, but I will keep my eyes open for this. I know I speak for many missionaries here in Iloilo, this would be a very welcome addition to our city.

Last Sunday at Victory Christian Fellowship here in Iloilo Pastor Bong completed the preaching series on love. His series culminated with a repeating of the vows ceremony. Many couples from the church, including Chris and I, reaffirmed our marriages. Marriage can be a fragile thing. If you treat it lightly, tossing it around like a football, it can become weaker and you can strain the bonds that keep it together. However, if you treat marriage like it is a fragile thing, caring for it, not taking it for granted, treating it gently, like it is a delicate, fragile thing, then it will not become that--something fragile--but rather it will become stronger, something that will stand the test of time.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. Edmond Burke

I can't believe Faithy is really eight years old. We started this special day having home made Cinnabons for breakfast, then we went to Kids Club at Sonshine Center, then we went to Faithy's favorite, Bigby's, for dinner.

In the movie City Slickers the character played by Billy Crystal on his thirty-ninth birthday says, "Have you ever had that feeling that this is the best I'm gonna do, this is the best I'm ever gonna feel . . . and it ain't that great?" Henry David Thoreau writes "the mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." I believe that most men have their mid-life crisis at this age because they lack purpose. By God's grace I feel that I will escape this. Obedience to God's will is my purpose. As long as I keep doing that, then there will be no mid-life or late-life crisis. I posted this earlier, but it bears reposting: The one thing is obedience to God's will. Well, now I am off to the Harley-Davidson dealership here in Iloilo to buy my birthday gift . . .

Yesterday we celebrated Danny's second birthday. We went to the Sonshine Center for Kid's Club, then we went to the Mall to ride rides and have lunch. Happy Birthday to Danny!