Carmen
12-19-2005, 06:14 AM
Hubby just splurged on a tree this weekend. We wanted to save a bit of money, but the kids wanted one, especially since we will not be travelling this season. I had gotten some branches left over from someone's gardening work but they were not ideal. It will be pretty having a real tree, though. We will be putting it on top of a cabinet, just high enough for the cat not to be able to get to it.
Just Saturday morning I got news of a visiting pastor needing a place to stay, was visiting a church that I sometimes frequent. He was the one I was told to contact recently for Italian bible-study literature per internet. I took a chance, wanting to meet him, and said we would host him for one night, even Hubby agreed to do this.
The man is Calvinist, but much more refined and at the same time down-to-earth than the one that SA'd me. He thinks in a very different way, is much more tolerant and understanding and puts an emphasis on being Christlike without being legalistic. The guy was really nice. It is just that once I got him home, I could hardly get a word in edgewise. Had to go back to the houlsewife mode and get dinner, watch the kids and so on. He started discussing culture with Hubby, and then politics and then, gads, religion. The discussion went fairly well, though. He said some things I've said before but more smoothly. And coming from someone else it was different than coming from me. Maybe some long-needed progress was made.
I gave him my site address, that will be the test. I hope he will still be willing to give me advice after seeing it, and maybe even visit again. I'm praying that all goes well. Had to take him to the train station this morning. He should be getting home about now. I hope he can be a friend, he knows a lot about what I research and could give me tips on that as well.
Just Saturday morning I got news of a visiting pastor needing a place to stay, was visiting a church that I sometimes frequent. He was the one I was told to contact recently for Italian bible-study literature per internet. I took a chance, wanting to meet him, and said we would host him for one night, even Hubby agreed to do this.
The man is Calvinist, but much more refined and at the same time down-to-earth than the one that SA'd me. He thinks in a very different way, is much more tolerant and understanding and puts an emphasis on being Christlike without being legalistic. The guy was really nice. It is just that once I got him home, I could hardly get a word in edgewise. Had to go back to the houlsewife mode and get dinner, watch the kids and so on. He started discussing culture with Hubby, and then politics and then, gads, religion. The discussion went fairly well, though. He said some things I've said before but more smoothly. And coming from someone else it was different than coming from me. Maybe some long-needed progress was made.
I gave him my site address, that will be the test. I hope he will still be willing to give me advice after seeing it, and maybe even visit again. I'm praying that all goes well. Had to take him to the train station this morning. He should be getting home about now. I hope he can be a friend, he knows a lot about what I research and could give me tips on that as well.