April 12, 2017 Wednesday in Holy Week and I enter my 70th year as Ricard Lief would say. It's much gentler to say I'm 69. But even that is kind of shocking...

                 ______Jeremiah17:5,6_

       those 

       who... 

       make 

       mere 

       flesh 

       their 

       strength, 

       whose hearts turn away 

       from the Lord... shall 

       be like a shrub in 

       the desert