Be Thou My Vision

Although it sounds like an understatement, when I severely broke my ankle, it hurt.  Same thing with my wrist.  The body immediately reacts to a fractured bone.  Pain is immediate and severe.  Swelling and discoloration follow.  The bone, once whole and intact, is now damaged and misaligned.  That bone now has to be fixed and heal.   In my case both of these breaks reqired surgery complete with metal plates and screws.  The surgeries were followed by more pain, weeks in a cast, doctor's appointments to monitor the healing process, and intense physical therapy.  In addition to all that there was the annoyance and inconvenience of not being able to perform the daily tasks of living. Dependance on someone else to help with even the simplest task is not easy for me.  The good news is that now healed they tell me that those bones are stronger then ever.  Mere bone, as miraculous and complicated as it is, is now reinforced with titanium....

Eggs without yolks, how can that be? That was a question raised by myself and others while in Uganda, Africa on our mission trip this March. On this trip we were immersed in a completely different culture. Food, especially, was a real experience. We were blessed to stay in a wonderful, clean little hotel in Mityana where the staff took such good care of us. They cooked breakfast and dinner for us every day. The food was different, but sustaining and relatively good if you were willing to stretch and try new things! At breakfast and by request, we could order scrambled eggs. We were thrilled to have them, but their appearance was unlike any egg I’ve ever seen. They were pale and appeared to have no yolk. For several days we speculated about what they would be doing with the yolks from our eggs. We just assumed that given the scarcity of food and their resourcefulness that they were using the yolks for another purpose and using only the whites for our breakfast eggs. One mo...