Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up early, packed, off to B&A's - unpacked, fine dinner, presents got some new slippers & a lovely globe - ideal for helping the daughters overcome my poor geographical skills.
Poked at the broadband connection at Bruce's got the BT modem thing to work wonderfully over the ethernet - unfortunately, a month after it was supposed to have been connected at the exchange: no DSL connection: fiddled at some length with different combinations of this / that. Phoned BT to confirm that in fact it wasn't plugged in at the other end.
Slugged around and antisocially read a chunk of the rather too gripping account of Darlene Deibler Rose, missionary to New Guniea imprisoned in a Japanese women's prisoner of war camp: Evidence Not Seen. Interesting reading, made more so by the fact it mentioned Lennie a couple of times - an elderly friend of ours from Church:

One evening during our prayer and Bible study, Mrs Weidema came running from the hospital. "Njonja, please come and pray for my baby," she pleaded. She had been going regularly to nurse the baby, but her milk had dried up and the baby was not responding to the rice water they were using as a substitute. I went back with her my heart torn by that limp and lifeless bit of humanity. We bowed our heads together, and I prayed that the Lord would spare her baby.

Returning to the barracks I was met by another young mother from our barracks, Lennie Ripassa. She had an infant and was nursing. "Meurouw Deibler, I have more milk than I need," she volenteered. "I would be willing to breast-feed the other baby too." Which is exactly what she did, feeding the sick starving baby until he regained strength and both babies were weaned. This was God's answer to prayer. Both of the newborns from our barracks survived.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2005-12-31: Saturday