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In those days... the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for ... and they shall not be found (Jeremiah 50.20) My daughter and son-in-law are visiting from the States. When they drop in it is always a time to travel down memory lane. Usually there is much laughter and great happiness as we think about how God has blessed our family through the years. Though we are presently  scattered over the wide world we have memories that take us back to a time when our family was nestled in a cozy little town in Michigan, attending a wonderful church together and basically enjoying each other. Memories are sometimes prejudiced. They leave things out or they embellish. I seem to be stronger, smarter and better looking in my memories. However, the other day my memory completely failed me. My daughter was recounting a surprise visit that I had arranged. In this memory Ann was living in another city. Thanksgiving was approaching and supposedly I wanted to surprise mom by paying for Ann and our gr...

Dawn and I love dogs. We have had a dog almost non-stop since our wedding day way back in August of 1975. We counted just the other day and could name: Fido, Domino (though we had her for just a couple of weeks), Butch and Babs. These were all of our BB (before Brazil) dogs and came as boy, girl, boy, girl over twenty-two years. When we arrived in Brazil in “97” we noticed something different about the country. They have no Humane Society so at times you might see five to ten dogs walking down the street with nary a one having an owner. Things here have changed over the years and animals are being babied more now but there is still the occasional horror story. Dawn saw one just a couple of days ago but I’ll not go into details. Our Brazilian brood has included: Sammy, a mini-pincher, Old Dog, a street mutt that I took in for a few months and eventually had to put down because he bit two neighbor kids. That is another story in itself. Also included were Ursinha, one of Old Dog’s wild-...