A Wee Bit Of Cultural Experience Next Week!

We are looking forward to enjoying a bit more of a classical music cultural experience next week.  Two fellows from our church are performing their final piano concerts for their Bachelor of Music degrees and we have been invited to attend.  The concerts are taking place in a proper concert venue here in the city that we have enjoyed being in for chamber music concerts in years past, rather than in the less beautiful university student concert spaces, so it will be an evening of excellent performances and classical music.  YAY, something to look forward to indeed.

My husband was able to eat breakfast this morning at exactly the right time to stave off another tummy attack and even managed to get to the early adult education class at the church, AND stay through the entire church service as well, despite being so tired.  After the service I assumed we would come home and he would eat more yogourt or pancakes or some other bland meal.  However, he said that as he was sitting in the church before the service he remembered that the last two times he has had bouts of this nature one of the main healers of his tummy was Indian food.  I have the same memory, so for lunch we went back to DarBar.  He had the mildest spicing possible in his meal, didn't overeat and at this point, nearly two hours later, his tummy is showing no signs of postprandial upset.  If he can survive another hour without any reactions, it should be safe to say he will be okay, at least until after dinner tonight.  He may finish his leftovers for dinner, or switch back to pancake blandness, but at least it seems he will finally have a full afternoon off from his tummy ache.   The adult class this morning was on the use of the Hebrew word "hesed" in both the Old and New Testaments.  Like most words translated from one language to another, the full meaning is not directly, fully translatable so it makes for interesting discussions about how it has been translated into English by the various biblical translators.  It often appears in our Bibles as "lovingkindess", a word that was coined by Myles Coverdale and included in his printed translation of the Bible, (1535),  slightly pre-dating the King JamesV ersion. (1611)

It is only going to about +8C this afternoon and by Thursday morning we may have more snow, but at least we will remain above zero for the next three or four days.  The sun is shining, the clouds are currently thin and the breeze isn't too strong.

Now I am signing off to spend some time in prayer for our daughter-in-law.  She is supposed to be going home today from Texas, but bad thunder storms and possible tornadoes are forecast in the area close to the Dallas airport so we are concerned about her travel possibilities.  Looks like she will be okay driving back to El Paso, but then it gets dicey for her if her flight to Dallas is badly delayed or cancelled due to weather....honestly, at this point it seems there is always some kind of issue lately with every flight that members of our family are booked into.  Praying hard for this dear girl!!!