Jason's Blog

It is our front—our face. The same basic shape underneath with unlimited variations. Just muscle on bone covered by skin. Some stationary openings and some movable. Noses and Lips of an amazing variety of shapes and colors and thicknesses and settings. The whole lit by eyes of many colors, shaded by brows and lashes, colored and shaped and affected by emotions controlled by hundreds of muscles. Extremely sensitive yet the most exposed portion of our bodies. Cut by creases vertical and horizontal and diagonal, some appearing only at certain times and with certain emotions and becoming more permanent with the years. Laugh lines and frown lines and sun squint lines and blemishes and moles and hair. Tanned, weathered, pale, ruddy and of many hues. All framed by ears and hair with one, two or more chins. Some we count beautiful, some pretty ugly, most somewhere in between. All of our considerations of beauty affected and molded by our culture, race, age, sex and a hundred other factors, most of which we cannot articulate. The wonders of the human face.

After teaching our Orientation For Service class for almost two weeks (two weeks of sweet fellowship and ministry), Sharon and I drove to Iowa from Idaho in order to speak among our friends at Calvary Baptist Church in Mt. Pleasant. From that wonderful time of sharing God's Word and experiencing the extraordinary generosity of that fellowship, we traveled, the next day, to Toledo, Ohio to visit one of our sons, his wife, and our two grandchildren whom they parent when we cannot be physically spoiling them. (The family was visiting the States from their Air Force home in Germany and we had to take the opportunity to visit the grandchildren.) The next day I flew to Haiti for a couple of days of ministry business and to visit our two hundred plus children in the Lord who currently reside in the various My Father's Houses. As I was leaving Haiti I was able to greet our youngest son and his wife and our granddaughter as they arrived for a year's stay in My Father's House Haiti. (We had left them in Nampa at the conclusion of the Orientation which they participated in.) I returned to Toledo late Thursday night and Sharon and I drove Saturday to Eastern New York state to preach the Word among the Brethren there. We have returned to the Missionary House at Emmanuel Baptist Church to enjoy their hospitality and to write.

George Mueller of Bristol was a man used of God to care for orphans. He served a church in Bristol, England as co-pastor and was enabled to build a Scripture distribution, Christian education, missionary support, preaching and teaching and orphan work that spanned the globe, educated thousands in the things of God, distributed hundreds of thousands of Bibles and Scripture portions, supported hundreds of Missionaries and eventually had five buildings, owned by the orphanage housing  two thousand orphaned children. All this by faith in the God of the Bible and without one appeal for money.

Esther, in the Bible Book called Esther, was a lovely young lady. The Word says she was 'beautiful in form and face'. That's a pretty good recommendation.

As many of you know, Sharon and I were in Haiti for the earthquake January 12th. We didn't go there thinking about earthquakes. Haiti had not had a noticable earthquake for two hundred years. Had we known what was about to happen we might have stayed home.

"WHEN I consider Your heavens,
the work of Your fingers,
     The moon and the stars which
You have ordained,
     What is man that you are mindful of him,...?"