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First really good day all week. Tomorrow I can actually report to work.
Tout le monde, a bonne nuit.
Awesome!
Bonjour!
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Are you showing off your ability to write in a different language?
If so I bow to your supreme knowledge.
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Are you showing off your ability to write in a different language?
I've gotten used to saying that since vicaring and now shepherding in Slovak Lutheran congregations (even though there are fewer and fewer folks here who can even understand it, let alone speak it.)
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How would you rate Slovakians in terms of orthodoxy? Are they more orthodox in their desired worship style than the German contingency of the synod, or less so
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First really good day all week. Tomorrow I can actually report to work.
Tout le monde, a bonne nuit.
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I have an interesting weekend ahead of me. Today, I'm going to my niece's dance recital - she's in TWELVE numbers!!
Tomorrow, I'm going with my folks and sisters to a mass and banquet celebrating my great-great aunt's 60th year as a nun. When I was little, we were actually pretty close (even though she's my great-grandmother's little sister). She's got a couple doctorates and a few masters degrees in all kinds of stuff, and she's traveled the world. Met a couple of popes. She's one of the most interesting people I've ever known. Unfortunately, she is proof that Alzheimer's will even strike people who use their brains regularly. I haven't seen her in a couple years, and my biggest fear is that she won't remember me.
Tomorrow, I'm going with my folks and sisters to a mass and banquet celebrating my great-great aunt's 60th year as a nun. When I was little, we were actually pretty close (even though she's my great-grandmother's little sister). She's got a couple doctorates and a few masters degrees in all kinds of stuff, and she's traveled the world. Met a couple of popes. She's one of the most interesting people I've ever known. Unfortunately, she is proof that Alzheimer's will even strike people who use their brains regularly. I haven't seen her in a couple years, and my biggest fear is that she won't remember me.
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The Slovak heritage is mostly gone out of the SELC. In the 50's they changed the name of the synod from the Slovak Evangelical Lutheran Church to the Synod of Evangelical Lutheran Churches to reflect the changing demographic of the synod as a whole. (The synod merged with the LCMS in 1971.) But the old Slovak worship was very traditional. I'm not certain whether or not there are still any congregations that even have Slovak services anymore. But for the most part, the traditional practice remains.
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I have an interesting weekend ahead of me. Today, I'm going to my niece's dance recital - she's in TWELVE numbers!!
Tomorrow, I'm going with my folks and sisters to a mass and banquet celebrating my great-great aunt's 60th year as a nun. When I was little, we were actually pretty close (even though she's my great-grandmother's little sister). She's got a couple doctorates and a few masters degrees in all kinds of stuff, and she's traveled the world. Met a couple of popes. She's one of the most interesting people I've ever known. Unfortunately, she is proof that Alzheimer's will even strike people who use their brains regularly. I haven't seen her in a couple years, and my biggest fear is that she won't remember me.
Alzheimer's is frightening. A friend of our family, a woman who was like a grandmother to me, has alzheimers and the last time I visited her she sometimes remembered me and other times she didn't. She wasn't the same. I have also been with people in the nursing center where I am doing my fieldwork that are afflicted with this disease.
I remember a quote by Bill Cosby in one of his comedy records.
"If you go senile, you won't know it."
So really the only people to whom the disease is hard on are the people close to them.
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I guess to that I would agree. All these people coming to visit and I don't know who they are or why they are here. I suppose some might even become angry because people are coming into his or her house uninvited.
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My wife worked for a short time in a very nice nursing home. The place was split into two sections; Assisted living and Hospital care. There were many couples where one of them were in each. The spouse didn't even know who their own husband or wife were. They sometimes had flashes of normalcy, some more than others. There was one couple where the husband was a retired Bird Colonel. In fact, that's what the staff called him was Colonel. He became violent when one of his sons came home to visit. The Colonel thought his son was a burgler. Didn't even know his own son. The ensuing fight beat them both up pretty badly. The wife and mother, with the assistance of her children, secured power of attorney over her husband and moved out of her house into the 'Manor. At first they lived together. But when the Colonel beat up an orderly, that was it, back into the Hospital care wing he went. His wife would visit him for hours and he would dictate letters to his command from WWII. She would read to him and calm him down when he would become violent. I just can't imagine the torment this good woman was going through. Yet she bore it all with grace and serenity. Quite the Lady in all definitions of the word.
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When I was in seminary I served at a Lutheran retirement home. There was one couple who had moved there into assisted living together, but the wife had deteriorated somewhat and needed to be placed in the skilled facility. The husband for a long time wouldn't leave her alone there. The staff had to encourage him to go and get involved in some things because he just couldn't be in there with her all the time. Over time it got so he couldn't see her all that often, although he regularly visited with her in there.
One day, I was there on a Sunday afternoon. I went down to the skilled section to bring folks up for church service. She didn't like to go because she couldn't hear much at all and so couldn't follow the service or sing any of the hymns. I asked her if she would come up with me and she said yes, so I took her up. Her husband was up there and when he saw her come in he had a huge smile on his face and jumped up and came over to her, pulled up a chair next to her and held her hand. I noticed a couple of times during the service that he was showing her where we were in the service. His smile never left and the tears rolled down his face. He was so happy that she was there with him.
It's sad when these things happen to folks, but it's great to see them when things are good.
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I have an interesting weekend ahead of me. Today, I'm going to my niece's dance recital - she's in TWELVE numbers!!
Tomorrow, I'm going with my folks and sisters to a mass and banquet celebrating my great-great aunt's 60th year as a nun. When I was little, we were actually pretty close (even though she's my great-grandmother's little sister). She's got a couple doctorates and a few masters degrees in all kinds of stuff, and she's traveled the world. Met a couple of popes. She's one of the most interesting people I've ever known. Unfortunately, she is proof that Alzheimer's will even strike people who use their brains regularly. I haven't seen her in a couple years, and my biggest fear is that she won't remember me.
Its really strange how they remember things from many many years ago but can't remember who their own kin are or what happened yesterday. My dad was always reliving things that happened 60 years ago but he also forgit who I was. Thought I was his brother at one point.
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The Catholic church up the street is using the Quest For Truth by CPH for their Vacation Bible School this year
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The Catholic church up the street is using the Quest For Truth by CPH for their Vacation Bible School this year
There's hope for them yet!!! 
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Too bad they charge $25 per kid to attend! Our church's VBS is always free as it is an outreach method for us
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My vicarage congregation charges for VBS, but they always have a capacity attendance, over 100 kids. And all the other churches in the area schedule their VBS around theirs because no one would attend the other VBS's if they had it the same week.
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