James’ Health Update-Wednesday, July 16, 2025—I’m Home!
I just got home from the hospital an hour ago. The ERCP (Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography) (Here is another link, this one to Johns Hopkins, which also explains the operation.) surgery/procedure was completed yesterday mid-afternoon. I was under general anesthesia, woke up feeling great, and have been feeling great ever
James had a procedure today and is now in recovery. He is awake and doing well. He will be kept in the hospital overnight for observation and further recovery. If all goes well he will be discharged sometime tomorrow.
I have been ill since this last Monday, July 7th, with some kind of digestive food issue. I haven’t experienced vomiting or diarrhea, just persistent pain in my digestive tract. I’ve been eating minimally or fasting since last Monday, with what I thought was slow improvement throughout the
This is a brief clip from a recent podcast with Juan O Savin (107). The host is John Michael Chambers who, at last report, is married to a Thai woman and has lived in Thailand for the past number of years.
This excerpt begins with Chambers expressing his surprise and
With apologies to Chuck—Charles Dickens, that is—author of the classic historical novel, A Tale of Two Cities. Written in 1859, but set at the time of the French Revolution ca. 1798, Dickens, through vivid character portraits, was contrasting life in Paris to that in London.
In our studied
Let us return now to the main theme of the 20 barley loaves which saved, i. e., delivered, the brotherhood of the 100 prophets from famine. To refresh our memories here is the passage:
2 Kings 4:42 And there came a man from Baalshalisha, and brought the man of
I could be wrong, and you may disagree, but here is my take on a major current event. Shocker! The Department of Justice (DOJ) just released a report which seems to deny there ever was an Epstein “client list.”
For some background, here is an article from the Gateway Pundit,
The One Big Beautiful Bill became the One Big Beautiful Bill Act when it was signed into law by President Trump in a very public way on Independence Day. This was a key and huge victory for the white hats as they/we continue to strive to restore righteousness in
In the last installment, we left off by remembering that barley is the grain which can thrive and grow to maturity in drought and in famine conditions. Let us consider barley in this condition in allegorical or symbolic terms. In Amos 8, we see the prophet explaining famine in a
