Ashley at Church


 This was in a park of Downtown Daejeon.  We went there somewhat often, though it was a bit of a hike from home.  The sidewalks were wide, and we had the triple babyjogger.    

     

Christopher is seated in our Baby Jogger in a park with the Dae Jeong Jah building behind him. 
  

Here we have Nathaniel, Mother, David, and then David seated in the Triple Baby Jogger, crossing a bridge in a Daejeon park. 

A Matter of Respect: 

   In our church, Ashley gets respect from the elderly, and from most men.  They ask her if she wants to go to school. She tells them no, and they do not ask again.  Not so with the  younger women of the church. They have not been able to leave her alone about it.  Or, we begin to think maybe they have for some months and then it happens again.   


     Ashley wishes the young women would focus more on reading Scripture together and on Gospel issues when the women get together separately from the men (which is not that often, but gives her so much stress when it happens).  But, it remains to be seen whether that will be their lot.  

      For the time being, it is not. The stress from the  indirect suggestions that my daughter go to college have been a constantly recurring theme, and it seems as if they cannot respect her free will to not go to a college.  For certain ones in particular, it seems to be a genuinely unhealthy fixation.  

       My daughter has been praying for these particular girls especially over the past few years since they joined our church.

     I should pray more than I have for that.  In fact, I need to start a prayer journal. Even before I get a bed and a night-table, and a house.  We hope to have our house rebuild starting soon, the Lord willing.  

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