Burky's Blog

Well, I don't know where to begin.  But I expect this email would be shorter than my last.  I recently read the email etiquette that it is better to keep it short.  But it didn't say anything about fax as well.  I am sending this as email and fax both. 

Labor weekend went well.  Although I should make a wiser use of that long weekend.

Jay's house is really a hubbub of deaf activity.  With all conveniences plus my presence, people tend to flock here at our home.  I sometimes felt a bit overwhelmed.  I do like quiet times.  But it seems like people, especially Leon Hoover, don't understand the simple pleasure of staying at home.  Oh how I love being at home, but I am longing for MY home.  Jay's house is still under his mother's regime and I don't feel free to do whatever I want.

Besides, flowerbeds and garden is not mine.

Monday I went to my family's home and fix Julia's email.  She should be getting this email by now.  And then Thursday evening I went again to get Julia's printer working with her computer.  Now it is working, and I hope that Julia don't make any farther mess with her computer.  She wouldn't have to if she keep using her computer as what she bought it for.  Writing letters, emails, and making cards.  If she stick to these, she would be ok. 

So last week is rather uneventful.  Nothing much new.

September's beginning is over, and we are approaching the middle of the month.  It is hard to believe how fast the time flies.  That's what happened when you are constantly on go. 

I went to First Deaf Mennonite Church yesterday morning and Lewis preached about giving 5 loaves and 2 fishes to Jesus.  Mere pittance, but God saw beyond the gift and at the motive of the giver, then He blessed the giver far more than he ever think possible.  I thought now he is talking about faith again.  It is really all what the Christian life is all about.  After all the Bible asserted that God cannot be happy without our faith.  And then we need to prove that we have the faith.

I had to think that the lifestyle the Bible ask us to live is all about living by faith.  But so few Christians see that.  Without faith, Christian life would be more legalistic.

After church, I went to Renaissance Faire.  It is wonderful place, a reminiscence of renaissance era, the times of Queen Elizabeth I.  I think or I suspected that I am the only deaf there.  All those interpreters, and only me show up!  They will have another event on October 14, and I am looking forward to it.  I hope more deaf people will be there.

Events...events...events...so a quiet, peaceful weekend would be rare and wonderful.  I went to Fulton Opera House, the America's oldest running opera house; at 155th year, it is still going strong.  I went there Saturday afternoon, and I enjoyed the play, but it wasn't the best one I ever have seen.  Next one would be October 20.

Well, sorry, nothing much new.  So I am sure some of you are glad this isn't like a book as my last update email. <Smile>

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Omar Burkholder
1091 Martindale Road
Ephrata, PA 17522

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