"Your People Are Here"

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  Athens, Attica, Greece
Friday, October 10, 2008

My friends the BibFem Four arrived this morning from Chicago. All five of us are staying in my apartment for the next ten days, and this place which is usually crypt-quiet is now full of life and action (and vegetables).

I know Dutch best, because she, Aletheia, and I have been conducting a three-hour-long Bible study every week by conference call for at least five years now [the Bible study is on hiatus while I'm in Greece, although Dutch and Aletheia have continued to talk on the phone weekly]. Dutch likes to cook, so she brought lots of recipes for yummy Greek dishes to attempt in my kitchen. She made me buy the vegetables. :-)

I am requiring Chaplain to begin every paragraph she speaks with the words, "One time in Congo..." because she spent fifteen years of her life in the African country with her missionary parents, and she has some amazing stories about everyday life in Congo

Nurse Cubby, Chaplain, Gramma, and Dutch

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Nurse Cubby is just what she sounds like... a manager of nurses at an elite rehabilitation hospital in Chicago, where she loves to root for the Cubs baseball team. She also loves her two tiny chihuahuas, Clark and Addison (the names of the dogs are a test to see whether or not you're a true fan, too).

Gramma is the most gifted practitioner of active listening I've ever met. She has a natural skill for putting your emotions into words and reflecting them back to you with validation. She's a right-brained free spirit with two bionic knees who likes to tell stories about her five grandchildren.

I really enjoy interacting with the students and seeing more of their world than they would've granted a professor access to in the States, but they're at a different stage of life than I am, and that's left me hungry for a different kind of conversation. When my BibFem Four friends arrived at my apartment in Athens, they immediately hit the spot with their special brand of maturity, wisdom, interests, honesty, and humor. Gramma announced, "Your people are here."

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