Well, I wasn't "at Grandma's"; I lived with my cousin Rumiko (Mar. 8 post) all last week.
Rumiko had decided to go to the small island of Izena where her she and her late husband had worked while he was alive, and that place is so out of the way, there are few cars there, only one traffic light on the entire island, and no Wi-fi in her home. When I went down to Okinawa, my sisters and I spent one week with her--and I went without my laptop or cellphone.
What a full week it was though. God had been helping Rumiko live simply and form special bonds with the elderly folk in the rural villages of Izena island. The first day we were there, she took my sisters and me to visit her hundred- year-old friend.
She had found the Lord, and on the day before we left the island, I was able to hand her a sketch I'd drawn from a photograph taken on that visit, along with words from her favorite verse, "In everything give thanks,"
(The hibiscus in the background were growing in her yard.)
