Outsmarting the Enemy!!

It started with just a very few. Within two weeks it blocked their ears and then within a very short time affected their whole organism. The approved approach to the problem did not seem to make a dent in the issue and the next thing we knew the dastardly stuff had entered our domicile and was affecting our lives.We keep switching tactics trying to outsmart our enemy but so far it is more like a standoff than a battle won. We have not yet found the answer!
Sheesh. It sounds like any sort of temptation or vice we might be trying to avoid but I am talking about TICKS!!! The tiny critters stay underground till you have animals...(we have 2 dogs now) and then they come out with a vengeance in the heat. They latch on to the poor beasts with tenacity and although you might think you are winning the battle they keep reproducing. I need some nematodes that love ticks!! We will keep up the battle till we have won and in the meantime any tick that dares enter the premises and is seen will meet their end at the fateful bbq lighter torching of enemy ticks!!
In the last month I have been trying to teach English to some doctors working at the hospital. I do my best for them and since they all have a certain amount of the basics it makes it somewhat easier on me. I do not have the approved courses but for some reason they want me to do this. Since I really have no one to answer to or hand my lesson plan in to I can really have fun with it. Much to my surprise in this "Roman Catholic" country very few of the docs really had a very good grasp on the true meaning of the Easter celebration. So we did some study and teaching on it. I included music. We learned words like debt and grave and praise. Then my lovely suited up doctors all sang with me "Lord I lift your Name on High" with the actions!!! As I watched them and sang with them it was very hard to keep a big grin off my face as I gave thanks for this opportunity to go beyond the ESL programs and be an ambassador while teaching. What a privilege. Having said that I would still be thrilled to find some kind of text that would give me and my students a bit more order to the learning!!
My nephews and nieces and my kids will not be surprised at my teaching tactics .. they think I am "special" What's with that??
Easter has come and gone and we will mark 8 years in Mexico soon. In that time so much has transpired in our lives and in the lives of friends back in Youngstown. This past week the Lord took home a man who was very precious to us who had just celebrated his 90th birthday. It is the way it is ... each of us has his alotted days.
May we all be ready and looking forward to that day when we will see Him face to face just as Jim Proudfoot is seeing Him now!.