Goal-setting

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Happy Day after Christmas. In my perverse, contrarian way, I welcome this day as a return to normalcy. As I am leaving for a short mission trip Sunday morning, I'm removing all vestiges of Christmas today (so I don't have to do it on the 2nd or 3rd of January).

We had a restful Christmas day except I cooked a lot because my mother, who had a heart attack last week (not major) got out of the hospital Wednesday and I didn't want her cooking or on her feet. I'm enforcing healthy food on her, and since we had ham and potato salad (not really the healthiest), I baked her a chicken. Our house is stocked with food for the duration, a nice byproduct of Christmas.

While I think resolutions are silly, I do set goals, and one is for this blog. I plan for it to be more world-conscious. So I'll start with missions and missionaries who are doing great things. In October our church had its mission banquet and I met the Larry and Sally Pepper. Here is their blog. These folks blew me away. He is a medical doctor who left NASA in the early '90s to work in Uganda and began a ministry to AIDS patients. Amazing story. Here's is their blog. http://peppersinugandaandlesotho.blogspot.com/

I am happy to report my novel is the best seller by my publisher on Christian Book Distributors' website. That means maybe ten people bought it!

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