I am back in Switzerland since September 2010 – we moved to the Kanton Ticino, and found a beautiful apartment in Brissago.  I started dialysis in September 2010.  You can read more about my feelings and thoughts about dialysis when you give in “dialysis” in the search above.

I am surrounded by the beauty of nature, and I am thankful for every day and every hour I am allowed to enjoy this priviledge.

On the first of July I will undergo surgery for a kidney transplant, the live donor being my beloved sister Nita Kearney – may I use the years to come worthy of this great dead of love – and if so God will – may my life thereforth portray my love and thankfulness to my Creator.

Colossians 3:7-17

7 You used to walk in these ways, in the life you once lived. 8 But now you must rid yourselves of all such things as these: anger, rage, malice, slander, and filthy language from your lips. 9 Do not lie to each other, since you have taken off your old self with its practices 10 and have put on the new self, which is being renewed in knowledge in the image of its Creator. 11 Here there is no Greek or Jew, circumcised or uncircumcised, barbarian, Scythian, slave or free, but Christ is all, and is in all. 12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13 Bear with each other and forgive whatever grievances you may have against one another. Forgive as the Lord forgave you. 14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity. 15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful. 16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God. 17 And whatever you do, whether in word or deed, do it all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

“If you give your soul up to anything earthly, whether it be the wealth, or the honours, or the pleasures of this world, you might as well hunt after the mirage of the desert or try to collect the mists of the morning, or to store up for yourself the clouds of the sky, for all these things are passing away.”
— Charles H. Spurgeon

August 2008

on the patio