look unto me!...so I looked until...

The whole weekend has gone by too fast. I mentioned already our trip to Jelico, and the frightening prospect of change. But the Sabbath was a day of peace and joy. A lovely and lively SS for an hour with a most entertaining and attractive teacher in recent memory. A professor of History, no less! Then lunch with our Polish friends the Jesiaks, they have come a long way to assimilate to the new culture and social setting in America. Delicious food and superb atmosphere. Then the trip to our Russian "church" in the chapel at the big church. Since I do not hear well, it seems that the speakers are talking to themselves and not to the audience. So after "nodding" for several minutes we left and ...went to play racketball. Magdalena, Daniele, and I...as the only "expert" on the game. Magda got whacked solidly in the side by the ball and would have died, were it not for the fact that the game was not over yet, and she had to keep on playing. Wally, spent some time in sauna and then went to bed with his...computer! We had a little bit of rain, but it was light and steady, and promissed to go away by the time I am scheduled to play tennis. Today I was invited to go to lunch with a friend, but in stead I had to go to see a "toothpick" that is a doctor of dentistry. She did the filling of the "tooth hole" and fixed not the tooth I thought needed filling but the one that actually had a hole in it. Surprice! Fortunately I did not tell her which tooth and she fixed the right one. While recovering from the dentist event, I got a letter from Cieszyn [town in Poland] with the news that they are enjoying -25 C cold spell. Got an e-mail from my ET in Washington and he told me that Alienware computers are ok, but a bit expensive. Then I got an e-mail from ITA, we try to communicate any way we can and often, honest. But the most interesting was the e-mail from Catherine the Beautiful...from Poland! The picture was superb and it warmed my heart. Maybe one of these days she will come and see us. This brings me to the beautiful passage in Isa.45:22. The phrase that cought my eye was :"look unto me and be ye saved." Immediately I thought of the Israelites in the dessert looking at the brazen snake etc. But the verse actually says, turn to me [in LXX the Septuagint, and in Hebrew]. Turn to me and be saved [rescued]. Turning implies going toward a thing or a person, with a specific purpose in mind. The basic meaning implies turning the face toward...We were taught by our parents to always look in the eyes of the person that is speaking with us or to us. This implies attentiveness, interest, and respect. When we communicate with someone we expect some kind of reaction. Today I received a comment from Patty-Lynn with a phone number and an invitation to call her. Not to react would be very insulting. I will call! Daniel the prophet relates that when he was given a vision he...looked until he saw what was important to him. He wrote: I looked until a stone was sent hurtling toward the statue and, I looked until I saw a judgment scene! To turn our face toward, to look, implies an expectation on our part. To look to someone means to expect some kind of action. We look to our parents to feed us when we are children. We look to our teachers to teach us reliable facts in a most appealing manner. But most of all we always look to a person who can satisfy our most urgent need. What is your need today? Who can come and succor you in your moment of need? Turn to me; look to me and you will be saved, from small things, from big things, from anything that threatens our life, our comfort, our peace. My friends when you turn and face...I hope your expectations will be fulfilled. Look until you are satisfied, until your peace [welfare] is complete. Don Pedro a pleasant day to you and yours. ET love you. Patty when are you not at work?