100 years since the miracle of the sun

Sunrise over the Mt. of Olives

Another sleepless night as the painkillers are killing me ... my stomach was burning all night. I think I'll get ulcers again. Liquid diet is not helping my stomach one bit. I'll need to switch to semi-solids. Anyway I forgot to mention one funny fact ... right after the operation, the doc took a bottle of coca-cola from the fridge and asked me if I wanted some. Me and Leo looked in disbelief and asked if it was ok to drink coke immediately after an op. in my mouth? She laughed and said yes of course ... it'll disinfect all the germs and cool the wound so it would stop bleeding. Well, I had a glass of it immediately!!

Yesterday afternoon Leo came and brought me an ice cream. That was nice ... I needed it to calm my stomach. The sisters at the 3rd Station boiled chicken soup so I had something to fill my stomach with. Anyway today I'll stay in bed like yesterday. My face is still swollen though the pain from the wound is under control from the painkillers. I went out to the terrace to see the sunrise this morning ... and remembered today is Oct. 13th ... exactly 100 years ago when the miracle of the sun took place in Fatima. Not expecting much for us today ... though the miracle took place in the midst of Church crisis ... like we are today. Just maybe we might get a miracle.

Sunrise over the City

A very dramatic day yesterday at our southern border. Gaza's exploded a fence and about 20 gazans entered Israel. 3 were shot dead. Then incendiary balloons which gazans use to set Israel on fire were found in a suburb of Jerusalem .... now that's a good 90 kms away from the border!! And in retaliation for the killing of 2 jewish workers, yesterday jewish settlers attacked arabs and stoned arab cars, killing an arab woman. Arabs were stopped from harvesting their olives. So the cycle of violence begins.

Meantime up on our northern border, we got news that US troops braved a sandstorm to fight ISIS militants. The fighting must be in the americans' favour as it was announced last night that the Syrian-Israeli border at Quneitra would be re-opened. ISIS had conquered that border town and kidnapped the UN Peace soldiers but they were driven away by the Syrian army. Quneitra is where St. Paul was struck by light when he encountered the Risen Lord ... and converted. It's just 1km away from the Israeli Golan border.