I was back at my medical insurance clinic early this morning. My hands and feet are more swollen than yesterday. The doc sent me to do an ECG and blood test. Will wait for the result on Sunday. Meantime I can't make a fist or curl my toes as the hands and feet and quite swollen. And the chest hurts. And yesterday I was terribly nauseous.
The weather is warm now ... 20 degrees again today. Spring disappeared and we jumped from winter to summer. It's going to be a hot, dry summer for sure.
The repercussions from yesterday's massive protests against the govt's move to subdue the judiciary under parliamentary powers has drawn warnings of economic meltdown by world's leading economists. The world has lost confidence in the political and judicial stability if the govt claims power above the law. As proof, newspapers are saying the israeli shekel was the world's 3rd worst currency in February due to this judiciary overhaul. It's a sad state of affairs but an economic meltdown, in the face of an already rampant inflation, will teach the far right and ultra-orthodox they cannot rule the country with impunity, like gangsters. One MK had officially called an arab town to be "wiped out" by the military even after 200 extremist jewish settlers rampaged through it, burning 30 houses and injuring hundreds. Without a judiciary to curb such speech and actions, the country has become a wild west with kangaroo courts. Is this what God really wants? Is this a biblical injunction?
Meantime don't forget our refugees in Syria. We're still working hard for them and offering as much help as we can.
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| Families huddle for shelter in our parish hall |
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