Telephone talk

J. moved 10 days ago from Lausanne to the Italian speaking part of Switzerland called Tichino. She’s had a lot of problems and she thought, at age 36, without a job, on long-term medical leave, that it was the right time for a change. It took her 2 months to get her 2 rooms into cardboard boxes. She put her cat Doolittle in the pet carrier and left.

She told me she really wanted to keep up the Bible studies, so we did our first telephone one today. We read a passage, she reads answers she’s prepared to the reading guide I give her, and then we normally find some question or life problem that goes with the section before continuing, usually working through a chapter a week.

She was on the speaker phone. She read the text, answered the questions, and we ended our hour together with a prayer. She said she missed the church, though she’d only come about once a month. 15 months ago she was baptised in the lake. 6 months ago she wouldn’t pray with me, but today she prayed on the phone.

She knows it will take some time before things start feeling like home. She knows it’s possible. Cat’s already adjusted.

Thanks for your prayers and for stopping by.