Settling in to life and a new job

Cool to read Mark this morning, along with a commentary David recommended- he spoke for a long time about the first line, "The beginning of the gospel..." Commentary said, "From here [the end of the book of Mark] he carries out his messianic task through the Spirit until his final appearance to establish once and for all the rule of God. That is the core of "the gospel.""

So I saw this cool continuum from the beginning of the gospel of Jesus ("how it all started") described in the book of Mark, to what Jesus is doing in the lives of the HIV patients that I am going to try to help with this project. He is still doing it- establishing God's rule in their life and mine.

My intro to the TB project yesterday was first overwhelming then quite interesting, and I feel it will be a lot more of the latter. The guys have done a great job getting it off the ground this summer: made up a survey looking for signs of TB, and surveyed 108 people- both HIV positive beneficiaries and other people referred by our beneficiairies. Thirty one seemed (from the survey) to have indications of maybe having TB. Those were sent for AFB smears at the lab. Great, moving along.

Well, all 31 came back negative. OK, so what's up- bad lab? really not as much TB as we thought? HIV+ people showing up smear negative? (that happens a lot...)

So it's something to apply our brains to, and I hope we can create some change, get some sick people onto treatment.

Brian is good- we are so happy in our house. He hung bedroom curtains this morning around 6:30 while I made strawberry pancakes.