Explosion of colour: Spring is here!

AU Eagle National Celebration 2013

AU held the “Eagle Nation Celebration” to honor the 2013 women’s basketball team that won the Division II national championship as well as the All-Americas, national qualifiers and national champions in a number of other AU sports.

 Women’s basketball team

  Honoring 70 student-athletes

 Women’s basketball team with coach Sue Ramsey

AU Women's Basketball Eagles

It was been very very fun to follow part of the AU Women's Basketball Eagles season. They have done really, really well. And not only won the regional championships but made it to the NCAA Division II National Championships and wan!

Ha sido muy muy divertido poder seguir parte de la temporada del baloncesto femenino de la Universidad de Ashland. No solamente ganaron a nivel regional sino que ¡consiguieron el título nacional hace a penas dos semanas!

AU Women's Basketball Eagles

Eagles' mascot

Had to get my own AU Eagles shirt!

Cheerleaders...

Children's entertainment...

Even IFES friends coming to watch a game with me (lots to learn about coaching, team-work, etc.)

The Eagles "fury"

Go Eagles, go!

 Winners 

Final NCAA on TV at the Buffalo Wild Wings

A Different Easter - Una Semana Santa diferente

Waiting...

Esperando...

"Hot-Cruss" buns English way.

(Note: with accident... They look good but the firemen came as the oven produced too much smoke for me to control and the fire alarm came off!!!!!!!)

(NB: Tienen buena pinta pero, ¡recibí la visita de los bomberos porque el horno empezó a echar humo que no pude controlar y saltó la sirena!)

All things are made new, just as Jesus raised from the dead, new signs of spring.

Todo es hecho nuevo, así como Jesús resucitó de entre los muertos, nuevas señales de primavera.

Exiting the Lutheran church with bells ringing: "Thine be the glory!"

¡La salida del culto en la iglesia Luterana a son de campana: "¡A tí la gloria!"

Serving at the" Pump House"

Sirviendo en la "Pump House"

Delicious meal and international fellowship at the Overland's

Comida deliciosa y compañía internacional en casa de los Overland

And of course, I could not miss my (mini) chocolate bunny. 

Y, claro... no podía faltar mi (mini) conejo de chocolate.

He is risen indeed! May we live each day as Resurrection day!

¡Ha resucitado sin duda! ¡Qué podamos vivir cada día como día de Resurrección!

My First Attempts to Amish Baking

Amish Oatmeal Cake

by Linda Fleck

Used from: TextBook

DIRECTIONS - INGREDIENTS

• CAKE:
• 1 cup rolled oats
• 1 1/4 cups boiling water
• 1/2 cup butter
• 1 cup granulated sugar
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon baking soda
• 1 teaspoon cinnamon
• 1 2/3 cup flour
• 1 teaspoon vanilla
• FROSTING:
• 6 tablespoons butter, melted
• 1/4 cup milk
• 1 cup brown sugar
• 1/2 cup nuts, chopped (if desired)

• 1
  Mix oats and boiling water together; set aside for 20 minutes. Cream butter and sugars together thoroughly. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each one. Blend in oatmeal mixture.
• 2
  Sift together remaining dry ingredients. Fold into batter. Stir in vanilla. Pour into a greased and floured 9” x 13” baking pan. Bake at 350 degrees for 30-35 minutes.
• 3
  After baking, but before cake cools, mix frosting ingredients together thoroughly and spread the frosting over cake and broil about 2 minutes or until it browns. Watch carefully as it burns easily!!

Delicious!!!!!

Para los amantes del camino y del Camino...

Acabo de saber de esta serie de vídeos YouTube... La experiencia del camino es increíble. La experiencia del Camino, más...

Walking the Labyrinth

Today I experienced a new discipline, the discipline of walking the Labyrinth.

Labyrints are not mazes (cup-de-sacs and dead ends; more than one entrance and more than one exit and are designed to make us lose our way). Labyrinths have the exact opposite purpose: they are designed to help us find our way. 

The Labyrinth is an ancient tool for the spiritual journey. Walking the labyrinth may be called "prayer in motion" (Dr Lauren Artress).

"It is solved by walking" (St Agustine).

"Walking the labyrinth is a spiritual discipline that invites us to trust the path, to surrender to the many turns our loves take, and to walk through the confusion, the fear, the anger, the grief that we cannot avoid experiencing as we live our earthly lives. The labyrinth is a place where we can open ourselves to the Holy Spirit. We can ask for guidance and pray for ourselves and our loved ones. It calms the confused mind and the chaotic, fearful heart. It allows us to release all that is in our way of relating to the Divine: our hard-heartedness, our judgements, our impatience. The healing power of gratitude often visits the heart" (Straja Linder-King).

Most of the experiences that occur in the labyrinth are unexpected. They are guided by a sacred wisdom, a creative intelligence that knows more about what we need than do our conscious selves"(Dr Lauren Artress).

This is the labyrinth setting at the Ashland Seminary chapel.

As I got to the center I was able to experience a new, fresh and profound experiential understanding of the cross of Christ. And I came out a bit more sorted. Thank you God for Jesus!