 Amy Walter-Peterson - Amy in Egypt | All Comments |
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| 14th July 2009 John | - From: Good Times No G & T? I hope that doesn't mean "Drinkies" closed? Regardless, I would say that ending the summer drinking beer with friends beats beginning the summer eating dinner alone. The best beer I ever had was a rooftop Stella. Everytime I see one now I smile! Safe travels! John |
| 13th July 2009 Amy in Egypt | G&Ts - From: Good Times Trust me whoever you are -- if I could get some decent gin I would! |
| 12th July 2009 anonymous | - From: Good Times Maybe after enough visits to Egypt, you will have converted them to them to gin and tonics! |
| 12th July 2009 Amy in Egypt | Homily - From: A Homily Dad -- I'm glad you liked the homily. You're welcome to share it as you like. Looking forward to coming home today. Wish I could have gotten on an earlier plane, but I'm trying to make the most of the day while I'm here. I'll call you after I get home. |
| 11th July 2009 Dave | Discipleship - From: A Homily Thank you for sharing this Homily. If we could only understand that Jesus doesn't care if we are perfect...but that we listen and respond to his call. He has promised "I am with you." Will you give me permission to share this Homily with the Men's group I meet with Friday mornings? Dad |
| 9th July 2009 Dee | Baby Mina - From: Baby Mina Amy, please know that we at Dundee Presbyterian Church will be praying for Baby Mina and his family. Healing thoughts are being sent their way. |
| 8th July 2009 dave | Camel Ups and Downs - From: I've done it! Amy, Glad you finally got "over the hump" on this camel riding business. What better entry for your resume. Sorry for my failure to blog recently. I am trying to realize what an impact the pyramid visit you described must have had on you Cairo experience. Also read your update on Mina. Be sure she and family will be in our prayers. Thinking of you always and praying for your well-being and ministry in Cairo.Talked to Hans last week. Glad he got to make the trip to Minnesota. Love, Mom and Dad |
| 8th July 2009 linda bradigan | Sooooooo Good - From: A Homily Enjoyed this so much. Beautifully presented ----- not to be perfect but just saying "yes" -- Always loved your sermons Amy--- Remember the one about your glasses ? The first thing you reach for in the morning ? Keep up the wonderful work. |
| 6th July 2009 Maggie | Amen~~Amen - From: A Homily Thanks.....I needed that!!!! |
| 4th July 2009 Emily M. | - From: A Homily Thank you for sharing this, Pr. Amy! I'm happy that you are preaching over there. I miss hearing you over here! God bless you. |
| 4th July 2009 Amy in Egypt | Many thanks - From: Baby Mina Thanks Elaine. I will pass the word on to Mina's family. |
| 3rd July 2009 Elaine | Prayers - From: Baby Mina Pastor Amy~ We at St. Paul's will add Baby Mina to our prayers Sunday and I will add him to mine. Elaine |
| 3rd July 2009 Elaine | how exciting - From: I've done it! Pastor Amy~ Thank you for sharing your experience. You write so beautifully and the description of cossing the desert like the magi was meaningful in many ways... your comments also made me think of how we in the US don't take the interest in the beauty and history of our own country and areas where we live. I think of Watkins Glenn and the thousands that "trek" there and how long it has been since I have even driven by the area. You look thirilled on your ride! Blessings and safety. Elaine |
| 3rd July 2009 Beth Ann Stone | Camel Club - From: I've done it! Hi, Amy! Isn't it cool how the camels get up and down? I wish my knees could bend the other way sometimes! (I know, each knee only goes one direction, but it's still cool!) I got to ride a camel in Jordan back in seminary. Cool to read your posts! Take care of yourself! Love, BA |
| 3rd July 2009 Michele | Looks fun - From: I've done it! Hope the sandfleas aren't getting to you. |
| 3rd July 2009 Dee | Things to do & places to go - From: I've done it! Amy before I saw your pics I was reading some scripture and immediately they were linked! It was in Romans 8:14-15. "God's Spirit beckons. There are things to do and places to go! This resurrection life you received from God is not a timid, grave-tending life. It's adventurously expectant, greeting God with a childlike 'What's next, Papa?' Wow! |
| 1st July 2009 DeAnna Arabaty | Fr. Calabria - From: First Days in Egypt Amy, Im very happy to hear that you are enjoying your time in Egypt. I am a former student of St. Bonaventure and resident of Western New York but I am now living in Ramallah Palestine. I was a student of Fr. Calabria's and I'm trying to find him, as I will be coming to Egypt in the near future. Could you please pass my information along to him and ask him to email me. I would love to see him and you when I can get back to Cairo. Have a wonderful summer. DeAnna |
| 25th June 2009 anonymous | - From: A Typical Adventure Your Egyptian friends would understand our American phrase better than we do - "The Lord willin' and the creek don't rise!" |
| 23rd June 2009 Brian Dixon | A call - From: A Typical Adventure I'm feeling called to come visit you in Egypt one day. Obviously not this summer and most like not next either, but one day. |
| 23rd June 2009 Amy in Egypt | Stopping - From: Just Like Home?! That's what happens here in the heat. Even for Egyptians it's hot -- and so life just stops. This is good, except when you're trying to motivate students to participate in class and do their homework. |
| 23rd June 2009 Ellen | oops, I did it again :) - From: Just Like Home?! Again, I forgot to put my name on my comment. I'm not very good at this! |
| 23rd June 2009 anonymous | - From: Just Like Home?! It sounds like you have developed some wonderful and restful rhythms to your life in Egypt. When I was in Ghana, I was at first astounded but eventually pleased that when it rained, everything stopped. The idea of deadlines and "productivity" were literally foreign concepts. Things got done when they got done. Frustrating for me to adjust to that idea at first, but then I realized it made sense with the natural rhythms of life, instead of the artificial rhythms that we have created. Enjoy your continued tea-taking and other manners of refreshment! |
| 21st June 2009 Katie | obama - From: First Days in Egypt I recently went to Disney World (not as internationall as Egypt, I know) and ran into tourists from Europe who wanted to compliment Obama over and over too. Interesting how this world is changing! |
| 20th June 2009 Mom | Mina - From: How to get students who are afraid of you to speak to you Have been reading your entries from last year and are wondering whatever became of little Mina? Is he still living or did he go to his eternal rest? How are classes going this year? How many of the students have you had in the past two years? And how about the little girls....have they discovered that Amy is back? Are you acclimating to the heat yet. Would like to feel at least some of that heat....it has been in the 50's here. I'm afraid this is going to be one those very short Duluth summers. We were to Eau Claire to see Park play baseball the other night....they had had an inch of rain the night before and another inch during the night that we were there, although it was nice for the game. Park had a good game, got a double and caught a fly and threw to first for a double play....they have made much progress since last year. Jen is in Winnipeg this weekend, but and her friend Jodi Anderson and a friend of hers are going to be staying here tonight, running in Grandma's Marathon tomorrow. Lots of people around town. Waiting to hear more from you. Keep in touch. Love and prayers, Mom |
| 18th June 2009 Diane | not the first - From: How to get students who are afraid of you to speak to you I had to chuckle when I read this one, Amy. There have been a few others who didn't quite know what to do with you either. Have patience and God will let relationships blossom again for you. |
| 18th June 2009 Ellen | - From: How to get students who are afraid of you to speak to you Oops, I forgot to put my name on that last comment. |
| 18th June 2009 anonymous | - From: How to get students who are afraid of you to speak to you Sounds like coffee hour! |
| 17th June 2009 Emily M. | Praying for you! - From: First Days in Egypt Pr. Amy, I'm glad that you made it safely to Egypt! You are very much in my prayers. I know that you will do much good there! Please tell Fr. Calabria that I said hello! I had him for Scripture during my time at Bonaventure. Enjoy your time! God bless you! -Emily M. |
| 16th June 2009 Brian Dixon | - From: How to get students who are afraid of you to speak to you I would sit with you. But I have always found you to be very clever so congrats on your system. |
| 16th June 2009 Maggie | Soon things will change! - From: How to get students who are afraid of you to speak to you Once they get to know you they will be all trying to get a seat at your table. |
| 16th June 2009 Ellen | - From: First Days in Egypt I'm glad to hear that you are enjoying your experiences and conversations so far, and I will pray for some cool weather (or at least that you find ways for rest and refreshment in the midst of the heat)! Missed you tonight at Pilates :) |
| 15th June 2009 Elaine | Hello Pastor Amy - From: First Days in Egypt I am so glad to hear you arrived safely. You will be in my daily prayers as you once again teach and learn with the students. Blessings to you for this wonderful ministry! Enjoy! |
| 5th August 2008 Lisa | - From: Prayer Request Dear Amy Mina and his family are in my prayers. - Lisa |
| 4th August 2008 Katie | prayers - From: Prayer Request Oh Amy, losing a child . . . I'm so sorry for them and for you and for the briefness of little Mina's life. While I believe God holds that child and understands our pain, it does not relieve the pain itself. I pray that the waking moments leave joy unspeakable for little Mina's family. Oh Lord, in your mercy, hear our prayer. |
| 19th July 2008 Dee | Hospitality - From: Cared For Amy, I continue to read your posts and am inspired by what you are doing and who you are becoming! I thought of you when I read this quote from "Radical Hospitality" 'When I let a stranger into my heart, I let a new possibility approach me. When I reach past my own ideas, I begin to stretch myself open to the world, and this opening of my heart could change everything." Praise be to God! |
| 19th July 2008 Lisa | - From: Cared For Hope you are feeling better and what a blessing to have such caring people surround you. |
| 19th July 2008 Lisa | - From: Al-Hamdu Lillaah! Amy Craig and I have really enjoyed reading your entries, I love the tatto. As a tattoed pastor myself it makes me smile. I have a lady in my congregation who just got her first, and only tatto last week. She is 82 years old!! - Lisa |
| 15th July 2008 Marsh and Ann | a knee tattoo? - From: Al-Hamdu Lillaah! Hi Amy and Hans, We've been following your exciting journey and hope that Hans' stomach and your knee are feeling better. Considering your knee, maybe you should have gotten the coptic cross on your knee instead of your wrist so that it could be permanently healed! It sounds like you are having the best, most intense, most spiritual, most rewarding time. Since you are so good at taking pictures with recently baptized children that you don't even know, perhaps you could help Brad and Angelina out with their new babes? :-) Stay safe, healthy, and cool! Peace, Marsh and Ann |
| 15th July 2008 Ellen | - From: Al-Hamdu Lillaah! Mike says that he's expecting you to only have one arm when he picks you up at the airport, as the infection will have taken your other one by then (I am more optimistic). |
| 14th July 2008 Ellen | - From: Al-Hamdu Lillaah! Oops - I forgot to put my name on that last comment (although I'm sure you guessed who it was by the mention of Bellona). |
| 14th July 2008 anonymous | - From: Al-Hamdu Lillaah! I celebrated a baptism yesterday as well, and so it was fun to read your experience and compare it to what happened in Bellona. Very different, and yet how wonderful that children of God were welcomed into the faith on the same day in different parts of the world! And I can't wait to see your tatoo! |
| 14th July 2008 Diane R | What an experience! - From: Al-Hamdu Lillaah! Oh, Amy, I got chills of excitement down my spine just reading about this fantastic day of baptisms and tattoos! I can't wait to meet with you in person to hear more about life in rural Egypt. This blog has been so wonderful! I get excited every time I find a new entry. Thank you for all the education and entertainment I have found here. Hello to Hans, and safe journey back home to both of you. Love, Diane |
| 8th July 2008 Kara | thank you! - From: Travel Plans Thank you Amy for allowing us to follow your journey. It has been so interesting so far, and I am happy just because of the joy in your entries. Thank you!! |
| 6th July 2008 Katie | grapes - From: Hans Has Arrived! Are there any vineyards in Egypt? |
| 6th July 2008 Ellen | - From: Hans Has Arrived! It's always good to know that after you leave someone at the airport, they do indeed make it to their intended destination, so thanks for the notice! Enjoy your time together! |
| 5th July 2008 John | - From: Hans Has Arrived! Shoukran Allah |
| 3rd July 2008 Elaine | Lovely - From: The Falucca How very lovely Pastor Amy~ The sunset is out of this world. Thank you for sharing. |
| 30th June 2008 Hans | - From: Emphasis on Cheese Hooray Youssri!! |
| 28th June 2008 anonymous | - From: Painting Pictures of Egypt I admire your ability to engage so deeply with the students even across this disconnect, and your ability to not let your sadness or sense of injustice detract too much from your genuine love for the people and the culture there. I'm afraid I would just get angry and/or hurt. May your presence there be a quiet witness to a new way of life. |
| 28th June 2008 Katie | what can be learned - From: Painting Pictures of Egypt A man spoke at our church this year after having been on a mission/learning trip to Africa. He and his pastor, a woman, travelled deep through uninhabited territory, finally landing themselves in a seminary in the middle of no where in which every student was required to make their own houses from the dirt so that they would have shelter during their time of learning. They helped at the seminary, but finally sat down with many of the leaders who, point blank, asked the woman how she could be ordained when it was so obviously against God's law? "It was as if she had been waiting her whole life for that question," I was told by her parishioner. She got up and boldly declared the history of women called by God through the scriptures, and then told of her own call to service. Her parishioner stated that he could see the Holy Spirit come down upon her. The men listened and began to understand the reaches of God's call. I will be in prayer for a "teaching moment" for you -- one in which you can declare the glory of God and enjoy God's presence immensely as you share your call and are invited to join the Christian "brotherhood." |
| 26th June 2008 Lisa | Way to go Amy - From: Adapting Hey Amy So since there is no barking dog does that mean it died?? Just couldn't resist! It is fun to keep up on your trip, Craig and I are checking every few days and keeping you in our prayers. Your making a difference even if the walls of the chapel are not shifted, at least the thinking of some people has shifted! Be God's, Lisa |
| 21st June 2008 katie | in the beginning . . . - From: Turn Around Is Fair Play I love your simple arabic. Maybe that is what I need to pay attention to in my own study. What can we humans "really" articulate in the language of God? We start small . . . with only words . . . simple words. I believe that IS grace. |
| 16th June 2008 Katie | Welcome Home - From: Friends I can already hear the smile in your writing. |
| 15th June 2008 Hans | One of your favorite memories of last trip - From: Friends I know those kids were one of the great highlights of the trip for you last year. So glad that you have found each other again! |
| 15th June 2008 Maggie | Beauty - From: Up on the Roof Pastor Amy, You make this place you love sound so beautiful. I am so glad I get to view it through your eyes. God Bless!!! |
| 12th June 2008 Nathan | The Eagle has landed! - From: Amy IS in Egypt! Hi Amy! So glad to hear you're there. I can feel the energy in your words. Can't wait to follow along. Rock it out sister! Nate |
| 12th June 2008 Hans | T. Friedman: Egyptians' take on Obama - From: Amy IS in Egypt! Interesting comments from Thomas Friedman's travels in Cairo only a week ago or so. Read his column in the NY Times Online today. |
