arigato... today is a good day... today i feel a new surge of hope in me... (or that could be the wasabi we ate for lunch)... Ritchie's in town (yehey!), and we had lunch with him and Cheryl (uuy!) at our house --homemade Japanese cuisine (care of L.A. & Weng, california sushi experts), except the miso soup, sukiyaki, and pickled ginger... it has been a good Lenten season... i am grateful to God for all the blessings He's given me... i am thankful that despite what we have been through as a family all these years we have kept loving, kept living, and kept serving... i just encourage you all out there (you know who you are) that the more you struggle, the more you should keep on going... God is bigger than any problem... He conquered death didn't he?...