Praying points

If you wonder how you may pray for us, please read below for a couple areas needing 'some intervention':

Short-term rental from 'down under'

• "This apartment was so bad, no one would ever want to stay there!" said a friend of ours in Bucharest whom we've asked to go see the furnished, short-term rent apartment we've been considering. The 'agency' renting this apartment was trying to lead us to believe that this was a 'deluxe' apartment and was worthy of premium price (asking $850/month). According to our friends, there was hardly any furniture in the bedrooms, no kitchen furniture at all, and it was all very dirty and unkept. Unfortunately, this type of unscrupulous activity is not at all too rare in Romania, where small-time thieves are at all corners. As a buyer, one has to triple check everything in order to not be had. Last summer, while we visited Romania, I bought a few CDs with Romanian Christian music and didn't open the sealed cases until we got home... which was too late, as one of the cases was empty inside.

"No life insurance for you!!!!"

• A while ago we applied for new life insurance, given that we no longer had my coverage through Mayo Clinic. After a while of no reply from the insurance carrier, we found out today that the insurance denied us coverage because of our overseas traveling, but forgot to inform us... So, we're now moving out to plan B... which is under development. Nonetheless, I should say that we still have life insurance through another company, but is only half of what we'd want it to be and the premiums go way up in 5 years (10 -year fixed).