Interesting conversation with Ignatz after lunch today. I'm not sure how it got started, it just did. I believe Ignatz is close to God. He doesn't go to church. But, he prays. Maybe so much time alone in the green houses has given him the time alone with God that so few people get. He seemed so pleased that I understood his knowledge of the spirit world "other world" as he calls it -- my dad thought he was talking about aliens - (even today he says that is what Ignatz was talking about and that he grows his flowers in circle pattern/like crop circles). Ignatz says there isn't anyone he can talk with - he nodded his head toward the door of the flower shop (meaning Brigitte and Monika) saying he cannot talk with his family about it.

Maybe I am here so he knows he isn't crazy.

I told him I pray and read my Bible every day. He commented that they used to pray at dinner - he noticed that I close my eyes before I eat and wondered if that is what I was doing.

Ignatz stopped talking about it as soon as Brigitte and Monika walked back in.

He liked it very much when I told him that I felt it was my job to pray for people so they will have their eyes opened to spiritual matters.

It was what I call, " a God moment".

I could almost see the peace settle over him.

He works hard, and with any business, he sees bigger, newer places moving in - like the big flower shop across from the cemetary by Aldis. I'm sure it causes him stress.

Monika's apartment/house is heated by a stove that is on the first floor (underneath the apartment). Ignatz loads it up with firewood and we can hear him late at night adding wood. The house is almost too warm sometimes. The wood burning smells good.

Talked to mom today - I have a feeling something is not right - but, it must not be an emergency or she would tell me. Whatever it is, I will  pray for God's will. He knows.