Flyleaf - "pair of rawhide"

In 2011 I started something ...

somewhat akin to George Muller's (that U should have an umlaut) recordings of God's provision in his life,

I started writing [in the flyleaf of my Bible] specific instances of how God has provided for my needs in the way only He does. . .

Today I get to add "had enough money left over from a gift card to buy a pair of bones for Sally to chew" :)

These puppies are Chiweenies, like our Sally...   (Chihuahua + Dachshund = Chiweenie) 

how to live - pt. 1 of a million

Don't forget to dream in the waiting,

and use your best dishes every day.

Add color to your life with the silliest things,

throw maple helicopters and fly a kite.

Chase cars with your tail outstretched,

and watch cloud animals run just as fast.

Spin in circles while you still can,

sing in the car and smile at strangers.

Scratch a friend's back when they least expect it,

and write letters even if no one replies.

Keep a journal at least once a month,

and eat things you probably shouldn't.

Stretch yourself more than you ever thought possible,

try something new on a regular basis.

Hold babies, hold toddlers, hold children and teens,

hug twenty-somethings and thirty-year-olds.

Love on the single, the married, the smitten,

and spend time with hoary-headed saints.

Rake someone's yard at midnight,

walk on the grass and the sand.

Wear shoes as little as possible,

wear high heels and cowboy boots.

Stay up late doing nothing but giggling,

wake up early and make a big breakfast.

Read something you don't want to,

read to someone else.

Drive just to drive,

drive to visit a friend you have only met in writing.

Bake something from another land,

and bring a meal to someone else.


Whatever you do,

do it with everything He's given you.

Where are you going?

George MacDonald wrote: 

" I said, 'Let me walk in the field.'

God said, 'No, walk in the town.'

I said, 'There are no flowers there.'

He said, 'No flowers, but a crown.'

I said, 'But the sky is black,

There is nothing but noise and din.'

But he wept as he sent me back,

'There is more,' he said, 'there is sin.'

I said, 'But the air is thick,

And smog is veiling the sun'

He answered, 'Yet souls are sick,

And your work is yet undone,'

I said, 'I will miss the light,

And friends will miss me, they say.'

He answered me, 'Choose tonight,

If I am to miss you or they.'

I pleaded for time to be given;

He said, 'Is is hard to decide?

It will not seem hard in heaven 

To have followed the steps of your Guide.'

I cast one last look at the field, 

Then set my face to the town;

He said, 'My child, will you yield?

Will you leave the flowers for the crown?'

Then into His hand went mine, 

And into my heart came He;

And I walk in a light divine

The paths I had feared to see."

24

4/20/2009

There are 24 days left of school. Big grin and sad face at the same time.

Fall Break, or, As Good as it Gets.

10/22/2008

Apparently.

So for fall break I went to Flagstaff because I wasn't sure how much money i had left after paying all my bills (not very much, let me tell you). I brought my computer to Best Buy to get a part... (the fans weren't working and I kept getting an error message telling me to "check your both fans."
whatever that means.

They sucked out the dust from my laptop and it kept going...

Turkmenistan on the plaaaane

5/8/2009

It is at least $2,000 for a round-trip to Turkmenistan.

It was at least 84 degrees (F) today.

8/14/2012

mileage this week: 
4.8 miles (sat) 5 miles(monday), 5.5 miles, (wednesday)

What to say ...

10/13/10

I'm about halfway through a counseling class at WC. It has been amazing

thankful

4/9/11

For although they knew God, they did not honor Him as God or give thanks to Him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened.

Consider Him who endured from sinners such hostility against Himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted.




In all the earth there was not one that could take my place. No one cared about me, not really.  I had done a multitude of wrongs, and my skin was black and peeling. My hair had fallen out in patches, but I was able to cover it up with a wig I found at the dollar store. I may have looked a fright to someone's grandma, but other than potentially scaring children and elderly people, no one looked my way. I sat all day on a bench, until someone else wanted to sit by me. When people looked at me too long, I would get up and move to another bench. My hair may have been dirty and greasy, but no one was able to see it because of the wig.

Blessing-gift #1 - wild in the city

I might as well share the little bits of amazingness that God daily touched my inmost me with on a basically daily basis...
because i've been trying to apply thankfulness lately. so yay!

:D


I had two-and-a-half rather rough classes of 7th/8th graders today, but God used those three classes as a backdrop to a wonderful-good blessing to finish out the work day.

While the last class of kids was coming in, I was walking around tidying chairs and papers. The kids started gathering by the window in the corner of the room, and a few of them started yelling, "Bambi!! It's Bambi!!" I looked toward the window, but didnt' see anything. The kids kept shouting, so I put the papers down on the teacher's desk and walked toward the window. There, on the slightly suburban lawn of the slightly suburban school's slightly suburban playground, was a whitetail doe and an incredibly young whitetail fawn, all speckly in the just-washed grass.