9700. A chance to chat with my sis and Brooke for a few.
9701. Breaking in my new easel with a painting.
9702. Learning Princess is AB's daughter.
9703. Greenery.
9704. A hot shower.
9705. Green hills on my way to the university.
9706. Sage saying I'm so good at wiffle ball that I could play in a
match.
9707. Stretched in class answering questions and trying to
converse.
9708. Starting my morning with a little Ben Rector.
9709. Di sending sweet pics of Baby B.
9710. A good night's sleep.
9711. Dinner with the V's and catching up with them.
9712. Mr. E reading the verse and laughing.
9713. How great he is at what he does, actually explaining how to
make my writing better.
9714. Making jokes in Turkish.
9715. Realizing that even without a shower "I still got it."
9716. Hannah calling.
9717. Laughing with her and so grateful she KNOWS what life in
another country is like.
9718. The boys warning me of the angry dog ahead. Protection.
9719. Di giving me a massage. Provision.
9720. Making her so happy with cheese.
9721. Madeleine L'Engle quote: "We draw people to Christ not by
loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how
wrong they are and how right we are, but by showing them a
light that is so lovely that they want with all their hearts to
know the source of it."
9722. DG blog and the reminder that the hunger of singleness is a
blessing that pushes me quicker to the One who satisfies.
9723. My favorite teacher restoring my bad mood from my least
favorite teacher.
9724. Laughter in class.
9725. Headache easing.
9726. Watching a lady make a carpet by hand, so cool. And a
newfound respect for local carpets.
9727. Seeing furniture friends at the fair.
9728. Writing update from sunny park bench.
9729. Salmon for dinner.
9730. Big sis U asking if I wanted a ride to the 4-way.
9731. Time of prayer for friends in the city.
9732. Hamburgers on the terrace.
9733. Loving my friends I get to do life with.
9734. Joel warming up to me.
9735. Jude's giggles when Heath asked what his booty was.
9736. An unsolicited "I love you" from Jude.
9737. Skyping with the niecphews and marveling at their beauty.
9738. Stories with them.
9739. Late night holy moment when playing keyboard turns to
worship.
9740. Sleeping 9 hours straight.
9741. Morning hunger fueling prayer.
9742. Good meditations in Ephesians this morning: what is the
IMMEASURABLE greatness of his power toward us who
believe (1:19). And His grace and our hope are not just for
this life but he wants to spend the coming AGES showing us
his immeasurable riches, grace, kindness (2:7)
9743. A good day of resting, blogging, cleaning, baking.
9744. Waking in time to shower, read the Word, and do homework.
9745. Excitement at visitors coming.
9746. Chatting with Shelly and Harry before class.
9747. Understanding almost nothing in listening class but realizing
how infrequently I'll have to listen to recordings in real life.
9748. Sitting on a park bench and remembering "Every hour of
every day, for all eternity, you are wanted, chosen, picked.
And you know why? Because Jesus was willing to face
rejection so that you could be secure. He faced our nightmare
so we could live in the dream: unconditional love from our
sufficient Savior."
9749. A chance to grieve.
9750. A chance to see Crystal for a bit.
9751. Worshipping and wondering if there are any words penned in
history greater than these, "He who did not spare his own
Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him
graciously give us all things?" And "Christ hath regarded my
helpless estate and hath shed his own blood for my soul. It is
well with my soul."
9752. Even in loneliness, Meredith and Lisa know.
9753. Lisa showing up at my door with ice cream, love,
encouragement, and laughter.
9754. A wonderful morning massage erasing 9 days of headaches.
9755. Sharing blueberry lemon bread with classmates and Miss A.
9756. Her providing drinks.
9757. Grief erased with a new day, new mercies.
9758. Sushi with Di.
9759. Sushi.
9760. Her giving me some bracelets, a cool one like hers. She
already had it when I commented it was cool.
9761. Uno with her son.
9762. Getting to chat with my mom.
9763. The sound of morning rain.
9764. Colorful and pretty food to eat on a pretty plate.
9765. Meredith's sweet email with words of affirmation.
9766. Rain calming.
9767. Cake with furniture store friends.
9768. And lunch.
9769. CFS calling me her friend.
9770. Rain making colorful flowers even brighter.
9771. Rain passing, seeing sunshine on rain soaked trees.
9772. My security guard offering help any time I need it.
9773. Tacos and strawberry lemonade with the Suiters.
9774. Reading books to Jude and extra loving from him.
9775. Marin reading me a book.
9776. Good hugs from the boys.
9777. Skyping with my mom, Crystal, and Caley.
9778. Asking for Captain to just start teaching grammar today and
he did.
9779. Mr. E's giddy laughter when he realized he could punish us
with homework.
9780. Learning new things about my city.
9781. Captain acknowledging my headache last week with sincerity
not laughter.
9782. A fun afternoon with Kaylyn and Joel.
9783. Getting some AMP stuff taken care of.
9784. Having class in spite of no electricity, pleasantly surprised
they didn't just bail.
9785. Doing well at listening exercise.
9786. Giving Mr. A a laugh at one of my answers.
9787. Getting to discuss deeper things with Di.
9788. The ridiculousness of how heavy all my Festiva purchases
were but God's sweet provision of the two buses in a more
than timely manner.
9789. The first driver helping get my things on the bus.
9790. Having leftovers to eat.
9791. Telling stories about life here to the niecphews.
9792. Getting to chat with my dad.
9793. One room ready for guests.
9794. Getting to skype with Meg and Em.
9795. Going back to sleep this morning.
9796. A bad dream fueling prayer.
9797. Good fellowship time, good word.
9798. Getting to chat with Richard and Brenda.
9799. Discovering the cheesecake was for today and oh how
yummy.
9800. Enjoying Rain and Sage's performances.
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