Mai telling Cheyenne, Fillipe & Xano that they got to go to the Falls.

Luana & Graciela being..cute

Lucas & Jorge acting out Samuel and Eli. "Did you call me?"

Eduardo & Giesson (Jason) making their own fun with the trunk of a Palm tree. It later became a boat, then a sleeping bag...who knows whatelse.

more some other time.

"When we make mistakes -- even profound ones -- God does not obliterate the scars these mistakes leave on our character and start over. Rather, God takes our mistakes and reworks then into his divine plan and transforms our scars into something beautiful."

-Eric O. Jacobsen

Praise the Lord! I woke up this morning! which really is two praises, one that God has chosen to give me another day and that he gave me rest last night, which is what i really really needed. Thanks everyone who prayed for me to sleep...it worked....maybe a little too well.

i woke up with this in my head...no a coincidence i'm sure.

what have i to dread, what have i to fear, leaning on the everlasting arms; what a blessed peace with my LORD so near, leaning on the everlasting arms.

leaning, leaning, safe and secure from all alarms; leaning, leaning, leaning on the everlasting arms.

so i'm pretty sure no one takes this seriously from me anymore because all i ever write is lyrics and verses that are speaking to me lately...but oh well.

all i can think right now is 'taste and see that the Lord is good.' i have no idea where that is from, but it's in the Bible somewhere. God is so good. there is so much I have to be thankful for.

i just got done with RIOT and i am so blessed. i wish everyone had 20+ students to just encourage them. my girls challenge me so much they are so amazing. so selfless and so Godly. their inherent goodness is just outpouring everywhere. i almost brought me to tears tonight.

here's a few ways i'm tasting and seeing His goodness:

 $1600 to buy socks and shoes for kids that i love like crazy - God truly truly does more than we could ever ask or imagine, i was hoping $600...$400 would have sufficed. PTL!

precious G3. crocheting scarves for homeless. spreading AIDS awareness. paying for a child they've never met's schooling. taking responsibility to be a safe haven for 20 high school girls - being their encouragement and their friend. praying for miracles. encouraging one another. challenging one another. praying for one another. seeking to know GOd more and understand him more. blessing me like crazy. bring me to tears because of their sheer and pure sweetness.

my wonderful and amazing friends who sing prayers at meals. who make me laugh like crazy. who steam roll in the snow. who make scratch bindi's so i don't have to have one alone. go to market with me when the dc line is long and then people watch with me. who answer my random questions about anorexia and don't laugh at me for being utterly lame.

for my parents their unfailing love. their joy. their excitement. my sister. my cousins. meg who is engaged and called me 10 minutes later.

snow. pure. beautiful. wonderful. (can you believe i wrote that - me either.)

holly and katie. mmm. good. bowling. old times, new times...always good. :)

volleyball class. being able to hit things and release stress and that being okay.

just being filled after being empty. being restored. having faith that He can handle anything that i feel like i can't. seeing an end to lonely streak. seeing restoration.

the future. the unknown. the excitement.

mmmm good. taste, my friends. see it! like it! love it! yum!

one of my girls said this tonight at RIOT (it's a quote..she didn't make it up)...it's good: "prayer is not preparation for a greater work, it is the greater work."  ponder that.

i love you. ah! social work application. need to start. night.

 ^"So when they had finished breakfast, Jesus said to Simon Peter, "Simon, son of John, do you love Me more than these?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You " He said to him, "Tend My lambs."

He said to him again a second time, "Simon, son of John, do you love Me?" He said to Him, "Yes, Lord; You know that I love You." He said to him, "Shepherd My sheep."

He said to him the third time, "Simon, son of John, do you love Me?" Peter was grieved because He said to him the third time, "Do you love Me?" And he said to Him, "Lord, You know all things; You know that I love You " Jesus said to him, "Tend My sheep. "

John 21:15-17

merf.