Graduations

Honoring the graduate!

2 cakes for 2 grads

All dressed up for Relay for Life

Family

BFFs

Carrying each other's burdens

Pray for our youth!

Elizabeth graduated from Insights School. She is our third to have been homeschooled from start to finish! We are proud of her accomplishments and pray that she will continue to seek the Lord and His favor as she continues in her life journey.

Viktoriya came 5 years ago, speaking little english and graduated an Honor student from Middle Creek. We are so excited for her as well.

Prayer

Friday, I asked Debbie to pray with me.  That I would hear from Patrick.  She asked the Lord that if it was in His will, that I would get a call, not just a text.  I really wanted to hear his voice.

The Lord in His kindness and mercy, answered that prayer soon afterwards!  Not only did I get  a chance to chat that afternoon, but later on in the evening.  Saturday, Vince and I rode up to RDU, and picked him up.  He had had some paper work that needed to get done before he could get processed out of the USAF and come back here.  Next, he will be living in Wilmington, getting a job....signing with USAF Reserves. He'll get cross-trained, and hopefully get some opportunities that he hasn't had yet.  

Ephesians 3:20 NASB

Now to Him who is able to do far more abundantly beyond all that we ask or think, according to the power that works within us,

the old snapper

John 4:10  Jesus replied, " If you only knew the gift God has for you, and who I am, you would ask me, and I would give you living water."  NLT

This morning, after dropping Michelle off, I was driving back home.  I came upon a snapping turtle crossing the road.  He/she was old, its shell cracked and scarred.  It was still, and I pulled up to it to see what it would do.  As I sat there, it regained its confidence.  Its head pulled up and as far out as it could go, eyes searching; finally it saw what it was looking for.  It got up and started to move its bulky body across the street to the water in the small brook that ran under the road.  I ponder on this, as I had been praying for the young people at school, their teachers, administrators, for the kids I knew personally.  I thought about myself, and that in some ways, I was like that snapper.  I have a hard heart that God has cracked, and underneath a softening.  I prayed then that I would be as determined as that turtle to not stay on dry land, but to continually seek the water, the Living Water.  I prayed that he would woo those who have gotten out of the water and are now on the dry land, that they would sense His presence and seek Him as quickly as possible.  Once the turtle repositioned itself, it took off at great speed and determination.  I was blessed by God and His creation this morning.  I praise Him!

I will post retreat photos soon.  The weekend was wonderful, full of Light!

Don't forget today is National Day of Prayer!  Pray!