Greg Loves Sarah

No – the car wasn’t exactly DIRTY; it was ATTACKED by pollen :) And THAT was impossible for Melanie to resist writing in! I love you BACKER, Malloo!!!! @@@@@@@@

Can you believe that in Spring on a Sunday night, Starbucks, Cold Stone Creamery, and Chewy Balls (a tapioca place) all closed at 9 pm!!!!!!!??? Just a random point. :) This pic was taken in the parking lot of those CLOSED places. :)

Oh! the things that make you smile and snicker when you really should be doing something else….I came across this little Winnie the Pooh quote a few minutes ago…. :) *hee hee; giggle; grin*

“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes, he feels that there really is another way . . . if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it.”

There HAS to be an analogy in there SOMEWHERE!!!! :D

:) Had my picture taken with Winnie the Pooh once….

You may now continue with your regularly scheduled grown-up activities…. :D

Welp, I’ve been here at the Bogner’s home for a week now…and tomorrow I head for home. It takes an awfully special family to take a gal in on the spur of the moment and keep her under their roof for 8 nights with no definite time of departure. :) I’ll just say it right out – the Bogner’s are pretty special people!!!! They have welcomed me into their home and treated me like family. Spending the last week here has been more than just a treat…It has been a gift from my Father! Words are not enough……..

Mel and I have worked (her on school and other projects and me on curriculum). We have talked (though MAYBE less than when we are in separate states – a conversation with a true friend requires no words :) Also while here, I’ve gotten to spend time with so many other dear people. I guess I shouldn’t attempt a review…..OH! WHY NOT!!!! Here goes nothing….I have enjoyed……

Park-walking, post-patting, sprinkler-running, turnover-making, movie-watching, hair-koolaiding, late-night-chatting, airplane-flying, goofiness-partaking, Beth-tickling, dark-chocolate-consuming, starbucks-raiding, sunshine-enjoying, and the list goes on and on and on and………..

Anyways today was a lovely day! Melanie and I headed out to the park where we enjoyed the bright warm sunshine while painting toenails, and reading aloud….. It was so nice….. Nails came out cute….. Story was interesting……But the being together part was priceless. :)

“Friendship isn’t a big thing – it’s a million little things.” ~Author Unknown

Y’all….we serve an awesome God. He really does think more thoughts of us than there is sand on the shore…

Glad to be HIS and grateful for YOU,

Perky

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“Perhaps some future day, Lord, Thy strong hand
Will lead me to the place where I must stand
Utterly alone.

Alone, O Gracious Lover, but for Thee;
I shall be satisfied if I can see
Jesus only.

I do not know Thy plan for years to come,
My spirit finds in Thee its perfect home,
Sufficiency.

Lord, all my desire is before Thee now,
Lead on, no matter where, no matter how-
I trust in Thee.”

~Elisabeth Elliot

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Friends, I want to be found faithful. I want to be found faithful when I stand before my Father’s throne. I want to be found faithful 50 years from now. I want to be found faithful tomorrow and this very moment. All of me, all for Him. Nothing held back. All Jesus. I want to be a disciple of the Living God – not just in word, but in the very depths of who I am.

Today, I am not doing anything grand nor glorious. I am not serving on a foreign mission field. I am not running a soup kitchen. I am not suffering for my faith. But I am ALIVE.

And as long I am ALIVE, I will be FAITHFUL. I will be faithful when no one else sees. I will be faithful when I don’t know what tomorrow holds. I will be faithful in the daily deeds and in those things that seem insignificant [but really aren’t].

As long as I live.

And when this life is over, I will stand before my Lord. And my heart will leap as I hear those words, “Well done.”

His Girl,
Sarah

WHAT are you seeing??? Yes, you’ve got it… PERKY is at MY house!!! (this is Mel…)

There I was, minding my own business—and instant messaging Perky. I was really bummed that my weekend was full, because I really felt like giving a certain Louisiana girl a HUGE hug! Perky said she could come see ME…but we just didn’t see how it was going to work. She is working on curriculum, and I’m working on school—how could we take time off to visit? NOT to mention that our parents would have to agree to the whole crazy-brainy idea!! We sadly pushed it out of our minds, and went back to our regularly scheduled activities.

SUDDENLY…Perky IMs me and casually says, “I just mentioned coming over to your house, and my dad was totally OK with it!! I can come and we can both work on our projects and spend our evenings visitng!” At that moment, the world stopped turning. Less than 20 hours later, a certain Louisiana girl was standing on Texas soil gasping for breath after I gave her the HUGE hug that I’d been saving up. This moment, Sarah is writing curriculum and I’m writing this post. Dad is downstairs fixing the kitchen sink, so he told mom to get pizza!!

Do you ever mentally “recede” from the world and take a look around you with a fresh perspective? (Kind of like looking at your life through virtual reality—as an outsider peeking in…) I do, and every time I am blown away by the goodness of our God. The fact that Sarah is at MY house is a gift beyond expression, a special reminder of God’s love for ME!!

Here are some pictures from yesterday’s rendezvous in the park for exercise with my favorite Swirly!!

“The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and He addeth no sorrow with it.” Proverbs 10:22

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