My God is an awesome God!
30-Mar-2005
Well God certainly works in ways we don’t even think to ask – our threefold cord has been re-twined. Before we even had the chance to miss our sister, God saw fit to give us another one! Through circumstances that I couldn’t have even anticipated, we were blessed with the chance to open up the recently vacated space, in hospitality to Gavrielle Houser, what fun!
When she finally got a room, we begged her to stay with us and much to our delight, she agreed! We had a great evening eating popcorn and talking (so much for all that study we we’re supposed to do 
I’m looking forward to the rest of this week and pray that God will mightily use this time together.
28-Mar-2005
WE’RE BACK! What a wonderful week! Arriving at the Wolf household we found them to be a family of gentle giants, tenderly mindful of the three Lilliputians entrusted to their care. Ironically, the house itself resembled a den in it’s small coziness, living in close quarters for a week enabled us to really become a part of the pack and develop close friendships with the members.
Our time couldn’t have been better, so many sights to see and such good food! But I think the best part was being in a household and part of a family. Dad, Mom, little brothers and sisters, even grandparents; what a blessing! God did some neat work while we were there, but how can I be surprised, He never leaves us and works all things to His glory.
That’s it for now because it’s late and we have to be up early tomorrow to see my sister off – she’s leaving for Indy. It just hit me this evening that even though we just got back, she’s not staying. Our threefold cord is being broken 
17-Mar-2005
Yehaw! Whoopee! I feel so great! Congratulations to all who ran and thank you to all who sponsored us. Thank you Josiah for encouraging us at the beginning, and thank you Mr. Schrader for thinking we couldn’t get together a girls team, which spurred me on to do just that. I think all the girls who ran felt blessed and I thank God for the chance to reach out and include the others. Thank you also to all who came out and cheered us on, the knowledge that I was running for ya’ll caused me to try even harder. Each person that came up to congratulate us made my heart glad, I didn’t expect it and felt very loved.
What a wonderful race, start to finish I felt good. Yes there were times when I was tired or breathing hard, but the mental battle wasn’t hard this time, maybe it was the bright green sweat shirt and red hair of my pace setter, Nada. I followed ten to twenty feet behind her for about three miles, she was my motivation to keep going and somehow she always started to speed up just when I felt the most tired, but I didn’t want to get left behind.
I have this sort of tradition when I’m training at home to always speed up right at the very end. I like to compare it to my life’s race and I always pray as I run, that God would let me finish my life at top speed, that I wouldn’t slow down or casually stroll into heaven. Today was no exception, three blocks from the finish line I offered up my prayer and gave it everything. No need to save any energy now, spend it while it counts, after the finish line you can’t go back and better your run. Finish strong.
13-Mar-2005
Blessings today: wonderful church service, lunch with Taylor and the Coppersmith brothers, paper airplane dogfight in the car, fishing :), commentary written, making gingerbread houses, high sugar intake, extended curfew, scared our hall monitor half to death with “revolt”, soccer in the halls.
I feel very humbled, look at all these wonderful things God does for me. I felt sort of down yesterday and this morning, maybe nervous about my test tomorrow and maybe still mourning my “idol”. In either case I know God to be sovereign and sufficient, but my heart wouldn’t get with the program. And here in my struggles, God comes along side to comfort and cheer me, proving Himself again and again, He doesn’t have to, but He does. My God is so great, so strong and so mighty, there’s nothing my God cannot do, for you!