Today God gave extra blessings! Sandy liked my portfolio! 
He also provided cool weather that gives me thrills and makes me think it’s fall.
Stacie is playing her harp while I am here typing – relaxing. 
We had pancakes for supper!
Last, but most wonderful, Lori got an 80 on Business Math! May she enter the hallowed ranks 🙂 
I think I’m being stalked. First off there’s the student patrol every day at noon but enough about that. I think the pavement has it in for me.
Today I was on another tempo run – this time with no memory verses – and I successfully passed the area of previous engagement! Seeing I was prepared, the concrete switched tactics and had one of those big “flower bowls” jump me out by the U of M. We were racing to the finish so it missed me for the most part and just managed take a small bite at the side of my knee. I am missing some valuable epidermis however.
Maybe I should run on the other side of the river, seems it would be safer.
In two months I might have a namesake in Flint.
Today I went out on the witness walk. I was on a team with Sarah and Kim and while they were handing tracts to some passerby, I stopped to talk to a lady who was sitting on a bench outside the Inn. She was pregnant and in the course of our conversation I asked her if she knew what she was having. She told me it was a girl and asked if she had picked out a name. She said no, then asked me what my name was, I told her and gave her the meaning and she said that Amy was what she and the daddy were considering. You never know what you might encounter when you do the Lord’s work.
Running is hazardous. Flint ought to address the state of their sidewalks. This morning I was running along for the fast part of my tempo run and trying to work on my memory verses at the same time. Taking avantage of the distraction a slab of sidewalk jutted up, grabbed my foot, and threw me to the ground. The others caught up as I was picking myself up off the pavement and asked if I was okay. I said yes, then looking at my bloody hand and knee, declared that the fast part was over now.
Well, seeing as the sidewalks are unsafe I should move to the street. I tried that last week though and being absorbed in my memory work again, I ended up playing chicken with a bus. (I lost that game because someone broke my concentration by calling my name).
Maybe I should invest in a treadmill.
Boy it’s cold! Chilled down after my run, I froze in chapel and shivered through accountability group. Back in my frigid room I changed to pants, wrapped in a blanket and made some hot tea. I can hardly believe this is August, it should be 100 degrees! I’m glad God made Texas warm.
