By amy_import on March 17, 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.
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By amy_import on March 13, 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!
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By amy_import on March 11, 2005
Ice cream continued….
Guess what I found in our freezer today? My ice cream! 😮 Seems that when R.J. got it, he had stacked two cups together to better insulate it from melting, so the empty cup I found was just the outside one. Boy do I feel sheepish now, praise God for stopping me from saying anything. Is this ever a lesson to “lean not on your own understanding” and to acknowledge His directions.
So now I am eating my ice cream, I have looked forward to it all day. I would be sitting there studying, ready to throw out the books when I would remember what was in the freezer and so buckle down with a delicious little shiver of anticipation. Now is the time, my sister is asleep and I’m up typing and enjoying God’s gift to me.
Its funny how He had me give it up and then He gave it back, talk about birth, death, and rebirth of a vision. My God is so kind and loving to me, sending little things my way that let me know He loves me. I gave up an “idol” last week that was stealing my love and barely had time to feel the void before God stepped in to fill it, He has done more than His part in an effort to woo me back to Him – He even gives me chocolate 🙂 He says to me, Am I not better than what you had? Oh yes, He is my joy, He is my song – Jesus, lover of my soul.
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By amy_import on March 10, 2005
Most of you know how important ice cream is to me, I consider it a staple in my diet. Anyhow, a really nice person brought me a blizzard from DQ, it was the triple intense chocolate something or another and it was sooo good! I had some and then practicing great self restraint I put the rest back in our freezer to eat after supper, that way I could make it last a little longer.
I had let one of my sisters have some and I knew the other one would have a little too, but there was still half of it left so I figured all was well. I was really looking forward to enjoying this rare treat, when I came into our room this afternoon to find an empty cup sitting on our counter! I was dumbfounded!
My sister (whom I will leave anonymous) ate all of my ice cream! I was upset and wanted to gripe her out saying I never ate her cookies, what gave her the right to eat my ice cream. But God checked my spirit, and held me silent. What was a little ice cream compared to our relationship? *sigh*
So she remains in blissful ignorance and I learn a lesson in values and love. What is filling me with joy, what am I setting my affections on? I love you Lord, I’ll do anything you want, what’s mine is yours and you may use it in what ever way you see best.
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By amy_import on March 8, 2005
I came across this as I was studying today, read this slowly:
Where the positivist believed that the goal of science was to uncover the truth, the post-positivist critical realist believes that the goal of science is to hold steadfastly to the goal of getting it right about reality, even though we can never achieve that goal!
Because all measurement is fallible, the post-positivist emphasizes the importance of multiple measures and observations, each of which may possess different types of error, and the need to use triangulation across these multiple errorful sources to try to get a better bead on what’s happening in reality.
Isn’t that crazy? The definitions and explanations people think up. To me it emphasizes the dificulty in explaining life apart from God; praise the Lord that His word is infallible!
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