Reading List

A list of books I have read/am reading:

READING: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, by Washington Irving *literary genius piece, draws you in to keep reading.  I found many similarities between Ichabod Crane's travelling life of teaching and my life.  He taught school and taught singing and lived with the families (whose students he taught) each a week a time.  Almost felt I was reading a bit about myself.  I personally felt very "understood" reading this short story, by the fact that someone would "almost describe" my life.
From Jerusalem to Irian Jaya, by Ruth A. Tucker
-seriously if you need inspiration for missions, look here..you need some time to sit down and read it though..

READ:
Passion and Purity, Elisabeth Elliot
Pilgrim's Progress in Today's English, Paul Bunyan
The Gammage Cup, by Carol Kendall *A really great book!  Read it outloud to my sister after reading it myself.
A Parcel of Patterns, Jill Patton Walsh (AMAZING book. I have read multiple times.  The ending always leaves me gushing with tears.)

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte *read outloud to my sister!  has a very melancholy beautiful feel to it

The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne *boring in my opinion but it has a very solid point to it, and the summary at the very end sums it all up very well I think.  I think the main point at the end is the best part of it, though the story itself is quite a bore to read.  Have read it twice.

The Shining Company, by Rosemary Sutcliff

We watched https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtxJuY5mpHw&spfreload=5

 and this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VytHf_xL36M.  I gave E her medicine shortly after 12:45 (not exactly then but sometime after).  E basically just sat in my lap snuggling.  She is not feeling well, and I am not sure what she has.

 Emery ate Ella's apples and strawberries fruit pouch.

Kristin is so pretty!  Especially with no mascara on in the second video. (at about 40 seconds!)

At 2:00 we were watching the third video: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vX1Mfo1qXAI

because at this point I just said: "why not!" like the elderly lady that I care for says.

E had her second baby food pack: apples.

Marcus in the third video says: " see all these little baby trees, underneath the giant dead trees?...look at all the babies growin in the snow right now.  there gonna be big trees like their dads one day."

Basically we just snuggled after that.  At one point she got off my lap at 2:27 so then we started walking around.

I ate candy and put on "There is no other god" by IHOP-KC.  I tidied up the house area we were in and gave E 5 mL infant tylonel, via instructions from her mother if her fever persisted.  (It did).

At "YOu satisfy my soul" by laura hackett, then big sis E's bus got home.

I put on "Abraham" by Josh baldwin which I have been replaying over and over this week for various reasons and also because the laura hackett song just wasn't hitting the spot!

Em and I basically just ate "Lunch" at that point.  It was late but it was whatever.

Reckless love came on but I wasn't feelin' it: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PKooXwwk6bs

At this point we were still eating around.  Big E was making slime.  I prayed "GOd what should I do?  Put on IHOP, another video, or work on school?"  This was because I felt EMPTY, and I say this to be honest and real about my walk with God.  I settled on IHOP.
I drank a water after listening to big E talk about her slime.  (she makes slime A LOT)
then dressed emery. (usu doesn't take me thaht long to dress her).


Cleaned up a little bit, turned of IHOP.  Went to car to find if I had my school books in car (didn't) so plan turned back to IHOP.
EM did a NASTY poop and the second nap attempt didn't work (had just atempted via her mom said she might like to via text).
so changed the poop and put ihop backkk on. started a video by kristen again during nap time attempt which I endd up not finished at the point where she said she was moving in with her BF.

July 21..?

Let me sit here and praise God:
He is holy, He loves me, he is all-knowing, all-powerful, wonderful, more majestic than any sunset.  He knows my heart, He hears all my prayers.  He made my desires, the ones that are from him.

the fruit of a life surrendered

April 24 last update to below:

What the heck just happened to my life.  That was the coolest God encounter ever.  It would take me a long time to try to explain what just happened.  Long story short I was driven by a Mormon to IHOP-KC tonight instigated by a doctor who went with me to IHOP.  The doctor was just this random guy who felt led to come say hi to me and the people I'm working for at our dinner table.  He and the Mormon were in the hotel next door, being in KC for a month preparing for their test to be doctors.  I felt the presence of God so powerfully at FCF.  We end up praying with these kids from Canada because we ended up going back to the prayer room too soon.  I had been praying and praying for God to open the door for me to go to IHOP and this was years and years of prayer answered but also today's fervent cries to make a way to go today.  I didn't even ask anybody but God today, and He made it happen.  Plus, got to hear testimonies of IHOPU students who came to Minneapolis last week!  It was a weird encounter..but it was an amazing God encounter.  To top it off this guy is part Ukranian and his group is currently in the same Ukrainian city I was in..God..you answer prayers in insanely divine ways..