wowza.

"Let us settle it in our minds that the Christian fight is a good fight--really good, truly good, emphatically good. We see only part of it yet. We see the struggle, but not the end; we see the campaign, but not the reward; we see the cross, but not the crown.  We see a few humble, broken-spirited, penitent, praying people...but we see not the face of God smiling on them, the kingdom of glory prepared for them...There are more good things about the Christian warfare than we see."

-J.C. Ryle, Holiness.

-Merrill-

Did I ever show you these pictures I took of my sister?

:)

This afternoon six-year-old Kennen and I had our first reading session together.  I had never, until today, experienced the feeling one gets while watching a child put the sounds "puh" "ahh" and "tuh" together to make the word "pat."  It was so cool to watch him try and try--to say the sounds separately over and over and then finally get them all together into one coherent word.  I have a feeling these tutoring sessions are going to be one of the best parts of my summer.      

June 6, 1944

It's not Independence Day, it's not Memorial Day, and it's not Thanksgiving. But today, I am thankful--and kinda proud--to be an American. 

a good day

Snippets of summer today...

::sitting out on the front porch for an hour sipping coffee and chatting with Mom::

::driving with the windows down, the radio blaring, and my hair going crazy::

::seeing a freshly-cut alfalfa field with rows of bushy, green hay drying::

::sitting on my horse while she grazes and I chat with my sister::

::watering Mom's garden while she's gone::

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"Yours, O Lord, is the greatness and the power and the glory and the majesty and the splendor, for everything in heaven and earth is yours. Yours, O Lord, is the kingdom; you are exalted as head over all."

1 Chronicles 29:11

your wish is my command.

...Pictures from May 22...