Happy Things

Mostly from me, one from Faith . . .

• The thought of Tony [at the mission] attempting to "mentor" Zuleima
• Leaping over the Culinary girls in the hallway in a characteristic moment of hyper-ness
• Playing Dutch Blitz and Phase-10 in Character Suite (and trying to get a positive-number score in Blitz)
• Writing a special message in Zulei's book at her request
• Being inspired to worship at pure truth while walking in the auditorium and listening to a Mark Dever message
• Talking to Craig on Skype
• When things I share in leaders' meeting resonate
• When God teaches me new things or reminds me of old things that weren't necessarily on my agenda to learn
• A nice note from my 6th grade teacher
• Being caught up on Learning Experiences
• A friend request from Daniel Shaker
• Having a defined role at the mission
• Catching glimpes of the carefree, crazy, dream-filled me :-)
• Paul David Tripp's newest book, Quest for More
• Having songs come back to me that I've sung only once
• Reviewing old Scripture memory passages
• Autumn scurrying under the bed because she thought I was going to kill her for almost deleting Lydia's 10-page paper
• A new cell phone
• Lauren B. being back
• Lydia B.'s diligence in making sure that I have the vehicle keys I need
• Praying at table team for believers in closed nations
• Having time to walk, and incentive, because I have so many good sermons to listen to!
• The new "Spirit of Revival" issue on rest
• Naomi understanding some feelings I've been dealing with
• Sara's family being here
• Mr. Williams conducting the girls singing in dish pit
• Thinking yesterday and today that I missed Dan Grose, then answering the phone in the kitchen when he called and getting to catch up with him!
• Jessica, in the kitchen, loudly: "I'm saving up to buy a wedding dress! . . . I mean a bridesmaid dress!"
  Mr. Williams, sweeping floors: "What's this?"
  Jessica (embarrassed): "You didn't hear anything, Mr. Williams!"
  Mr. Williams: "[It] sounds good to me!"
• One little boy on the cemetery tour to another little boy, both looking at the stone side of the Gothic Chapel and demonstrating the universality of little boys: "Grayson, how would you climb that?"
• I'm happy that we were cleaning 4th floor and something funny happened . . . Sara was telling Mary that we were trying to see if the hair we found in the bathtubs would grow a head--proving Evolution. Then Sara's mom walked by . . .
• Lydia H.'s Spanish students mixing up the words "taboo" and "vodoo," and being rather confused when she suggested that they play Taboo in one of their classes
• Watching Lydia B. and Lauren B. walk side by side on breakdown--one slow and steady, the other perky and hyper-ish
• A nice note from an 8th grade teacher
• Autumn thinking that Annabella told her to "shut up" when Autumn asked Annabella what their chore was. (Annabella told her, "set up," and repeated it twice, I think, before she realized what Autumn thought she was saying.)