Sweet Sabbath

"Stand up, stand up for Jesus;

Stand in his strength alone;

The arm of flesh will fail you,

You dare not trust your own.

Put on the Gospel armor;

Each piece put on with prayer.

Where duty calls or danger,

Be never wanting there."

-George Duffield

-old favorite hymns to encourage and convict

-seven-year-olds who love Dvorak's New World Symphony (especially the 3rd movement!)

-tax-refund checks waiting for us when we returned from Brisbane

-friends who provide the blessing and fellowship of a meal

-two brown-eyed-girls creating together (and enccouraging the whole crew to make hats)

-the gift of electricity

-a great weekend of the whole family working together to cook, bake, and freeze and help prepare for the crazy two weeks ahead

-sermons sent by friends across the ocean

-two friends from Marulaon who dropped by last week to visit and to let us know that our house and garden are both doing great and the rain tanks are full!

the papaya tree just outside our house in Marulaon full of baby papayas in August