A little piece of my life

Live

Live
By: Jessi Stover

Awestruck
Beauty divine
Give me your hand
I'll lend you mine
Take life slow
One moment at a time
Gaze at the stars
You'll be just fine
Love with all your heart
For love binds

Captivated
By simple pleasure
Stick with me
We're better together
Open your eyes
Discover the treasures
Sun and rain
Love the weather
Dance for all it's worth
For joy has no measure

Delighted
By all that I see
Whisper in my ear
Dance with me
Run from nothing
Just to be free
Feel the sand in your toes
Listen to the sea
Soak it all in,
Live and be free

The Shack

I have just finished an incredible journey. I was led on this journey by: William P. Young, author of The Shack. I'm afraid of saying anything about this book for fear of giving anything away. After a horrific tragedy a man comes face to face with God. This book displays God's mercy, grace, and love in a refreshing burst of life, and shows God in the most tangible way. It demonstrates the character of God in a way that is real. While God is real, we often view Him as a distant being, not a loving Father that really cares for us, this book bring God down to earth without compromising God's character. The journey is hard, wonderful, and refreshing. A story, not just someone stating their ideas of God. A book that as soon as you finish it will make you want to read it again. A beautiful piece of literature. If you have ever wanted a life changing experience, then you should read about this man's encounter. I highly recommend this book. Enjoy!!

Soccer: The Ranch's Favorite Sport

Last Saturday I was blessed with the viewing pleasure of a soccer game. Several months ago my church went out to play soccer with an orphanage in Valle de Angeles. Since I go to church with a house of boys from the Ranch they got to play. The orphanage team was really good, and we lost BAD. Anyways ever since then the boys at the Ranch have been dieing to have the orphanage come out and play. This Saturday that is just what happened. Before the other team came out, our boys formed a team and held practices everyday. They even selected a team captain. Our boys are GREAT soccer players, but since they are not on a real team we rarely see them play as a team. They really came together on this game and played as a team. The practices really payed off. The boys all held their positions and played hard, resulting in a win for the Ranch!!! The Ranch team did awesome, and I have never seen our boys play so well. Afterwards we had hotdogs and chips out at the soccer field. It made for a fun filled Saturday! I hope we do it again sometime soon.

Struttin' their stuff

For the past several months I have been teaching the girls a dance. They have practiced the it with diligence. We have now finished the dance and it looks great. I'm so proud of how hard they have worked. While I was in the States I got dance shoe and skirts for the girls. They really like wearing them. I promised the girls before we preformed the dance that we would do a "photo shoot." So on Monday as promised we took pictures. Here are a few of my favorites.

My Door

For the month of January all the classes at school decorated their doors. The theme was "color." For some insane reason I thought that it would be a fun idea to paint my kids feet and have them walk all over these large pieces of paper . Then paint their chubby little hands and put their hand prints all over the paper. Then I was going to write something super cute and hang that on my door. Well, somehow my insanity did not escape me and that is just what I did, and I have to say that I have the cutest door in the whole school. My kids squealed with delight as I tickled their feet with my paint brush. They were a little scared at first to walk around with paint covered feet but soon grew out of their fears and I could not contain them. As a result I not only had foot prints on paper but all over my clean floor. Then I painted their hands, they loved having their hands painted, putting their hand prints all over the place, washing their hands and asking again to have their hands painted. It was a treacherous cycle that I feared would never end. But their smiling faces made it all worth while. I then stayed up late at night writing "You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have for instance."on the freshly painted paper. The end result was fabulous as you can see, and the process was fun, even if my room was a disaster, and I had to mop up a million foot prints.