Hello

Thank You Kerri for dropping in.I am glad you can read it. Esp since xanga blocks you. I'll try to remember to post here daily like I do with xanga.

A few kid pictures

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Hi there

Monday Noonish

It was after 11am around noonish. I was loading bags,bags,bags and more bags into my mommyvan to take to the refugees. I was supposed to meet V.Y. at the church.(She sorts and distibutes things to the families that need them).
Just as I loaded the last item in my van, I noticed a tall young thin male jogging lightly up my road. (I didn't think much of him jogging...common in my area....but it was odd that he appeared to be wearing a few too many layers. I had on short sleeves.)
When he was about 30 feet from my house...I heard screeching tires coming around the corner. He slowed his jog to a walk. He and the car full of more young guys stopped right in front of my house.
I saw the front seat passenger pass a gun to the back seat passenger,stick it in the abdomen of the jogger and fire it. I dropped to the ground and heard at least 4 more shots loud enough to buzz my ears.
The car sped..peeled off. I could not make out the license plate, but had a pretty decent desciption of the car. I did not see but heard the jogger toss his gun(It made a loud metallic thud as it hit the paved road)
I ran in my house grabbed cordless phone and dialed 911. told them we need police and medic. My other neighbor (one of 3 of us eyewitnesses) i told her to grab some old towels. His exit wounds were bad.( I don't think I could have emotionally handle a 17 year old boy dying in front of my home.) I held pressure with doubled towels till medic took over. They took him to our major trauma center nearby.

How sad young people are Choosing this kind of life for themselves. It breaks my heart to see kids not much older than mine in sad predicaments and lifestyles.

Hope

Lamentations 3:22-33 (New International Version)

22 Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed,
for his compassions never fail.

23 They are new every morning;
great is your faithfulness.

24 I say to myself, "The LORD is my portion;
therefore I will wait for him."

25 The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him,
to the one who seeks him;

26 it is good to wait quietly
for the salvation of the LORD.

27 It is good for a man to bear the yoke
while he is young.

28 Let him sit alone in silence,
for the LORD has laid it on him.

29 Let him bury his face in the dust—
there may yet be hope.

30 Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him,
and let him be filled with disgrace.

31 For men are not cast off
by the Lord forever.

32 Though he brings grief, he will show compassion,
so great is his unfailing love.

33 For he does not willingly bring affliction
or grief to the children of men.

Jeremiah 29:10-14 (New International Version)

10 This is what the LORD says: "When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my gracious promise to bring you back to this place. 11 For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. 12 Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. 13 You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart. 14 I will be found by you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back from captivity. ^[a] I will gather you from all the nations and places where I have banished you," declares the LORD, "and will bring you back to the place from which I carried you into exile."

God's Promises To ME

God's Promises To ME

"I will protect you" - Acts 26:17
"I will comfort you" - Isaiah 66:13
"I will give you peace" - Leviticus 26:6
"I will listen to you" - Jeremiah 29:12
"I will carry you" - Isaiah 46:4
"I will strengthen you" - Isaiah 41:10

"I will give you rest." - Matthew 11:28
"I will be with you." - Genesis 31:3