Don't quit when the tide is lowest, for it's just about to turn;
Don't quit over doubts and questions, for there's something you may learn.
Don't quit when the night is darkest, for it's just a while 'til dawn;
Don't quit when you've run the farthest, for the race is almost won.
Don't quit when the hill is steepest, for your goal is almost nigh;
Don't quit, for you're not a failure
Until you fail to try.
I was talking the other day to Webster's Director of Residential Life, Mr. John Buck, and he made a very good observation for me that I hadn't thought of until he said it. What he said was that, for us, this walk has already begun. We've started it. Maybe not literally, but in our minds, we're already on the journey. Realizing that has been a big help; I think just because it makes it easier to know that it's not always looming over our heads as a "it's coming!" sort of thing, but that's already here. For some reason, that's strangely comforting to me.
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On another note:
We finally have a way to make donations possible! Our website now has a "Support Us" tab, with directions of to whom a mail a check or money order may be mailed. We've posted more of our route, and this weekend we're going camping for the first time as a group. Let's hope we can all learn how to use the backpacking stove, or else we'll all be eating berries for dinner....
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It's a good thing Jesus and I already agreed to buy berries tomorrow at the store. :) None of our neighbors were home last night, so we wrote them notes. We've had no objections thus far. I reviewed your states with towns, and we do have some friends to get you in contact with. We'll try to get that done this weekend.
"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more important than food, and the body more important than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to his life?
"And why do you worry about clothes? See how the lilies of the field grow. They do not labor or spin. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you, . . . ? So do not worry, saying, 'What shall we eat?' or 'What shall we drink?' or 'What shall we wear?' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well. Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Matthew 6:25-34
"Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives; he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened."
Matthew 7:7-8
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