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| Oh Running surely is heavenly! It was simply gorgeous out this evening!
I am so much better than I deserve...
You see, it is really a miracle of sorts that God has done for me. It has been one of my dreams for a long long time to be a runner...but when I was younger, I would get asthma if I ran...that was one reason I adored being able to ride my horse so much was because I could run, without running...then within the past two years as I have grown older, it has slowly begun to go away...leaving me free to run. One of Gods many miracles in my little life.
So, where was I in telling you of my businesses...oh yes something I forgot, I knew I would forget something, I also attend a girls Bible study of sorts every week in which we are studying Islam. It is very interesting.
One thing I don't do hardly at all anymore is cooking. Since studying so much now and Aunt Joy making dinners, the thing I put together these days is pretty much strictly salads, which I could totally live on for I adore them so, but I don't know if they count as cooking.  What do you think?
Can I tell you some things I like, and like to do?
I like looking up and reading different names for people...exotic names like Amaka, an African name that means "God is beautiful" ...got any names you like that you wouldn't mind sharing with me?
I just adore learning about
the stars and planets...
the animals of the world...
the arts, literatures and poems...
histories of countless things...
how to better run, or stretch or dance or sing...
I like so very much to play music on my violin and to sing...
to learn about foods and different countries...geography fascinates me
learning about the different flowers, plants and trees...and the birds that live in them...I often hear a bird and wonder, who are you? What is your name? What do you look like?...and I ache to know...and I am so excited for I just got my very own bird book to tell me who they are!
I like so to write...write anything, stories, letters, other...handwriting I enjoy so
Science...
math
learning of God's world.
School is fascinating to me.
There...just to name a few...
what about you?
Well now that you know a little more of my life dear reader, I must really be off now to be getting on to my mathematics studies...
so goodnight farewell...
May Christ be praised!
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| Hi dear friends,
Thanks to a my dear close friend telling me I am too busy, I decided to take and cancel all riding to and fro in the car today and stay at home. I must thank him, for it has done me much good. I don't feel busy, in fact I feel lazy and like I should be doing so much more! or rather that there is so much more to be doing! Yes, I have the busy bug. Precisely why I need friends to tell me to stop being so busy.
But I am finding that to be so busy comes also with a cost ...one I don't really want to pay. So, I'm trying to back off a tiny bit. For one, it is hard to be very good at one thing when you are doing too many other things thus not spending enough time on the one thing. Mmm hmm that made a ton of sense.
Today I had a lovely day by God's grace, of that I needed so much! Besides screwing up terribly with my dear friend and causing a lot of drama and then going back and trying to undo that drama, it has gone by like the sweet spring breeze blowing outside my window. Speaking of windows, I got to clean my windows today too!! you know me and windows, my window is now a sliding glass door that I can go in and out of as I please onto my tiny little patio which is right next to a tiny path that lead to my Lovely. Yes, I still have my sweet horse, and I hope to always have her. It is such a joy, all I have to do is open my door and she hears me and lifts her head and nickers to me. It is so nice having her so close. And having her at all. I was just down with her giving her a nice grooming as she is shedding up a storm (often covering me all over with long white hairs) right now seeing as it is springtime, and I was just thinking though I want to do whatever it takes to keep her all her life, I don't know if I can always have her with me, and I will be so sad should that day have to come, for she is not just a horse to me, but my dear old friend from eight years old. Oh that I might never lose her! Even though I am entering a time of life when to have the funds to pay for myself is challenging...God knows..
And oh springtime! It has come! I am missing much of it for rushing around but not on yesterdays tomorrow. Today, I lied in the sunshine, felt the sweet breeze, and though I didn't go on a wildflower hunt, I hope to do so on a day soon. Outside my window is blooming such a beautiful little pink dogwood tree it makes me happy just looking at it. It is delightful. Today was a luxury. I went down and threw some of the many sticks out of my gorgeous mares pen, of which I have been wanting to do for such a month of Sundays. The sticks scratch her pretty legs up and I really don't like that. I saw her leg was scratched earlier. One of these days maybe I'll get all the sticks out...
My life right now...let me see if I can kind of convince myself I need
to be a little less busy by telling you of the things I am up to right
now.
These days...I get to do such wonderful things, thanks to God, my Daddy, my Uncle Alan and Aunt Joy and my dear man, as well as my teachers and many others. I am currently being tutored by a lady in my church (my sister's boyfriend's mother actually who has been marvelously patient with me) three days a week. I have been committed to that for a whole school semester and end in May. I am forever indebted to her. She is wonderful and has given me so much and helped me to somewhat get a start on making up my lost education. To really give her credit would be impossible. She is such a blessing from heaven.
On the side of that I am in a ballet class, taking violin lessons, going to a Revelation Bible study (that I already mentioned) every week, with another Bible study, with a wonderful lady I know to prepare me a little more for being a wife and mother, every other Monday, then some days I get to go work with or for my precious Daddy on Tuesdays or Saturdays sometimes. Besides that, there is my beauty to ride...that really hasn't changed much. I still ride her bareback and dangerously  wild girls that we are. And I am working on becoming a runner, running for a half hour every Monday, Thursday and Friday, as well as my longing to bike too, to be a cycler, I fit going for a bicycling ride in once in a while when I'm here. You know, seeking for some new place to discover and an adventure to find! One of my dear favorite things to do! In fact  I haven't gone for my run yet today, so I must be off and running for a bit, I'll catch ya later and hopefully write more when I get back...
until then...
Sava!
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| Alive... blessed... back over a year later. Dear friend, so much has changed in my life over the past many months...my hair is longer, I have moved, I go to school, I have a godly loving man who loves me and plans to marry me (and who I love and very much plan to except!) in my life, my parents are all but separated by a divorce paper, I have my own cell phone, I am seventeen, yes much has changed, yet... what is still the same and unchanged is the awesome grace of God! Pretty much everything has changed around me in some ways, inside me also. I have had a immovable Rock though. God is ever been here with me through it all. Showering His great mercy, love, grace and so much more on me, even when I haven't trusted, obeyed, listened (and so much more!) to Him, and those closest to me know how often this has been the case. Jesus Christ is the only reason I am alive and writing this today. Praise be to the LORD and Creator of the universe forever and ever. Through God's great provision I am currently living with one of my dear Pastors and his wife, and able to do many things of which I hope to share here!
It is truly exciting what God is doing in my life and in the life of those around me!
Today I had the privilege of going to a debate at Sierra College on the subject of Creation and Evolution, one of my dearly favorite topics. Also, yesterday at a Bible study I heard much on the subject of what is happening in the world of Islam, and went tonight, as I am privileged to attend a Bible study Thursday nights on the book of Revelation, of which we are also going through John MacArthur's book as a study help, I have many thoughts that have come about by all these and hope to share soon after my mind and body get some of that wonderful stuff God grants people called sleep.
Until next time,
God's grace is sufficient.
Love,
(the long lost or long gone from xanga) Angela
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| ...I have found, that to push the
snooze on my alarm clock is really a stupid thing to do. I maybe get
five minutes or less to fall back asleep and right as I do I hear it
singing to me again in its beeping way. And its just plain
miserable trying to sleep in tiny spaces of time and so why not just
get up? I say. I mean really I'm not losing much am I after what I just
told you up there. I just gain seeing a beautiful morning and as I
heard someone say something like this the other day.
After all God has just been waiting to talk to you all night, just
waiting for you to seek Him and He is probably going no! don't push
snooze again! Get up and seek me! You've been sleeping all night! Get
up and see my beautiful morning!
And yes, I can see Him saying something like that. And so I'm asking
myself, why am I here talking to you! I want to go talk with Him!
So, good morning! 
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| This song captured my heart this morning as we sang it in church for the first time...
All my days I will sing the song of gladness
Give my praise to the fountain of delights
For in my helplessness, you hear my cry
And waves of mercy poured down on my life
(chorus)
Beautiful Savior, wonderful counselor
Clothed in majesty, Lord of history
You're the way, the truth and the life
Star of the morning, glorious in holiness
You're the risen one, heaven's champion
And you reign, you reign over all
I will trust in the cross of my Redeemer
I will sing of the LAMB that never fails
Of sins forgiven, of conscience cleared
Of death defeated and life without end
(chorus)
Beautiful, beautiful Savior
Wonderful counselor, beautiful risen one
(chorus)
I long to be where the praise is never ending
Yearn to DWELL where the glory never fades
WITH countless worshippers SINGING one song
And the voices of the nations
Sing worthy, worthy, worthy
Worthy beautiful, beautiful one
Jesus you are worthy, beautiful, beautiful one
Jesus you're worthy, beautiful, beautiful one
You are worthy, beautiful, risen one
...Amen.
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