Linden Invite

     A few days ago, our cross country team was at the Linden Invite.  Our Junior High team did very well.  Four people on the team got meddles, I being one of them. 

    At the end of the race, I thought I was going to faint!  The only thing that kept me going was what the coach of the Heartland team had told his people.  Right before the race, our team was praying together and after we finished praying, we heard the other team's coach say this:  "There are twenty meddles!  I expect at least half of them!  You hear me!? Half of them!"  And from then on, I made it my goal not to let one Heartland person finish before me. In the last half mile, I finally past the last of the Heartland team!  I didn't let one of them beat me!  Another person on our team, was the fist girl to come in and even though she finished a couple places behind me, she only let two Heartland people come in before her!

    Over all, I would say that our team had a victory at this race.

Our team

If people just thought that way about me.

Behold, here I am: witness against me before the LORD,

and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken?

or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded?

whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have

I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith?

and I will restore it you.

1 Samuel 12:3

    Now it takes a lot of  courage to say something like that!  But when Samuel said this, he was old and he thought it was better to say sorry and return what he had taken, then to be held accountable for it on judgement day.  Here's what they said in return:

And they said, Thou hast not defrauded us,

 nor oppressed us, neither hast thou taken

ought of any man's hand.

1 Samuel 12:4

    Wouldn't be great if people thought that way about you!  I know I would like it.  The problem is, that they don't.  I think that the reason they answered this way, was because he had just won a battle for them the night before.  I think some people really thought way, but I am almost sure that the night before, at least one person out of all forty-thousand people that fought in that war, could have named something against him.  The reason why I think this, is because Samuel isn't God and the Bible says: All men have sinned and come short of the glory of God. Romans 6:23.   They even said bad things about God who is perfect! 

     Even though we can't accomplish this, we should make it our goal to have people think this way
about us.  We could wittiness so much more effectively if everybody thought of us this way.

Bible Bee is over!

    The Bible Bee is over and done!  I did pretty good but I did not win at regionals or make it to nationals.  But I think that I won because I did my best, and you can't loose when you memorize God's word because, you gain something from it every time.

I said that I was taking a break from blogging but.........

    I said that I was taking a break from blogging but when your brother gets a couple inch crack in his head I think you can make an exception.  Yesterday when he was riding his bike he turned his head to say something to one of the neighbor children, and he ran his bike into one of the neighbor's cars (it wasn't exactly his fault that he hit it because it was parked halfway  over the sidewalk), and he went over his handle bars.  His head probably wouldn't have broken if it hit somewhere but the hinge (we aren't sure if it hit the hinge or the part where the hard plastic over the tail lights meets the meddle).  At the hospital he got eight staples in his head, the nurse said that it was a bad split, and Dad said that it was about three inches.  He got home around 10 o'clock and has acted just fine since then.  I will post some pictures a little later.

 

blogging break & Bible Bee

I am sorry that I haven't been posting for awhile.  I have been getting ready to compete in  the National Bible Bee and it takes a lot of time.  Please pray that I will do well at the competition August 27th.  Until then I will not be on my blog much, but I hope to be posting more after the competition.

I Peter 3:15 ~ "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:"

(Photo credit my sister Lydia)

Our Computer!

    Early this morning, Haley opened the computer and heard a sound, click click click!  Then a message popped up.  No hard drive!  Oh no.  We found out that our hard drive had crashed, and that we had lost a year of stuff.  Right now I am posting off a computer at Staples.  Thank God they have high speed Internet!

Bible Bee!

      Lately I've been doing allot with bible bee.  At first I was falling behind, but when my dad made a deal with me, that if I got all five hundred scriptures perfect, he would take me to Canada, I quickly caught up.  I have to memorize 9 verses a day.  But today I am going to memorize 18 verses.  Pray for me that I will be able to memorize them all, for the glory of God.  Even though I am excited about being able to have a chance to go on a fishing trip, I'm doing it ultimately for the glory of God.