Thanks

You know when you're with someone you love and there aren't words to express the level of gratitude you have for them, so you just put your head on their shoulder and say "thanks" and that's enough?
That's what I feel like right now.
I could make a list three miles long, but all those words wouldn't say what I want to convey.
I understand that there are times to list everything you're thankful for. I understand that that is a healthy practice. But sometimes I feel like a little kid who babbles "thanks for the house and thanks for the car and thanks for the red crayon and thanks for the yellow crayon and thanks for the green crayon and thanks for the shoes and thanks for the shampoo and thanks for the ducks and thanks for the hammocks and thanks for the..."
I think I'd rather be like the kid who just puts her head on her Dad's shoulder and whispers "thanks" in an honest way.

Random, Undeveloped Thoughts

-Come. Let us worship and bow down. Let us kneel before the Lord, our God, our Maker.

-Me: Can you think of a time that you were sad?
1st Grader: 1 o'clock.
Me: Why?
1st Grader: Because my mother was not happy.

-I like Jeff & Lindsay's roof. Especially at night. I want to go up there alone. But it's scary.

-The times that I feel furthest from God are not when something bad happens, or when something doesn't make sense to me, it's when I make a decision not to follow the Lord in every aspect of my life.

-Hospitality is important.

-Sugar cane is delicious.

-I appreciate money a lot more when it doesn't go as far.

-At what point is it appropriate to start using the pronoun "my" if it's not really yours? When can students become "mine", when can kids become "mine", when can a room become "mine", friends, a church, a dog, a family? What is the key ingredient? Time? Desire for it to be yours? Fulfilling a need of some sort? Being required to depend on the noun in question?

-The fan works when you hit it or when you turn it on and wait for ten minutes.

-I will sing of the mercies of the Lord forever, I will sing.

-Hammocks are lovely.

-I have discovered why shin gaurds are important, even for a goal keeper.

-Popsicles rock.

Laptop Evangelism

Jeff, Lindsay, Pat, Harold, and I created this video for the talent show in Lagoa de Itaenga.
Enjoy the ridiculousness.