No Matter What We Do, He Loves Us

When I hear this song, it is always God speaking to me:

I've Always Loved You, by Third Day

I don't know how to explain it
But I know that words will hardly do
Miracles with signs and wonders
Aren't enough for me to prove to you

Don't you know I've always loved you
Even before there was time
Though you turn away
I'll tell you still
Don't you know I've always loved you
And I always will

The Seagull Still Soars

6-school meet (rescheduled due to thunderstorms a couple of weeks ago--it should have been 13 schools.)

Rose Bud ran her best 100m in 15.46s

Her 400 m was slow at 1:14 and she was 3rd in her heat--the other heat was faster.

She placed 2nd in the long jump with a jump of 12' 6 1/2". She jumped over a foot better than 3rd place. 1st place was 12' 10".

She is disappointed though because her jumps keep decreasing and she's jumped farther than 12' 10" before. She's thinking she should have had first. She's hard on herself. It was good enough for this meet.

Cookies

By Sunshine

3 c. Baking soda
4 c. Flour
1 c. Butter
2 eggs
rice: a big cup
chawky chips: a big cup
sugar: a big cup

Stir it up. Put chawky chips in. Put in oven really hot. Cook 3 minutes.

Edited only to not include the van as an ingredient when he began to get silly.

3rd 3rd

Track Meet 4

100m 4th in her heat, time: about 14.7
400m 3rd but they didn't get a time on her.  She thinks, based on the runners behind and in front, it was about 1:12.5
Long Jump 3rd with a jump of 12' 2" (top jump was 13' 3")  She's not feeling her jumps and is frustrated that they're decreasing.  It WAS really windy.  She wants Mr. GT to rototill up a new jumping pit for her.  (he planted her other one!)

The 400m

The Dandelion Relay

Track Meet 3

Still a seagull!

Long jump:  1st place with a jump of 13' 1/2"
100 m: 4th place (a good finish for her!) Time: 14.81s
400m: 4th place Time 1:12.4  (this was her best time this season and this was a very fast race.  The top 3 times were 1:06, 1:10 and 1:10)

Her coach wants her to sprint more in the first 100m of the 400m and she's been resisting, saying she is too tired to finish well if she does.  But we have a 13 school invitational coming up and so she's going to try that (since she won't likely place there anyway) and see if it makes a difference in her time.

In her 100m race, she was in the first heat against a very fast teammate and that helped her--she pushed hard this meet!

Good job, Seagull!

She's a Seagull!

That's what we used to tell her before she jumped last year.

9 schools

13' 9 1/4"

2nd place

Difference between first and second: 3/4" !!

THREE-QUARTERS of an inch!

Pretty awesome!

She also finished 7th in the 400 m with a time of 1:12.6 .  Top 6 finishers got ribbons.

100m didn't place.

Previous meet:
Long Jump 13' 5" for 3rd place  (the winner jumped 14' 8 1/2" !!! Wow!)
400m 1st place! with a time of 1:13
and 100 m 3rd in her heat (there were no times as the gun didn't go off)

HELP!

In the past two weeks, 2 of Sarah's sweet girls have died. 

 

Elizabeth, who was 2 1/2, died on Good Friday

Evelyn was 10 or 11 and died this week

They both had epilepsy and cerebral palsy and seem to have died of seizures, but they don't do post mortems in the town where Sarah is (and probably no one besides Sarah and the people who loved these girls even cares why they died), but several other children have been sick with fevers and now Jaron (remember Jaron?)

Jaron when he first came to Sarah's

 Jaron, now (look how chubby he's gotten and look at that smile!!)

is on his way to the emergency room in Hyderabad (that's a 7 hr drive, btw!) because he is vomiting blood.

The second little girl, Evelyn, who died WAS taken to the emergency room in Ongole the night she died.  In fact, she was taken to TWO emergency rooms.  But it was Sunday night and there, uh, weren't any doctors.  In the emergency room.

Please consider, just for a moment, the emergency room care you have available to you.  Yes, you might have sat for 6 hours in a emergency room once.  And, yes, you might have gotten poor care (I know everyone complains about the ER), but did you have to drive 7 hours over bumpy roads while vomiting blood to get there?  And when you got there, if you were really, REALLY sick, there WAS a doctor there, right?

Now the help part.  All of the 40 (well, 38 now) new children are unimmunized as of yet.  Sarah has not had the funds to pay for it.  She needs $175 PER CHILD to cover all the necessary immunizations.  What's your copay for your child's immunizations? (without getting into a debate about universal healthcare)

Maybe there is something going through the home.  Meningitis?  A mosquito-borne disease?  TB?  Hepatitis?  Even if it's not a disease which killed these children, because they are medically fragile to begin with, immunization is even more important to them.

If you were not in a position to give in January when I was collecting donations for SCH, please consider helping now.

8 people at $20
1 person at $10
1 person at $5

= 1 child immunized

There is a Chip-in (Paypal link) on Sarah's blog where you can give for immunizations.  If you can't do Paypal and you know me personally, contact me and we'll arrange for your donation to get to SCH.

Please help.  I've met all these children personally.  Each one is a precious individual, a child of God, precious in his sight.

And spread the word.  Link to Sarah's blog.  Share her story on Facebook.  Blog about it on your blog.  The more people who can pray and give and share, the sooner we can save lives.

Blessings,
Sandwich