There has been alot of rain this month. For some reason when it rains it makes the turtles in ponds near our house come out. A kid found a baby turtle alongside our little paved neighborhood road near a dumpster. The kid gave it to my son Benjamin. The kid thought Lucky would be a good name so it stuck.

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I went to the meeting yesterday. The operations manager basically agreed with the previous decision. He said he would put his decision on hold. I asked him what that meant. Then he said it would need to go to the next level of the peer review process. So I filled out a form to go to the next step. In the next meeting I will meet with someone higher in management who is a director. The director is just below the chief executive officer. After that I will go to a peer review committee consisting of five people, two salaried and three wage earners.

I’m not a person who bases my faith on emotional words that I speak insisting that God will do the words I say and pray. God exists and is judicious in how He exercises His power.
My husband heard a Bible passage last week in Sunday School that reminded him of me. It comforts me. Once again, it is from a Psalm and the original author is David.
Psalm 27:12-14
12 Deliver me not over unto the will of mine enemies: for false witnesses are risen up against me, and such as breathe out cruelty.
13 I had fainted, unless I had believed to see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
14 Wait on the LORD: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the LORD.

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King Saul wanted to kill David. This was a heavy dark cloud that continuously hovered over his head. But David would take refuge in talking to and trusting in God. I’m going through stressful times right now. So much that my appetite is less and I have lost weight. I have been accused falsely of a deed I did not do.
Sometimes the stress and nervousness takes over and I have to stop and just focus on breathing and work at calming myself down. At least I’m not overwhelmed with the reality that like David someone is pursuing me to end my life!!!!!

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Bob “the builder” O’Brien worked with me on house #7 during our Habitat For Humanity Building Blocks 2007. I received an email from him just today. He linked us to the local newspaper that had a slide show of the build. Here it is:
AZ Central

<em>My husband wrote a blog entry today. He writes for Jack Lewis.Net. We most recently celebrated Memorial Day. The day which solemnly acknowledges that our soldiers died so that we have the freedom to use our talents to be a success. Here’s the true story of two American lives.
A Tale of Two Americans
For reasons that will become clear later, let’s just call him Dr. Kyi (not his real name). He was born in what used to be called Burma, which was renamed by its current military dictatorship to Myanmar. He grew up under the oppressive control of the ruling military junta which answered to no one for their oppression of the people of Burma. The current elected leader, who won by a landslide majority, remains imprisoned while the military dictatorship continues to rule and oppress the Burmese people. The average income there is around $1,800 a year, in spite of the wealth of natural resources. Dr. Kyi eventually was able to escape, and came to America.

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I’m working toward becoming a public school teacher. A big reason why I want to do this is to impact the future of my nation with good. I want to help my students to have a passion for knowledge which will help them become successful, interesting and caring adults. Long ago Daniel Webster spoke of the importance of affecting the next generation:
“If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.”
-Daniel Webster

I found a great site to help you know English better. It’s called the English Zone.

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I read a devotional from a book called Streams In The Desert from the Back To The Bible website. It is was written in 1925 by Mrs. Charles Cowen. I read of a man who prayed for his son who was very ill. Here’s the story:

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Danny and I celebrated our 16th anniversary on the 25th. We’ve been through alot, all kinds of stresses and struggles. But we can still have fun.
When it comes to music we’re from the old “koooooool” school. We hang out with the best like Cheap trick, The Knack, and Eddie Money.

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