We will sleep tonight trusting God to take care of Shalisha.  At the time of this writing this Shalisha should be ready to take off across the Atlantic on her way to Oslo, Norway.  Her departure time from Newark, NJ is 8pm and her arrival in Oslo is 9:45 am. 

That isn't the end of the journey.  She will board another plane to take her to Bodo.  This departure time is 10:45 tomorrow morning, and she arrives in Bodo at 12:15pm.  She then has to catch a city bus to the boat station down town.  She will take an express boat to Gronoy.   I do not know how long she will be on the boat.  I hope she blogs about it.   Then, I understand it will be a 10 minute drive to her destination.  

We have been enjoying texting.  We've been sending messages back and forth all afternoon.  It took  awhile to figure out the buttons, and there are still things to learn, but we are trying.  

We will pray much for her over the next 24 hours. 

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After the airport, we went to Wendy's for lunch and then on to the college to get Shiloh settled into her dorm room.   It took a long time to go through the registration line at the college.  She is excited to get her new laptop.  We about dumped everything on and next to her bed, then went out to Meijer to purchase a few needs...hangers for one.  We didn't hang around too long.  Shiloh was already tired from spending the night with her cousins and then time at the airport. 

Shiloh is probably arranging everything in her space in the room.  She has two room mates.  Shana is from the suburbs of Chicago.  We didn't find out where Elizabeth was from.   

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That's it for now...except to say that Ethan is having fun in Grand Rapids with camp friends.  It must be quiet here at Grandma Brace's house without his sisters. 

"Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you.  Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid."  John 14:27

What a good verse to sleep on.

It's Wednesday afternoon.  It's been raining all day.  The time at camp to feed the horses was very messy.  My clothes were covered with mud splashes.  Typical of rainy days.

This afternoon Ethan asked to go check out the new coffee shop.  I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but I sure like the frozen caramel latte.  The shop is new and located just across from the hospital in Hazard.  We're hanging out here for awhile before we go to prayer meeting. 

The grand opening is around November the 1st, but the soft opening is coming up sooner. The place is huge!  It doesn't look it from this picture, but the other room is amazing.

Ethan brought in his guitar and violin and sung the first songs here.  Simeon sang too.  Ethan also brought in his computer for repairs.  It died (the computer) this morning.

I hope you all like this song.  I had quite a time looking for pictures.  I need to actually take some pictures of the roses on the trail!  :)  Now to put this song on other places on the web. 


Thanks for listening and watching.  

For the past two weeks Shalisha has been busy feeding the fawns for the Murrs who have been on vacation.  She's been faithfully feeding twice a day.  Once she needed me to fill in for her.  I had to go with her about 5 times to learn.  You know, it's very confusing trying to figure out who's who to feed a bottle?  (They like their own bottle and refuse if not their own).  


The fawns are kept for 180 days and are to be released.  The Murrs are licensed to rehabilitate wildlife. Sometimes they get baby opossums.  Sometimes raccoons.  It's interesting what comes in. 


One more special thing done at Camp Nathanael. 

It was a great time last Tuesday night camping on the mountain.  The seniors left after the last activity and walked up the mountain to the designated spot.  Dwayne, my nephew, comes each year to take the seniors.  I go to be the lady counselor.  


When they get to the site, they set up tents and then start a campfire.  They have to make their own hot dog and marshmallow stick.  After supper they slide/hike down the mountain to the creek.  The contest in on to catch crawdads and "minners" (minnows).  Dwayne says that he will eat a minnow if anyone catches one.  (not this year).


The time wading in the water was fun, but watching Ethan eat a boiled crawdad whole was very entertaining (better than survival).  After smores there was a contest to see who could fit the most marshmallows in their mouths.  Dwayne, Isaac, Ethan and Erin tried.  I laughed so hard my sides hurt.  


Dwayne settled everyone down and a time of praise singing started.  Isaac and Ethan led the singing with their guitars.  Dwayne had a nice devotional and encouraged the seniors.  After the devotional they played a few crazy games.


As I lay in the tent that night I was very away of huge trees around me.  What if one fell on the tent?  I had to pray for peace in my heart and remember that God was in control.  Later in the night I heard a 4 wheeler in the distant trails.  I wondered about my van parked along the trail a ways back and envisioned some person breaking in.  Again, I had to stop thinking and fretting over something I could not control.  


Prayer is a powerful.  I thought of the verse in Psalms 37:7,8  "Rest in the Lord, and wait patiently for Him; do not fret because of him who prospers in his way, because of the man who brings wicked schemes to pass.  Cease from anger, and forsake wrath; do not fret - it only causes harm."


In the morning we had a gong sound wake us up.  Dwayne hit the huge frying pan.  We had eggs and sausage over the fire, then the campers headed back to camp.  Ethan and I stayed back to help take down tents.  Next year we plan to camp on the ridge and do some star gazing at night.  (too many trees at present location).  It was  great time on the mountain.