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Tomorrow Heather and I and all six kids will be shopping. We will be out getting last minute things for Tirzah to take with here to Rwanda next week! NEXT WEEK! all year long she has been working and striving to this end. And now it is here, all the last minute things are beginning to be checked off the the list. Today My Beloved and I went to the Army surplus store and bought Tirzah Bug Juice. Military grade keep the mosquitoes with malaria away, bug juice! There is something about going to a country with nets over your beddings and classes on Malaria prevention that just screams Bug Juice! And since we bought bug juice, I also bougt her a tye-dyed banada, again thinking bugs.

Now since we are on the subject of bugs and somehow when I think of Africa or South America, the thought of eating them comes to mind. You know kind of like the competions on Survivor where you have to lift a silver lid and devour what ever is present. So my granddaughter and Her Mama have been learning to say a phrase that will serve my "I don't eat sauces on anything including spaghetti and pizza" Granddaughter well. She has learned to say " I am a vegetarian" which will work will for this kosher living sweet heart!

Does it seem like I am rambling? I probably am. When our granddaughters were dedicated to the Lord, My beloved always reads Psalm 121 over them.

1 I lift up my eyes to the hills-- where does my help come from?

How thankful I am that Tirzah knows without a doubt where her Help comes from.When she was not quite three I remember her running through the house looking for her rainboots in almost a panic. There was a storm outside. When we asked her what she was doing, she said She needed to get ready for Jesus. Her daddy had told her about Jesus coming in the clouds. Storm equaled clouds equaled Jesus.

2 My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.

And not only where, but  WHO her help comes from as well.Her relationship with the Lord is so strong and has been well tested for such a young Lady. Her testimony of His care for her is deep and true.

3 He will not let your foot slip-- he who watches over you will not slumber; 4 indeed, he who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep.

It was not so very long ago she was laying in a hospital bed vomiting blood from an unknown source and having one test after another done. So many were up that night praying, seeking God and praising the Lord tha HE does not sleep. In the wee hours of the morning she was healed, not by doctors who are still stumped, but by the Lord.

 5 The Lord watches over you-- the Lord is your shade at your right hand; 6 the sun will not harm you by day, nor the moon by night.

In a short while, the moon will be shining on her as the sun is shining on us. She will be under the care of Her God , reaching out wit HIs love and hers to so many that are in need of a Savior that loves them enough to send her to them.

 7 The Lord will keep you from all harm-- he will watch over your life;

He has for the last 13 years, He will not stop, He does not change His call. So even though I am send ing her with Bug Juice, It is the Lord I am trusting in to keep all harm from her.

 8 the Lord will watch over your coming and going both now and forevermore.

From the day her "Pa" prayed these words over her to today and all the while she is in Rwanda and even after she returns, He will always be the one that is watching over her life.