WOW...today is the first day of August.  I cannot believe how the days are just flying by.  Before I know it I will be retired.  I can't believe that either.  WOW!! I hope that things will run smoothly when I am home all the time too.  I might, if I can find a part time job in New Middletown, go to work for a few hours each day.  I would like to work 4 hours a day...maybe 3 or 4 days a week.  We will see, maybe something will open up.  Charley and Hunter played soccer last night in a mud hole.  They had mud spots all the way up their backs.  And, mud and grass all over their shoes.  What you going to do?????  I guess I am going to see a Scrapper's game tonight.  Hopefully we will all get along.  This is asking for a miracle.

The Way of Faith:  God is ever seeking to teach us the way of faith, and in our training in the faith life there must be room for the trial of faith, the discipline of faith, the patience of faith, the courage of faith; and often many stages are passed before we really realize what is the end of faith, namely, the victory of faith.  Real moral fiber is developed through discipline of faith.  You have made your request of God, but the answer does not come.  What are you to do?  Keep on believing God's Word: never be moved away from it by what you see or feel, and thus as you stand steady, enlarged power and experience is being developed.  Often God delays purposely, and the delay is just as much an answer to your prayer as is the fulfillment when it comes.  Abraham, Moses, and Elijah were not great in the beginning, but were made great through the discipline of their faith, and only thus were they fitted for the position to which God had called them.  When God has spoken of his purpose to do, and yet the days go on and he does not do it, that is truly hard; but it is a discipline of faith that will bring us into a knowledge of God which would otherwise be impossible.  mrs. charles e. cowman