Story Time!!!

Hello again everyone,

     Today, I am feeling quite tired because every morning this week I woke up and my homework was there...waiting for me.  For some reason, I am unusually aware of my daily loads and I often dwell on the exhaustion that results from it.

     As I was writing this post, I thought about the e-mail Carrie sent me about interpreting trials as God's sovereign plan for your life and I think I'm doing the exact opposite.  I'm trudging through my daily trials by myself in order to please God.  What God really wants is for me to trust that my trials are part of his sovereign plan and let Him carry me through.  Even with this realization, I find it hard to trust God and let Him carry me because my pride is so great.  Please pray that when I get weary of doing homework day after day, I would ask God for strength instead of depending on myself.  Thanks for sending that e-mail Carrie!  I really do not deserve such awesome friends :D  I love you sooo much!!! :D

     AND NOW...for the story...

     About a month ago I was on the internet on Petfinder looking up adoptable dogs.  Anyway, I found these two absolutely adorable white, sheltie/border collie mixes named Dusty and Henry.  I fell in love with them instantly and decided to get more information about them.  Apparently they were brothers from a litter that had contracted parvovirus, of which they were the only survivors.  At 4 months of age, they were found by an animal shelter and nursed back to health.  The next day I called up Dusty and Henry's foster parents and discovered that Dusty had been adopted already.  That only left Henry, but I knew my mom would never allow me to adopt a third dog.  So with disappointment, I put Henry out of my mind and went on with my life.

     Today, I was looking through my pictures and found one of Henry.  So I went on the internet determined to find the young puppy that I had wanted to adopt so badly.  Sadly, no links came up that matched a white, sheltie/border collie mix named Henry.  I looked and looked but couldn't find him.

Here's the picture I have of Henry:

IN LOVING MEMORY OF HENRY
SHELTIE BORDER COLLIE MIX AND PARVOVIRUS SURVIVOR
THE PUPPY I WANTED BUT COULDN'T HAVE

THE END

Please comment and remember to pray for me :D

~Anna