NY Plane Crash/Campus Death

2/13/09
Don't know how many people outside of my sisters here at Keuka read this, but our campus needs prayer! More than the normal darkness that covers this place, a girl who was a freshman here last year died in the plane wreck near Buffalo yesterday. Lots of girls are really upset, particularly a few that are either residents of mine or friends of mine. Please pray that the peace of Christ would cover them and that I would have the wisdom and influence to be a light of hope and encouragement. Thanks!

2/15/09
We've had another death on campus--a commuter student who was a Jr. Education major died in his home last night from health complications. This man, Jerad, was good friends with my sister Amy. She's sad, but we're pretty sure he was saved (he'd been a youth pastor, then walked away from God. Had recently been renewing his faith). Please pray that she's able to be a light to others of their mutual friends.

The Necessity of Prayer

I'm reading this book by EM Bounds, and it's amazing how often I must stop and just let the truth God is speaking to me sink in. Here is my most recent nuggat.

"Prayer is too simple, too evident a duty, to need definition. Necessity gives being and shape to prayer. Its importance is so absolute, that the Christian soldier's life, in all the breadth and intensity of it, should be one of prayer. The entire life of a Christian soldier--its being, intention, implication, and action--are all dependent on its being a life of prayer. Without prayer--no matter what else he has--the Christian soldier's life will be feeble, and ineffective, and consitute him an easy prey for his spiritual enemies."

Wow. That'll kick you in the butt.