I wish I was alive when Secretariat won the Preakness. Can you imagine if you had been there, watching that horse blaze past everyone and beat them by 32 lengths!?!?! What an awesome horse. We watched the movie Secretariat with some girls last Friday because we wanted to show them some of Kentucky. I think they may have been unimpressed, but I loved pretending like I was at Churchhill Downs in 1973. Usually I don't get sucked into movies like that, especially if they have to do with animals, but for some reason I felt like I was there. Haha. It could have been because I REALLY had to focus on the movie--We watched it in Thai with English subtitles. Hilarious to hear Diane Lane and John Malcovitch in asian, but nevertheless I really had to pay attention. It could have also been because I'm so excited to see the green pastures and hills in KY again and my little yellow house. Or maybe it was because in my heart of hearts I love victory! Sweet unabashed victory, the kind that makes your heart leap and you want to jump out of your seat victory! I think that night was especially sweet to me because of what happened before the movie. We had invited about 20 girls to come watch it with us, only to get there and find 1 girl with one of the Thai girls on staff, Honey. She was sharing the bridge diagram with the girl (her name is Oum). Of course we ran upstairs as to not be distracting and prayed for her that she would understand. Later, Honey told us that the girl had never heard for God before. Not Jesus, or Christianity, but God. Taylor Hannah and I went to dinner with her a last night and had some great conversation about God and Jesus and heaven.
She said she has lots of questions, which is so so awesome and she even asked me if I thought I'd found the answer. What is awesome to me is that I did have the answer to her question! Yes! I have entrusted my life to a VICTORIOUS God! Our faithful Creator and Savior who's power saves me from sin and death! When she asked me that question I could barely stand it--Jesus is victorious! He has overcome the grave! And he will return to claim what is HIS! What a sweet and precious promise! So pray for Oum-pray that God draws her out of darkness and emptiness and guilt and into his marvelous light! Pray that she would LOVE the victory of Jesus! I love her and I cant wait to see what the future holds. Maybe this week, maybe this year or maybe in 5 years....but I truly believe that God is doing something! Secretariat is the most awesome horse that ever was, but his victory is nothing compared to the return of the King :)
Also Oum invited us to plant rice at her house; she lives about 2 hours away, but the girls were so sweet and said yes!! I couldn't go, but I looked at the pictures! Tay and Hannah said is was quite possible that they ruined the little plot of rice that took an hour to plant--but they had so much fun!
Rice patties are little plots of land--maybe equivalent to a .25 acre that have built up mounds of dirt to keep water in. The soil has to be very wet in order for the rice plant to take root, so farmers have to wait until well into the rainy season so the "patties" will fill up with water.
P'Honey and Taylor with rice plants. In Thailand you call someone older than you "P..insert name" I have no idea why.
Oum's mom and the girls. They tried to wear boots but kept getting stuck, so they just went barefoot. haha. Really really muddy and slippery. Also farmers plant hundreds or thousands of these every year by hand. Just stick them in the ground.
Their little rice plants. Cute. Try to guess which side the Americans planted..
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