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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Lunchtime rocks!

So it's been busy and stressful lately, with house-selling, apartment finding, school visit (and more coming), job hunting for Lea, etc, etc. We've both been really busy.

But today, I was able to just take a deep breath and relax during lunch. "Why?," you ask. Well, I'll tell you...leftovers!

Lea is a really really good cook and she made this crockpot beef and potatoes and vegetables thing right before she went out of town last week and I had it for dinner Tuesday, lunch Wednesday, and dinner Wednesday - it was so good! And then I went out of town, but today I brought some more of it for lunch.

YUMMY!!

Love you my gourmet cook wonderful wife!

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Saturday, March 15, 2008

Yea for Barney!

I'm in Virginia visiting UVa this weekend, but Vanderbilt still made its presence felt.

Friday afternoon, right before a cocktail reception with Virginia Alumnai who have clerked for the Supreme Court, I got a call from Vandy saying they had increased my scholarship offer to full tuition for all three years (the Barney Byrd scholarship)!!

What an amazing praise - God is so good!

It has been really fun visiting UVa too. Got to meet some faculty and a couple of them have said very complimentary things and indicated that they plan to talk to administration about my scholarship offer here. What can we say, this is ONLY because of God.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

Praise God!! HOUSE SELLING

Well, what can we say - God is good!

One big prayer request during this law school stuff is that He would find a buyer for our house. As you know the market isn't the best right now. :-)

Well, we listed it about 12 days ago, and last night we got an offer. We counter-offered and found out this morning they were accepting!! We got the signed papers this afternoon. There are of course some details that still need to happen...the home inspection, financing and documentation all needs to go through, but it is looking good.

This is an amazing blessing and just demonstrates once again that God is bigger than any circumstances.

Psalm 150
1 Praise the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary; praise him in his mighty heavens.
2 Praise him for his acts of power; praise him for his surpassing greatness.
3 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre,
4 praise him with tambourine and dancing, praise him with the strings and flute,
5 praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals.
6 Let everything that has breath praise the LORD. Praise the LORD.

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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

Duke...and half a million

Ok, Duke didn't give me a half a million, sorry if the title confused you!

But they offered $20k/year, which is pretty good for Duke (unfortunately!), which brings our total scholarship offers to $540,000.

Duke University $60,000
Northwestern University $120,000
Cornell University $105,000
Vanderbilt University $105,000
University of Notre Dame $60,000
Baylor University $90,000

Praise God! We are still waiting on a few schools so we'll see how it all shakes out, but we have some great options and we are thankful God is going to make the path clear!

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thanks Vandy

Well, Vanderbilt offered us the Chancellor's Scholarship yesterday: $35k/year for three years.

Praise God for all the options He is providing, and thank God for my wonderful wife who has put up with all my processing regarding schools, as we work to determine where we should spend the next three years!

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