about the tea and the girl

dearest mathyld,

you will be receiving all the tea i have to give away! i hope there will be no problems shipping it all to france but i do hope you enjoy it all. already i am thinking of more teas to fill the vacant spots of the ones i must let go of! tea is wonderful, i just love it so...



today was a bit harder for natalie but i am thankful that yesterday and the day before was good for her. she cried a lot this morning but she did so well when the bell rang and i had to leave. i had wrote down isa. 41:10 on a piece of note paper earlier in the week and i had drawn doodles of owls and feathers on it. i prayed with her in the morning and also read it to her. before we had to leave, she wanted me to read it to her again, so i did and i asked her if she wanted to take the paper with her. she said yes and so i folded the paper and put it in her front pants pocket. we walked to school, talked about the luke the cat and how he use to follow me everywhere when we were both younger and she liked hearing it. once the bell did ring, she had a sad look on her face but i told her to be strong, gave her a kiss, a walked away. as i walked out of the gates, i looked back at her and saw her pulling the paper out of her pocket to look at it.
later in the morning i talked to rick and told him. he said even though it's hard right now, those are little moments to be cherished. indeed they are...