Oh dearest father, thank you for friends like hope.  thank you for giving me her to talk to and process throug what you are and have been teaching me.  thank you so much!!  you are so wonderful in giving us community to grow in and to keep from getting too caught up in ourselves.  if i didnt have others to talk to about You, then i know i would become self-concerned and bigoted.  i wouldnt care for others ideas, just my own.  yet, in all your grace and mercy, you extend to us a community in which we can trhive.!  lord, please help hope as she processes through what she's learned in india.  lord, what a trip.  what a tranatizing shock to see such poverty.  of my lord, please lead hope in the way you wish her to go.  help her to be able to unpack her mental baggage with her friends, and help her friends (including myself) to know how to help her.  give us ears to listen and a tongue of peace and love.  help us to get over any selfish ideas of gain and minister to her in the way she needs us to.  lord, i pray for guidance in my own life.  lead me in your way, my lord!  i don't know where you want me... at sau, or at another school, or doing something different!  what i do know is i feel antsy.  i need to do something more for you... but what is it?  what do you desire of me, oh god, my lord Jesus christ?  please lead me in that.  give me the strength to overcome the battles, the temptation of laziness.  great are you lord.  (also, please help haley on the exam she's working on.  give her knowledge and the ability to recollect everything she studied.  thank you for helping me on my exam.  we love you.)  lord, i praise you for what you have taught us all in speech class.  thank you for giving me those people to grow with.  help us to continue to grow together, if such relationships are profitable for your kingdom.  lord, help me to love others.  to make them feel special when i see them.  lord, sometimes just a loving pat or smile or hello can be so special.  i know this because i've experienced it from other people doing that to me.  lord, help me to be willing to put myself out there and smile, say hello lovingly, and give them a gentle squeeze.  and not just to some people, but to all.  lord i pray for danielle.  she... needs you, oh lord.  use me as much as i can be in her life.  i offer myself to you, jesus, as a vessel.  use my life to impact hers, as i feel you drawing me to her.  oh, how i long for her to feel love and undeniable acceptance.  father, she isnt easy for any of us to get along with, so i pray for patience.  strengthen me under your Spirit.  that i may have a true and pure of heart love for her.  she needs it jsut as much as i need it.