It is Saturday afternoon and we have spent most of the day so far waiting on our granddaughter Lauren to run her Motocross races. She is in Texas to race in the Freestone Texas Motocross Women's Cup race. It is raining and the track is a total mud pit. Julie and Jim are here and we've notified all the rest of the family that the race is going on and they are all tuned in to watch. I love it that they run these race on live streaming and we can watch it on line. This is her second big Professional race. She ran a race on Thursday and went down. She got thrown twenty feet over the handle bars and it knocked the wind out of her. But --- she got back up and finished the race to the cheer of the crowd. Her bike got beat up pretty bad but the sportsmanship out there is phenomenal and several other riders helped her get the bike back in running order. How cool is that?

Ms. Kate is still down although she is doing better. She isn't coughing quite as hard and she is eating better today.  I'm thinking this thing might be coming to an end. Right now, her biggest complaint is the sore ribs and muscles from all of the coughing.

So, Lauren has finished her races and can head back to California with a great experience under her belt.  I have no idea where she finished but know it wasn't in the top five. Every rider went down at least once and they were all so muddy you couldn't tell who was who. The good news is that she rode safe and despite all of the falls in the mud, no one in the race got seriously hurt. Congratulations to her. As you can see by the smile on her face, --- she was having a ball.

My niece contacted me this morning asking for prayers for a friend of hers named Steve Rockford, so I am including him in my prayer list and hope you will too. God doesn't care whether you know Steve personally or not. What is important is that you care enough about a brother or sister in Christ to pray for them. We are all God's children. Have a good day.