Travelog Day 6: Boston + New Haven + Inspired By Sarah + NYC

Anything in common between Presidents Bush and Clinton? Yale University at New Haven Connecticut must be one of the few items on the list. What a beautiful college town!

 The Yale University Dining Hall! It was pretty familiar, it looks like the hall in Harry Potter movie!

We're starving! We actually ate ALL of these...

After we finish stuffing ourself, MG and I went to ladies room and here we saw this.. the memorial stone (looks like Epitaph) of Sarah Edwards. Wife of the famous Reverend Jonathan Edwards. Before I proceed, Ladies.. can you please read what is written about her... and LEARN.



I heard about her many times mentioned as a woman of great faith during worship, but I was even more curious, why would her epitaph be in Yale? So i Googled her and this is my discovery..

SARAH EDWARDS (1710 - 1758)

By all accounts, Sarah Edwards, daughter of James Pierpont, one of the principal founders of Yale, was a deeply pious woman. In 1728, she married the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, who initiated the revival in Northampton, Massachusetts, which grew into the First Great Awakening. Mrs. Edwards’s own religious life was marked by the extreme fervor of the Awakening, which became a major movement in American religious history. (Source)

Sarah who would many times be locked in his study for many hours of the day, sometime not even coming for dinner. Sarah was responsible for the the care of 11 children, she was an overseer of all areas of caring for and managing their home. She was indeed the Proverbs 31 woman. I think in the age of self indulgence and a society who desires to seek what feels good in his own mind, I think the life of Sarah has much to teach us as we pursuit God and learn to be more like Him. (Source)

Wow. I was teary eyed. I want my epitaph to be written like that when God takes me home. "A sincere friend, a courteous and obliging neighbor, a judiciously indulgent Mother, An affectionate and prudent Wife, and a very eminent Christian" She died at 48 years old.

Our journey continues and we arrived NYC in the afternoon after the long bus ride.

 NYC Biggest Cemetery!

Arch connecting New Jersey to NYC

Our room in New Jersey

Psalm 37

For the past few months, my heart is troubled by some decisions that I have to make.. Give it up or what? It's been hard. I am waiting for the Lord. I admit many times I "fret". God just kept pulling me back and reminding me have His perspective.

I'm reading the book called "Lies Women Believe" by Nancy Leigh DeMoss. Amazing book. These are my highlights for today from Chapter 10.

God's Word is sufficient to lead me, teach me and heal me. His WORD is alive and powerful; it is medicine for troubled hearts and peace for plagues minds. 


God CAN be TRUSTED. From time to time I have to remind myself, God has never once let me down-and He's not going to start now.

Psalm 37

 Do not fret because of evil men
       or be envious of those who do wrong;  
for like the grass they will soon wither,
       like green plants they will soon die away.  

Trust in the LORD and do good;
       dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture.  
Delight yourself in the LORD
       and he will give you the desires of your heart. 
Commit your way to the LORD;
       trust in him and he will do this: 
He will make your righteousness shine like the dawn,
       the justice of your cause like the noonday sun.  
Be still before the LORD and wait patiently for him;
       do not fret when men succeed in their ways,
       when they carry out their wicked schemes.  
Refrain from anger and turn from wrath;
       do not fret—it leads only to evil.  
For evil men will be cut off,
       but those who hope in the LORD will inherit the land.  
A little while, and the wicked will be no more;
       though you look for them, they will not be found.  
But the meek will inherit the land
       and enjoy great peace.