IThessalonians 5

This will be short and sweet..... This is a great chapter to read, hope you really sit down and read and give it lots of thought.. This is the time for these things to happen and I don't want anyone to be caught off guard.God bless you as you read and truly ponder the meaning of this chapter. Sunday is the big ALS walk at Fred Beekman park...this will be my first year and excited to meet some people I have been talking with. ALS is a terrible disease and I can only hope that a cure will come before  it takes anymore lives. Some people don't even live  even a year after diagnosis. There are not enough  things known about this disease because its so rare, but I feel more an more people are getting it..so hopefully they will work hard for a cure.  ....

Handicapped or

   One day feeling like I had a pretty good handle on life.Felt like I was taking good care of myself, exercising,walking,drinking water,eating good food.  Then one day I felt like I couldn't make it around the block,felt like I couldn't make it up the steps,just felt so tired all the time. So went to the doctor and after many tests and being referred to another Dr, I was told I have ALS Lou Gehrigs disease. That day I didn't really think anything of it.In my heart I felt like I new it was going to be ok. In fact the Dr. told me I had great coping skills.I said no just have many praying for me.
         Well fast forward and here it is going into 11 months of the disease,but now thinking back I think its been  going on for 2 or more years. People look at me and tell me how amazed they are  and they say you are an inspiration.They say you are humble never complain. They are amazed at how I'm handling this, losing my ability to walk,talk,swallow,breathe and all my capabilities.
      This disease promises to rob me of everything, not just my physical, but my husband,my children,my granbabies, my life.   I don't think of myself as someone that is brave, but people say that I'am.  What am I going to do?  What can I do?  I have to deal with it,I have to learn how to keep overcoming obstacles that are thrown in front of me.
   If we don't overcome these obstacles in our lives,then they will swallow us up. Our children are watching us ,the world is watching,so we can overcome, Jesus did it and He showed us how. Trust Him He will help us through this .
       I get mad, I get blue,I get depressed, I feel sorry for myself too.

  I just can't stay there in those places,because it promises to destroy me quicker then the disease. Being bitter and feeling sorry for myself doesn't do me one bit of good.In fact when I feel that way I got to change it  ASAP.If I don't it will just hang there dragging me down further.I'm not brave I'm just dealing with it,but I'm not doing it alone,  I have people...have you heard that fraze..I have people...not just any people,I have people that love me,care for me,pray for me and I have God.If know one stood with me then I know He is always near.I do admit I felt abandoned by Him at first when I started losing my legs, but I new God loved me so much .He promised never to leave me...ever. So I  deal with it and I'm thankful for people that  pray for me.  My husband who goes beyond what a husband should have to do, but Im glad he wants to,he shows me more & more of his love. I'm not glad I have this sickness,but it is teaching me things that I never would have learned any other way. So I take it one day at a time and hold tightly to His GRACE that gets me through each day.I know there are more obstacles I have to overcome and I will deal with them when I get there.  I hope this has helped someone in someway........Iam still believing I will be completely healed, cause my God is bigger then any puny disease..to Him be all the glory!!!Jesus:0)

Times of our lives

Thinking about when life was so much different then it is today.I don't know but it seems like life was just a bit easier.Maybe cause I was a kid..    We had so much fun just playing in the creek beds and pretending we were  princesses or cowgirls with horses(sticks)...but the point was we had to use our imagination.I loved clinbing trees,it was so cool you could climb up there and  they would never know you were there. If it was an apple tree you had food. I used to live down the street from a cemetary and we would walk through it all the time.I mean during the day it was ok.

One night us girls, Becky an Sylvia and me were coming back from somewhere in town.it was a small town and it had gotten dusk.People didn't worry to much back then cause it was still safe to be out after dark.

Well we got to the cemetary and we really didn't want to cut through but it was getting late,so we decided to go through...were walking and all of sudden from a distance we see this flag waving back and forth  all by itself.  We were little so our imagination was big.  Well we were scared but my oldest sis Sylvia said its one of the boys.  Sylvia went walking through not paying any attention to it,but me & Becky decided to check it out...brave lil souls, just as we approached the flag waving...out jumps my brother Jeff...Boys can be sooo bad.

While we are on this subject of Jeff my 2nd oldest brother I have another story to tell about him.

One night we were told to get up to bed, so us 3 girls started up the steps as we hit the top step there down the hall,  all dark,was this hairy looking ,glowing eyes type of creature.

Well what do 3 little girls do...SCREAM!....and run or fly down the steps.My dad  about came unglued and yes we got in big trouble as dad took us up the steps of course nothing was there and my brother Jeff was in bed sleeping.

I think dad always new what was really up but  he let the boys get away with  it once in a while. I have to tell you what he made the creature out of though....Moms furry winter coat with his stand up punching bag,her white eraser  lip stick for the face ,which was horrible looking, and a flashlight sitting on the floor under it to give it a glow.

Yeah it was a creature,I mean I can still remember it today so it made an impression. So thank you brother Jeff for scaring us girls half to death..I know it was so much fun for you.  Life really was fun then...there are some more of these stories I will tell later, I have to find pictures to go with it.