Struggling To Find Ourselves

…When we say we can’t handle anymore?

I had a close friend ask me that a couple of hours ago.  Not only is this friend dealing with some MAJOR health issues and personal issues, but they found out last night that a member of the church that they were fairly close too was coming back from the doctor’s office when she told her husband that she didn’t feel good, and had what they are assuming was a heart attack and died.  I wasn’t sure what to tell my friend, other than I didn’t think that God got mad when we feel like we’ve reached the end of our ropes…..didn’t Job in the Bible?  Maybe Jonah had too?  I mean he was running from God for a little while.  What about the king that wasn’t eating while his child was sick, but when he received word that the child had died, he got up and was eating, MUCH to the astonishment of his servants.  I would have to say that not eating because your child is sick is POSSIBLY trying to tell God that you can’t handle anymore, don’t you think?  God is a loving God…and He understands our human weaknesses.  Sometimes we may wonder “Why Now, Lord?”, but someday, I believe it will all make sense.  Lord knows that I’ve been to the point myself when I have said that I couldn’t take anymore…..ALOT!!!

I’d be interested in your opinions…..do you think God gets mad when we’ve had enough?  If so, why?  If not, why not?

God Bless!!!

We have had a busy couple of weeks.  The days are going by SOOOOOOOO fast.  I have been filling my time with helping people, it seems.  Someone needs this….someone needs that….someone needs something else.  What better way to fill my time with my son gone?  WORKS FOR ME!!!!  Keeps me busy, anyway.

Have been thinking, planning, debating, contemplating the last couple of weeks.  Have been talking to people about possibilities….and probabilities over the next few weeks, months, and even the next year or so.  Have had ALOT of possibilities running through my head.  Now all I need to do is sort out what are plausible and the ones that are NOT plausible, and figure out which direction we need to go on some of this stuff.  Soooooo many possibilities…..soooooo many directions to go in.

Have been getting a bit of reading done here and there, in between everything else.  NOT much….but more than at other times.

Basically, I have just been on the go alot.

My knee is doing….so-so.  They did an MRI and they say nothing was torn, but I’m still not seeing much improvement on it.  Gave up wearing the brace a couple of weeks ago because it’s so restricting…I can’t drive with it….I can’t do this…I can’t do that….just makes it VERY difficult to function.  What’s that old saying….”If you want something done, you’d best do it yourself”?  I’m getting by with it the way it is at the moment, so I guess we will just see how it goes in the next week or two.

Other than that, not much going on here, so I guess we will catch you later…..Blessings to all in ABUNDANCE!!!!

Hey, LOOK!!!!  I’m back again!!!  Can you believe that?  And it’s not even going to have a link in it, either!!!  HOW do ya’ll rate?….*L*

LOTS going on right now.  Have been trying to stay on top of everything.  It’s been…challenging, to say the least…especially the last few days!!!

We got MRI results back on my knee, which I twisted over two weeks ago and went to the doctor about.  According to the nurse that called me yesterday, I didn’t tear anything…it’s just a sprain….*dry look*  I’m not too convinced, for a couple of reasons.  #1:  It’s not getting much better.  After two weeks, you’d think there would be a marked improvement of SOME sort, and there’s not.  #2:  I have wondered before if the local radiologist at our hospital got their degree from a cracker jack box.  Anyway, I guess we’ll see what the next couple of weeks bring, and go from there.  I guess it’s a good thing I haven’t been looking for a job, or have a job outside the home at this point, because my knee probably wouldn’t allow me to work anyway.

I have had two gifts given to me this week that I have never had given to me before.  One of them was a Bible from the church across the street for joining the church.  It was from the ladies of the church.  One of those nice ones with the family tree and marriage records in the front of it….The only thing I find wrong with it is that it is a King James Version, and I don’t generally speak Elizabethan English….*L*  But, I WILL use it, nonetheless.

The other gift was a bottle of perfume….name brand perfume.  Talk about a pleasant surprise!!!  I asked the person who gave it to me how much it cost.  Their comment was “Does it matter?”  I told them that it DID matter, because I was the type that, when I am given something I MIGHT like, I’d like to know how expensive it is, so I will know whether I can afford it or not.  They didn’t tell me the price on it, even with my logic….*LOL*  Of course, one bottle of perfume SHOULD last quite a while, even if I wear some every day, so I guess we’ll cross the bridge of getting more when we get there.  Kind of flattered me to be given perfume…..what’s that saying?  “Flattery will get you everywhere”?  Well, I can’t say it will get you EVERYWHERE with me…..but it IS a nice thought!!!  THANK YOU to the person who gave me the perfume!!!

Well, enough rambling for now, me thinks….have to get out of this chair for a bit and relieve my knee some.  You all take care and have a blessed day!!

That’s about all I have time for right now, folks.  Sorry for the delay in entries….just have ALOT going on right now.  I SHOULD be able to be back sometime later in the week, though it looks like I have alot on my plate for the rest of the week.  They say time flies when you’re having fun…..I can’t say mine is really flying, but at least I’m keeping busy!!!

God Bless….More later maybe….

Life has DEFINITELY been keeping me busy  lately!!!  Too much going on to really go into too much detail about any of it, though.

Have been helping a friend remodel a house, though we are only to the tearing apart stage at the moment.  My son is at his Father’s for most of June and July, so I figured that it would be a nice project to help my friend with AND it would help fill some of my time.  Kind of killing two birds with one stone, type thing.

Twisted my knee yesterday.  So this morning, it’s all swollen up and VERY painful to bend.  I have a feeling I MIGHT have torn the muscle, but won’t know for sure for a couple of days.  Wouldn’t be the first muscle I’ve torn, if I DID tear it…..

Had a nice rain last night!!!  Not an overly large amount…only about an inch or so at my house, but it was nice!!!

Have to attempt to run to town this afternoon to take care of a couple of things.  Would like to go over and help with the house again too, if I can.  We’ll have to see what the day brings, though.

More later….God Bless!!  I LOVE YOU, BUDDY!!!

Yep, it is DEFINITELY Spring….FINALLY!!!  We had about 3 inches of rain last night.  Over the last week or so, the flowers and trees have been sprouting like crazy, and growing about 6 inches a day, it seems.  Our flowers are doing SOOOOO great!!!  We’ve even planted some new ones out back, and a couple in the flowerbed out in front of my house where I had other flowers the last 2 years that have been slowly dying out.

AND we are trying our hand at a couple of new things….experiments to see what happens basically.  So far, so good!!!

God Bless!!!

With the coming of somewhat warmer weather, our busy days continue.  Nothing real major….just things that have been keeping us busy most days. 

We are all looking foward to warmer weather coming and STAYING here before too long.  We are in a weather pattern where it is 65 degrees one day and 30 degrees the next, so it’s kind of taxing everyone’s immune systems, as well as giving everyone in the neighborhood itchy feet, because we all have Spring fever and want to be able to be outside ALL day to enjoy the sun and get some outside stuff done.  But then, the North wind blows again, and cools everything off and drives us all back indoors.  Oh, well, at least we’re in a pretty well insulated house where we don’t feel the cold like we used too!!!  We thank God for that every time it starts getting cold outside again.

Not much else going on here at the moment.  Have LOTS of possible/probable plans for this Spring and Summer!!!  Have some of those plans already in the process of being put together, and we are REALLY looking forward to some of them!!!

Time to go reboot the laundry, I think, so I’m going to get out of here for now.  You all have a good weekend, and God Bless!!!

This is a little something that Dad found awhile back, and brought home because he thought I’d like it!!!  Enjoy!!!

Make a Right onto Believeth Blvd.

Keep straight and go through the Green Light, which is Jesus Christ.

There, you must turn onto the Bridge of Faith, which is over troubled water.

When you get off the bridge, make a Right turn and Keep Straight.

You are on the King’s Highway - Heaven-bound.

Keep going for three miles: One for the Father, One for the Son, and One for the Holy Ghost.

Then exit off onto Grace Blvd.

From there, make a Right turn on Gospel Lane.

Keep Straight and then make another Right on Prayer Road.

As you go on your way, yield not to the traffic on Temptation Avenue.

Also, avoid SIN STREET because it is a DEAD END.

Pass up Envy Drive and Hate Avenue.

Also, pass Hypocrisy Street, Gossiping Lane, and Backbiting Blvd.

However, you have to go down Long-suffering Lane, Persecution Blvd. and Trials & Tribulations Avenue.

But that’s all right, because VICTORY Street is straight ahead!!

Well, folks, I think that’s about all the damage I care to do on here for now.  Sooooooo, in the spirit of all of the books we’ve read lately, we’re going to say

“THE END”

and call it a night.

Have a good weekend, all, and God Bless!!!

My son and I have had some….interesting….discussions here lately.  Some of them have just been about whatever has been going on, others have been about books we’ve been reading, and still others have been about the Bible and religion.

One of our conversations about the Bible here about a month or so ago was about the verse in Matthew that says that you are supposed to love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.  When my son asked me what that meant, I told him that, normally, the ones that persecute you are your enemies, which basically meant that we are to pray for our enemies.  He thinks about it for just a minute, and then he says “That’s not right!”.  I explained to him that it was a VERY difficult thing to do sometimes, but that’s what Jesus wants us to do…pray for our enemies.  He repeated “That’s not right!”…I kind of chuckled at him and told him that we didn’t have to like it, but that’s what Jesus/God wants us to do here on Earth, and that’s what we should do.  He repeated again that that was not right, and I asked him if he was willing to tell God that that wasn’t right when he got to Heaven.  He didn’t even hesitate before he said “Yeah!!! ‘Cause that’s not right!!!”…*LOL*  I can see my son going up to God in Heaven and saying that they needed to have a discussion because “That’s not right!!!”…*L*

Oh, the joy that children bring into our houses!!!
God Bless!!!