Staying busy is a good thing. Last night we had pizza and cake with the kids and Bethe and Lisa. Stayed up late talking. You always said that it is okay to cry and then laugh...both are healing.
This morning I started the day by playing tennis for the league. I lost, but the exercise was great. I just did not let anyone talk to me or hug me until after I played or I would cry. I did not even let the opponents know.
Got home and went to the square with Bethe and Lisa for lunch and then out to Clint's to visit the grands and see the changes that he has made at our old home. The place looks great with goats and chickens and gardens.
Back home to write thank you notes. Got dressed and headed back to the Square for supper. Then to the art center for Cinderella with Riley on stage and Becca as stage manager.
Back to the Square for desserts until closing time. Siblings and cousins filled the same table that we had your birthday party at last month.
In the morning, Mark and I are heading north to catch up with the kids on the Appalachian trail and will keep heading North until............ Good night, love you
Thursday, April 24, 2014
long day
Mom,
Yesterday was a long day. After saying goodbye to you, we went back to the house. We hope that we made you proud, all working together to do what needed to be done. We want to keep your legacy of love and service alive by following your example of unconditional love.
Love you Mom
Yesterday was a long day. After saying goodbye to you, we went back to the house. We hope that we made you proud, all working together to do what needed to be done. We want to keep your legacy of love and service alive by following your example of unconditional love.
Love you Mom
Good morning Mom
My break down moment will be when I will reach for the phone and Mom will not be there to answer. Anyone who knows me knows that I did most of the talking and mom would listen and congratulate me or console me. With that in mind I need to talk to Mom for a while.
Okay Mom, you win. This morning for breakfast I made cheese and eggs with round ham on hamburger bun. The only disagreement we had was when I started breakfast and you said that you were going to make breakfast because you needed to use up the round ham. Then you said to put the boiled eggs up for later, I told you that you did not need to cook me breakfast. You responded that you were NOT an invalid. There is no middle grown with you. You are either serving someone or an invalid. Mark told me to choose my battles. What made me think I could change an 83 year Mom who has take care of her kids decades. Who knew that was the last breakfast that you would cook for me.....
Okay Mom, you win. This morning for breakfast I made cheese and eggs with round ham on hamburger bun. The only disagreement we had was when I started breakfast and you said that you were going to make breakfast because you needed to use up the round ham. Then you said to put the boiled eggs up for later, I told you that you did not need to cook me breakfast. You responded that you were NOT an invalid. There is no middle grown with you. You are either serving someone or an invalid. Mark told me to choose my battles. What made me think I could change an 83 year Mom who has take care of her kids decades. Who knew that was the last breakfast that you would cook for me.....
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
The power of prayer
The last month of Mom's life, my bible studies kept landing on the power of prayer. This week I felt the power of power with a calmness that defied the situation that I was going through. So, I would like to thank all of you who have been praying for us and ask that you continue during these next two days....maybe longer.
The Bible says to "continue earnestly in prayer, being vigil in it with thanksgiving. The day that I took Mom to the Doctor that began this Journey, I read in Philippians, "Be anxious for nothing, but in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving , let you request be know and the peace of God which passes all understanding will guard your heart and minds".
I don't think that I ever got the part about praying in thanksgiving when things are going bad . But I now realize that I have a lot to be thankful for and need to thank Him.
We spend a lot of time with Mom this last Month
From birthday at The Square to the last day, we were there.
Mom did not suffer.
Her mind was strong to the last minute.
She died on her own term
She did not want her kids to have to make that decision for her
She amazed her Doctors and Nurses
She was surrounded by family
She gave us the time that we needed.
She is in Heaven
I thank God for the people that God has placed in my life.
My family, friends, neighbors, preachers, church, FB friends and especially the nurses.
My daughter- in- law that understood medical terms
The night nurse that was so strong and compassionate
The day nurse that lost her 83 year old mother last month and used her experience to help us
My (ex) sister in-law that we have not seen since he died, who happens to be a hospice nurse.
What a blessing she was. One of the last things mom said was she is NOT my EX-daughter- in- law.
Jeremiah 33:3 "Call to me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things."
Psalms 46:10 Be still and know that I am God.
James 5:16b " Pray for one another and you will be healed."
1 Thessalonian 5 "Rejoice without ceasing in everything and give thanks, for this is the will of God"
We can pray anytime, anywhere about anything. I am thankful, God still answers prayers. Mom is healed.
This weekends devotion started with this. "Even in the midst of uncertainty and anxiety, I will look to you and depend on your strength. I am thankful for both the good and the tough moments. I am thankful for what you taught me about the power of prayer. Count on God to get you through the coming week and trust Him with what you are presently facing .....
The Bible says to "continue earnestly in prayer, being vigil in it with thanksgiving. The day that I took Mom to the Doctor that began this Journey, I read in Philippians, "Be anxious for nothing, but in prayer and supplication with thanksgiving , let you request be know and the peace of God which passes all understanding will guard your heart and minds".
I don't think that I ever got the part about praying in thanksgiving when things are going bad . But I now realize that I have a lot to be thankful for and need to thank Him.
We spend a lot of time with Mom this last Month
From birthday at The Square to the last day, we were there.
Mom did not suffer.
Her mind was strong to the last minute.
She died on her own term
She did not want her kids to have to make that decision for her
She amazed her Doctors and Nurses
She was surrounded by family
She gave us the time that we needed.
She is in Heaven
I thank God for the people that God has placed in my life.
My family, friends, neighbors, preachers, church, FB friends and especially the nurses.
My daughter- in- law that understood medical terms
The night nurse that was so strong and compassionate
The day nurse that lost her 83 year old mother last month and used her experience to help us
My (ex) sister in-law that we have not seen since he died, who happens to be a hospice nurse.
What a blessing she was. One of the last things mom said was she is NOT my EX-daughter- in- law.
Jeremiah 33:3 "Call to me and I will answer you and show you great and mighty things."
Psalms 46:10 Be still and know that I am God.
James 5:16b " Pray for one another and you will be healed."
1 Thessalonian 5 "Rejoice without ceasing in everything and give thanks, for this is the will of God"
We can pray anytime, anywhere about anything. I am thankful, God still answers prayers. Mom is healed.
This weekends devotion started with this. "Even in the midst of uncertainty and anxiety, I will look to you and depend on your strength. I am thankful for both the good and the tough moments. I am thankful for what you taught me about the power of prayer. Count on God to get you through the coming week and trust Him with what you are presently facing .....
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Happy Birthday Mom
What can you say about a woman like my Mom. How is it that I still think of her as the 52 year old Mother of six and young widow. She has now been a widow longer than she was married to my Daddy. How did she spoil Daddy rotten and still make all of us kids feel special, Any thing that I do right as Mom and wife, I learned from the best. I really don't know how she did it all.
She worked full time and managed to be a Mom full time, which was rare, back in the day.
She had a four lady car-pool driving every day from Florida to Georgia, for decades.
She sewed most of mine and Barbara's clothes, including cheerleading outfits
She never missed ballgames for 4 sports, for 4 boys and 2 cheerleaders.
She cooked huge wonderful meals for a family of eight.
She is the best cook in the world.
She invented the breakfast in the pot way before the breakfast in a cup came to be.
She could stretch a dollar and we never realized money was tight.
She helped Daddy with his insurance books so that he could submit numbers on Thursdays
She shelled peas and beans while watching all of us play softball in the summer
She cooked meals while calling out spelling words or talking to us while we sat on dryer.
She was captain of her basket ball team and life guard at local pool near her home in Hahira
She and her two sisters were the prettiest girls in Hahira ( Just ask her Daddy)
She loved my Daddy and took great care of him until he died....way too young
She lost a son and I watched her heart break
She has more grandkids and great grandkids than I can count, plus great great grands
She remembers every ones birthday and send them a card with their age in cash
She has the longest Christmas gift list that I know of and buys/makes for all on her list.
Shes still drives ladies to church, doctor appoints and up town.
She is a charter member of Faith Baptist church, (the small church that I grew up in)
She is at the church every time the door opens unless her family needs her.
She still cooks huge amounts of food for dinner on the ground, family reunion, and funerals
She still teaches Sunday School and is Church secretary and loves her church family
She took care of Daddy, Her Mom and Dad, Little Granny and is still helping with her sister.
She is nurturing, loving and caring and has taught us so much.
She has a servants heart and loves the Lord and others well
She is my Mom and I love her
She worked full time and managed to be a Mom full time, which was rare, back in the day.
She had a four lady car-pool driving every day from Florida to Georgia, for decades.
She sewed most of mine and Barbara's clothes, including cheerleading outfits
She never missed ballgames for 4 sports, for 4 boys and 2 cheerleaders.
She cooked huge wonderful meals for a family of eight.
She is the best cook in the world.
She invented the breakfast in the pot way before the breakfast in a cup came to be.
She could stretch a dollar and we never realized money was tight.
She helped Daddy with his insurance books so that he could submit numbers on Thursdays
She shelled peas and beans while watching all of us play softball in the summer
She cooked meals while calling out spelling words or talking to us while we sat on dryer.
She was captain of her basket ball team and life guard at local pool near her home in Hahira
She and her two sisters were the prettiest girls in Hahira ( Just ask her Daddy)
She loved my Daddy and took great care of him until he died....way too young
She lost a son and I watched her heart break
She has more grandkids and great grandkids than I can count, plus great great grands
She remembers every ones birthday and send them a card with their age in cash
She has the longest Christmas gift list that I know of and buys/makes for all on her list.
Shes still drives ladies to church, doctor appoints and up town.
She is a charter member of Faith Baptist church, (the small church that I grew up in)
She is at the church every time the door opens unless her family needs her.
She still cooks huge amounts of food for dinner on the ground, family reunion, and funerals
She still teaches Sunday School and is Church secretary and loves her church family
She took care of Daddy, Her Mom and Dad, Little Granny and is still helping with her sister.
She is nurturing, loving and caring and has taught us so much.
She has a servants heart and loves the Lord and others well
She is my Mom and I love her
There's a storm acoming
Beth Moore, in her study of Paul's, talks about storms that come into our life. She gives us causes for storms and hints to make it through to the other side.
Sometimes God will deliver us from the storm and sometimes through the storm
Sometimes, we can feel the storm coming
Sometimes it is upon us before we know what hit us.
A storm can start slow and gather strength with all the debris that it picks up along the way, wreaking havoc.
A storm can be like a flash flood that hit us suddenly, with out warning, a phone call, flashing lights, or Doctors words that changes our world in an instant.
Some causes for storms
1) rebellion
2) spiritual warfare
3) for our growth and God's glory
4) someones bad judgement that effect us
Like sailors fighting the storm out in the ocean, there are basic survival skills
1) Don't let loose of the anchor, stay anchored to Christ during the calms day so that we will be anchored to Him during the storms.
2) Don't give in to the storm and despair over the outcome...sometimes you just have to ride the storm out to completion. Remember, God is still in control and He controls the storm
3) Through out excess baggage
4) Throw out all man-made solution that we depend on and depend totally on God.
5) Never give up hope. Hang on
6) Listen for God to speak to us through the storm
through His word, nature, fellow believers etc
Jonah and Paul both went through storms in their lives. Both made it to their destination through the storm and ultimately obeyed God and were successful servants. But attitude of obedient makes a huge difference to us and to those we are called to serve. Jonah was successful and an entire city was saved. But he lacked joy in his success. Paul had joy through out a life of turmoil.
A storm is on the horizon. We will all go through storms in our lives. We are called to hold on to the umbrella of blessings from God during storms for ourselves and for all those God has entrusted us with.
Sometimes God will deliver us from the storm and sometimes through the storm
Sometimes, we can feel the storm coming
Sometimes it is upon us before we know what hit us.
A storm can start slow and gather strength with all the debris that it picks up along the way, wreaking havoc.
A storm can be like a flash flood that hit us suddenly, with out warning, a phone call, flashing lights, or Doctors words that changes our world in an instant.
Some causes for storms
1) rebellion
2) spiritual warfare
3) for our growth and God's glory
4) someones bad judgement that effect us
Like sailors fighting the storm out in the ocean, there are basic survival skills
1) Don't let loose of the anchor, stay anchored to Christ during the calms day so that we will be anchored to Him during the storms.
2) Don't give in to the storm and despair over the outcome...sometimes you just have to ride the storm out to completion. Remember, God is still in control and He controls the storm
3) Through out excess baggage
4) Throw out all man-made solution that we depend on and depend totally on God.
5) Never give up hope. Hang on
6) Listen for God to speak to us through the storm
through His word, nature, fellow believers etc
Jonah and Paul both went through storms in their lives. Both made it to their destination through the storm and ultimately obeyed God and were successful servants. But attitude of obedient makes a huge difference to us and to those we are called to serve. Jonah was successful and an entire city was saved. But he lacked joy in his success. Paul had joy through out a life of turmoil.
A storm is on the horizon. We will all go through storms in our lives. We are called to hold on to the umbrella of blessings from God during storms for ourselves and for all those God has entrusted us with.
Tuesday, March 18, 2014
Love
I read the Bible
I study the Bible
But do I apply
what the Bible says
to my life and let it
change me to be who
God wants be to be.
I love love
I love the Love Chapter
Love runs throughout the Bible
Jesus says that Love is:
the greatest commandment
that encompasses all the rest
This weeks Devotion says
In a world that talks a lot about love
people don't see much of the real thing
It's not complicated
1) keep eyes on savior
2) love others as He loves us
3) Look for opportunities to
love and serve others
It is easy to love
friends and family
But do I really love
Do I love people who
are different than me
Can I look past the
outer appearance
and really see the
person in front of me
as God sees them
OR
Do I try to combine
His Love
with my partiality
Folks, I've got a long way to go.
Love
I study the Bible
But do I apply
what the Bible says
to my life and let it
change me to be who
God wants be to be.
I love love
I love the Love Chapter
Love runs throughout the Bible
Jesus says that Love is:
the greatest commandment
that encompasses all the rest
This weeks Devotion says
In a world that talks a lot about love
people don't see much of the real thing
It's not complicated
1) keep eyes on savior
2) love others as He loves us
3) Look for opportunities to
love and serve others
It is easy to love
friends and family
But do I really love
Do I love people who
are different than me
Can I look past the
outer appearance
and really see the
person in front of me
as God sees them
OR
Do I try to combine
His Love
with my partiality
Folks, I've got a long way to go.
Love
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