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I feel as if I have been gone so long. I miss blogging and communicating with my blogging friends. I thought I better get on and update everyone. I also want to thank you all for praying for my family and for Mel’s health.
Mel has been moved to transitional care so that he can have physical therapy. The facility is very nice, much better then the one he spent 6 weeks in last summer. His attitude has improved over the last two days. Craig and I were really worried there for a bit. He was very lethargic and very intent on what the date was. I was concerned that he was trying to plan his death to fall on the anniversary of Mom’s death, April 3rd.
I once again got to practice my assertiveness skills. That is truly a joke. Most of you know that this isn’t an area that I struggle with. It only took me once to explain things to the staff and they have been wonderful ever since. I know that they didn’t care for me that first day but I have really been very nice to them since. I don’t normally approach people sternly but when you are trying to do something that is going to kill my Dad. I kind of get touchy. I don’t enjoy having to be that person. I try to avoid it at all costs. I am usually very nice to the people that are serving me or working with the public.
I do want to thank you all for your prayers. Prayers for Mel, Craig and myself. The update regarding Craig and him wanting me to read the Bible to him is……Amazing! He even turned off a game the other night and said “Hey, Isn’t it time to read?” It has been amazing to share this with him. It has opened up his eyes to a few things.
One is that the Bible isn’t full of all the strange human rules about church. Things like you must wear a tie to church and women must wear panty hose. As well as some of the other rules that churches put on you…Not the Lord.
The second thing that he is figuring out is that I am SERIOUS about God. That for the rest of my life I am going to serve the Lord. I think this is actually a comfort to him. He has made a couple of inquiries that give me hope that he will one day be an openly praying husband. That is the one thing about him not being active in Christ that I miss the most. I want my husband to pray with me. Baby Steps!! The Lord is working in him even his dad sees it.
I love you all. I am sorry if I have been neglecting any of you. I am also apologetic for the depressing prayer requests. Thankful for them I am, but you all know that I like to be fun some of the time. Lately that hasn’t been in me.
Please if you have any prayer requests send them my way. I love to pray for others! I owe a lot of you some serious prayer time!!
Things in life have been crazy. I can’t even believe that I haven’t posted for a week.
My father in Law is back in the hospital. He broke the upper thigh bone on the leg that had the mid-calf amputation last summer. Craig still can’t find a job. Shasta County’s unemployment rate is up to 16%. If it was just Craig and I, We would have packed up our animals and special things and gone somewhere that has jobs. Maybe even Oklahoma. 
Craig’s older brother called the other day. He was talking to Craig about working and how we should go somewhere else to live. Craig at this point asked him who would come and take care of Dad. Boy did the tune change from Randy then….”Oh, yeah! You guys are tied to Redding. I have no idea what Dad would do…since he can’t live alone. I guess you can’t leave.” He is such a caring man. LOL (I am being sarcastic).
Pete Wilson, Without Wax, started a Bible reading of Matthew. You read one chapter a day and by the time Easter is here you will have finished. As many of you know Craig doesn’t attend church with me but our Lord is working in him. In ways that he doesn’t see but I do. All of you that have been praying for him, I thank you. Craig has started asking me if I have done my daily reading. Just that one little chapter a day in Matthew. He asked me if I would mind waiting for him, and then read it outloud to him.
I really want to Thank You Lord for making him interested, for hearing our prayers. Lord, I ask that you continue to remove the scales from his eyes, that you continue to peak his interest.
I read this the other day.
“I am beside you.
Can you not feel my presence?”
After I read this to Craig…He said that he can feel God’s presence.
Craig can FEEL God’s Presence, I am one happy wife right now.
As I was catching up on reading posts tonight, I came across Walking with Faith Hope Love. Christine’s 10 year old daughter wrote an essay about Going Green. She gives great reasons as to why we should all Go Green. I think that she is wise for her age. Click the Link and Enjoy her Essay.
Her Mom designs beautiful jewelry at LifeVerse Jewelry.
I received two gifts Friday evening.
The first one was that my daughter, Hope, came home from a trip. Hope had left Wednesay morning while it was still dark out. She is in 8th grade and is a student in AVID. AVID is an acronym that stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination. This program is an in-school academic support program for grades 4-12 that prepares students for college eligibility and success. She spent 3 days touring universities and colleges. She came home excited, wanting to go to college. Anything that motivates her to do well in life I am all for.
The second gift I received was from Hope. She brought me the shells in the picture. Hope went walking on the beach in Santa Cruz instead of spending all of her time in the arcade at the Boardwalk. I love shells, I grew up in Santa Cruz. My teen years were spent at the beach and the cliffs of Santa Cruz. We had sent her with some money for food and stuff. I had asked her to not buy us anything but to use her money for food. When she got home she gave me my shells and then apologized that she didn’t buy me anything else.
She brought me the best presents ever. She brought me a beautiful Daughter that is interested in College. Then while away she took the time to walk the beach that I use to walk when I was her age and she gathered me shells.
I am one Happy Mom!!!
I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive.
Forgiveness ought to be like a cancelled note – torn in two, and burned up,
so that it never can be shown against one. ~Henry Ward Beecher
I have been working on the Forgetting part of Forgiveness. It seems to be a little more difficult.
How are you doing with it?
