Urgent Call to prayer for the children. Please.

Thank you all for your prayers this week. I am doing very well tonight.
Please pray for a little soul I know and her Mother, for she is in a struggle and is only 10 years old dealing with this.
This is a re post from Oct 23rd 2007

I suppose I risk offending.
It is my heart is to say that I really care about all of you.
I really do not like division and judgments based on religion. (the last post) This is what I came to on my 20th birthday. A kind woman who came to me, when I was in desperation asking God to show me why to live. She fed me as my body was hungry being with little food and faulty shelter. She laid an open Bible on my lap to this passage. I said O.K. God whatever you have for my life I am yours and I take it as truth, that YOU do love me.
My life turned around but not without a great battle and struggle to be free.
At this time of year my heart wants for all of you, SAFETY and REST.

So Please pardon me if I offend, but you matter more to me than what rejection I may face in sharing this text.

Safety in this present day and for ever throughout eternity be yours my dear readers. May God's peace and rest envelop your lives.

It is a few days now from when the ceremonies will begin. I weep inside with knowledge to great to understand on my own. So I ask all of you no matter your traditions of beliefs Please pray for the children in the sights of those who would worship another than the Living God. These children are in for a life stunting event and the people who perform such deeds are sentenced to an eternity that grieves me to think of happening to even my own greatest enemies. Please pray that they would turn from their deeds and repent. That God would even heal them. Sending legions of angels to battle over those lives in the cross fire.
I am weeping having known the price personally. I have in my recovery, many dear friends who could not bear the consequences of the harm done to them. Who's lives were lost to the devistation of the knowledge of what occurred to them. The lives now gone on before me, yet I live knowing the seriousness of this next few days. Please pray for me as the faces of memories are bolted behind the vial of love. This is such a hard time of the year for me. I feel so very lonely in this. I am so sad that the people are blind and ridicule me, and the truth as if it does not really happening. I know of a fact that it is still occurring. I am helping now a dear adoptive mother of a child who within the last 6 years had the same things done to her. This is real people. Please pray for her and this dear child trying to overcome the devastation's of Satanic Ritualistic Abuse. These groups are real.
I weep and pray and strain to stay in the quiet of the stillness, in the palm of HIS hand embraced as more than a survivor, an overcome! I still stand in the cross hairs of the spiritual evil that would desire my silence.
The light can not be silenced, but when even fellow Christians attempt to dismiss me I count it as loss to the glory of the great Most High who has the power to even in this overcome within me to cause me to speak.
Please pray for the children who are being dedicated on those stone tables of hell. I know that like myself they will be given mercy in the midst. I know that God will give them a spiritual way of escape. But to have to learn how to live after a life of survival and existence is harder than most can do. I do not want even one to ever have to know what I have known.

Good Day!

My dear loving friends. This year has really been a changing point for me. The study I did has helped me move from Feelings of dread and fear into a place of knowledge. I know what I believe and can think clearly through the feelings over what I experienced in my youth. I do have freedom. It is as if a veil is over me today and I am doing remarkably well. I have had no PTSD today No triggers or flashbacks either. I am grateful for all the loving prayers I feel bathed in. Sleep was absent last night ,but due to the steroids not the terror of the visions that once haunted my mind.

Well this is the day that the Lord has made and I am Glad in it.

No longer a victim of years past I now stand firm in the Knowledge of why I believe what I believe and the fear is greatly diminished. I had a wonderful in depth conversation with a young man who does some of the therapy on my knee and back. He asked some really good questions about the difference between religion and relationship with God. He asked to know what I thought of this holiday. I was ready with answer, for the first time not locking up in a false sense of threat. It was awesome!

I had a busy morning with the children at the school. I am so surprised that a good 80-90 % of the costumes k-6 were gory and gruesome and I was alright. I just kept looking at the eyes of the children thinking why would any parent in their right mind dress their precious kid up in death? The children were not very original at all. Maybe 10-20% of them had a little imagination in the dress up.

Dash was a hit! His robot drew shouts and comments in every room we entered. His face beamed with pride and he really felt good about himself. The parade wove in and out and back and forth through the school. His robot was the most original costume there. It was just a robot!? It was almost all witches, gruels and goblins and a few Elvira type. One little girl was an angle and a boy was a motor cross biker ( I liked that on a lot) ,I used to ride dirt bike in my glory days.
Sweet beauty was joined by several other Dorothy's but not so real the dress was so pretty and the others were costumes it really looked different. I stayed with the class Dash was in to help the little ones stay on the course so I missed out on Beauty today, I have to catch up with her when she gets home. I saw a bit of pride well up in me as room by room my boy was being raved over. I made that robot and people liked it. That was sorta exciting.

You can see these were the kids that marched through his class they had some cute thing on.

Tails from the scales Weel #5 +2

193 starting

191 week one

191 week two (at 189 on Friday)

193 week three

190 week four (189 peeked at me)

192 week five

Pregnizone after the ER visit last Sunday morning has effected me, candy and stress. Oh well.
Next week I sure hope to do better. I am able to walk around the block twice now! I walked all morning at the kids school. Therapy is going well.

Class Costume Parade

This is a stretch for me. It is the first time I have had to face this dilemma. I have been a home schooling mother for all these years. Until this year I was able to avoid these issues that I have found in the past so grueling. I supported the kids as to be a part of a whole at school in having a costume for the morning. We have our family night movie tradition with giant bowls of candy and quality time together. All lights off and we enjoy each other. However in the morning I will attend the school event to be present for the children and to assist the class rooms. I will feel better there with my eyes on them than at home not knowing what they might be exposed to. I am hoping to find fun and pleasure as I celebrate them.

Dash still needs the gray pants on and he will be set

Miss Beauty as "Dorothy"

Wordless Wedensday

A birthday gift I made her in 2002

"History of Holloween" Check out this sight! I have many very strong feeling about this time of year. I was raised by the descendants of the KKK who a

"History of Holloween" Check out this sight!
I have many very strong feeling about this time of year. I was raised by the descendants of the KKK who also practiced their own sick distorted Satanic Rituals. So how could I not have very STRONG FEELINGS.
However recently I was lovingly compelled (provoked, in that I was so charged over the feelings and I did not want to do it :) to examine this holiday from other than "Feelings". I have investigated history, myth and fictional concepts that have now left me better educated.

When one is raised bred and groomed in fear it can leave a pretty bad psychological limp. One that has been crippling to me all of my life. I recently told about a childhood event that was pulled out of me over the anger I felt having to face these hard feeling verses fact. I sought fact. If I am to overcome the fear that is so frustrating and divisive I must pursue knowledge.

The above reference gave me an open view of reality. It taught me about the HISTORY.
Everyone and everything has a history. Our history will effect how we see things as well as the view we pass down to future generations.

The following is a synopsis of the two part research paper that is founded is history. Very good read!

Occult and Satanic Elements:

Deuteronomy 18:11 says: "There shall not be found among you anyone who makes his son or his daughter pass through the fire, one who uses divination, one who practices witchcraft, or one who interprets omens, or a sorcerer, or one who casts a spell, or a medium, or a spiritist, one who calls up the dead."

One of the present realities we must be aware of is that in recent decades, pagan, cultic groups, and some Satanists have claimed Halloween as a "holy day." As Christians we must avoid any action forbidden by our Lord. We should never seek to know the future through horoscopes, divination, or astrology. We should not seek to talk to or call up the dead (necromancy). We should not pray to other gods. We should not seek "power" over other people by the use of spells or supernatural forces. The practice of pagan witchcraft is specifically prohibited in both the Old and New Testaments (Leviticus 19:31; Acts 19:18-20; Galatians 5:19-21; Revelation 22:15). Witchcraft (whether pagan or Satanic) is dangerous and harmful. We are to submit to God and resist the devil; not form alliances with him (James 4:7). The Bible certainly makes it clear that we should not participate with pagans in speaking to the dead on October 31 (or any other day)!

2. Non-Satanic elements:

Although some devil worshipers have adopted Halloween as their "holiday," the day itself did not grow out of Satanic practices. Halloween has some weak connections to Celts celebrating a new year, but most of present day Halloween customs are neither pagan, nor Satanic. Here is a table of practices and dates as they are connected with Halloween:

practice	divination	necromancy	black cats, spiders	tricks & pranks	costuming	pumpkin carving	trick or treat	slasher movies
earliest date	ancient	?	Middle Ages	?	early 1900s(?)	after 1750s	1930s	1950s
original intent	pagan religious practice	pagan religious practice	fear & easy labels	"those nasty fairies"	stop pranks(?)	ward off evil	stop pranks	make money
Biblically forbidden	yes	yes	no	if destructive	no	no	no	yes - Phil 4:8

pumpkin carving

trick or treat

slasher movies

Earliest date:after1750s, 1930s, 1950s
Source: Irish, Boy Scouts & others, Hollywood
Original Intent: ward off evil, stop pranks, make money
Biblically forbidden:No, No, yes-Phil 4:8

He also writes,
What I have tried to show is that much of the association with witchcraft and Satanic elements has actually come from Christian misinformation attempting to "demonize" this holiday. There is no evidence that the original Celtic celebration was Satanic. Much of the information on Halloween that Christians preach and write about is plainly based on shoddy research. While Christians should absolutely avoid pagan practices, Christian hype tends to make us overreact to benign folk elements of Halloween. We appear like zany buffoons to the world when there is no necessity for doing so. Furthermore, our groundless retreat from all elements of Halloween leaves a vacuum that wicked elements delight to fill.
I also found this paragraph very interesting
"By the turn of the century, Halloween had become an ever more destructive way to “let off steam” for crowded and poor urban dwellers. As Stuart Schneider writes in 'Halloween in America' (1995), vandalism that had been limited to tipping outhouses; removing gates, soaping windows and switching shop signs, by the 1920’s had become nasty -- with real destruction of property and cruelty to animals and people. Perhaps not coincidentally, the disguised nighttime terrorism and murders by the Ku Klux Klan reached their apex during this decade. Schneider writes that neighborhood committees and local city clubs such as the Boy Scouts then mobilized to organize safe and fun alternatives to vandalism. School posters of the time call for a “Sane Halloween.” Good children were encouraged to go door to door and receive treats from homes and shop owners, thereby keeping troublemakers away. By the 1930’s, these “beggar’s nights” were enormously popular and being practiced nationwide, with the “trick or treat” greeting widespread from the late 1930s."

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This was during my mothers youth and then it became a part of my youth, as the generations grew into the events of my youth. This helps me a lot in knowing how it came about. My Mothers youth was post depression. The times were waxing Evil as even the Nazi were recruiting the youth of our country in the very late 1920's as my own mother reported to me.

So I still have strong feelings, but I have a better understanding and knowledge base to form my beliefs. I stand corrected to be basing my views only on feelings was counter productive. To any one I may have offended I stand corrected.

Evil is a real and present danger. Fear that is crippling is also a real and present danger. The gift of fear is wisdom. I have unwrapped my fear and will now base my choices in a place of knowledge. I must follow my heart so as to NEVER sin against my own conscience. I will do so however in freedom not the bondage of fear.
Originally posted 10-17-07

NaNoWriMo

NaNoWriMo
"Gumbo Lily" has a wonderful Post by my dear friend Michelle over at "Life in the midst of writing". If you have ever wanted to write that novel go check it out.

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Ooo I like this knife! My birth Father was Inuit Indian. I never met him but this is a sweet treasure from his land.

Tooth fairy news

This morning the loving tooth fairy came to visit beauty again. That is four times in two weeks!
I found this cute doll on a clearance rack for $3.00.
This little girl is set for x rays for her braces in just 2 weeks.
God's timing is so perfect.

New Gate Material

Folks gave us the left over lumber for the gate to be redone.
It is treated so as not to warp or curl. I asked God for a gate repair sometime ago. My neighbor across the street redid hers and it really made her place look so nice. It will go a long way toward the repair. I can spray paint it , Beloved will need to fix the slant in the gate.
Thank you folks for your generosity.

Tackle It Tuesday

Lunches are made, Hubby's off to work, Kids are off to school

So far two loads washed one in the dryer

At lunch time.

Warm weather good to hang out now lets have some lunch!

Lunch break! Noon straight up!
Tasks accomplished to the tunes of "Cold Mountain" soundtrack. Thanks Beloved darlin' for the good tunes!

One load in dishwasher before 7 a.m.
Just a reminder girls ER visits set ya back:)
Hubby is sweet he was just too tired too.

10 A.M. Beloved look you do not need to do dishes tonight!


The joy of home cooked meals .
Have I ever told you folks about this lotion it is the BEST!

8:45 so far two loads into dishwasher! I'm heading out for my walk! :) Listening to the joy and beauty of "Appalachian trail" On the "Zen". Oh sounds of Whiperills and red winged black birds and acoustical guitar. I found myself wrapped in worship and happy to have actually made it around the block twice. It time with such little knee pain in years!

Walking around the block twice (done)
Therapy exercises
kitchen (done)
Michelle, I even made my self my mid morning snack (banana silk tofu smoothly) yum!

laundry, laundry ,laundry :) swappin' loads

Dash's room arg!!!!

You may remember this from last week. No matter how hard I try to forget it it just remains there like a giant waiting to be stoned! I gotta start spinning that sling!

After
Yes I really do use the Garden tools!

If you don't hear from me send search and rescue!
This morning I said to dash "it must be sorta hard to wake up to such a mess every morning?" He replied "yes it is"...I said " if I clean that room up for you do you think you'll help keep it nice?".. His coy little burst of honesty! "Probably Not Mom"...
I laughed out loud at his honesty!

All the stuff on the floor is on the bed,
in sorting baskets for after lunch.

Do your kids use every blanket! Wow!

2:30 Time to go get the kids!!!!!!!!

Only one basket left to sort.

Hooaaa! Now you know why the kids call me "Wonder Mom!"
Cleaned to the upbeat Irish tunes of "Loch Ness"

Grandma is coming over with dress at 2:30 ( she hemmed it for me! Thank you!)

Look at our little Dorothy and Totto!
MILove and FILove thank you!


I keep looking at what that dog has done to my door!

I'll (not) need to hem it tonight.
I'm gonna rest now! for an hour or so before supper.
Supper (thawing)

Curried ground lamb, Turmeric/Anise Basmati rice, spinach salad with hard boiled egg. Mango chutney.
DAY IS DONE! :)
Except I need to make Dash's bed.

Good Morning!

Good Morning.
I hope you all have a day full of joy in what you have been given and entrusted with.
I awoke to a dream about a young woman who was just left alone with nothing standing on a street parking lot. When she lifted her mat to go sit down on a bench. She approached the bench but it was full of stuff for sale she could not even sit down to rest her soul.
I awoke ready to joyfully care for the duties that are mine to attend too.
I got to thinking about all the homeless and the winter coming on.
I read a post over at "Down to Earth" about food that we waist and how we just throw our money away. I am guilty of this as I too over spend and have foods left to toss out. Although I am following my meal plan much better now. I think that it is "food for thought".

My husband is working on a Web Page to begin to sell my Jewelery.
This I think may have provoked the dream. Some 27 years ago I too was on the street. I was sheltered at a house and I had made a few necklaces out of date pit seeds that I had drilled with a "T" pin by hand (bloody finger tips). I Sold it on the corner of a Palm Springs street to a man who paid $10.00 for it. It was gorgeous! It had in it my talent and even my blood stained efforts. He adored it however in order to get it for nothing (practically) he insulted and dismissed it . Knowing full well that it may have been my meal (and it was ) for the day, for the week.
Now I am going to have a personally designed Web Page.
How very many years ago it was that I sold this item and how many years it has been that I have struggled with that feeling of selling my work. I think that it is become time to see that man for who he was. Sandpaper people. I will not allow it to stop this new enterprise. Perhaps I will prosper in this endeavor. I think that so many of the homeless on the street deserve to prosper. I will pray today about that. That they would be warmed. Perhaps some of that food I waste could be so much better served to a shelter.

Robot Costume for class party.

Dash's costume is almost finished.
Robot! Robot.
The three lights above his face flicker, they do not show up in the picture.
I have to get a pair of gray pants out of his dresser.

on his chest are three mirrors and a real gauge from Daddy Man's stuff.
This is for his class parade and party on Wednesdays.

Pressing on...

Care O' Lynn, the swelling in my face is down through the steroids the swelling is attacking my internal back wall but Icing is helping a lot. Thank you for asking. I am doing better today the steroids are making me shake and sleepless though.

Well what a perfect day to get a great big package from my Sister back East. She will be moving over seas and has kindly taken the effort to separate and send to me some wonderful sewing supplies.

These are computer programs for the Husqvarna Embroidery Machine. These are very valuable Thank you Sis if your out there.

Lots of beautiful notions the image does not do them justice. Buttons and silk bias and trims. WOW!

And Patterns! My, my!
There are craft and kids and some many very stylish ones.

This was a sweet gift from her. Especially received today.
I am in for the long haul.
I received a wonderful devotional this morning from Denise about encouraging each other. How pressed Paul was and how he hung in there. I am pressed, but I do see how much love there is in all of this.

This diagnosis explains years of swelling and pains that were mis diagnosed or just plain unexplainable. I am grateful that my face swelled up and pushed the truth into view of a very talented ER doctor. I am worn yet I see that God protected me for I was about to go to a pain management man to see about injections in my low back. It is this inflammatory disorder that is causing my interior wall to swell and shut off the nerves in my low back and cut off the blood flow. I was told that it is similar to being very pregnant and having the circulation reduced. So I have to follow the path now and make hast to set an appointment. Strangely it also goes right along with the eating for my blood type too. Inflammation is an allergic response. I do not have something called c1 interceptors. I have read some about this in the eating for blood type too.
All I see is Gods loving intervention and support to cause me to do the right thing and make the right choices however inconvenient it will be for the others in my family (although I think they too will benefit from the increased nutrition). Now I see Him telling me to put myself first in this. It is not common for me to put myself first in anything. So there again in His abundant LOVE for me.

I have been at first very discouraged, but the more I studied this the more I see the hope. I felt so worn out that I was exhausted of breadth. I was feeling very sorry for myself too. I got "angry in" (depressed) then "angry out" (mad at life) now I am using the "gift of anger" (strength) to compel me onward. The kindness you have all shown me makes me think of Paul's letters. I need your prayers. I need you. As I pray for others and walk the path willingly I need prayer and that is OK. I need to learn to ask for it without apology.

I have children to raise, dreams to fulfill, a husband to love and nurture too. I have a purpose and a path to follow. Whether in pain or not that will not change. I will set my face like flint to spark at the strike and make light. So many are suffering so many are in plenty without apparent want or need lost in consumption and loneliness. I will press on. I will keep the pace set out to compel me toward success.

November 11th International Day of Prayer

* International Day of Prayer for the Persecuted Church: Thanks to my friend, Sparrow, for making the banner for the IDOP for the Persecuted Church coming up November 11th. These precious believers are on my mind so much lately. Will you pray? God bless you. Feel free to post the graphic below on your own blog to spread the word.

Menu Plan Monday

Pressing on toward the mark :)

On Tuesday I'll use ground lamb.

Sunday Smiles

Gratitude is that even though there is always something it is the nature of the beast. It is the battle of breath that we live in. I am thankful that my Husband and I know this. That I am never rejected by him. He even sang a line of an Irish song to me it made me smile. They are all so loving.

It makes me smile that last night in the ER that I had the privilege of stepping outside of my own battle and journey. The way I was made able to come back into prayer for the staff and those around me how it kept me pulled up and out of self pity and well just being too full of my own self. My mind went to "why an I here on a higher level." So grateful to receive good, kind help. I smile at the power of words spoken in kindness and the healing force that those medical employees encountered in them . It makes me smile cause the discomfort so temporal, gave an opportunity to give them such a needed lift. Even with "puff face" I sorta felt beautiful because, well I like me. It was fun in the midst of the battle to be kind. It made others feel better.

Over coming the fight/flight of wanting to just "go away" assuming that my you reader out there would just get sick of my dribbling during the battles. Pull up stakes and find more uplifting pleasant blogs to edify your hearts. I smiled when I saw the numbers of all of you. Who cared about me today and touched base . Thank you for the smiles. My own smile more natural looking now that I am not adorned with such a puff face :)

Knowing the love of my Father, brings me a smile and just no realizing that this is not thankful Thursday humors me cause I am sorta out of it with drugs. Oh well.

Hubby's Mother (MILove) took over Sweet Beauty's Dorthy Dress I needed to make, and I rested while the children went to the Grandparents with The Daddy Man for the evening.

Challenges and the body said enough

You just wont believe it.
I was in the ER last night.
The whole right side of my face swelled rapidly and so With having asthma I went in. I had to drive myself the kids were in bed. I took a wrong turn and had to go down and around the college to get back up the the local hospital with several right light. I just could not believe it, when I did reach the ER the place was over flowing. So I opted to drive up to our old community 15 miles north. I turned onto the freeway and the on ramp onto the freeway over shoots the northern freeway, so I went south three miles turned around! and got back onto the northern road. After about 4 miles on it the flashing warning signs tell of a pressing freeway (complete closure just two mils ahead!!!!!!! I told God that the irony was just to much. Perseverance pressed me on and eventually I succeeded . My face just kept swelling. But each time I checked my breath it was alright (I have a little tool they give people who have asthma)
What a struggle trying to get there . The first hospital I went too, It is close but the parking was full and the overflow out the doors. So I drove up to our old neighborhood up North. It was then a mile into the trip that the freeway signs informed me the freeway was closing. I know that area well. So I took several back roads to get there. My face kept selling and I prayed. by the time I got there I I was dizzy and week. When I walked in the staff turned and looked at me funny. (you know that feeling) Well After three hours of interceding for the staff and all the many sick infants around me I was called in by a lovely woman. She apologized for the wait. I told her that I just spent my time praying for everyone around me and also for the staff that all of them matter too. She was surprise and expressed her gratitude. She was the head nurse in charge. She followed me through the long night.The doctor came in very quickly and checked my mouth to make sure it was not the dry socket bone infection spreading it was not. Then he said it was a auto imun thing.
Angioedema, (defined)
This is a sudden and extreme swelling of you body. Your lips and face may swell. (If your lips swell, this is an emergency situation since your airway may also swell. A blocked airway makes it hard to breath.) You may also have a rash on the areas that are not swollen. Angioedema is usually caused by an allergy. It can also be hereditary (some people are born with a tendency to get this condition ) In this case stress can trigger this reaction (such as an illness, injury or trauma). Some people only react this way once. The swelling may take hours or days to go away completely.
Remember the socket thing I wonder if that could have been a part of that huge swelling( this time it was the right side of my face.) after the first round of antibiotics?
I am on steroids Steve is out getting a RX filled. I am pretty weak. I have to make Sweet s her Dorthy dress. I will only do that today. I have a flu shot tomorrow. I think I'll keep the appointment and postpone the shot.
The stress images were hitting me hard.
I really liked being in intercession last night. I cared more about the souls around me and it was so freeing. The head nurse and I even spoke of it as she so lovingly and gently slowly very slowly pushed three syringes of powerful drugs into my IV

Grater is HE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Better rest now
Donetta

I hesitate to ask for myself, but will you Please cover me with your prayers. The challenges I face over the next few days are a bit too stressful to face alone. I know he is holding me.
Thank you
I am sorry my writing is a little off forgive the grammatical error. :)

Husband of 25 years learns how to make grilled cheese!

blog spot has technical problems images to follow.

The world stands amazed!!!!!!

Husband who was going to once again run to costco to get more hot dogs (his weekend "Daddy makes lunch" fair). When wife tells him, We are going to travel back east next year! This is our mutual goal, his (our) hearts desire. There is lots of food in the house.
Husband with mild panic on his face asks what can we eat.... (music to jaws)
With a calming voice of reason Wife speaks..."Well how about a grill cheese and grilled ham for Dash" (son is allergic to milk).
Timidly He asks..."how do you do that"? Step by step the lesson ensued.
Yes Amazing! Beloved husband humbled himself with great dignity and learned how to make grilled cheese! Perhaps next time he will do it on his own without a loving teacher to supervise and do half the work.
You know the kids had to eat every bite:)
Husband receives standing ovation and loving embrace for relieving said wife of a meal preparation and for being such a great sport about it!

Prayer for Whats lost

Yesterday was a lovely day.
My son was outside and when I went to say hello to him. He was rather upset over a 1 inch "guy" that had fallen out of his Lego creation of a motorcycle. He was desperate. I found him pulling at the grass and very frustrated. Asking him what was happening he responded, close to tears, that he was playing and had lost the guy who was riding in his motor cycle. I asked him where the play had taken place. He and I scoured the yard and stirred the rocks near the teeter totter, for several minutes, looking for some time with to avail. I gave him my best counsel.
"When I cant find something I ask God to help me out, because he knows the whole planet" I said to him, and asked him if he had asked him. My son refused the advices so I told him how very sorry I was that he had lost it, but that I was not going to waist any time continuing to look if he was not at least willing to ask for Gods help. I told him that if he asks God to help him I would be more than happy to come back out and look. I came in and asked God to soften his heart and if God would help us to find it to build the child's faith.
Some time passed. I heard one heart wrenching little boy crying, and it began to come closer to the door in he approached. Just undone in tears. Beside himself, he told how he had looked every where. "I even asked God to help me" he said...
Oh well if you asked him for help I'll agree with you in that and come out to look with you. I am sure we'll find it then.

We went out together and after 5 more minutes of searching I looked down right beside the teeter totter and right there on the stones sat the "tiny 1/4 by 1 inch little black figure, right there in plain sight (we had already searched the area). I reached down and picked it up and bent down to my sweet son eye to eye and said to him..."son you asked God , then we asked together... In the scripture it said that when two or more agree and ask it shall be done as the believe..." I opened my hand and gave him the toy...He fell apart and just sobbed with the glee of delight and the pain of a life time poured out a humble little spirit. Holding me and trembling,shaking with amazement. I tenderly told him "I love you" he thanked me and I told him he was welcome for my help but that it was God who had found the toy and to thank him. When he calmed a little I thanked him for listening to my counsel. We thanked God liberally and rejoiced together.

This moment in time was a very poignant moment with my Son. He healed deeply in that moment. He has had a bit of an edge every sense we adopted him at 10 months from a very abusive environment of deprivation and neglect. He respected Me in in a very reverence way. It is like he has gained this very deeply felt security and safety. He is like a changed child not so angry under the surface as he has always been. He has an ease about him today that is remarkable.
He even tested this whole process out last night. We had Taco Bell and I usually do not share my seal as a point of principle my husband insists on (I would never get to eat a meal in peace).
Well I had enough of my Mexican pizza(no cheese extra tomatoes:) and thought that perhaps Dash might like it (rarely have I ever felt that it was more than enough but I have been dieting).
I asked dash if he might like to finish it for me. He exclaimed! I prayed that you would give it to me MOM!
Wow it was so sweet! the interactions are like this all day today.

Photo Hunters *pink*

Sweet Beauty 2001

Friday Feist

Appetizer
Name a great website you would recommend to others.
Gracious Hospitality

Soup
On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 as highest), how often do you dream at night?
I dream almost nightly. Often talking with God and visiting places that are like I were and praying for those in the dream

Salad
Did you have a pet as a child? If so, what kind and what was its name?
I had a few, a favorite dog Mitzi she was a boarder callie, and a cat or two that were my sisters. Once a chick.

Main Course
If you had the chance to star in a commercial, what would you choose to advertise? I think I would be just right for a public Safety announcement for Children.

Dessert
What is your favorite kind of hard candy?
I really like so many different kinds :) Lemon drops

What I believe according to my manuel.

In order that every one who believes in Him-who cleaves to Him, trust Him and relies on Him-may not perish, but have eternal life and [actually] live forever!
FOR GOD SO GREATLY LOVED AND DEARLY PRIZED THE WORLD THAT HE [EVEN] GAVE UP HIS ONLY-BEGOTTEN (UNIQUE) SON, SO THAT WHOEVER BELIEVES IN (TRUSTS, CLINGS TO , RELIES ON) HIM SHALL NOT PERISH-COME TO DESTRUCTION, BE LOST-BUT HAVE ETERNAL (EVERLASTING) LIFE.
FOR GOD DID NOT SEND THE SON INTO THE WORLD IN ORDER TO JUDGE-TO REJECT, TO CONDEMN, TO PASS SENTENCE ON - THE WORLD; BUT THAT THE WORLD MIGHT FIND SALVATION AND BE MADE SAFE AND SOUND THROUGH HIM.
He who believes on Him-who clings to, trust in, relies on Him- is not judged (he who trusts in Him never comes up for judgment; for him there is no rejection, no condemnation; he incurs no damnation).But he who does not believe (not cleave to, rely on trust in Him) is judged already; (he has already been convicted; has already received his sentence) because he has not believed on and trusted in the name of the only begotten Son of God- He is condemned for refusing to let his trust rest in Christ's name.
The [basis of the] judgment (indictment, the test by which men are judged, the ground for the sentence) lies in this: that the Light is come into the world, and people have loved the darkness rather than and more than the Light, for their works (deed) were evil.
For every wrongdoer hates (loathes, detests) the light and will not come out into the light, but shrinks from it, lest his works - his deeds, his activities, his conduct- be exposed and reproved.
John 3:15-20

Good Evening!

Busy Day We went to a physical Education event this evening for Sweet Beauty's class. We are so blessed. What wonderful equipment and great educators there!
I had my MILove here teaching Beauty to knit. I worked on a Robot costume for Dash to use at his class party. I have the fabric to make a Dorthy dress for Beauty. My dear MILove picked up the gingham for me and even found it on a reduced price by 1/3! A lot of work to do for just an hour at school but it is the agreement I made with them as to what I am willing to do for the 31st.
It was fun working with dash on the Robot.
I have PT in the morning. I have the Stem electric pulse on my back as they heat soak it and stem on my knee, Then the do an electrical stem on my thigh and heat soak it. If I can I ride the stationary bike for 5 min. then use the leg press for 2x12 at 2 plates. Then a 2 pound weight with legs off the side 2x12 and then an extension with same weight straight up. He added some core strengthening with the rubber band over the door and pull down with tummy tight. My back has been very painful getting back up now. I am going to get an appointment to talk to a man about spinal pain management, but my sister said the shots are really very bad. I am chickening out now a bit. This pain my subside as I drop the weight. I have a narrowing of my spinal collum it gets inflammation and just well...Arg! I walked around the block! Big accomplishment my knee is doing great and the leg muscles improving.
I rested and had a nice day. Getting my jewelery table back was a thrill.
I have saved a bundle making every meal on the meal plan this week! That is a huge improvement. Even so I am bone tired Physical therapy is demanding a lot out of me.

Thankful Thursday

"Gods in control not me" is Hosting

I am so grateful that We have a creative God who surrounds Himself in splendor.
I embrace his heart toward us that he would desire beauty to surround our lives.
I thrill in the witness of joy at creative moments. Knowing it is His heart to be artistic.
Thinking of the carpenter and how lovingly his work must have been performed.
Each chisel and every mortis and tenon joint perfectly fashioned with skill.

I am thankful for inspiration.

When I think of his example. His hands on his tools creating,

Glorifying God.
With every good thing.
I am inspired,
and grateful!

Thursday Thirteen

Thirteen Random things Said at my house on a given day.

1. "Good Morning"
2. "Let kindness be the rule of your heart"
3. "You will have each other all of your lives as friends or enemies, you choose.
4. "Choose whats right so that it will go well with you"
5. "Watch out!, that ol' green eyed monster is robing your peace" (jealously)
6. "Don't let any thing rob your peace"
7. "Strife is a thief"
8. "Feelings are O.K. just watch out how you behave"
9. "Set a boundary"
10. "Respect each others boundaries"
11. "When you...I feel...and I would prefer if..."
12. "I love you"
13. "I forgive you"---"Please forgive me"

"Do something to renew your mind"...He said

Good Morning!I hope this finds all of you full of the joy and beauty of a new day!
Yesterday at therapy I met a wonderful gentle giant who lovingly said to me..."Do something to renew your mind. You are renewing your body and now let your soul have a chance to be refreshed"...
Well I keep my spirit refreshed and my body is being addressed, I knew he was right, I prayed and followed my vision. I stopped at a jumba juice and got a carrot juice (not the normal mango-a-go-go ) I felt good about my low cal choice.:) Then I went to the Library for an hour WHAT FUN!!!!It had been a very long time ago that I last went there.
Yes I am feeling so much better, today I will rest though I am sore from my therapy and all the chores and a play date yesterday. I will slow me down today. Reading and perusing my new treasures will be a sweet change this day.
I will sill have my chores but I will go easy.

I had so much fun just wandering the shelves yesterday at my local Library. I thought off all the things I have been wondering about and looked for things to read as references.
I got a "Frost Book!" :)

Some developmental heads up references, these are an invaluable part of parenting. I have used them through each stage. The other volumes are now out of print and apparently they have fallen apart. I think I might write a parental book:)

I have decided to allow the kids a costume for their class event only.
Beauty and I are going to build a volcano. Dash and I are doing a thanksgiving craft today, or a Robot. Grandma is coming over today for a knitting lesson for Beauty.

O man !!!! This is my candy!