MDA Donations

Everyone, I want to thank you all for your contributions! We came is as top Jailbird! I will get to meet some of the kids and their family in September. I wish all of you could be there with me because without you, I would not have made it. So thank you all so much! We raised enough to send 3 kiddos to camp! Not just 2, but 3! So again thank  you from all the kids that will benefit from your donations!!

$397 to go!

We need $397 to get the second child to MDA camp! Please donate!

There is even online access where you can donate!

Let's not fail these children! Let's make them feel even more specialer than they already are!

Give them a surprise!

Send them tot camp!

So contact me and I will give you the web address!

Please help these kiddos!!

MDA and Jail

MDA has roped me in and will round me up for Jail next Thursday. 

I have to raise $1600 so 2 kiddos can go to camp. 

Got a note today from the mom of one, brought tears to my eyes, got a goodie bag from another and more tears fell. 

I cry because my daughter is moving to Georgia. These kids (and adults) struggle everyday of their lives and they don't give up and don't sit and bawl because of a move. . . 

So I have gotten after it today on my facebook and so far have raised $620 since last Friday. I have til August 9 to raise the other amount. 

If you feel the need to donate, then reply to me and I will send you the online link to donate money. 

May God bless you today and every day!

The world

Do you ever get to just sit and listen to all the noises around you?

Tonight was one of those nights, I was out watering my new plants and no cars were buzzing down the road.

 

There was a gentle breeze, crickets, a few birds.

The sky was beautiful.

I thanked God for my world. For Him building it and maintaining it for me, for you. 

I thanked Him for America and the glorious life He has given me. 

Tonight, I thanked God for everything He has given me, and even the stuff He didn't. 

Hugs my friends! 

Getting into perspective!

As most of you know from my other blog, KaLynn, my mom passed on a couple of weeks ago. April 6.

She drove me nuts. Ab-so-lute-ly  bonkers. Especially in the past year.

But now that I can't talk to her, I've been miserable. Crying at the sight of a shirt she would like. Crying because I can't talk to her while the boys practice ball. Crying myself to sleep at my desk at work.

This went on for two weeks. Every. Day. Every waking hour. Minute. Nano-second. I was getting to the place I could not function.

Then I got a text message from my Oregon friend, Rob. Her MRI came back clean just a new symptom of fibromyalgia.

The next day, I got a text from my long time friend, LeeLee, that her back surgery seems to have messed up and she is going back to doc today.

Another friend that I talked to at Mom's graveside service, her husband has two more radiation treatments and hopefully he will be done.  He had prostate cancer, stage 4.

A guy that works here,his wife has the same disease Bernie Mack had. She is in constant pain and seems to be in the last stages.

What am I crying for? My mom is in Heaven. My mom is with the Lord. She is not hurting, feeling bad, confused.

In fact she is practically perfect now.

So why am I crying?

I'm crying because I am selfish.

My mom can hear me talk to her.

Just like the Lord can hear me talk to Him.

I needed to be reminded that I need to be back on the prayer train for the people who need it.

Stop looking at me, I am fine. Mom is fine.

Some aren't so lucky.

My Father showed me how blessed Mom is. I am.

How blessed are you?

Hugs,

Reading

I have gotten so bogged down reading the Bible. Am in Leviticus and it is a hard book, to read and to understand.

I think I would never have made it. I screw up hourly, minute by minute, I wouldn't have enough animals to sacrifice!

I think  Wow, Jesus died for me.

HE is all those sacrifices.

He went though things I cannot fathom.

Pain

Humiliation

Pain

and even more pain.

Pain I can not in my wildest dreams

Because He loved me.

Because God love me.

Today I wonder, was I worth it?

Tiny Wisdom Post

TINY WISDOM: DO YOU RECOGNIZE AND RECEIVE LOVE? (right on this and it will take you to website)

“Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” ~Rumi

After I wrote yesterday’s post about giving and receiving love, I started to think about the many times in the past when I felt love-deprived.

It’s easy to feel that way when we’ve been hurt or we think we’re alone—as if there aren’t any people who are really looking out for us.

In retrospect, I realize that when I felt this way, it wasn’t that no one loved me. It was that I was too busy looking for love to open my eyes and see it.

I was too busy craving romantic love to recognize and appreciate the other forms of love coming at me; as a result, I came to every potential partner with a deep sense of neediness and lack.

Love was the one thing I didn’t have. And yet it was all around me.

What I’ve learned is that receiving love doesn’t necessarily mean opening up to a long-term relationship, though of course it can mean that. It also means consciously looking for acts of love and them choosing to appreciate and accept them.

When someone looks out for you, empathizes with you, stands up for you, listens to you, relates to you, appreciates you, respects you, accepts you, or acknowledges you, they are giving you love.

When someone thanks you, encourages you, believes in you, supports you, forgives you, soothes you, uplifts you, or trusts you, they are giving you love.

When someone opens up to you, tries to know you, stays strong for you, assumes the best in you, compliments you, mentors you, makes time for you, or makes an effort for you, they are giving you love.

Love is always coming at us, in one form or another—sometimes from friends, sometimes from family, sometimes from strangers we may only know in passing.

It might be a thoughtful call at just the right time, a warm hug for no good reason, or even a supportive blog comment on a day when you felt weak and afraid.

We all have so much love to give, and we’re giving it every day. The only question is whether or not we’re also able to recognize and really receive it.

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I did not write this but snagged it from Tiny Wisdom. It struck a cord with me. 

Some days we just do not see how much love surrounds us. 

Today may we see how much we are loved.