When You Are Down... Looking Up

Today my sister and I went to visit Celeste at a Hospice facility. As usual for the typical Celeste style, she lifted us up and made us smile and laugh.

She made fun of her drainage tubes, her IV's and her frailties. Then she tried to gross us out by showing us that the food she just sucked down was now traveling into the tubes but she forgot I am a nurse so it takes a lot. And I never heard my sister fall out and hit the floor so she must have hung in there.

Then the conversation turned more serious and she talked of the inevitable. "Please take care of Dale."

I couldn't help but share with her what she had meant to me and what a wonderful example of God's love I saw shine through her. I felt blessed to even have been a part of her life.

She looked up and around the room. She smiled. "All this love. I have been so blessed. God is beautiful."

On our way out, Dale said, "Her life was not in vain, for I have come to know our God intimately. I wouldn't trade that."

Saying "Good-bye" when you know the next visit together will be in the eternal...leaves us with emotions of bittersweetness.

God Bless you Celeste and your life... We love you...

Award Help

<center><a href="http://not-a-real-namespace/http://littleredheartfromgod.blogspot.com" target="_blank"><img border="0" alt="The Storm Dancer" src="http://not-a-real-namespace/http://i409.photobucket.com/albums/pp178/sneakymomma/buttonmistborder3crbk.jpg" /></a></center>

How to put the award into your sidebar:
Copy (ctrl + c) the code from the box above. Go to your page elements page and click on add a gadget. Click on ‘HTML/JavaScript’. Paste (ctrl + v) the code into the large box. Add a title if you wish. Save.

How to put the award into a post:
Copy (ctrl + c) the code from the box above. Open or create a new post. Click on ‘edit html’. Paste (ctrl + v) the code wherever you’d like into the post area. Click on compose to continue writing your post.

Update on Celeste 2

"'My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,' says the Lord. 'For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts." (Isaiah 55:8-9)

Life is a journey... Not a destination...

Please continue to lift Celeste and Dale up in prayers...

Celeste was put on Hospice today... Her cancer has advanced and now their wishes are to keep her comfortable...in her remaining days.

She desires to live to see her 40th birthday which is in just a few weeks...

I look back at how much Celeste has changed Dale's life... she is a true God-send to him. I can see her purpose there although God may see it in so many other things. I see her as a beautiful child of God that has been faithful to Him in many ways. Now she continues to hold on.... onto HIS endearing love.

I ask you to please pray for Dale... and for Celeste that she may experience a supernatural peace and comfort... that surpasses all understanding... but we know....where it comes from...not the medicine... not the disease... but from GOD Himself.

I thank you God -- for Celeste and her life.... her legacy!

Our Cruise

Heavenly Flowers

Song of Solomon 2:16 (The Message) “Delighting in the flowers until dawn breathes its light and night slips away…”

She was a kindhearted Christian woman. She worked hard raising her children to be the light of their Papa’s eyes. She took care of their home. And she loved her husband.

But the years have finally taken their toll. Her mind has began to fade and now a life-filled once with promise and expectation is filled with wait and wonder…

A waiting to be called Home…

A wonder of when…

Some days my patient and I just sat across from each other and sang. Some days… there was silence. She was happy most days just holding hands.

The other day, I sat across from her with my hands folded and it was then that she started to pick from my hands. I smiled at her and asked what she was doing. She said, “You have the most beautiful flowers, thank you.”

I was too anxious to move, frightened of spoiling a moment so sacred and so holy that I just held my breath. "Time to breathe", I thought as I watched her take her hand-filled bouquet of heavenly flowers and smell them. Maybe I too could catch the same aroma she seemed to be savoring.

I closed my eyes wondering if I could sense the Lord’s presence. Could I smell Heaven? Could I feel the brush of Angel wings? I do know I tasted Heaven once again, this time witnessing my purpose in her life.

As the night came, she slipped away… breathing in Heaven…delighting in dawn’s garden of Light…

What gifts are you carrying from the Father into lifes of others?

Let God Have Your Heart

1 John 4:4

You, dear children, are from God and have overcome them, because the one who is in you is greater than the one who is in the world.

I am weak... I cannot do this.... I will fail again....why can't I just do this one thing?

It is not for us to do...

But He who is in us...

Let God have your failures... your dreams.. your promises....

Let Him have your heart...

Happy Mother's Day

Thank You God... For letting me become a mom....and Having a mom

For experiencing the tenderness of your miracles....

for seeing just a small spectrum on the scale of eternity of what Your love is for us all...

Happy Mother's Day....

to All

The Butterfly

"How does one become a butteryfly?," She asked pensively.

"You must want to fly so much that you are willing to give up being a caterpillar."

"You mean to die?" asked Yellow.

"Yes and no," he answered.

"What looks like you will die."

"But what's really you will still live."

"Life is changed not taken away."

~Traina Paulus
Hope for the Flowers


In memory of a dear patient.....and friend