The Big Day

The count down has begun... My Grad exam is in 4 days from now....

Did I mention anything about being nervous or feeling like I need to puke... Yes.. I feel that way...

I D.E.S.P.E.R.A.T.E.L.Y need YOUR prayers too

First-- to pass the test... hey, I could handle a little up chuckin for this!!

Second-- pray for peace

Third-- Discernment... and peace... in God's will

and peace... and peace... and peace...

If nothing more, I have learned a lot over the past 5 weeks, cramming for this exam...

It will be several weeks before I know the results... but I don't know if I'll tell ya if it's bad, so just figure out,,, no news ain't good... ;)

Prayer Request

(my son helping us pray)

I have a prayer request... My dear friends...

I am taking an exam next week... it is the GRE It is the Graduate School Entrance exam... I am hoping to go back to school in the fall to Nurse Practitioner School ...but have to take this test first and anyone that has taken it.. knows it is a bear...

I have been in the books day and night for weeks and weeks..

so my test is April 29th... please pray for me...hey... let's go big....to make the grade.. do great or just anything...but fail

thanks so much guys.. I love you

In Memory of David

In Memory Of David Barton...

Please keep this family in your prayers...

a dear friend...I worked with David over the years as a Christian Counselor...his wife and I were nurses and running buddies many years ago....

His death has been very devastating....

Please pray for his family....

I'm speechless at this time...

Praying for Stellan

Update on Celeste

Celeste is in the hospital for some complications with her cancer.

Please continue to pray for her and her husband.

Thank you my dear prayer warriors

Prayer Request

Meet Dale and Celeste...

Dale has been like a brother to my sister and I for over 30 years.... Celeste is his wife (We tell him he outdid himself)... she is only 39... and has been diagnosed with a rare type of endometrial cancer..... and it has now spread to the liver and brain...

She wanted this picture to show that she and Dale now having matching heads... she hasn't lost her sense of humor....only hair!!

Please pray for her... and Dale...

We know God can do all things....and so do they!!

She will be visiting this place for an evaluation....

Fight Like Hell To Stay Out of Hell

(Matthew 7:1-2) “Do not judge, or you too will be judged. 2For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged…”

In my recent post, The Hourglass of Time, there was discussion by several people at work and those whom I told the story to, regarding this woman’s fate; “Well, she had a choice anyway, she was mean so maybe she deserved eternity in Hell.”

These words make me wince with sadness.

Do we not all know someone that fit this woman’s destiny?

First of all, I do not deserve God’s glory and mercy.

But that is not what I want to share in this post. Let me share a personal story which I can do at this point in my life. Why? Because of God’s forgiveness. And just maybe someone out there will read this and have a change of heart of a situation.

I didn’t grow up in the best of circumstances. My mom now admits that our lives could have been better and I’ll just leave it at that. It has taken my sister and me a long time to recover but we have and we do love our mom. We are survivors. But more importantly, we are Christians.

We have prayed for so long for our mom's salvation. We have prayed for her to know Jesus Christ.

And just what if?

What if someone that did not know our situation, came along and said, “Well, she deserves eternity in Hell?”

What if whoever comes in the path of my mom’s life decides not to fight like “Hell” to keep her out of the pits of Hell!

I think about my mom and how her life must have been as a child, her own pain, hurts and insecurities. And now, I see her through the eyes of my Jesus. The view is contrastingly different.

Who are we to judge? As I see it, Jesus is looking down on His children, praying, calling and asking all of us to fight for every last one of His children.

Our job is not to judge but too gather up every last child through love NOT through threats and empty promises.

How?

Oh, we can’t do it. But our Lord can. And all we have to do if allow Him to flow through us. We are His vessels.

To see our Redeemer in the flesh, to feel His breath, to know He lives ....yes...!!

As I live a forgiven life….. And love a mom given to me by God…. a new freedom.

It's there for all of us.


Mom, I am not giving up on you…I love you
(John 14:6) Jesus answered, "I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.... No other way....

And I would extend my prayers to all my prayers warriors for my mom....With God all things are possible....


Just a note to all my blogging friends...I cannot begin to tell you how much I appreciate everyone of you... your prayers and your encouragement... You are true friends and I love you all...

Prayer Request

I have TwO prayer request...

Sadly, two dear friends are in need.

The first is a nurse that I work with, her grandson has just been put on Hospice. He is 9 months old. Something we are all too familiar with in our line of work so when it knocks on our own door, we act as if we should have been immune to the situation.

His little brain is shrinking... He is dying. This couple has tried so hard for a baby, only to turn him back over to God very soon....

Unfair?


My second request is for a dear friend. I, all too often, speak of self-loathing. Am I unforgivable? What about those that cannot forgive themselves? My friend could not... to the point of trying to take his own life. He is now on life support with a not very promising prognosis.

Please pray for him and his family.

Despair?

The dictionary describes this as: Loss of hope; utter hopelessness; complete despondency

"The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with despair, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble." (Ezekiel 7:27)

"Why are you downcast, O my soul? Why so disturbed within me? Put your hope in God, for I will yet praise him, my Savior and my God." (Psalm 42:11)

Over and over again, Psalms reveals the word "Hope" which over powers our despair and gives us a promise of Tomorrow....

"Hope" is a thing with feathers
that perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
and never stops---at all." Emily Dickinson

Thank you Papa for today and for our tomorrow...