First Day Back to Work....

    Lord thank you for another day... Thanks for not letting me break any bones during the course of the day(LOL)...
  Bless those who are less fortunate than myself and allow them peace and hope to fill their hearts as they get closer to you.

       Let me tell you, I wanted to die. It was freezing at work today. You would have thought I work outside. Wrong. I am as indoors as it gets. My company sponsors a flower show every year around spring time.Normally the weather is much warmer. Right now we are looking at 15-40 degree weather, when normally it is 50-70....

Although, the flowers are beautiful I would much rather have the real ones that come from outside. And the weather that comes with it. Winter does not seem to want to leave us, and the snow that is coming this weekend is really not allowing the flowers to bloom through. What can we do? We can just pray for a long summer.

  The flowers are beautiful to look. It keeps me hopeful that we will be warm soon. I had a minor surgery last week. I was home all week driving my poor husband crazy... I know I was so whiny. I couldn't stand myself. But coming back to work today was hard on my. It was cold and my bones were hurting . Got me thinking about a lot of things in life that I want to do. I am going to do more things in life. I do not know when my last day on this earth is going to be ,but in the meantime I want to live my days like if it was my last. I want to live it fully and joyous. I want to be remember as someone kind and with good intentions and happy.
                                          Which brings me to my story today.

               The story I chose today come from a lady who is 85 years old and these are her words as she tells them....
       "If I Had My Life To Live Over"

     I'd dare to make more mistakes next time.
   I'd relax. I would limber up.
I would be sillier than I have this trip.
I would take fewer things seriously.
I would take more chances.
I would take more trips.
I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers.
I would eat more ice cream and less beans.
I would perhaps have more actual troubles but I'd have fewer imaginary ones....
You see, I'm one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day.
Oh, I've had my moments and if I had it to do over again, I'd have more of them. In fact I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments.
One after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day.

I've been one of those people who never go anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat and a parachute.
If I had it to do again, I would travel lighter next time.
If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall.
I would go to more dances.
I would ride more merry-go-rounds.
I would pick more daises.
                    This was a story I read and chose for me to discuss with you today. I am always complaining about something and I hardly ever look around and just be contend with what I already have. It's like I have to do more because if I feel like I have nothing more to accomplish , then I am not showing my kids to reach for the stars. Reach for the inevitable. You know the saying" THE STARS ARE THE LIMIT" ...
Yet what I want them to learn is to enjoy reaching there.....




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An addiction, Let me explain, It's not what you think!!!!

Dear Lord,    Thank you for the opportunity you give me to share a few words with friends and family....

   My story..The one I read....
       It's called " Sachi"
           Soon after her brother was born, little Sachi began to ask her parents to leave her alone with the new baby. They worried that like most four-year-olds, she might feel jealous and want to hit or shake him, so they said no. But she showed no signs of jealousy. She treated the baby with kindness and her pleas to be left alone with him became more urgent. They decided to allow it.
           Elated, she went into the bne baby's room and shut the door, but it opened a crack---enough for her curious parents to peek in and listen. They saw little Sachi walk quietly up to her baby brother, put her face close to his and say quietly, "Baby, tell me what God feels like. I'm starting to forget."

                  

                                  
   My addiction,
Little House On a Prairie.....    The show..... I have been home sick like I told you. So I have been watching all these shows on tv. One of my all time favorites was Little House On A Prairie. It reminds me of how free we use to be back in those times. I also notice that God was in almost all the episodes. I have not really found a show in this era that I can sit and watch with my children that defines the goodness of God.This has been my new addiction. Although I have watch almost every episode this show has out, I am now watching with a different view.... Take the time and find good shows that has a relationship with God and sit and watch with your children. The children are the way to our future and I am concern if we do not teach them about the love that the Lord has for us it will disappear like these great shows.....


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It's only Wednesday...

 Dear Lord... HELLLLLLLPPPPPP....

 I am tired of snow.It is March 23, and it just does not stop snowing.What happen to Spring?
Today we got 9.1 inches of snow.

    
As you see spring is trying to come through, but this morning we woke up to 9.1 inches of snow and have a snowstorm alert until Thursday at 6:00 pm..My plants do not know what to do...
Got to love nature , specially when it is at its best..

I can not believe it is only Wednesday. I feel like this is the longest week. I have been basically bed-written. So all I do is sleep and go to the bathroom. I barely eat . No appetite. Just taking meds. I am so tired of being tired. I should be happy that I'm home but, when you are use to working and being active , it's so hard to be just laying around. If this was a real vacation the time would fly by real fast.

Just for now I am going to stop complaining but I can't help but vent out my frustrations. I have utilize this time to read a lot. I have gotten more indefinite with the bible. I am trying to get more closer to my spiritual side. Wish me luck in my quest....
                   God Bless...

Another story from the book I have been reading... Told you I have nothing to do...LOL

  This story is called "True Love"
        Moses Mendelssohn, the grandfather of the well-known German composer, was far from being handsome. Along with a rather short stature, he had a grotesque hunchback.
     One day he visited a merchant in Hamburg who had a lovely daughter named Frumtje. Moses fell hopelessly in love with her. But Frumtje was repulsed by his misshapen appearance.
    When it came time for him to leave, Moses gathered his courage and climbed the stairs to her room to take one last opportunity to speak with her. She was a vision of heavenly beauty, but caused him deep sadness by her refusal to look at him. After several attempts at conversation, Moses shyly asked, "Do you believe marriages are made in heaven?"
     "Yes," she answered, still looking at the floor. " And do you?"
  "Yes I do," he replied. "You see, in heaven at the birth of each boy, the lord announces which girl he will marry. When I was born, my future bride was pointed out to me. Then the Lord added, 'But your wife will be humpbacked'.
     "Right then and there I called out, 'Oh Lord a humpbacked woman would be a tragedy. Please, Lord, give me the hump and let her be beautiful,'"
   Then Frumtje looked up into his eyes and was stirred by some deep memory. She reached out and gave Mendelssohn her hand and later became his devoted wife.

   What a way to win a woman's heart.I thought this was so sweet. We all have to look past our appearence and really search within ourselves.God loves us all, and we have to learn to love one another regardless of what the other person looks like...



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One At A Time

Father help your children and don't let them fall by the side of the road...
And teach them to love one another and heaven might find a place in their hearts, Cause Jesus is LOVE....
These are the lyrics to a song sang by the Commodores. If you are interested iit is called "JESUS IS LOVE"

I have a lot of things that I base my day by. There is a lot of scriptures that I read. None in order at all. Some songs that have meaning to me. It helps me go through my day. I am not as religious as I would want to be but I am trying...
A new thing that I have been doing lately while I'm home sick is read. The book of choice besides my bible is Chicken Soup for the Soul. I have had this book on my shelf and never even looked at it. But now I can't seem to put it down.
The story I want to share is called ONE AT A TIME...
 The reason I want to share this with you is because with all that is going on with the world....

                          Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami



The protest in Libya and this horrible leader that is killing civilians because they are tired of his cruelty..

I figured we have to start praying for God to help us.
 
    Here is the short story..
   "ONE AT A TIME"
  A friend of ours was walking down a deserted Mexican beach at sunset. As he walked along, he began to see another man in the distance. As he grew nearer, he noticed that the local native kept leaning down, picking something up and throwing it out into the water. Time again he kept hurling things out into the ocean..

 As our friend approached even closer, he noticed that the man was picking up starfish that had been washed up on the beach and, one at a time , he was throwing them back into the water.
 Our friend was puzzled. He approached the man and said, " Good evening, friend. I was wondering what you are doing."
  " I'm throwing these starfish back into the ocean.You see, it's low tide right now and all of these starfish have been washed up onto the shore. If I don't throw them back into the sea, they'll die up here from lack of oxygen."
     " I understand," my friend replied, " but there must be thousands of starfish on this beach. You can't possibly get to all of them. There are simply too many. And don't you realize this is probably happening on hundreds of beaches all up and down this coast. Can't you see that you can't possibly make a difference?"

    The local native smiled, bent down and picked up yet another starfish , and as he threw it back into the sea, he replied, "Made a difference to that one!"

 We can all make a difference in anything thing that we do... I choose this week while I'm home to go through my closet and getting rid of the clothes that I know I do not need and give it to the churches or local pantries that will take it, for other families that need them. ... It's small but it's a start. Have a bless day and thanks for stopping by.....................................................
                                    




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The unemployed and Bad credit

Today I was puzzled to find out that many jobs today wont hire someone base on their credit score. I understand if you have state official jobs and banks or the treasuer department. But retail, medical and production, are you serious.
  
I was looking into the unemployment rate of my state. There is approximately 9% of unemployed. In my county alone that has become about 11%. I was asking people around as to why do they feel they are not employed by now considering we are told the economy is getting better. I was told that a lot of people that are willing and able to go to work are being overlooked because they now have bad credit.

One gentleman whose name I will not disclose told me that he had perfect credit until the economy took a turn for the worst. He show me how easy it was to get bad credit through no fault of your on.. First he got the pink slip from his job. Laid off back in 2008. Then he applied for unemployment but it takes two weeks to get an answer and then you get your funds. You do not get what you were making obviously so, now he is working with almost three weeks of no income. Trying to go out and find employment, wasting money he does not have in gas.To be rejected because the economy is bad. No one is hiring at this time. Mortgage or rent is due. One late mortgage payment is like being late the whole year. When the making home affordable program started, it was a blessing to many but in the process it has left your credit damaged. While you are waiting for the process no matter what you send in for a mortgage payment, it will be put aside until the modification process is done. This is approximately 60-90 days... Late, Late, Late and now your score is horrible.This is one example he showed me.
I research to see if the state of Pennsylvania allowed Credit checks as part of job employment and it does. One main reason the unemployment rate is high.
 I found a few states that their unemployment rate is low and one reason is because the states have decided to stop companies from discriminated base on your credit score. If you can not get a job to pay your bills you will never have a good credit score again. Intead of judging base on a score, find out what cause the defaults in a negative credit report and I think you will find a lot of people lost their jobs and just couldn't paid their bills.Should this be a reason for someone who is well qualified for a position not get the job??????

Here is the article I found about the states that put a stop to this discriminating issue...


State Laws

As of 2010, legislation in Maryland is being considered to restrict employer's access of a prospective employee's credit history. The legislation would authorize employers to request credit reports from applicants only if the report would serve a legitimate purpose for work-related reasons or if the employer is under a legal obligation to request the credit report.
Washington and Hawaii have enacted similar legislation which limits employers' rights to perform credit checks during the hiring process. Most states that have passed restrictive legislation provide an exemption for financial institutions.
These states have cited concerns with the consequence of making hiring decisions based upon credit reports, such as the inadvertent consequence of disproportionately passing over otherwise qualified employees.
Concerns are that, during a time of economy downturn, contingent hiring policies based upon credit reports lead to more unemployed applicants who may have overextended themselves due to unemployment.
Lastly, these hiring decisions may disproportionately impact minority groups who traditionally have been underrepresented in professional-sector positions.

Read more: Laws Against Employers Checking a Person's Credit History
eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/list_7240230_laws-checking-person_s-credit-history.html#ixzz1HPzlLodR


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A new attempt to visit a new church....

     Good Day my sisters and brothers in Christ. Hope your day went well today. I have had better days but, I also have had worst so I can not complain at all. With all that is going on in the world ,how dare me..
   Prayers to Japan and the Libyan people that truly want freedom from all the wrong doings from their goverment and their leader.

   Today I went to a new church. I was not feeling very good. I have been in slight pain that comes and goes for a few days now, but I had made up my mind to go. A good friend of mine had invited me a few weeks back and I always had something going on. Never made it. Today however with all that is going on in the world and in my personal life I push myself to go.

I was glad I went. I always feel better after I go. I feel refresh. The message was simple and to the point. The question the Pastor ask was "Who do you want to be like?" The reason for the question came from Romans 1, where in the KJV bible tells you that Paul, says in one of his letters I, Paul a servant of Jesus Christ.....

     The meaning of servantry was not a good one  in these times. For someone to choose to want to be a servant for someone , you must know you have a good master. So for this reason Paul chose to be a servant of Jesus Christ. So the questions lies on us. ho do we choose to be like. I use to want to be like my mother. Until I realise my mother wanted to be like Jesus Christ herself. A person of peace, love,unselfishness,caring and willing to sacrifice themselves for another. That's who I would attempt to be like. So I guess this makes Jesus Chist.....
       It's truly amazing when you need a word or a message of comfort how it is sent to you in the most strangest places. This new church is in a hotel. They rent out the conference room. It's a fairly new church so it is slowly growing. I pray for them....

A simple Gesture

" Everybody can be great...because anybody can
 serve. You don't have to have a college degree
to serve. You don't have to make your subject and
agree to serve. You only need a heart full of grace.
A soul generated by love."
                                              Martin Luther King ,Jr.

      Hello to everyone.  I hope that your day has been great..I thank God for waking me up this morning and cherish the earth that I am a part of.


    Let me start by saying all week I have been nervous. I had a Dr. appt on Friday and it wasn't a normal appt. I have been in a lot of pain. It has been increasing as the days pass by. I already knew that the appt. was not going to have a good outcome.
    I had made  the mistake of choosing the Mirena as a forrm of contraceptive. It was put on last year. I have had nothing but problems since inserted. My appt. was to remove this because I had signs that I might have an IUD infection. In other words this Mirena was causing me to have an infection. Therefore I was iin pain even when I went to the bahroom. Iwas really bad off.
      I had went to the Dr. anxious and nervous because I wanted this thing removed and I needed something for the pain. Plus I want to know what is wrong with me. As I get to the office and I check in the nurse calls me in and does the usual. Checks my weight height and notices that I have a slight fever. So she asks me what was my reason for the visit. I explain and I find out that the Dr. that was to see me today is not a GYN, but a family practician. She was under the impression that I was there for a Pap check up. So they gave me an emergency referral to a GYN available. Now the appt. was at 1:oo pm.
   The Dr. that I was sent to was horrible. I went in pain ,barely can walk. The nurse at the window who registers you was nasty and the one that brings you back in even worst. But, when I finally get in to see the Dr. I was even more upset. I wanted to ask questions and he basically told me that he was only there to remove my IUD(Mirena) and that was it. He had other patients in labor and I guess to him the fact that I was concern about having an infection or something being done about my pain was out of the question. It was like hello, drop your pants open your legs, ok good bye.... Even when I checked out the girl there was too busy on the phone as the line grew. I never want to go there ever again
     A simple hello goes a long way. An act of kindness when someone feels horrible and in pain makes that person smile for a bit. The nurse at the first office was all of this and more. She took the time to acknowledge my pain. Had a conversation with me. Made my emergency appt even though it wasnt her job. Wrote down directions how to get to the other office and even gave me her card and told me that if I had a problem ever making an appt. I can call her and she will make it for me. Now that simple gesture from her heart went a long way with me. Although I was in pain placing a call to her ,I know that I would get the fastest appt. possible. This kind gesture came from her heart. I just want to thank her...... Her name is Dianne from the mountainhome Geisinger in Pa.



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A Joke for the day"

   " The Blonde And The Thermos"
                 Submitted by a Faithful Our Town Reader

   A blonde was shopping at Target and came across a shiny silver She was quited fascinated by it, so she picked it up and took it to the clerk to ask what it was.
 The clerk said, "Why, that's a thermos... it keeps hot things hot, and cold things cold."
  "Wow!" said the blonde, "that's amazing... I'm going to buy it!"

 So she bought the thermos and took it to work the next day.
  Her boss saw it on her desk. "What's that ?" he asked.
 "Why that's a thermos... it keeps hot things hot and cold things cold."
 Her boss inquired, "What do you have in it?"
" Two popsicles and some coffee."

 I know a little corny but what can I say. I just read them not write them...

I have always read Chicken soup for the soul. It has a lot of stories that I can identify with. I hope the one that I have chosen will make you feel a little better... I know it does for me.
  


                                          "Don't be Afraid to Fail"

                              You've failed many times, although you may not remember .
  You fell down the first time you tried to walk.
 You almost drowned the first time you tried to swim, didn't you?
 Did you hit the ball the first time you swung a bat?
 Heavy hitters, the ones who hit the most home runs, also strike out a lot.
 R.H. Macy failed seven times before his store in New York caught on.
 English novelist John Creasy got 753 rejection slips before he published 564 books.
Babe Ruth struck out 1,3330 times, but he also hit 714 home runs.
Don't worry about failure.
Worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try....

                                          



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What causes someone to want to commit suicide???

 Gracious Lord thank you for keeping us another day..... With all that is going on in this world we just need to be thankful.....


Today I was going to call out of work, but chose to go nonetheless. I made it and was a little late than usual but made it. I approached my locker and I heard a co-worker in tears pleading to her son not to kill himself.
At first, it did not dawn on me that it was a lady that I use to work with. I was running late and did not want to be any later. So I ignore the conversation and was on my way to my floor when I heard the cries of a mother. This mother happens to have been someone who I use to worked with on another floor but, always converse with each other every morning at the locker as we make our way to our floors.
 I  heard her crying histerically pleading to her son not to kill himself.At this point I ran to her and embraced her because she was at the point of a breakdown. I told her to  go home and comfort her son. There happen to have been a housekeeper there. Normally it was her schedule day off but she came in for overtime, she was there and she went to her locker and got her bible and started to read it. This is one of the reasons that I believe in things happen for a reason and she was there for that purpose. I gave my friend a hug and send her home..
  Her son suffers from bipolar. He recently got seperated from his wife and has been suffering from depression since. At least to my knowledge. This is the second incident that I have known of people commiting suicide due to depression and being diagnose with bipolar.. The last one was the son of a Pastor whose church I attended. He killed himself in the front of his home.
  People do not take these medical condition serious. I use to think that these kind of physicological diagnoses was just a way for Dr.s to keep people medicated and easy to maintain a troubled child. But the truth off the matter is that , if they do not get help early, they do not understand what is happening when they are older.
  I just pray for my friend and the Pastor and hope that thle holy ghost wil come into their hearts and comfort them.


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A Joke For you..........

" Be Careful What You wish for"
        A man left work on Friday afternoon, but instead of going home , he stayed out the entire weekend hunting with the boys and spending his entire paycheck.
        When he finally appeared at home on Sunday night, he ws confronted by his very angy wife and was barraged for nearly two hours with a tirade of his actions. Finally, his wife stopped the nagging and said to him, " How would you like it if you didn't see me for two or three days?"
  
         To which he replied, " That would be fine with me!"
Monday went by and he didn't see his wife.  Tuesday and Wednesday came and with the same results. .
    Thursday, the swelling went down just enough so that he could see her a little out of the corner of his eye.......

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Rough Week....

   I want to start today by thanking God for all he has done for me and my family...Keeping me healthy and nourish in his spirit is the best that one can feel.

   I wanted to say something interesting today. I have been so tied up with all these things going wrong and really have had no time to blog about it.
   First my darling husband tries to fix the car and broke a bolt. Then we took it to a mechanic that did not know what he was doing(NEVER AGAIN).Pick up the truck and got stuck. The truck would not turn over.. So many miles away from home we are stranded... Needless to say I was upset. So I closed my eyes and statred listening to some religious music and calm my nerves. I pray for comfort and strength and a way out. We got picked up by my daughter and bought a battery for our truck. It statred but that was not really the problem. We took it to the dealer and had them service it instead.. After all this, the dealer explains to me that all that was wrong with the truck was the cables need to be replaced. So I spend on a distrubutor and a battery and all I need was some pugs.. And a cranker sensor...
   Then we went to Virginia to visit my niece and nephews. We went up on Sunday morning and came back Sunday night. It was a long ride there with all the bad weather and definitely bad weather coming home. It was  a crazy weekend for us. But through it all the worst of it was I actually buckle down and open a facebook account. I never wanted to do this... But my family abroad is on facebook and I wanted to be able to see and send some pics of them. So here we go.. Wish me luck.

   
 



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Birthday... Happy bday jerry

.Hi everyone. God is good to us in this neck of the woods.... I wanted to share some of the pictures that I snap quickly while we celebrated my good friend and brother in christ Jerry's 72nd's bday.
This is such a joyous occasion to celebrate. He has come a long way...
Celebrate life because it is very short......

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