Congratulations is at hand......

   Hello everyone and hope all of you is well. I am great thanks to my all mighty father up above that takes care of me.I have had a couple of rough days, but I'm ok now. Thank the Lord....
   I am so sorry that I have not kept up with my  blog. Its been very crazy for me. But, I'll do my best to try to keep up.
   I have to report today my friend got engaged...I am happy for her but concern too... You see a few months ago she was having some problems with this man. However she is in love and this is easy to see..I hope that all works out for her because she deserves it. I am her friend so I wish her much happiness....

 Well to move on, I watch yesterday the movie " The Help" ... I was very excited to see this. However it was not what I expected... I think this film should have had opinions of real women in that era and time. I think that they will find the times being much harder and people more cruel. It's a nice story.
 I have done most of my christmas shopping. I am not done yet but, almost finish fully. My tree is up and my presents are under the tree so I am just really waiting  for the dinner, now....Pick up my youngest daughter's Michelle's gift. I got her a Android tablet with colormultimedia capabilities. It's nice.

101 Gifts to give all year long.....(61-70)
61. Share an experience
62. Find the time. Yes , you can. It involves making new choices.
63. Think things through.
64. Listen.
65. Examine your demands on others. Give some of them up.
66. Lighten up. Find the funny side of a situation.
67. Take a quiet walk when you feel like blowing  your top.
68. Be a friend.
69. Be optimistic.
70. Express your gratitude

This Day is finally over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

     Hi everyone. Hope you have had a great day. I have to thank my heavenly father for allowing me to have this day. It's sad that all I have is complaints.
   As I had specified before I am in retail. Retail is hell during the holidays.... Specially the Christmas one. The sales back to back and the early openings of stores... Today my  company had a big preview day sale.We open at 8. I had these sweaters that went on sale for 11.99. Now usually I have a hard time selling items because I am a lease department in a big retail store and my company does not accept coupons. So when we put a sweater  for 11.99 you can only imagine what a crazy day it is going to be.Our sweaters normally are in the price range of 59-109 just to give you and idea of what a great sale we ran today. Within the hour of the opening for business we sold about 115 of these sweaters... by 1pm I was sold out of about 600 sweaters. You can begin to imagine what a mess my boutique shop looked like.. I have never been so exhausted.. I have been so sick.. Since Thanksgiving.. I just have been going and going and going....My body just shut down on me and I ended up getting real sick. Felt like the flu. Instead I have a respiratory infection. It's like the beginning of bronchitis , but past a cold.... Two days of antibiotics and I feel great until the rain came to our town... I have arthritis ... Ouchhhhh... Need my arms and hands for work... So like I had said before, Lord I am greatful for the day but, I'm full of complaints...I live in the Pocono Mountains n Pa... Right about now the temp. is like 20 and snow, snow, snow... instead its 60 degrees and humid and rain so my arthritis is in overdrive...  Im so sorry I should be feeling more festive... On a brighter note, my grandaughter is doing much better. She was diagnose last week with phenomonia... You can imagine how horrible I felt. I love my grandkids like if they were my own. I sometimes feel like we end up loving them more.... I came home after being so tired and was looking foward to just sleeping and my baby was here... I mean my grandbaby... Did I mention that my other grandaughter Kamari is now 5 years old and I was told by my daughter that I am going to be yet another grandma again and this time I am having a grandson... Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhh....yeahhhhhhhhhhhh

    Thank you for listening to me and letting me vent without being critizize....

   As promised your 101 Gifts to Give Aall year long ( 51-60)
51.Do a kind deed anonymously.
52. Share your umbrella.
53. Leave a funny card under a windshield wiper.
54. Tape a love note to the refrigerator.
55. Give someone a flower from your garden
56. Share a beautiful sunset with someone you love.
57. Say, "I love you" first. Say it often.
58. Share a funny story with someone whose spirits are dragging .
59. Free yourself of envy and malice.
60. Encourage some youth to do her best....


 Be bold in everything you do... You are God's child and Jesus shed his blood for you ... So be bold and be loud and let the world know that if no one else loves and forgives you it's ok because who matters the most already has ....and continues to love you......

Late Happy Birthday Wish............

I wanna wish a Happy Birthday to my husband.......I have been so sick that I had totally forgotten my husbands birthday. Every year I wake up and say Happy birthday and this year it totally slip my mind... I remember later on, to me I had already forgotten it.
Lord I want to thank you for the years that you allow us to have and celebrate with each other... As the time comes for us to celebrate the day that Jesus was born we want to thank you for all that you have given us...

Happy Holidays

    Hello everyone and I hope that all your days were full of love and prosperity....Happy late Thanksgiving.

I hope it was a blessed  one next to your family.. As for mine. It was spent with my mother-in-law and my three nephews and my eldest grandbaby that came up from Virginia... My three children and my youngest grandchild. I truly was very blessed.  Later that evening at around 7 pm I had to drive my husband to work cause as you may already know , black friday started at 10 that evening for some stores......As you may remember we are a retail family...
 Later that evening as if it could have gotten any worst, my granddaughter that was visiting for the Holidays had to go to the hospital. She had bronchitis. An hour after getting home, off to work I went. It was a pretty long week...
 All in all I had a pretty good Holiday.....


   I had in my previous posts try to give you free everyday gift giving ideas that are meaningful and last a long time and are free... I apologize for not being very diligent about posting them... I have been sick ...no excuse
so here we go....
  101 Gifts to Give All Year long---- 41-50
   41.Keep a confidence.
   42.Try to understand a teenager. Try again and again. Succeed.
   43. Let someone ahead of you in line.
   44. Catch someone "doing it right" and say , "Great job!"
   45. Say please..
   46. Say yes when you'd rather say no
   47. Explain patiently.
   48. Tell the truth, but with kindness and tact. Ask, "Does the other person really need to hear this? "
   49. Encourage a sad person.
   50. Spread a little joy.

 Inspiration for today....
God's blessing are dispensed according to the riches of his grace, not according to the depth of our faith." If we are not faithful, because he cannot be false to himself" (2 Tim. 2:13).

Prayer...
  Father, when we are weak, you are strong. When we have no faith , you have faith. Thank you for being true to us even when we forget you. Thank you for being faithful even when we are not.

What a day!!!!!!!!!!

Here in the poconos mountain it is currently 36.4 degrees. Very mild for a November day. Normally it has already snowed and the temp. is 15...... I am not complaining, I am just so thankful for the gorgeous and beautiful days that we are having... Thank you father for all you do, even though we do not appreciate it. I am so ever grateful.
 I am truly blessed... I tell all the people I know, I am broke but I am blessed.... People look at me weird and I tell them you do not know Jesus ... Let me tell you. And I try to offer a testimony to show that I was once skeptical about Jesus... You see life changes drastically when you cast away your fears and trust in the inevitable...Jesus. Not everything in your life will change. The way you deal with things are different. The way you see things are different. Your perspective to life and how to handle situations are different . It is a great feeling. Remind yourself this. There is a man name Jesus. Who was crucify by us the people he so loved. Nothing you go through in life, is as bad as the walk Jesus did when he was hung and nailed to the cross. The beating , the spitting at him the torture that we the  people caused him and yet he still ask God to forgive us. Nothing you go through is that bad.Nothing....


      101 Gifts to Give AllYear Long.....
 31-40
31.Play catch with a little kid.
32.Help someone figure out a solution instead of giving advice.
33. Take a box of homemade cookies to work.
34. Visit an elderly shut-in.
35. Laugh at a boring joke
36. Tell your partner that she is beautiful.
37. Serve breakfast in bed and clean up afterward.
38. Clean the house for Mom and Dad.
39. Share a dream
40. Walk with your partner on a regular basis.

  I read this in an inspirational book and wanted to share it...
 Bitterness is it's own prison....
Pray,
     Father , sometimes forgiving other seems impossible. Remind us that revisiting the cross is the first step in knowing how to forgive....Amen
  Life is short try living fully and not waste it in sorrow...

New Boss...... uggghhhh

Good evening everyone. I hope your day was blessed and full of joy , even though we go through our everyday struggles. Today  I was introduce to my new boss. You see I work for DKNY Jeans. It has a license from Donna Karan but it is made by LIZ CLaiborne. This year the license expires. Actually it ends 2012. Dkny International but the license back and now I have a new boss. Excited and scared.. It is like having a new job. You don't know what is expected.

wish me luck.....

                                       



On another note..... The 101 gifts to give all year long... 21-30
21. write an encouraging letter to the editor.
22. Take Grandma or Grandpa to lunch.
23. Send a "thinking of you" card.
24. Wave and smile at a parking enforcement officer.
25. Pay your bills on time.
26. Give your used clothes to a needy person.
27. Pass on some good news. Don't pass on the gossip.
28. Say something nice to someone.
29. Lend a favorite book.Don't nag to get it back.
30.Return a friend's favorite book....


Our prayer for today...
   " Father forgive us for the times that we have questioned you; forgive us for the times we have doubted you; forgive us for the times we've shaken our heads and pounded our fists against the earth and cried, " Where are you?" For father , we know that you have been here---- you've carried us through the valley, and you've given us strength...

Wednesday... Hump Day.....

Good evening to all. Thanks to my almighty father for allowing me the strength to sustain another day. Although it was raining . It could be worst. It was a busy day at work. We had a big sale at work and oh my God everyone was there... It felt like all of New York(lol)...
  I had posted some things that you can give away all year long....
Here is 11-20

  11. Say "Good Morning," even if it isn't.
12. Mail an unexpected and caring letter to an old friend.
13. Place a surprise phone call.
14.Wash dishes when it's not your turn.
15. Empty the trash when it's not your turn.

16. Ignore a rude remark.
17. Send a "one-minute love call
18. Start off someone's day with a joke or a funny story. ( My favorite to do)
19. Make coffee at the office for your secretary, for example.
20. Save the want ads for a job hunter.

  Hope this helps......with gift giving..

  A joke.....
   Levels of Stress..
  You pick up a hitchhiker, a beautiful girl. Suddenly she faints inside your car and you take her to the hospital. Now that's stressful.
   But at the hospital they say she is pregnant and congratulate you that you are going to be a father. You say you are not the father, but the girl says you are. This is getting very stressful!
   So then you request a DNA test to prove you are not the father. After the tests are completed , the doctor says that you are infertile, and probably have been since birth. You are extremely stressed but relieved.... On your way back home, you think about your 3 kids....

Something to remember.....The single most difficult pursuit is truth and love..

Happy upcoming Thanksgiving...

My Day with my grandbaby......

   What a wonderful day today was... Thank you Lord for all that you grant us to have..I had pick up my grandbaby today after work and spend a few hours with her. I had not been able to do so because of the holiday hours that my job now requires of us ...She is my life. Everything about her is so divine and when I look at her I just can't help but thank God for my blessing .

This is my grandbaby Jenelle... She is 2 now. Time is really going by fast.

What a beautiful Day....

  Life is beautiful. I woke up at 3:30 this morning to get myself ready for work. As I get up i am so groggy and lazy that all I want to do is just lay back down... It's a bit chilly and here I have to get myself together for work... (Still have not hit the Powerball or Mega Million...lol) I have about 30-40 minutes to get myself together and out of the door... I'm finally up and about , time ticking away. I'm rushing because if I do not get on the highway on time then , I'm late. I have a 2 hour commute. As I am ready for my day and say goodbye to my husband , I open the door and just admire the beautiful moon staring dead at me. Just as bright as can be. It lit up the whole sky. I just took a deep breath and look up at it and said THANK YOU LORD FOR ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL DAY..... I immediately felt so uplifted and my day went so smooth from them on..
  We sometimes get so involve with the hectic things in our lives , that we forget the beautiful things that are around that do not cause a thing and bring so much joy and tranquility.... Peace... Like the day Jesus was born...I couldn't help but say that.... It just felt like it....
   Work was work but today it seemed to go well. I got a lot accomplished ..Holiday time (Yeahhh)...I love Christmas holiday. It's not about the presents for me, I always taught my kids that Christmas was a celebration of when we were all born again... Jesus birth signify our rebirth.... And this was the biggest and best gift we can ever receive from anyone...
   I hope the start of your holiday is filled with joy to help others and those who need it the most. This year , I am going to collect all the coats and clothes from people that I know, and I am taking it to a church that I attend. On Sunday's after service, we have community dinners and the people that come are mostly seniors that are alone and have family far away. They needed coats. Some were cold and only had sweaters because they had nothing else... So I decided to lend a hand. I do not have any extra money, but I can ask around for articles of clothing, coats shoes etc..... Anything to help with what I can...
                                  Have a blessed day and smile... Jesus loves you..

Ohh My Godddd!!!!!! What a day!!!

    Have you ever had a day, that never ends and you just want to scream because no matter what you did, it just seem like you did not accomplish anything ????   That was me today.. should not complain
    Hello all. Hope your day was better than mine. I should not complain because at least I have a job to complain about . There are so many people still unemployed and I know wish that they could be in my shoes. But I tell you, that the holiday season has officially began for us ... I work in NYC. Extremely busy around the holidays. My company today had to transfer over 2000 units to other stores.... They have sold out of units. Our store is the biggest store so we had to transfers units there. It felt like it took us all day... Moving on to another subject...
      The hold discussion today was about the Dr.Conrad Murray case. Opinion so don't kill me for having one. I am so tired of these Dr.s and celebrities thinking that because they have money, they can do whatever they want.Michael Jackson, I loved his music, think he was one of the best artist I will see in my lifetime and felt sorry for him... All the charities that he participated in, all the money he gave to all causes did not mean a thing... The only thing people saw was an accused child molestor... A pedifile..After his death, the man whose parents accused Michael of molesting their child back in 90's, has come out and told the truth. Although his parents had put him up to it, u can tell he was haunted with living that lie... At the time he was 13 years old..   I as an individual can not stand when someone lies on me. It really makes me mad. A lot of people saw it as him admitting  guilt, when he paid them 20 million dollars. Everyone was very upset because we expected him to go to court and prove his innocence... The truth was that he wanted to go to court. He was on tour when the allegations came out and his promoters had told him to just give them 20 million than they loosing 200 million which was the paycheck for that tour he was doing...I had taken my time to research, because you tend to wonder how a man that was so loved by the world with everything going for him could have had so many issues... After listening to all the evidence that was shown, I could not believe that a man so talented suffer so much...
      This Dr. was a greedy man. A lot of people had commented that Michael Jackson was a drug addicted.. That to me he was. He was addicted to prescribed medicine... Knowing this how can a Dr. who is license to do the best for his patience , treat this man with a drug that is only use in the hospital under supervision and monitors. He was definitely abusing his authority to practice medicine. At the end of the  day, he chose money over his code of ethics as a Dr.....Too Sad

Holiday season..... It's on it's way

   Hello everyone. I hope you had a great day. God is so good to us. Beautiful day here in the Pocono Mountains. Just last Saturday, it was snowing and we were cover in 10 inches of snow. Some people I know still have no electric from that storm. Today it was 63 degrees... What the heck is going on here? Who are we to question, I learn to just enjoy. Got some extra sleep yesterday . Daylight saving time is great when the time goes back. Now I feel like the night comes earlier...and you sleep a little longer..

    I know you are probably thinking I'm crazy for sharing this pic with you but the truth of the matter is that I work in retail. I never see no holidays other than back to school and Christmas... So I am going to repeat Happy Thanksgiving in the hopes to celebrate a Holiday other than Christmas.. I hope all your plans for a Thanksgiving dinner work out well. This is the first year, I am celebrating Thanksgiving at my house with my husbands family.. My mother-in-law and my nephews are coming up. I am really excited. I am also going to have them on Christmas.... I ask what they wanted for Christmas. What a mistake. Never ask a kid what they want for Christmas. On my quest to start Christmas shopping early, I found this list of gifts to give all year long...

     101 Gifts to Give All Year Long

1. smile

2. Provide a shoulder to lean on.

3. Pat someone on the back.

4. Say "Thank you."

5. Give an unexpected kiss...

6...or a warm hug.

7. Say, "You look wonderful! and mean it.

8. Rub a tired back.

9. Whistle when you're feeling down.

10.Send a thank you

Here is the first ten on that list... I'll give another 10 tommorow..

  Bitterness is its own prison.... Food for thought.

   See you tommorow God willing

  Hello to all. It has been quite a long time since I wrote in my blog. I have been very busy and just have had no time for myself . All in my family is blessed. My little grandbaby is getting bigger .She was a pirate for Halloween..Too cute. Well, I hope that all of you are in good health and spirit..

   A Joke............

DID YOU HEAR ABOUT THE TWO BLONDES WHO FROZE TO DEATH IN A DRIVE-IN MOVIE?
THEY HAD GONE TO SEE '" CLOSED FOR THE WINTER".

    Oh My God...... Thank you Jesus for taking the longest walk anybody has ever taken and sacrifice himself for us future sinners so that we may be able to one day recognize the wrong in our lives and try to make it right. Thank you for the opportunity because without him we are nothing......

    I am so sorry I have not blog in quite sometime but, I have had a lot of events take place and just have been to distracted and honestly had no time. Life has been great, even though we have had some curveballs but that is expected. I do not know one single person that has not experience trials in their lives. In fact the harder you try to live life right , the harder things become. More obsticles come your way and you feel like you are in a no win situation.  The goodness of it all is that with the grace of God you see things differently and react different therefore your outcome becomes different. It is a beautiful thing when you can feel the love of Jesus in your life... You see it and others see it too.
  On another subject as You all remember I have a 2 year old grandaughter. She has grown so much in just a few months that it is hilarious for me to even tell you some of the events that take place here. There is this show that she so adores. It is called Yo Gabba Gabba. I found out that they are touring this year so I check their website to see when they will be coming this way.
  For those of you who know what I am talking about, I have enclosed a link that you can go see for yourselves..  http://www.yogabbagabbalive.com/

       I hope that all of you are in good health and in good spirits and keep praying for all your needs and not your wants....

A day of Praise

   Praising the Lord is how we wanted to start our day. I want to take this time to pray and thank my heavenly father for all that I am and all that he gives me and my family... I have prayed for understanding for so long and all I ever wanted was to be able to give a word to another person that needed to hear what the Lord has us here for. You know I felt that I would never get to a place where I would be able to understand the bible or it's contents in it...Better yet, put it to use and be able to try to live by it.. We are a generation that really are a repeaing from our ancestors.. We feel entitled to everything that we want. Instead of being grateful for the things we already have. Our families before us suffer to give us the things that were important and needed in our lives but today we teach our children to seek for materialistic things and not the things that are needed like Christ in their lives... The significance of loving......

  On that note I want to share what I learn in church today. I have not gone to church in a couple of sundays but, I do keep up with the sermons online. One of the beauties of today's technologies... The pastor spoke about the wounded warrior. This whole months series has been about warriors in the bible...Today was dedicated to the men ..
   He has made a statement that really hit home in many families today.. There is so many children growing up in a single family home and what we are not realizing is that we are training our kids to be single parents as well. Men are often not present in their childrens lives. Because of this the mother has no choice but to raise her child the best way she can... A man child needs to be raise by a man.. As strong as we are we are still not men. We can not teach a boy about the things that they go through simply because we have not gone through it.. Example a father can not teach his daugther about her monthly visitor and the need for pads or even how to use a tampon because he has not gone through this. He has no experience in it. He has no idea how any of this works with the exception of what he may hear. Men are important in a young man's life. Our hurts is spill over to our children... Their was a quote my pastor said that stuck to me. He said and I quote " Hurt people tend to hurt people".. It took me a while to understand it but I did. If you are carrying a hurt from someone in your past specially from your father you tend to past that hurt to your child. You have to learn to forgive that person for whatever reason they were not there and hope that your time with your child is well spent and remebered. Your teachings will be remembered by your child and will be used in the future generations to come.. Tell your kids you loved them, tell them that you are proud and tell them that you believe in them....

Nothing to say except I love you....

   Hello everyone. I hope this brief message finds you all in good health and spirit. It has been a long wek and een though I have nothing interesting to say.... There is much to be grateful for. I have my health, my family and a job . I have strength to live another day and still have stength to continue our spiritual fight....
    This week we had the privilidge to visit a good friends of our.His wife was put in a home a while ago and she had surgery a fw days ago with her kidneys... Her percentage at the time was 70 and now it is 7. So they are preparing for her homecoming to the Lord... He had asked my husband if he can visit and sit with them and sing some spiritual songs to comfort the family.... We went over and had a wonderful time. We were just sadden for what is to come, but it was wonderful to see how this family has loved each other for so long and how they are trying to be strong for one another... I can only ask for prayers for them and hope that God sends them the comforter when their time come to depart from their loved one... In closing I am going to include an incerpt from the bible.. It is Isaiah 40:26-31 and it reads...

26 Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

27 Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the LORD, and my judgment is passed over from my God?
28 Hast thou not known? hast thou not heard, that the everlasting God, the LORD, the Creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary? there is no searching of his understanding.
29 He giveth power to the faint; and to them that have no might he increaseth strength.
30 Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:
31 But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

Just another Day.............

   Hello my fellow brothers and sisters. I hope my brief message finds you in good spirit and great health.
My life the last few weeks have been too much to handle. But God on my side I was able to survive. As I had told you before my grandmother had been sick, shortly after she passed on and we had the funeral. We have been trying to adjust with that. To change matters a fellow friend's mother past as well. I have seen to much death. Although we should not be afraid of death but welcome it as another chapter of our lives, we can not help but feel a little compelled about it. I just have had to much of it at one time.
  I was listening to a series of sermons that were posted on my church's website, and they were all about marriages. The good ones and the bad ones. One ting that I found out is that statistically in today's world we are setup to fail in our marriages than to succeed. The divorce rate is higher than it has ever been and the lengths of a marriage is shorter and shorter by the decade. There are so many children left with two homes instead of one and what we do not realize is that we are passing all the negatives to our children. We are basically saying its ok to not try to work things out in a marriage. I use to think that once you are married you were basically stuck and happiness did not matter.  As a married person my individual emotions and dreams did not have meaning anymore but in fact, its the total opposite. I am not going to lie to you and tell you that it is easy. It is about the hardest thing that you will do in life. But it is a beautiful thing. It is what God wanted for us. It's the reason he made Eve for Adam.

Our final goodbyes....

  Hello to all and good health and strength in the name of the lord...
   As many of you may already know, my grandmother has been at her death bed since last week . This past friday her life support was removed at around 12 pm. A true fighter all the way ,as we had expected  she did not leave us until Saturday evening... Her funeral will be held this friday at 11. in Virginia...
   A word from the bible... in 2Tim:4 6-8 it states " For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand. I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing."

   I feel such great comfort in knowing that the beautiful woman that fought a good fight will receive her crown by our all and mighty judge as it should be. Such tears of joy and sorrow I feel from all this. It was a strong woman that has return back to the king and although she  will be missed dearly, she has left so many memories that will heal the sorrow in time. My grandma was 88 years of age . A good life she lived. A great person a kind woman loved by all who knew her and admired by those who only knew about her.... We will truly miss you but thank you Lord for giving us such a gift.....

  It's a poem

        I was Dying......
First I was dying to finish high school and start college.
And then I was dying to finish college and start working.
And then I was dying tomarry and have children.
And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school so I can return to work.
And then I was dying to retire.
And now, I am dying......and suddenly I realized I forgot to live.


 Cherish your love ones ... for one day we will missed them and it will be to late to tell them you love them...

How we mourn....

    Hello everyone. God is good no matter what. I have strong faith that the grandmother we know is either in that body that lies in the hospital brain dead or has risen to her new home next to our king and is looking down on us trying to send comfort for those who can not let her go....

   For all of you who do not know yet, my grandmother has had a massive heart attack and is in the hospital since thursday of last week. The Drs. say she is brain dead and that she has pass, but some of the family memebers refuse to take her out of life support and therefore her soul if indeed has lifted up can not rest until the body has been laid to rest...

                     I was trying to locate a picture of her to show her beautiful face but could not find one in my computer at this time... I will later post one as I feel fit. In any regards although she lies in a hospital bed dead, I have began to accept the fact that maybe it was her time and God did not want her to suffer any longer. She was 88 years old. A strong woman. Never judge anyone and loved everyone.Her door was never shut. The big momma of our family ,she kept us all together and strong. No matter what we did wrong, she was there with open arms to just love us.... To her last breath she whispered words of love and compassion to those who knew her . I was reading a lot of different stories of how people dealt with sorrow and I found a poem that was a little different than most. This poem is told in the eyes of the Lord to all parents... But in this case is to my grandma from the Lord to us.....

   THE POEM.......

        I'll lend you for a little time a child of mine, He said,
For you to love the while she lives and mourn, for when she's dead
It may be six or seven years. or 80 or 83,
But will you, till I call her back, take care of her for me?
She'll bring her charms to gladden you, and shall her stay be brief,
You'll have her lovely memories as solace for your grief,
I cannot promise she will stay, since all from Earth return,
But there are lessons, taught down there, I want this child to learn.
I've looked the wide world over in my search for teachers true,
And from the throngs that crowd life's lanes,
 I have selected you
 Now will you give her all your love nor think the labor vain,
Nor hate me when I come to call to take her back again??
I fancied that I heard them say Dear Lord, Thy will be done!
For all the joy Thy child shall bring,
The risk of grief we'll run.
We'll shelter her with tenderness, we'll love her while we may,
And for the happiness we've known forever grateful stay;
But shall the angels call for her much sooner than we've planned,
We'll brave the bittergrief that comes and try to understand..

Another day with God's blessing....

 Good morning everyone. Today I am doing a little better than I was yesterday. I was in the hospital with my grandmother. She has been ill and not doing good at all. But let me tell you how good God is. If you did not know about Jesus you need to go look for him now while you can.
  My grandmother yesterday was was showing positive signs. Now today was going to be a critical day and so far so good. I came this morning with a positive attitude because yesterday she was moving . Although it was small gestures, they were huge to us. She is so tired and we are so selfish that we want her here with us instead of allowing God to do his will. She is such a fighter. I never really had someone accept me for who I am without being judge before. She has never pointed fingers and has never disrespected me like a lot of my husband family do. This lady is the closest to me having a grandmother.....
   Pray for my family please... For strength at our time of need.. And we really need.......I will keep you posted...

A not so healthy trip......

 Hello everyone. Today is a beautiful day. God be the glory. I hope we are able to enjoy more days like this.
I was called the other day and was told not some healthy news. I have family in Virginia. My grandmother is ill and things do not look so good. Anyhow, I had to pray very hard.
  You see , we have to learn to ask god to guide us while we become selfish and ask to keep us in his hands wil we grieve. Although she has not passed, she is of age and is not breathing by herslf right now...
  I can not really talk about this situation right now, jst needed to ask for prayers for my family to keep us strong and allow God to do his will..