RANDOM THOUGHT. . .

This is not a good day for me. This trying out different foods to see if they agree with your stomach or not. I am learning hard that food is not an enjoyment anymore. It is just for nurishment. Some of my friends state that after about a year things will somewhat change. I wonder:)? Just keeping the nurishment going is sometimes a chore when I am able to keep the food down.

School where I live started today. I heard the early morning buses moving about for the elementry and middle schools. I was able to see the high school students loading the bus this morning. The neighborhood looks very empty. I do not know why they started the school year up on a Thursday. As late as they have school starting up this year, they should have waited until after Labor Day. Who understands the minds of our politicians? I made a promis to myself a while back to not understand, but to somehow except some things that they pass into law. Do we have a choice?

TOMORROW IS NEVER A PROMISE . . .

Sometimes we take our lives for granted. We think that when we close our eyes at night it is a guarantee that we are going to wake up the next morning with a fresh beginning. That is not always the case. Yesterday I found out that a very good friend of mine died at the age of 35 yrs. old in her sleep. So very young. She leaves behind 2 young daughters, a husband, and a ministry that the Lord has blessed her and her husband with. This death bothered me greatly. One, she died from complications from a gastric by-pass surgery. A surgery that I have just undergone one month ago. Two, she was very young, and three, I've known her for years. We learn as we travel through this life and the one lesson that I am learning is that you have to be careful how you live your life. You must repent every bad thing that you have done to others or to yourself as every minute ticks by. If you do not, you may never get the chance to do so because TOMORROW IS NEVER A PROMISE.

I also have a friend that died last month. Just four months prior to her dying, I held a long conversation with her at our local Wal-Mart. 27 yrs. old with a heart condition. She was waiting on a heart for a transplant. Man I tell you. . . Whoever said that life is too short to be kidding around knew what they were talking about. How serious are you living your life? Who have you offended and never cleared the offence before going to bed. I know that I will be careful about what I do and what I say to people. I will be careful to repent at the very moment that God shows me that I have done something that is offensive to myself or to others and as I take one day at a time living my life, I will make sure that I take what I do serious and make a difference in the lives of others and my own life. I challenge you to do the same!

OF A GOOD REPORT. . .

Today marks one month since my surgery. I can not say that this journey has been an easy one. I've only coped with so much because the Grace Of God has been with me all the way through this. I do not recommend this surgery to anyone who does not have a made up mind to follow dietary instructions to the letter. You must have a made up mind and know that most things that you enjoyed eating will not be a part of your menu any longer. It is wise to decide what is more important to you in the long haul. I am speaking about health issues.

Yesterday, my day started out uneventful. I was waiting on pins and needles for my l:40 P.M. appointment. I had so many questions to ask my doctor and I was wondering had I lost any weight since my last visit. I did good. 7lbs in a 2 week period. not bad, but most important is that my stats were very good. I am able to wean myself off of so much protein in my diet because I am getting a substantial amount from other sources. My doctor states that I am doing great and that I need to up the annie on my food intake. No one has ever told me that before LOL LOL. I can only thank God for the good report. I do not have to see any of my doctors until October unless there is a problem. I hope in the two months between seeing either of them, I will loose more than 7lbs. with my health even better than the last visit. That is my goal.

DEALING WITH NEIGHBORS. . .

When we move into homes, we don't have the luxury of choosing who our neighbors are going to be. You may be fortunate enough that you may get a good-neighbor, but if you are like me, you get the bad-ones.

In a conversation today with my neighbor, I discovered that as the head of her household, she has no control. I hate the things that her friends, her children (grown unemployed sons), and her other family members that do not reside with her do to my property, but I must say that I feel sorry for her. You work hard, pay bills, and feed unemployed grown sons and you have no control over your home? Give me and everyone else who lives around you a break. Be nice and give those sons a 30 day notice to leave. Be nice and tell your other family members and friends that if you can not respect my resident and the residence of my neighbors, stay home! Stop making excuses for not doing the right thing.

If you live upstairs in an apartment syle building, stop making all that noise for the people who live below you! THAT AIN'T RIGHT! If you live beside a person in a building that is an apartment, stop making all that noise disturbing your neighbors. You don't live in this world alone. People like you and my neighbors need to live somewhere in a cave like most morons do.

How you conduct your home discribes who you are. If you have no order in your life then your life will be chaodic for you and anyone around you.

So I say this to anyone who has been or is being a bad- neighbor. . .give your neighbors a break, get yourself some self-respect and do the right thing. . . BE A GOOD NEIGHBOR! This concludes my ramps and rages for today LOL. Time to move on LOL LOL. Until the next time. . .

THE NEW ARRIVAL . . . .

It's sometimes hard to find people who like to blog. They don't often understand the logic of blogging. Some people may consider it to be "not their cup of tea." I find it to be exciting. Of course you are going to be careful of what you write about to some degree, but for some it does not matter. They speak their minds no matter what for the whole world to see. I admire them.

Today a friend of mine is blogging on this website and I want to say to him welcome to blogspot where you can express your ideas, Gods truth, and His wisdom. You can even express your truths, your travels in this world, and anything else you may want to express. Welcome Elder!

ISAIAH 52:1

There are two words in the begining of this verse that should catch the eye. God says two times the word AWAKE! awake! I did just that today. I got out of self ( moving toward a pitty party), held up my head in confidence knowing that God had something out there for me. I had a need and you know what, I did get a blessing in my obedience. My need was met.

Sometimes we can be in a fog like state and miss our blessings and I almost did that. Thank you Lord for meeting my need.

CHANGES. . .

Last month I had a birthday:). I am happy to say that I am now 46 years old:). One third of my graduating class in high school are decease. The most surprising thing is that they departed this world in their early and mid 20s. Death will make you stop and think. If you have any sense, you would learn to cherrish every moment that you are in this world. Every day that you open up your eyes, you will give thanks to God that He allowed you to have just one more day to do things right. Hopefully making a difference in your life or the life of someone else.

Right before my 46 birthday, I began to notice changes inside of myself. Those changes led me to make a few changes in my appearence. I had my hair cut very short. I began to lose weight and I started focusing in on my health issues. I made a very big decision in my life and decided to have a gastric by-pass. I am now off of a lot of medications and my health is better now than it has been in over 20 yrs. and I am happy to say that the weight is melting away:).

Recently I did a mathamatical estimate of how long that I have lived in this world by hours. If I were to live until the day of my next birthday, the estimate hours that I would live should be 397,440 hours. That is a lot of hours. My only hope is before I reach my next birthday, I want to make a difference in someones life. A true saying is that if you concentrate on someone else for a change, God will concentrate on you because it shows an unselfish act.

Everyone should make changes. Let God lead you into your changes. Please remember that the changes you make should be for yourself and for good reasons. Have a bless day.

LOSING FRIENDS

Have you ever had a friend that claims undying loyalty and when you don't agree with them and their life style the wiggle like worms and disappear like snails with salt sprinkled on their bodies? Well I had a friend just like that. Whatever happened to accepting people for who they are? I excepted her and encouraged her in anything that she felt that was important to her, but when changes came into my life, the worm withered away and disappeared just like that snail like I spoked about earlier. I don't understand people who are cold one minute and hot the next. On the other hand. . .it's not for me to understand is it? I must accept the fact that the friendship that I thought we had is no more. Hey forgiven and time to move on.