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HISTORY-WISE
- Our lives have been completely revolving around my mother's
situation lately, but with the help and blessing of our Heavenly
Father, and many, many friends, we went to court and my mother is
finally free from her awful torment of the nursing home.
That was the biggest HALLELUJAH! She is living alone - her
choice - in a small apartment and just blossoming beautifully.
We saw miracle after miracle of God's amazing grace and power as
the events have unfolded, and although there are still issues to
be handled, at least we are on the "up" side. This
has been an arduous journey, but it's such a huge blessing to see
how God fought for the life of that one precious soul to redeem
her from her darkness and bring her into His marvelous light.
I can honestly say that no one
loves the Lord more than my mother does, and we truly don't know
why she had to go through what she did - five years in a
horrendous nursing home and nine days in a psych ward where they
tried to "make" her appear mentally ill when she
wasn't showing any signs of it. That's right. They
also tried that in the nursing home as well. We certainly
have our own lengthy story of elder abuse. As I write this
newsletter, Dr. Phil has a show today with Maureen McCormick (from
the Brady Bunch) about elder abuse, and our situation somewhat
parallels what he is saying. It's scary, but probably
happens much more than "gets out there." But our
God went before us, and my mother has begun her long road to
healing and restoration, which at 87 is no small project.
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She still is
teaching piano lessons and is still playing the piano for
her church, and has now begun
doing some walking again (she used to walk four and five
miles a day before her walking privileges were
taken away). The rest of her life will pick up
as she is able.
So many have done so many
things to bring about my mother's freedom, but three
people especially stand out. Bob and Louise Tate
from Heavener, OK made their home completely
available to us for actually several weeks during all this
fray, even providing some meals, laundry facilities, and
their dog Molly who was such a joy when so many times
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We could never have accomplished
what we did had we had to pay for a motel for the many nights we
were there. They made us feel completely welcome during the
whole time, and reassured us we were not overstaying our welcome.
Such wonderful friends we'll never be able to adequately thank.
And Sam Wilson, a realtor, and also
from Heavener, offered my mother a small apartment he had in the
back of his large garage/shed that is just perfect for my
mother. The thing is - he offered it to her only if she
would agree NOT to pay for it. What an abundant blessing.
God will certainly reward his generosity as well.
"Thou art the God that
doest wonders." Psalm 77:14 KJV
We do still have issues we are
pursuing, but all in all, the main thing is that my mother is
free, that she is doing as well as can be expected for her age and
for what she has gone through, and God's faithfulness is so great
- it's new every morning.
"His compassions fail not.
They are new every morning: GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS."
Lamentations 3:23 KJV
Ministry-wise, we have seen souls
blessed and saved - what more could we ask? We've renewed
some friendships, made new friends. What more could we ask?
Thank you, Lord.
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BLESSINGS-WISE - All glory
to God our Heavenly Father!
***"Once again, I would like
to thank you so much for coming to Memorial Baptist Church
tonight! You were truly a blessing. I believe we had
at least 5 decisions, and that was those who came forward.
I'm sure there were others who did not come forward. Praise
God! I can just imagine the crown you will have in Heaven to
place at our Master's feet!...I will treasure this night for
eternity, and I am looking forward to the time in Heaven when we
can all sit down and just "jam" and sing, and reminisce!
***You-all were at Memorial Baptist
last night and I want to let you know that God truly blessed me
with being able to see the realness in your love for each other
and for Him. Thank you ever so much for being open to His
direction in your personal lives so that your ministry rings so
true."
***Jesus always uses you.
***You gave me goose bumps!
***The grace of God shines on you
two.
MUSIC-WISE - (With
tears in his eyes, an older man said to me) "I didn't know
that piano could sound like that."
KJV-WISE - Try answering
these from your NIV.
Part One: Using the New
International Version bible, answer the following questions.
Do not rely on your memory. As the Bible is the final
authority, you must take the answer from the Bible verse (not from
footnotes, but from the test).
1. Fill in the missing words
in Matthew 5:44. "Love your enemies, __________ them
that curse you, __________ to them that hate you, and pray for
them that __________ and persecute you."
2. According to Matthew
17:21, what two things are required to cast out this type of
demon?
3. According to Matthew
18:11, why did Jesus come to earth?
4. According to Matthew 27:2,
what was Pilate's first name?
5. In Matthew 27:35, when the
wicked soldiers parted His garments, they were fulfilling the
words of the prophet. Copy what the prophet said in Matthew
27:35 from the NIV.
6. In Mark 3:15, Jesus gave
the apostles power to cast out demons and to __________.
7. According to Mark 7:16,
what does a man need to be able to hear?
8. According to Luke 7:28,
what was John? (Teacher, prophet, carpenter, etc.)
What is his title or last name?
9. In Luke 9:55, what did the
disciples not know?
10. In Luke 9:56, what did
the Son of man not come to do? According to this verse, what
did He come to do?
11. In Luke 22:14, how many
apostles were with Jesus?
12. According to Luke 23:38,
in what three languages was the superscription written?
13. In Luke 24:42, what did
they give Jesus to eat with His fish?
Part Two in the next newsletter.
HEALTH-WISE -
Continuing on from last month's newsletter from an article
entitled "Sweet, But Poison": Part Two.
I will explain why Aspartame is so
dangerous.
When the temperature of this
sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F. The wood alcohol in aspartame
converts to formaldehyde (which is what embalmers use for
embalming!), and then to formic acid, which in turn causes
metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the
sting of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among
other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus.
Many people were being diagnosed in
error. Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence,
methanol toxicity is! Systemic lupus has become almost as
rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet
Pepsi drinkers.
The victim usually does not know
that the aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its
use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a
life-threatening condition. We have seen patients with
systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas.
In cases of those diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, most of the
symptoms disappear.
We've seen many cases where vision
loss returned and hearing loss improved markedly. This also
applies to cases of tinnitus and firbromyalgia.
During a lecture, I said, "If
you are using aspartame (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you
suffer from firbromyalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting pains and
numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches,
tinnitus, joint pain, unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks,
slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss, you probably have
aspartame poisoning!" People were jumping up during the
lecture saying, "I have some of these symptoms."
"Is it reversible?"
Yes! Yes! Yes!
STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for aspartame on food
labels! Many products are fortified with it!!! [over
5,000] This is a serious problem. Dr. Espart (one of
my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic
for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice, a nurse stated
that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all
been dianosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence! Diet
soda is NOT a diet product! [emphasis mine] It
is a chemically altered, multiple sodium (salt) and
aspartame-containing product that actually makes you crave
carboydrates. It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight.
These products also contain
formaldehyde, which stores in the fact cells, particularly in the
hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin and is
primarily to preserve "tissue specimens." Many
products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT
store it IN our body!"
Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his
lectures that once free of the "diet products" and with
no significant increase in exercise, his patients lost an average
of 19 pounds over a trial period.
Aspartame is especially dangerous
for diabetics. We found that some physicians, who believed
that they had a patient with retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms
caused by aspartame. The aspartame drives the blood sugar
out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss
due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are
NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for
a good balance. Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE.
Especially with diabetics, the
aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates
the neurons of the brain, causing various levels of brain damage,
seizures, depression, manic depression, panic attacks,
uncontrollable anger and rage.
Next newsletter - Part Three.
FOOD FOR THOUGHT-WISE
- We Are Never Alone (source unknown)
Do you know the legend of the
Cherokee Indian youth's rite of passage?
His father takes him into the
forest, blindfolds him and leaves him alone. He is required
to sit on a stump the whole night and not remove the blindfold
until the rays of the morning sun shine through it. He
cannot cry out for help to anyone. Once he survives the
night, he is a MAN. He cannot tell the other boys of this
experience, because each lad must come into the manhood on his
own.
The boy is naturally terrified.
He can hear all kinds of noises. Wild beasts must surely be
all around him. Maybe even some human might do him harm.
The wind blows the grass and earth and shakes his stump, but he
sits stoically, never removing the blindfold. It would be
the only way he could become a man!
Finally after a horrific night, the
sun appears and he removes his blindfold. It is then that he
discovers his father sitting on the stump next to him. He
had been at watch the entire night, protecting his son from harm.
We, too, are never alone.
Even when we don't know it, our Heavenly Father is watching over
us, sitting on the stump beside us. When trouble comes, all
we have to do is reach out to him.
Hebrews 13:5 gives us this promise:
"I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee."
AMAZING FACTS-WISE - (from Hidden
Truth-Amazing Bible Facts Revealed, p. 18)
One cold winter in South Wales, a
mother was traveling cross-country with her young babe and was
caught in a blinding blizzard. The following day, upon
learning she never reached her destination, a group of men went
out searching for her. They soon spotted a large mound of
snow in the road. They quickly swept away the white powder
and found the frozen body of the barely dressed woman. In
her arms was a bundle of clothing, which they unwrapped to reveal
her baby--alive.
In the struggle of the snowstorm,
the woman had taken off most of her clothing and wrapped it around
the little boy to keep him alive. She knew that she would
perish, but that the baby might survive. The baby grew up to
become David Lloyd George, the celebrated Prime Minister of
Britain during the World War I. One of the reasons he
achieved such greatness is that he never forgot about his mother's
love and sacrifice.
LAUGH-WISE
- Pun Intended
You have to have a certain mindset
to enjoy puns. For those of you who do, here's atcha.
1. Did you hear that NASA
recently put a bunch of Holsteins into low earth orbit? They
called it the herd shot 'round the world.
2. Two boll weevils grew up
in South Carolina. One went to Hollywood and became a famous
actor. The other stayed behind in the cotton fields and
never amounted to much. The second one, naturally, became
known as the lesser of two weevils.
3. Two Eskimos sitting in a
kayak were chilly, but when they lit a fire in the craft, it sank,
proving once again that you can't have your kayak and heat it,
too.
4. A three legged dog walks
into a saloon in the Old West. He slides up to the bar and
announces: "I'm looking for the man who shot my
paw."
5. Did you hear about the
Buddhist who refused Novocain during a root canal? He wanted
to transcend dental medication.
6. A woman has twins, and
gives them up for adoption. One of them goes to a family in
Egypt and is named Amal. The other goes to a family in
Spain; they name him Juan. Years later, Juan sends a picture
of himself to his birth mother. Upon receiving the
picture, she tells her husband that she wished she also had a
picture of Amal. Her husband responds, "They're twins!
If you've seen Juan, you're seen Amal."
7. And finally, there was a
man who sent 10 different puns to friends, in the hope that at
least one of the puns would make them laugh. Unfortunately,
no pun in ten did.
SIGN-WISE
- Did I read that sign right?
***Toilet out of order.
Please use floor below.
***In a Laundromat: Automatic
washing machines. Please remove all your clothes when the
light goes out.
***In a London department store:
Bargain basement upstairs.
***In an office: After tea break
staff should empty the teapot and stand upside down on the
draining board.
***Outside a secondhand shop: We
exchange anything - bicycles, washing machines, etc. Why not
bring your wife along and get a wonderful bargain?
***Notice in health food shop
window: Closed due to illness.
***Message on a leaflet: It
you cannot read, this leaflet will tell you how to get lessons.
***On a repair shop door: We
can repair anything. (Please knock hard on the door - the
bell doesn't work)
HUH?-WISE - At a
recent concert a woman told us that she liked one of our
songs so much that she just kept hitting the repeat button over
and over and over as she played it. But now she is going to
put it on a CD as many times as it will go on that CD (she thought
it would be about 25 times!) so she won't have to keep hitting the
repeat button any more!
KID-WISE
- My young grandson called the other day to wish me Happy
Birthday. He asked me how old I was, and I told him,
"62." He was quiet for a moment, and then asked,
"Did you start at 1?"
After putting her grandchildren to
bed, a grandmother changed into old slacks and a droopy blouse and
proceeded to wash her hair. As she heard the children
getting more and more rambunctious, her patience grew thin.
At last she threw a towel around her head and stormed into their
room, putting them back to bed with stern warnings. As she
left the room, she heard the three-year-old say with a trembling
voice, "Who was THAT?"
A grandmother was telling her
little granddaughter what her own childhood was like:
"W used to skate outside on a pond. I had a swing made
from a tire; it hung from a tree in our front yard. We rode
our pony. We picked wild raspberries in the woods."
The little girl was wide-eyed, taking this in. At last she
said, "I sure wish I'd gotten to know you sooner!"
My grandson was visiting one day
when he asked, "Grandma, do you know how you and God are
alike?" I mentally polished my halo while I asked,
"No, how are we alike?" "You're both
old," he replied.
A little girl was diligently
pounding away on her grandfather's word processor. She told
him she was writing a story. "What's it about?" he
asked. "I don't know," she replied. "I
can't read."
SCHEDULE-WISE
- Here is our Itinerary for the present month and the
upcoming month, so you can not only keep track of us, but also
pray for us.
Sun, May 6 - 10:00 a.m. Vintage
Place Nursing Home (R) - Derby, KS - 316-788-9600
Sun, May 6 - 3:00 p.m. Butler
County Habitat for Humanity/Leon High School (R) - Leon, KS -
316-745-3187
Sat/Sun, May 12/13 - 7:00
p.m./10:45 a.m. - Wellston Christian Church (R) - Wellston, OK -
405-356-2833
Sun, May 13 - 6:00 p.m. - Poteau
Church of the Nazarene - Poteau, OK
Fri, June 1 - 7:00 p.m. - Journey
of Faith Tabernacle Purcell, OK - 405-816-6538
Wed, June 13 - 7:00 p.m. - Iconium
United Methodist Church (R) - Moravia, IA - 641-672-2187
Thu, June 14 - 7:00 p.m. - Bussey
United Methodist Church - Bussey, IA - 641-944-5322
Fri, June 15 - 7:00 p.m. - Lacey
United Methodist Church - Lacey, IA - 641-673-8956
Sat, June 16 - 7:00 p.m. - - Beacon
United Methodist Church - Beacon, IA - 641-673-6103
Sun, June 17 - 8:30 a.m. -
Knoxville United Methodist Church (R) - Knoxville, IA -
641-842-3712
Sun, June 17 - 7:00 p.m. -
Eddyville United Methodist Church - Eddyville, IA - 641-969-4660
Tue, June 19 - 7:00 p.m. - Des
Moines Seventh Day Adventist Church - Des Moines, IA -
515-285-6245
Wed, June 20 - 7:00 p.m. - St.
John’s Lutheran Church - Madrid, IA - 515-795-3463
Fri, June 22 - 6:00 p.m. - Ripper
Park/Midwest Christian College Reunion - Bethany, OK
Sat, June 23 - Midwest Christian
College Reunion - Oklahoma City, OK
Sun, June 24 - 10:50 a.m. - Draper
Park Christian Church (R) - Oklahoma City, OK - 405-634-3389
Sat/Sun, June 30/July 1 - 7:00
p.m./10:30 a.m. - East Side Christian Church - Council Bluffs, IA
- 712-323-7805
We might mention that our Valens-tine
concert schedule for 2008 is already starting to fill up. It looks
like it will be mostly in Kansas this time, so if you’re in the
area and would like to be included, e-mail or call us. Here is the
schedule so far:
Sat, Feb. 9 - 6:45 p.m. Valens-tine
Banquet/Udall Nazarene Church (R) - Udall, KS - 620-782-3683
Sun, Feb. 10 - 7:00 p.m. Valens-tine
Banquet/Cornerstone Seventh Day Adventist Church(R) - Wichita, KS
- 316-688-5789
Sat, Feb. 16 - 7:00
p.m. Valens-tine Banquet/The Lord’s Chapel - Talmage, KS - Pat
Walker
LAST BLAST-WISE -
"Patience is the willingness to wait on God's timing."
Dr. Charles Stanley
"Don't tell God how big your
storm is. Tell the storm how big your God is!" (from
the Internet)
"He is the Great I Am, not the
Great I Was." Pastor Dave Eggebraaten
"Complaining is like whistling
for the devil." Joyce Meyer
FINAL ADMONITION-WISE - "Woe
unto them that call evil good, and good evil." Isaiah
5:20 KJV
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