warning God talk/Carolyn and Vickie/God must have a sense of humor!

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Dear Carolyn,

What comes now is something Jesus said: (I think it's 7) where He says: What man among you, if his son asks for bread would give him a stone? If you, being evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more your Father in Heaven?

The God I know is pure Love, and Love doesn't send us trials and test us. Love is everpresent Help to lift us from our self-chosen troubles; not that we say: I think I'll have a child with a problem, but that our very ways of thinking -- all of us -- comes with pain and suffering because we've -- like the prodigal -- turned our backs on the Father-Mother and Home and "taken our journey into a far country"

Love,

Francine

n a message dated 6/15/2008 11:15:35 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, charper777@... writes:

Hi Francine,

I thought that was interesting where you said "sickness and troubles are our insane inventions." I don't quite understand that, I believe that God sends a lot of trials to us for us to go through to test our faith, etc. Such as Job in the Bible. Yes I know we do cause an awful lot of pain and suffering ourselves by our own sin and rebellion, such as my son drinking alcohol, he is doing that. But too I believe that God is in control and that if we have faith in Him that something good will come of all of it.

I have always thought this about my son Marty and his having autism and epilepsy, etc. that God intended for us to learn and to grow in many ways from this assignment in our lives and we have, have learned compassion, etc. and many other things God has taught us.

Don't want to get too religious here, but just wanted to point out a few basic things, I believe that God control ALL things, and ALL for our good and learning, etc.

I have been working out in my yard too, I am planting an Australian fern, it is supposed to get 20 ft high and spread out 5 feet on the top like a tree. Can't wait to see it grow.

Talk to you soon,

Carolyn

God must have a sense of humor!

Greetings all,

I just had an experience that has shown me God's sense of humor, maybe others won't see it that way, but for some reason I am finding it humorous. Well yesterday my son Tom got in such bad shape carrying on that he was going to die any minute, that his grandma, his sister, and I decided he needed to go to the hospital. Grandma was going to call 911 but he didn't want her to, and so it was decided I would take him down to ER.

It took about an hour getting him into the van, he fell out once on the cement, got him back in, he got mad, got out, got him back in, then out, then in, finally to the hospital. Same old thing, he has been drinking too much for days, and his blood sugar is too high, and can he have an IV for dehydration. It was busy at 5:00 p.m. and we had a long wait in a crowded waiting room with a drunk guy. Every five seconds he grabbed his coat and said, "Let's leave," and each time I told him we were almost there, hang on, might as well wait.

He was having terrible mood swings, nice, sweet, happy, to quite hostile. Once he squeezed my arm and twisted it, and when I laid my hand on his forehead to pray for him, he shouted for me to "STOP that!" He did not want prayer, asked "Why do you believe in God anyway, God, God, God, it is all you ever talked about, how could anybody be so stupid to believe in God," he said. It was like the devil had him, and wanted me out of there, but I did not leave, just sat in that hard metal chair and stared at him.

Funny thing happened too, the nurse asked if he was my husband. A compliment to me, and quite an insult to him. She said alcohol ages you. Hope that makes him think.

Anyway they gave him a good dose of Ativan in his IV, and I left while he got the pouch of fluids and high potency vitamins into his vein. By the time I got him home I was really tired of the whole thing.

Well this morning I figured I would just take it easy, but oh no, no sooner got up and had to run back down to the same hospital, in fact the nurse put us into the same room Tom had been in last night, the one we hate there at the hospital. It is all tiled and has a door on it, was originally designed for those coming in with chemical contamination, but is hardly ever used. We were put in there both times, it is like a jail room, especially if you are in there for a long time.

Oh, this trip was for Marty, this morning was the day his food tube gave out and had to be replaced. It is held in his stomach by a balloon full of saline and the balloon had broken, big emergency, got to get a new one put in before the hole closes up. You see, the body does not like holes in it, and if the object holding the hole open goes away, then the hole closes up, faster than one would think. He had this same issue when he used to have a trach in his throat for many months, sometimes he would pull it out, and we had to rush to get another one in before the hole closed.

I was thinking it was going to be tough, they always have a tough time with Marty due to scar tissue,, but the doctor pushed the new one right in, no trouble at all, took about a minute for everything. So we were only there for about an hour, unlike the five hours I had been there the night before with Tom.

When I was sitting there looking at my handsome son this morning, it came to me, my job as a mother was simply to do the things I do, day in, day out. God must have a sense of humor because this was really funny. Tom is handsome too, he looks like me, blond, blue eyed. Marty looks like his dad more, in fact exactly like him I think, dark hair, dark eyes. Now I am just little gray haired mom that I am taking care of my sons. It is funny don't you think.

Yesterday afternoon we attended the graduation ceremony for my granddaughter, Sierra, she is going into middle school next year. She got the President's Award for Reading and Literature, is a very bright little girl. And her father showed up! A miracle in itself. When it was her turn to say what was her most memorable moment at school all year, she said, "Right now, with my mom and dad, and grandma and little brother Lucas being here to watch me graduate!" It was so touching, and original, not rehearsed like the others kids. That is Sierra.

And this morning, the last day of school, I figured I was done taking them for the year, no emergencies, it wasn't raining, their lunch bill was paid, no problems, but Sierra called, would I please bring down two marking pens for both her and , it was the day the other kids wrote on their t-shirts, so I popped in the car, to the store and met them there with the pens, that is when called to tell me about the food tube and I went into my rescue gear again.

Anyway this is what I do, this is my job in life, now don't you think God has a sense of humor!

Well that is about it, going to be a nice day here, sun is out, supposed to get warmer, probably should go out and weed some, my flowers are looking really beautiful, my purple delphiniums are about four feet high.

I think everything is going to be alright, I really do!

Much love to you all,

Carolyn ;;;;;;;;;00000) )))))

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