Hey, all!!!

This is just a quick note to let you know that we need your help.  My Sister and her two girls were involved in a car accident on October 10th, as some of you know.  At that time, the doctors thought she had sprained her right wrist.  When it wasn’t getting any better, she went back to the doctor and they found a hairline fracture.  After doing what the doctor said, she still found her wrist “popping”, even when she was wearing the brace they gave her.  So the doctor told her to come back in.  They put her in a cast earlier this week, and they are saying that she will be in it AT LEAST 4 weeks.

Why am I telling you this?  Well, with her in a cast, she can’t work, which means she has no money coming in to pay rent and utilities.  SRS is helping with food by giving her food stamps, but that’s about all the help they have given to this point.  Sooooooo, this is where you come in.  I know times are rough right now, with Christmas coming and all, and we understand that.  But you know what?  Even $5 would help buy cleaning supplies and and toilet paper and such!!!  Soooooooo, forgive me for sounding like an advertisement here, but IF you can and if God puts it in your heart to help, you can make a contribution to our “Help The Sister” fund by PayPal.  You can send your contributions to:  mommamonster79@yahoo.com.  No, I’m afraid your contributions aren’t tax deductible…Sorry!!!  But if you’re like me, it feels good to help, even if you don’t get a tax write-off.  If you can’t help, financially, that’s okay too…we DO understand.  At least pray for my Sister and her two girls as they go through this time of testing and trial.

What else can you do to help?  Well…since you asked….forward this to a few people out of your address book that you consider TRUE friends.

Thank you SOOOOO much for your time….your prayers….AND your efforts to help!!!
God Bless You And Yours ABUNDANTLY!!!

With a new Pastor moved in across the street, I am VERY happy to see that he has been VERY eager to try to reach out to the community and draw people into his congregation.  Watching him do what he’s been doing has also gotten me to thinking a bit too.  It’s gotten me to thinking about other “opportunities” in which a church could minister to people.  The church across the street already does ALOT more than alot of the other churches in this area, and it’s been a blessing to live across the street and see ALL that this church does to reach out to those in need.  When I got one of the new church directories a while back, though, I noticed as I thumbed through there and looked at the pictures of the members that there AREN’T really that many single people.  Then it dawned on me that that is ONE area that MOST, if not ALL churches, could minister in that would be GREATLY appreciated.  Maybe not just single people, but ESPECIALLY single parents.  Now, I KNOW some churches (not the one across the street, though) look down their noses (so to speak) at single parents, but the fact of the matter is that, in this day and age, there are ALOT of us out there that want and NEED some church support.  I don’t think people realize how life is when you are a single parent unless they’ve been there to experience it for themselves.  I’ve got a couple of ideas as to what I would like to see if I was in charge of something like that in a church, but I’m not exactly sure what ELSE could be done.  I’m going to work on the idea, though, and see what I can come up with more of a foundation for the idea of ministering to single parents.  Who knows?  Maybe one of these days, someone else will be able to make it a reality!!!

I thought this was an interesting prompt this week, even if I am a day or two late getting around to doing it.  Change….Or, in MY case…Change?

Life as a single Mother with one son who has a LOT of extra things going on in their lives has our lives FULL of change of various types.

One of those almost constant changes happening is with my son, who is growing up in so many ways, and not so much in other ways.

Another area of change is our religious life.  In the last few months, we have found that we REALLY have NO place to turn for answers and consolation through all that is going on, but to God.  People of this Earth don’t have any more answers than I do.  And some of this just doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.  With no place else left to turn, we have been turning more and more to God…for answers to our questions…for provision in ALL areas of our lives….for confidence and strength for the rough days.  We don’t claim to know how to get God to give us everything we need…yet…but we ARE getting some revelation every now and then, from reading the Word, and from talking and discussing things with a few certain people who have a little bit different insight into what the Word says.

One area that’s NOT changing, at this point, is the fact that I plan on remaining single for a LONG time to come.  Someone suggested that I ask a guy from church that I seem to have quite a bit in common with to dinner, just for the conversation aspect.  Good idea…maybe….for another time.  Number 1 problem would be that I don’t think myself socially skilled enough to have the courage to pull something like that off successfully.  Number 2 problem would be the fact that I RARELY see the guy.  He only seems to come to church when he’s assigned to be an usher, and he just did that in October.  Therefore, I can’t really see him in church again any time soon, unless something major changes his mind and touches his heart.  Don’t get me wrong, I think he’s a GREAT guy just from the little I’ve been around him…but I’m just not ready to embark into anything more than a friendship at this point.  Some moral support would be WONDERFUL and VERY welcomed…but I don’t want to get anyone else tangled up in the mess we’re in right now.  Maybe down the road, though?…*raises her eyebrows in thought*

What’s that line?…The more things change, the more they stay the same?

I got a letter from a friend via snail-mail this last Friday.  It was a welcome sight in the mailbox!!!

It’s hard to believe that this friend is about the only one that still writes to me.  When my Sister and I were growing up, we used to write to 20 or 30 different people from Wyoming and California….friends of the family that we wanted to stay in touch with after we left the state.  I started writing this friend in 1997 or 1998, before I got involved with my now ex-husband.  Even then, I was still writing to 5 or 10 different family friends.  Now it’s down to this ONE friend that I write to on a regular basis…*shakes her head*  How strange!!!  I guess that just goes to show you how time changes things….and people.  I thank God for this friend, though, because I CAN write to them via snail-mail…and because they approach my letters with an open mind.  The letters to this friend have been filled with ALOT of emotion, especially over the last year or so.  And when I get a response, it is ALWAYS filled with JUST the right words of encouragement that I need to hear and the letters ALWAYS come at JUST the time I need them!!!!  God Bless You, my friend, and THANK YOU for being there…AND for being…YOU!!!

After literally MONTHS, or maybe even YEARS, of NOT having any dreams that I could remember, I have been having at least one almost every night for the last few weeks.  They’ve all been reality based…not something that COULDN’T or HASN’T already happened.  They’ve been mingling people from the past, with ones from the present on some of them….*shakes her head slowly*…I’m NOT sure what God is trying to tell me, if anything, with them.  Some of them have me kind of confused because they mixed deceased people from my past with people that I don’t associate with much that are still alive, and we are all getting along well, like nothing’s happened.  It’s just interesting, if you ask me, and kind of weird.

I have an acquaintance coming out to the house today.  I had e-mailed him the day before yesterday about something else and asked if he still had his horses.  I told him that we still had Dad’s stallion, but that we’d had to put my mare down this last Winter, and we were looking for a mare that we could afford to breed Chief too so we could have a baby horse.  He asked what breed Chief was, so I told him.  He asked if he could come out and look at him today.  I’m assuming he’s got a mare that he would like to breed.  Honestly, I hadn’t thought of the possibility of putting Chief up to be a “standing stud” before.  The thought of someone else getting a baby that from OUR stallion is kind of bothersome to me, ’cause I like baby horses SOOOOOO much.  But, the time WILL come….SOON….when we will be able to get another mare or a filly to breed to Chief and the baby will be OURS!!!  That time can’t come fast enough, if you ask me!!! 

Is this a new way that God is going to provide for us?  It’s a GOOD possibility!!!  Even if it’s only occassionally!!!

My God WILL provide for ALL of our needs, according to His riches in Glory by Christ Jesus!!!!
Phillipians 4:19