I think she should not do it alone

My mom has been fighting and playing the waiting game for several years now over getting her disability benefits from Social Security.  I feel really bad for her and when I hear that she isn’t taking care of her self that she should be due to the costs of things, it totally breaks my heart.  I suggested to her that she get a Medicare plan advisor to perhaps guide her the direction she needs to go and see if that will speed things up for her and get her the maximum benefits she should receive as well.  She sounds like she is just in over her head and totally frustrated at the moment.  I have to tell you I get the information every year with the changes to Medicare for my dad and I fell lost, and wonder if he is even getting everything he is entitled too!  I also don’t understand why dental and eyes are not covered!  That totally blows my mind!  That reminds me with dad showing signs of hearing loss now, I need to get the benefits book out and see if hearing aides have any coverage!

Each of us has a set of different goals

As I reflected on my email devotion this morning from Charles Stanley I paused for a moment to reflect on the theme which was plans and goals that brought the end results of success!  (God’s Plan for Success, Proverbs 3: 5-12)

A few points I want to mention are

• Set Goal’s According to Gods Will

• Walk Obediently before God

• Use Gift’s for Gods Glory

Each of us can reach our goals if we remember to include God!  Praying and reading the Bible are vital instruments in the success of reaching our goals.  Even though we sit down and have a pen and piece of paper at hand and our mind draws a blank, all we have to do is turn to Him and he will guide us the way we are suppose to go!  Each of us will have similar goals and some of us will have different goals but what matters most is God is there with us all way.  If we feel we are slippy off our path or struggling, all we have to do is get down on our knees and that will get us back in the direction we should go!

Overcoming an addiction is possible!

Not too many know or realize that an opiate is a drug derived from the opium plant, such as morphine, codeine, which can induce sleep and alleviate pain.  Sometimes there are folks out there who will misuse this and become addicted and they feel hopeless and don’t know where to turn. There is always hope!  When it comes to an addiction such as this, I think a great option is getting an opiate detox at a rapid detox center.  They are very safe and effecting and the cost can be very reasonable.  This detox is a process that is done in about 8 hours, which gives your body the time it needs to eliminate the opiates and you won’t wake up in a withdrawal state!  There are addiction counselors and specialists there to help you every step of the way.  Do keep in mind, that its important after you do this, to follow through with counseling so you don’t have a relapse.

I wanted to share this as I reflect on it, its an email devotion from Max Lucado:

“He forgives your sins—every one.”  Psalm 103:3 The Message

It’s against God’s nature to remember forgiven sins . . .

He who is perfect love cannot hold grudges. If he does, then he isn’t perfect love. And if he isn’t perfect love, you might as well put this book down and go fishing, because both of us are chasing fairy tales.

But I believe in his loving forgetfulness. And I believe he has a graciously terrible memory.

I’m grateful to know that believing in God, reading is word isn’t just a fairy tale!  Its just unimaginable to me sometimes when I hear some people say some terrible, horrible things about God and then, us in our earthly form, people do and say some mean things about us, even growing up and we are tender, sometimes we are angry, hurt and cry.  I often say wow how does God do it?  Then I am reminded we are equal, he is bigger than all of us combined!

Football season almost here!

With hubby trying to catch the preseason games, its a gentle reminder of football season fast approaching!  Yes indeed, September 12th is the first official day of football!  While I am not a big fan of it and knowing my hubby is, I been watching for some great tv deals!  He keeps talking how he wished we had a 42″ screen now!  Ever since he put the wall mount up, he just thinks ours is too small now!  Earlier today when my son was playing his video game he said he has some problems with the television in his room so its quite possible its on its last leg, and its the oldest one in the house!  Its possible we may be in the market to buy one sooner than expected, but I hope to maybe for Christmas to surprise hubby with a new television!

My book that I ordered still has not arrived.  I hope it arrives soon as I am anxious to start reading it!

Some things won’t get done!

OH wow did this ever bring tears to my eyes today.  If you knew me you  understand I am the type who runs on fumes, trying to get everything done, please everyone.  I am at a point in my life where I am exhausted and look what Kay Arthur posted on her Facebook today:

Beloved, sitting at Jesus’ feet and listening to His Word is a choice. Some things will not get done. Some people will not understand. But Jesus said it was the one needful thing—the one thing which could never be taken away. Because of what you learned from Him and of Him, you’ll always have something to hand on to—and it won’t be your fingernails! Discover Psalms 46:10

It looks all scratched up!

Today while I was cleaning, I noticed our front door knob is all scratched up, the main door as if you were entering our house.  I don’t remember it being that scratched before.  I always wipe the main door down, its black and with the sun the dust tends to show up, so I keep it wiped off.  I am trying to not jump to the worse case thinking here like was something trying to get in, rather maybe it was from dad using his key, since he has advanced stages of arthritis, it could be from that.  I showed hubby when he came home from work and I told him I feel more comfortable if we got a new one.  I like the Kwikset Handcock style and it would look very nice with our door.  Our door is an older style look to it so it would just fit nicely together.  I also like the Cove style too!

I noticed a few of the trees seem to be turning colors early this year!  I wonder if Autumn is approaching us a little early and if that that means winter might sneak up on us a bit early too?  I hope while we are out and about this weekend to get some warmer pajamas and a sweater too!

Depth over quanity

I wanted to share this devotion I got today via my email from Max Lucado!

“You thrill to God’s Word, you chew on Scripture day and night.”  Psalm 1:2 The Message

The Bible is not a newspaper to be skimmed but rather a mine to be quarried.

Here is a practical point. Study the Bible a little at a time. God seems to send messages as did his manna: one day’s portion at a time. He provides ” a command here, a command there. A rule here, a rule there. A little lesson here, a little lesson there” (Isa. 28:10). Choose depth over quantity.

I learned this, I was reading a lot of the Bible, so much at one time that it wasn’t soaking in, then I started just as he described, a portion at a time, and things I was not understanding before, I understand more and more!

Life Principles Daily Bible

I am anxiously waiting for my Life Principles Daily Bible that I ordered from InTouch.org!  I think how this is structured with Old and New Testament verses to read, with Psalms and Proverbs, I will get more out of my reading time than just reading just one section of the Bible.

I just finished Give It All To Him by Max Lucado and this was something I read in one sitting.  It brought tears to my eyes as I reading it, how a woman and a man brought their bag of “trash”, and what it represented.  WOW!  Powerful!

I also finished Silver Refined which I think I might of blogged that already.  This is such a great tool to have by Kay Arthur.

My inner spirit is calm and has not been this calm in many months.

Victim or Victor

I am catching up on a few of my weekly broadcasts I am behind on, by Charles Stanley.  I can’t explain but when I watch these shows, its as if everything around me stops and he has my full attention.  I feel as if he is talking to me, and I am actually there attending his church.  The message I watched was called Victim or Victor.   I am choosing to be a Victor than a Victim!

I learned from my notes (yes I take notes) that As children of a Sovereign God we are never victims of our circumstances.   And I also wrote down the following rewarding truths wrapped in God’s Sovereignty:

• We can live with a greater trust in God in our circumstances when we acknowledge he is Sovereign.
• We can have a far greater freedom from worry.

• We can be more grateful about the good things we have knowing he is the source.
• We have greater patience in times of adversity

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