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Good Tuesday afternoon everyone. Yes I’ve been MIA, no I’m not dead, yes this stay at home, shut everything down quarantine is driving me batty.

Blessing for today-we woke up, we were given another day to do what Jesus has lead us to do. Praying everyone is having a wonderful day. Praise report for today-as long as I’m medicated, my headaches are a sliver better. Light, some noises still bother me and the meds to combat the headaches/migraines, pretty much make me about useless, otherwise I’m fantastic.

Ok, for now, that is all with me. Later 😊🙏

We are the lucky ones. Pass it on !!

I encourage seeing this time of being forced to hunker down as an opportunity. Those of us who are in recovery from child abuse and trauma have vast experience in isolation and denial.

This is a chance for NAASCA members to reach out even more often to those we can positively affect with our message and mission, that we are NOT alone. A day at a time we will never have to wonder if we are wanted, needed, appreciated as members of the NAASCA family.

After all, the majority of our work is done via phone and Internet, and from our homes! We can connect in many ways. We can share on Facebook, participate on our radio shows, even write or call someone and simply say, “I was just thinking of you.”

You will immediately brighten their day, and make new friends at the same time.

Each of us knows scores of people, hundreds perhaps, who feel the loneliness and isolation of these trying times. But we can change that.

We are the lucky ones, because we never need to search for an opportunity to belong .. and to serve.

This was from a post on one of my Facebook groups a bit ago. I’ll just leave that here for now.

Good morning all, happy March 😊 praying everyone is doing well. Hubby and I have been home since Monday afternoon. I don’t usually share too many personal details, however, hubby was diagnosed with stage two thyroid cancer last October. We saw the first surgeon that was supposed to do his surgery, he had a job/educational offer come up, so, he took it, leaving our surgery and care with his counterpart, which we found, we liked him better.

Anyhow, had to go thru a whole rigamarole to get it scheduled and travel and childcare and stay there while we were there, thankfully we had some family and extended family to help us out. Thank you Jesus. Our stay while hubby was in the hospital and while we were staying in the motel and the inn attached to the hospital, was awesome. I will leave my review for the hospital, the hotel and the restaurant we ate at that first night in Ann arbor, on Google.

I’ve been myself dealing with some health issues that almost nobody can fully figure out. Saw a new neurologist/opthalmologist last Weds. He put me on some new meds, which I’m not real fond of. However, I’m trying to give them the benefit of the doubt, but it’s real hard. He diagnosed me with occipital neuralgia. It sucks, because on the outside, I appear nothing wrong, unless you know me well, but on the inside, I battle with different issues in my head, neck, digestive system. I’ll write about that in the upcoming weeks.

So, that being said, I’m off for now, enjoy my company. Have a blessed day all.

Good Monday morning, sorry, this is a day late. Anyhow, as you’ll notice the title today is sing your song, well that was part of our Church’s Sunday sermon yesterday. The title he gave it was, 20 in 20. Why that you may ask, well, because, even though it is almost the end of February, it is still close to the beginning of the year. My pastor challenged his 9am congregation and his 11am congregation to, start today, with sitting completely alone and quiet with God. Talk to him, listen for his still small voice.

I know I speak for myself and for my household, when I say that we don’t spend nearly enough actual quiet time with God, outside of church on Wednesday and Sunday. So, hence the challenge of 20 in 20.

Now, as I listened to him preach his sermon yesterday, I especially liked his words and how he put them, about how when we do start taking our alone time with Jesus, how the most free, ugliest, liar of a secretary shows up, inputting all the stuff we should be doing, listening to, all the negative stuff we probably should have dropped at the cross. That secretary I’m mentioning is Satan.

Satan was a disciple of Jesus at one time, but when he was thrown out of heaven, her wants everybody to have no part of Jesus or heaven. So, we just need to start being much more diligent in our relationship with Jesus, every day.

I, again, speak for myself and those in my household, when I say, we know that God allows bad things to happen to us, to build our faith, trust and dependence on Jesus alone. Because clearly, if we were in a world where nothing bad ever happened, yes, that would be ideal, but we’d never learn anything Jesus wanted us to learn. As I also know that God allows bad things to happen to us, to make us humble, to put our complete trust and dependence on God and God alone. Something that, especially for believers, is easier said than done.

When I said that God allows things to happen to us, both good, bad and indifferently, some are to see how we handle them, who we run to first to deal with them, some are his ways of speaking to us and granting prayers. We just need to be open and receptive to listen. As I say that, God speaks to me, sometimes I fall to listen. Sometimes,I hear the message, but fail to understand how to proceed with it.

You all are probably wondering how God speaks to me, I’ll tell you, he has set up an internal radio that no matter the time of day, there is either a full song, or certain lyrics that play on repeat in my head, every day. The music I predominantly listen to is Christian music, or something that’s playing around me. I used to get pretty aggravated with it, until I realized that, God is speaking to me, I just need to listen.

Ok, I’m done for now, some may have already quit reading earlier, sorry. Ok, before I quit, I’m leaving a link to yesterday’s sermon, broadcast live on YouTube, every Sunday morning at 9 or 11am. https://youtu.be/t8LjMsbTYmg. If anyone is interested to check our church further, go to grfirst.org.

Prayers and blessings to all and have a wonderful Monday.

Good Sunday morning all. I know it’s been a few weeks since I’ve posted, but sadly that’s what tends to happen when a migraine takes over your life 😓

I didn’t get to read as much as I wanted in January, I did listen to a few rereads though. This month, second month of the new year, new decade, I’m gonna try getting some reading, writing and crafting done this month.

My tbr for February so far is as follows:

*scythe by Neal Shusterman(part of my online book groups buddy read)

*dragon by Christopher Paolini(part of my library’s let it snow winter reading program)

*safety in blunders by Christy Barritt (a library book due soon)

Those are just a few that are guaranteed, plus some eARCs that are due soon also and some library books also due.

Praying for everyone today, blessings on your day. I’m gonna watch my church service online. Have a blessed day 😊😊

Good morning everyone, this link I’m sharing here, is for my author friend, Pam Funke, she’s a Christian author.

I’m also leaving a link here, for our Sunday church service, number 2 in the series. You’ll find the link for number 1 when you go to their YouTube page.

For now that’s all, praying you’re all having a wonderful Sunday so far.

Ok, so this post is more like I like it. What exactly is on everyone’s Saturday bucket list? On mine, to veg, to get some reading and writing in, maybe crafting.

It is very crappy weather here in Michigan, rain, sleet, snow and just below freezing. I’m not going out today.

The book I’m currently reading is: safety in blunders by Christy Barritt.

Enjoy your Saturday folks 😊

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Good morning, it is currently the 11th of January, and I’m just now posting again. I really need to take God’s promptings and start posting when he nudges. Anyhow, I’m planning on starting reading and writing more. The link below goes to my most recent first read of the new year.

Check out this book on Goodreads: Reign of Error http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33977059-reign-of-error

Good evening folks, hoping everyone had a Merry Christmas and looking forward to a new year, new decade. Wow, I just said that out loud 😯 yes we are moving into a new decade, I’m looking forward to doing better and doing more in this new year, new decade.

For starters, this is one book I have finished this month. This has been a bad month for me for reading. Been battling a migraine for seven months, lightheaded and dizzy, nausea, nobody knows anything, makes it debilitating to do much, even when I force myself to try.

Check out this book on Goodreads: Clean Sweep http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40541568-clean-sweep

The new year is less than a week away and I’m trying to list things to start doing or start doing more of, one thing is blogging, at least twice a week for starters. Reading, writing, both of which I plan to do more of here.

Ok, I’m off to go try finishing a library book. Have a wonderful New year and I’ll catch ya in the next decade. 😊

Good afternoon folks, in the two weeks since I last posted, I’ve had a third dose of aimovig, which outside of making me lose half my hair in the past three months/doses, hasn’t done anything for my migraine or symptoms. Aimovig may be great for others with migraines, but it hasn’t done anything for me.

I went to church today, and I love our church, our worship team and our pastors, however, even with earplugs in, the praise and worship this morning, made me very lightheaded, dizzy and almost like I was gonna pass out, thankfully I didn’t though. That would’ve been awesome, seems how my hubby is not home yet, but thankfully will be for Christmas and hopefully new year’s.

I have been listening to three different audiobooks these past two weeks, I have only finished one actual book, I’ve finished a season of one of my shows, been watching Rizzoli and isles on DVD, all while hibernating myself away from life due to this stupid migraine and company. For anybody who’s never had migraines, I pray you never get them, they suck and they suck the life out of you. Doctors aren’t very helpful when it comes to trying to figure out why you have a migraine, especially for someone who’s never had a migraine in her life up until about seven months ago, when poof, it showed up and never left.

Ok, I’m done ranting, enjoy your week, Merry Christmas and Happy New year all.