LIFE --1 Hour At A Time!

Wow, I clicked the button "See the new interface" after I wrote the last post, and it's been 10 hours of downloading CHROME and trying to find my way around to get back to a place I can post. I got here by accident, don't know how, so I'll have to have others tell me how to get to the dashboard in the new interface. I can't find anything! I hope I can find my way back and not lose my blog forever! (So funny that the spell checker here does not recognize the word "blog". lol.

This year's greeting is short and sweet, many of you already got this as an email. Just my favorite Christmas picture and a poem I got an award for a long time ago. In the original photo all the flames are burning and flickering and changing the lighting of the picture. Too bad we can't use animated pictures in the body of our blog, just on the side tracks or whatever they are called.

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Mom is back in the hospital, and I'm too sick to help her much at all. I have been comforted spiritually, but I have rub out of batteries physically. She can't even keep down liquids. We will just keep praying that she will have another miracle, because other than her stomach, she is alert and strong and smart and could live for 20 more years, until she's almost 100, like her sisters.

I was so grateful that I have a housekeeper this time to help me with the basics of survival. I just collapse with my oxygen when I get home from the hospital. Then late last night she emailed and said she'd be gone until Aug 17th. So even when God finally helped me find a girl to hire, then He takes her away when I can barely care for myself or Mom? Still trying to learn why we are not supposed to get any help, when I spend every waking hours helping people online or caring for Mom. All the statements like "You reap what you sow" and "What goes around comes around" and "Karma" will bring your deeds back to you...they don't seem to work. This is not a fair or just world, so every good deed can't be returned in such a world.

I am aware that EVERYONE out there seems to be going through more trials than a human can bear, I'm not the only one having hard times. May whoever reads this be blessed with that peace that passes all understanding. Spiritually I feel comforted and strengthened, just so very frustrated physically.
zzzzz Too tired to write more.

Blessings, Sheila

Update: I spent most of the night praying for guidance. One answer I got is that God isn't trying to teach me anything by denying me help. This is just a sign of the last days. People all are struggling so much, and have no time or energy to help others, and very few people are unselfish enough to do things for others. The old neighbor system we had 50 years ago still exists in some countries, but not in N. America. I guess there are many many people like me who truly enjoy helping others in whatever way possible, then they ruin their health by serving too many and doing more than their health allows. I hope the Messiah returns soon.

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IS YOUR HUT ON FIRE?

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The only survivor of a shipwreck was washed up on a small, uninhabited island.
He prayed feverishly for God to rescue him. Every day he scanned the horizon for help, but none seemed forthcoming.
Exhausted, he eventually managed to build a little hut out of driftwood to protect himself from the elements, and to store his few possessions. One day, after scavenging for food, he arrived home to find his little hut in flames, with smoke rolling up to the sky. He felt the worst had happened, and everything was lost. He was stunned with disbelief, grief, and anger. He cried out, 'God! How could you do this to me?'
Early the next day, he was awakened by the sound of a ship approaching the island! It had come to rescue him! 'How did you know I was here?' asked the weary man of his rescuers. 'We saw your smoke signal,' they replied.
The Moral of This Story:
It's easy to get discouraged when things are going bad, but we shouldn't lose heart, because God is at work in our lives, even in the midst of our pain and suffering. Remember that the next time your little hut seems to be burning to the ground. It just may be a smoke signal that summons the Grace of God.

~~Unknown

May we all quickly be shown the purpose of our overwhelming trials.
You may want to consider sharing this, because

you never know who feels as if their hut is on fire today.
Bless you all, Sheila

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Chameleons are so amazing. If you go to youtube and look at videos of them, they can hide in front of things that have many colors, even patterned fabric. They have been created with natural ability to adapt to every circumstance. The camoflage is for their protection.

Humans seem to have been able to adapt to so many changes of climate and lifestyle and disaster and change in income, change in family size when new babies come. It seems that one of the few things a body never adapts to, or get used to, is pain. I have had worsening pain since age 15. If a person lives that long with almost any other situation, they would adapt to that. Why do our bodies never adjust to pain? There are so many other health problems that come with long-term pain, which create more things to adjust to, while becoming more physically weakened, with less ability to be strong enough to adjust.

I have studies natural remedies for all my conditions, but now I need to study natural remedies for Multiple Sclerosis.

My mind and body is changing so fast, it's frightening. Things that used to take me 1 hour to write or do, now take 3 hours, and I don't have the strength to do much of anything. 10 constant symptoms at once while trying to do everything for Mom makes me spend progressively more time doubled up in pain every day. Like I said in post below, that has benefits for Mom, but I am not adjusting to this!

If any of you can find any uplifting thoughts or scriptures about adapting to unbearable circumstances, I would appreciate reading them so very much.

Thanks!

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