Hello everyone,

I'm glad I was able to stop in yesterday and today so that I could get up to speed on the prayer requests.

Unfortunately, I've been so sick that I don't even feel up to thinking about quilting. DH says that if he tells the doctor I don't even feel like looking at quilt things on-line, the doctor just won't understand how serious that is

My GI tract has been rejecting all foods. I've been "losing" acceptable foods for years, but it has really acclerated in the past couple of years, and now is really bad. I've lost 12 pounds in the past 2 weeks. Well, at least there's a little positive part there.

We are trying another approach and I started a new drug today. I'd appreciate your prayers that we could figure out what to do to make my GI tract happy enough to do its job and absorb some nutrition. Since my nutrition has been poor for so long, my adrenal glands are again on the downslide so that means I have the energy of a boiled zucchini. And I'd dearly love to get off of the steriods I have to take for that, since I'm having unwanted side effects.

Thanks !


Sue

Thank you Sue. I've gotten awfully weepy since Friday which was my mom's birthday. I know this is all apart of grief after the distractions of the funeral are over. I appreciate that God gives us freedom to grieve but also the comfort that life doesn't end here.

Happy, I'm praying for your friends. I pray for wisdom for the doctors.

Please I need you all to pray for Mr.Stuart he is the father of my oldest son girl friend he was taken to the hospital to they found a mass in the front part of his brain they have 7 girls and just found that his wife is going to finaly have a boy he is also a decon in the church this family really can use some special prays thank you Happy

Patti,

My thoughts and hugs are with you. I Lost my Mom 1 1/2 years ago and I still miss her, so my heart goes out to you. What a blessing to be able to read those letters from your Dad and know they are reunited forever in the presence of the Lord.

I pray you'll know the peace of God that passes all understanding,


Sue

I'm with Rachel. You are all in my prayers every day. I have been having terrible headaches, from what I have no clue. TMJ, stress, sinuses, Virginia weather, who knows? I've been trying to do a little quilting here and there, and I enjoy it. I will call the dr on Monday to get results I hope from the MRI and may have to do a gastric emptying scan! That's a new one! I spoke with two of my boys today, so that was a treat, and my oldest FINALLY bought a bicycle helmet!! Another prayer answered! I miss my mom and have been praying about that situation. So that is all the news from here. Take care and God bless.
Joan

Hi all Sorry to hear about not being on in so long or being able to check in. I have been saying a general encompassing prayer for my quilting family. I feel like such a hack for it but my sister's life is falling apart. She isn't doing so well and her youngest isn't helping much. My mother is with her today so I have a few hours by myself. I do wish you all the best and please know that even tough you may not see me on here much everytime I look at my sewing machine I think of you. By the way that is all I get to do is look at it. I haven't touched it at all. in over a month. My BOM is going to be a BOY (block of the year) Lots of love to all.
Rachel

Lynn, we used to have a parachute from dad's army souveniers. I wish I had that now - what great material to put into a quilt! I still have my head in those wonderful letters my dad wrote that we read the night mom passed. They were simply magical and were a perfect mood setter for me last week.

Patti, I have a smile on my face imagining the dance of your mother and father in heaven!

Whenever I go thru my Mom and Dad's momentos from WW II, I am struck with how little I can really know or feel of what went on in their minds during that time in the 1940's and how each of the things they saved had special meaning for them! My dad's little Bible, shells and a hula skirt he sent Mom made from parachute string silk (beautiful!) etched empty shell casings made into beautiful items, a cigarette lighter. All just distant memories now since the owners have long been gone.

My DH and I went through VietNam together in 1968-9 and it doesn't seem as bad as WW II seems to me.....although to later generations, I'm sure it does.

Anyway, God Bless all of you as you grieve!
Lynn

Frances-Happy-Jan...I will keep your loved ones in my prayers and pray for very quick healing to come to each of them.

I am praying for all of you and yours that are in need. My friend Joan needs prayer. She had cancer and has diabetes. She's in the hospital again and wants to be able to be here for her 4 kids for some more good years. She knows the Lord and so far he has healed her well. Will check on all of you. Thanks, Jan

Pray for my brother he passed out this moring BP 78/35 they do not know why it is low but when he went out he snaped he ankel he has RA and heart prolbems

Thank you so much for your prayers for my friend's daughter, J. DH saw her mom in the grocery store last week. Thy have one more test to do, but she should be getting a kidney transplant soon. Both her father and sister are matches. The last test is the final one for her father. He will be donating a kidney. I will let you know more as I find out about it.
Frances

Dana-your quote "you grieve only as deeply as you love" is such a beautiful thought to me. Thank you for writing this...I will remember it.
Sharon...I do hope you DIL heals fast...being pregnant brings out the awkwardness in the best of us....but never foolishness.
Karen

Sharon, I'm so sorry about your DIL....but certainly thankful the baby is fine. I'll remember both of them.

Dana in Olive Branch, MS