November 28, 2007
Thanksgiving is over… I hope you were all blessed with a wonderful Thanksgiving! I was able to go the Thanksgiving service our church had on Wednesday evening, it was a wonderful time of giving thanks to our Lord for all that He has provided this past year.
It was also a time to say thank you and good bye to our Associate Pastor David. He is moving to Texas next week to join his beautiful wife Victoria who had moved there last month. This is a sad time for me as I have grown accustomed to Pastor David’s weekly visits and phone calls. As for David and Victoria, I am happy that they are obeying God’s calling on their lives and I know that God has already begun to bless them in ways that they never could have imagined.
I spent all of Thanksgiving Day, along with Friday, Saturday, Sunday and a good part of Monday in bed. I have come to learn that the bad days don’t always come when I want them to. On the other hand, I try to always appreciate the good days; they don’t come often enough, and so I try to enjoy each and every oneJ.
Several have asked that I once again include our eBay store link, so here it is http://stores.ebay.com/Grandma-Dianas-Attic. I hope you enjoy looking around!
My friend Jeralynn is doing very good! God has begun an incredible healing in her body, for that I am forever grateful. When I tell you this is an incredible healing I really do mean that. With the exception of taking life much slower now, she is coming back to being the friend I new before she became sick. Jeralynn was even able to take me to the doctor today. Thank you for your prayers!
As for me, please continue to pray wisdom for my doctors. I do have a great number of appointments and tests in the next 6 weeks; I will keep you updated as to what is going on so that you know how to direct your prayers.
My praise reports for this week… I did go to the doctor today for something that I am still not exactly sure of what it is. At this point my doctor isn’t sure either. This is yet another new ailment that won’t be added to the disability report but will be watched very carefully. Part of my praise is that for right now this ‘something’ is nothing! Praise The Lord!
I am choosing not to go into what this ‘something’ is because it is a little on the discreet side. Now for those of you who really know me, you must be thinking Diana, discreet???? Okay, yes, I know… however, I really don’t know who all reads this so I am not quite ready to share all of my discreet issues with everybody. If it does become something then I will go into detail and maybe even send pictures (uh..oh.. Okay, here’s the real Diana coming out).
Now onto the second part of my praise report! Towards the end of my visit my doctor told me to wait and that he would be right back. He came back with a very large box full of prescription samples. I can usually get a one month supply for two or three prescriptions out of him; this time he must have given me a good two maybe three months worth of samples for all of them (with the exception of one or two). This is huge; these are worth well over $1,000.00 just in co-pay fees alone. Praise The Lord!
This really brings me to a third praise! First you need to know that I belong to a HMO. How many of you have doctors who will call you at 7:00am or 10:00pm just to see how you are doing? How about calling from a cruise ship, in the middle of the Mediterranean, while he’s on vacation to see if you had a certain test done? Or, better yet, email back and forth on a weekly basis to take care of anything that can be handled via internet instead of paying for a doctor visit. I do give thanks to my Heavenly Father that He has given me the very best doctor there is… Praise The Lord.
As a side not… this sounds alot like our Pastor Ron, who will call at any time or place. While on vacation or visiting his grandchildren, it doesn’t matter. If God puts you on His heart he stops what he is doing and calls you. By the way PR, thanks for being my pastor!
Someone mentioned to me that they intended to go to a local shelter and help feed the homeless on Thanksgiving. They wanted to do something to help the needy on Thanksgiving but it just didn’t work out.
It’s not too late, I am going to make this easy for all of you who have always wanted to help those who are needy but didn’t have the time or didn’t know how to go about doing it.
There is a great organization called Children’s Hunger Fund, http://www.childrenshungerfund.org/. They have helped (and continue to help) me and my family over and over again this year. They have brought an unbelievable amount of food (along with many other items) to our home. I can’t tell you where we would be right now without them.
I can honestly tell you that most of the food, hygiene items, and paper goods that are in our home have been given to us. If it wasn’t for Children’s Hunger Fund we wouldn’t have much of the food that we currently have in our home right now. From the very bottom of my heart I couldn’t tell you what we would have done without help from Children’s Hunger Fund in the past few months.
If you are looking to make someone’s Christmas brighter (there aren't too many days left) or wanting to make an end of the year tax donation the please click on one of the links below.
Christmas Catalog
http://www.childrenshungerfund.org/catalog/
Financial Donation
http://www.childrenshungerfund.org/onetime.php
In the catalog you will see that you can purchase specific items for as little as $5.00. Often when we receive boxes of food, there are bags of beans and pasta as shown in the catalog. This food lasts us such a long time and means so much to Jennie, Ricky, myself and Nick.
Thank you in advance for considering this organization when deciding where to make a donation this year. Please, if you are going to be making a charitable donation this year consider Children’s Hunger Fund.
Some have asked why it is that we are still hurting financially; this is a very legitimate question. Here is a brief recap:
~ March of 2005 I went on California State Disability.
~ February 2006 CA disability was depleted – sold my house. I applied for Social Security Disability Insurance.
~ December 2006 my sold car. SSDI had denied me twice this year, reason being that I am too young.
~ Lawyer retained January 2007 and appealed requesting a court date (you must be denied twice before you can request a court date).
~ As of today, the end of November 2007, I am still waiting for a court date.
2008 will be mark 3 years since I have worked and 2 years that I have been without any income. For the last two years my only source of financial support has come from many of you as well as Jennie and Ricky. If I were to put it on paper for you, you would see that I should not be living where I am. It’s only by the goodness of my Lord and Savior, that I am where I am today. I’m certainly not living a life of comfort, but my needs are being met, minute by minute (and sometimes not a second too soon).
I know that God has great and mighty plans for my life, but only He knows what they are at this point. My job is to trust that this is true. I have said before that I don’t like where I am at, regardless I am still called to trust my Lord.
(Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding. In all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.)
I am truly looking forward to December as it approaches; this is truly my favorite time of the year! We have even been able to enjoy a couple fires in the fire place, under adult supervision of courseJ. Now, if it would just rain, that would be icing on the cake!
Love to you all!
Diana
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