april6263 wrote:

Guys, I need the hands tonight.....earlier today (about lunchtime)....she had a major setback....they still don't know exactly what happened.....it has all of the appearances of a stroke but an emergency MRI showed it wasn't a stroke or brain bleed or blood clot...she is in ICU while they try to figure out what happened and where to go from here but right now her speech is very slurred and she has a lot of loss of muscle control in both arms and legs and can't sit up on her own.....please, pray for her and that they will find an answer to what happened and how to fix it.....I will update you all as soon as I can......have to go.......holding tightly to all of your hands

April, holding tightly to you, too. I just got home a few minutes ago and found your message. Praying for you and your daughter. This must be frightening for her; I pray that it isn't and that they will find the problem soon and fix it. I know you are frightened too. When it's your child, well, you know, it's of utmost importance. 
 

KeepOnSinging wrote:

It is very, very late, and I have been trying very hard to get to bed at a decent hour.  But I know that if I do not share this story now, I probably will forget to share it tomorrow.  

This story happened in the spring of 1942.  My mother did not share the story until the spring of 2011.  My parents along with me had gotten out of China even as the Japanese were bombing China.  In the spring of 1942 they were living in Kalimpong, India on the border of Tibet.  They were living in a guest house but they were not allowed to stay in the guesthouse during the day.  My dad went to work.  My  mom who was a 26 and1/2 year old young woman, who was 5ft. tall, weighed around 90 lbs. and was four months pregnant, had to find a way to take care of herself and a way to amuse an 11 month old daughter.  (I had been born in Burma in May of 1941.)  No matter how sunny a person's disposition, there are days when it all just gets to be too much.  On one such day,late in the afternoon when she was feeling particularly low, she heard singing coming from a Lutheran Church.  And so she went to the church and sat down with me in the back of the church.  The choir was rehearsing and the next hymn they rehearsed was this hymn.  The tears of fear, of pain, of loneliness began to come, but they were also became tears of healing.   Here are the words.

Come, you disconsolate, where ere you languish.
Come to the mercy seat, fervently kneel.
Here bring your wounded hearts,
Here tell your anguish:
Earth has no sorrow that heav'n cannot heal.

Joy of the desolate, light of the straying,
Hope of the penitent, fadeless and pure!
Here speaks the Comforter,
Tenderly saying,
"Earth has no sorrow that heaven cannot cure."

Here see the Bread of Life, see waters flowing.
Forth from the throne of God, pure from above.
Come to the feast of love-
Come every knowing
Earth has no sorrow but heav'n can remove.

This hymn became a favorite of my mom's because of the grace and peace that began to cover her that day sitting in the back of that church in the middle of World War II and far from family and home.   WATCHED[color=#ffffff !important]4:33[/color]Baylor A Cappella Choir (Men) - Come Ye Disconsolate - Johnsonby stephengoose

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My love to all of you dear sisters.  

KOS


 

I almost didn't want to post so as to not disturb the moment you created with this, KOS.
But I want you to know April that I have been thinking of you all afternoon.  Someone is there with you, all around the clock.  Keep us updated when you can.  I so hope that answers have been found when we hear from you next.  xox
 

Well it is a Sunny Sunday here with high in the low 80's...

I had a hard time sleeping as I was thinking about April and her daughter, Cassidy's mom and the friend of View's.  I do so wish I was with them all in person to do nothing but actually hold their hand when they need it...but, for the past year we have been there for each other when ever someone needed that hand to hold with as much stregnth in the grip as if we were standing right beside them.  That is the comfort one gets from a true friend...for that I am greatful...and I hope that to all our "sisters" that need that hand and stregnth can feel it here.  

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 Before the Season Impromptu Cha Cha

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