One Day At A Time

I've been going every which way and in one hundred different directions these days. You can probably tell by how sporadic my posts have been. My Mom is still very ill and everyone in our family is just going through the motions.  When my father died he had a massive heart attack and was here one second and gone the next.  With Mom it has been years of a slow deterioration and daily watching her condition get increasingly worse. She is in her end times and it has been terrible to watch. What I find interesting is that she won't give up.  I have heard stories of determination and my mother is an example of what attitude and pure determination can result in. Never wavering, never giving up and never conceding or giving in. Raw determination is an incredible thing.  I have read story after story of children and adults who have defied the odds and survived under horrendous circumstances all because they have a determination to live and a determination to survive.  It is a force. In our everyday lives we don't often face events of this nature however we need to remember that all over the world and in our own backyards there are people suffering and suffering mostly in silence.  Today please pray for the silent ones.  God knows who they are.  Pray that in their suffering or in their adversity that they would find God, trust God and have a peace if only for an hour given only as our Heavenly Father can give. As far as Mom goes please pray for the pain she is experiencing in her legs. It is causing her to not be able to sleep and to just be miserable at times with the aching.  That is my biggest prayer for her right now.  God has blessed me with a great support network and for that I am very very grateful. Until next time.