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Jehovah Jirah

God is so Good!!!!!!!!!
God is my Provider
God knew I wanted to give Him the Glory for everything that happens in my life because He does and is and will.

I told the story of my bank account getting wiped out!!

Glory be to my Provider.

I can now take Julie out to a decent birthday dinner.
The Lord made sure I had my money reimbursed before my trip.
I got home from the last night of Camp Meeting after listening to Pastor Tommy Bates and receiving the confirmation that the Lord is my provider and found my money back in the bank that had been stolen from me.
Hallllllllllllllllllelujah!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thank you, Jesus

*dancing*

The enemy

Our church is having a week long camp meeting with awesome speakers every night.
I am needing whatever the Lord is putting on these peoples' hearts for us to hear. I am convinced of that.
The enemy has been beating me down lately with so much opposition to what I feel I am supposed to do in my life regarding work and family.
Right now I am battling with finances for my trip to spend some time with my daughter, Julie and her family. It has been on my heart for so long to spend some special time with her. With her birthday at the end of the month and my boss wanting me to take my vacation in that certain time frame, I thought it would be great to take her out to dinner for her birthday. So I got tickets at a reasonable roundtrip price, set it up with her and thought, ok, here we go. Great!!!!!

Well, if things keep going the way they are right now, I will be lucky to be able to have $5 to take her to mickey d's

After I got home Monday nght from work, I checked my on-line bank site to
see if my tithe check had been cleared yet so I could start planning what
I needed to pay and what I could save for my trip.
I saw where someone had withdrawn $5, 3 times that day. I thought, I don't know who that is so let me get an email out to the bank so they would see it first thing in the morning and put a stop to any more withdrawls.
( I got home after the bank had closed)
When I got home that next day and checked to see if I had a reply from the bank,
and checked my account, it had been wiped clean except for $17.
ALL of my money was gone. This happened before the bank opened and before the bank got my request. In researching the event, they did these first 3 small withdrawls to see if they could get away with it and then the next am around 4 in the morning they did multiple small withdrawls of $50 to $70 in a matter of seconds, not minutes, until it was gone.

Along with further research, the perps responsible for this scam, apparently have been doing this to people who have bought airline tickets on-line for the past 3 years and no one can get to them. They have a history of starting out with 3 small withdrawls and if no flags go out to the banking institution, your money is gone with in 24 hrs of the first 3 $5 taken.

I, of course, have taken the appropriate steps to insure they cannot get to my money
again and have taken the steps to try and get my money back. I do get paid again before I go BUT I won't see that other money stolen for a few weeks and
in the mean time I have rent to pay, other bills that have to be paid and that will really hurt the plans I made for a beautiful birthday day and dinner for Julie. I have never spent a holiday or a birthday with her in her adult life and she is turning 38 years old on the 29th of June.

I am so tore up right now because I wanted to show her how great God is while I spent time with her.
I do not want to give glory to the enemy for tearing up my plans and turning my world upside down.
I need prayer for strength, peace, protection from any more attacks from the enemy.
I am closing with this advice.

Check your bank balances on a regular basis.If at any time someone takes 3 small amounts by the name of microsoft adcenter bill.ms.net wa , hurry hurry hurry
cancel your credit card.

L O L

Black and White
(Under age 40? You won't understand.)


You could hardly see for all the snow,

Spread the rabbit ears as far as they go.

Pull a chair up to the TV set,





'Good Night, David.




Good Night, Chet.'



My Mom used to cut chicken, chop eggs and spread mayo on the same cutting board with the same knife and no bleach, but we didn't seem to get food poisoning.

My Mom used to defrost hamburger on the counter and I used to eat it raw sometimes, too. Our school sandwiches w ere wrapped in wax paper in a brown paper bag, not in ice pack coolers, but I can't remember getting e.coli.

Almost all of us would have rather gone swimming in the lake instead of a pristine pool (talk about boring), no beach closures then.

The term cell phone would have conjured up a phone in a jail cell, and a pager was the school PA system.

We all took gym, not PE...and risked permanent injury with a pair of high top Ked's (only worn in gym) instead of having cross-training athletic shoes with air cushion soles and built in light reflectors. I can't recall any injuries but they must have happened because they tell us how much safer we are now.

Flunking gym was not an option... even for stupid kids! I guess PE must be much harder than gym.

Speaking of school, we all said prayers and sang the national anthem, and staying in detention after school caught all sorts of negative attention.

We must have had horribly damaged psyches. What an archaic health system we had then. Remember school nurses?
Ours wore a hat and everything.

I thought that I was supposed to accomplish something before I was allowed to be proud of myself.

I just can't recall how bored we were without computers, Play Station, Nintendo, X-box or 270 digital TV cable stations.







Oh yeah... and where was the Benadryl and sterilization kit when I got that bee sting? I could have been killed!

We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked.





Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.





We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either, because if we did we got our butt spanked there and then we got our butt spanked again when we got home.







I recall Donny Reynolds from next door coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off.

Little did his Mom know that she could have owned our house.

Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amuck.











To top it off, not a single person I knew had ever been told that they were from a dysfunctional family.

How could we possibly have known that?

We needed to get into group therapy and anger management classes.

We were obviously so duped by so many societal ills, that we didn't even notice that the entire country wasn't taking Prozac!

How did we ever survive?

Blessed

I have been asking The Lord for 7 years to please somehow pull my family together
just once. Just one time have all my children and all my sisters together with my Mom. Not once in my life or Mom's has this ever happened.

My boss asked me to take some of my vacation sometime in June or early July because it would be easier for her to fill the slack w/me gone at that time with her son gone for a visit to his dad's.

Hmmmmm..my daughter Julie's birthday is the last weekend of June. I have been unable to get away for a while now, 3 yrs since I have been to Philly to visit w/Julie and the kids.......LOL I emailed Julie and asked what she was doing that weekend and asked if she wanted to go out to dinner.

As soon as she read her email, she called me. Excited about a visit then blew me away with a request. She said if I was coming to Philly we should go visit her grandmother in NY.
Thank you Jesus.
She and the kids have never been to Mom's.

I am so pyched. If this can happen, then the rest of what I have been asking the Lord for will happen.
I am so praying that this family will be Blessed with a healing that comes from being able to find ourselves from the ashes of the pain from the past and move forward.

I am hoping that this trip will bring the healing that only can come from facing it together with different eyes and perspective with help from Jesus.
Family being family.
That is my wish.

SUMMER CLASSES ;~)

Summer Classes for Men at
THE
ADULT LEARNING CENTER

REGISTRATION MUST BE COMPLETED
by Friday, May 22, 2009
NOTE: DUE TO THE COMPLEXITY AND DIFFICULTY LEVEL
OF THEIR CONTENTS, CLASS SIZES WILL BE LIMITED TO 8 PARTICIPANTS MAXIMUM

Class 1
How To Fill Up The Ice Cube Trays--Step by Step, with Slide Presentation.
Meets 4 weeks, Monday and Wednesday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.


Class 2
The Toilet Paper Roll--Does It Change Itself?
Round Table Discussion.
Meets 2 weeks, Saturday 12:00 for 2 hours.


Class 3
Is It Possible To Urinate Using The Technique Of Lifting The Seat and Avoiding The Floor, Walls and Nearby Bathtub?--Group Practice.
Meets 4 weeks, Saturday 10:00 PM for 2 hours.


Class 4
Fundamental Differences Between The Laundry Hamper and The Floor--Pictures and Explanatory Graphics.
Meets Saturdays at 2:00 PM for 3 weeks.


Class 5
Dinner Dishes--Can They Levitate and Fly Into The Kitchen Sink?
Examples on Video.
Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning
at 7:00 PM


Class 6
Loss Of Identity--Losing The Remote To Your Significant Other.
Help Line Support and Support Groups.
Meets 4 Weeks, Friday and Sunday 7:00 PM


Class 7
Learning How To Find Things--Starting With Looking In The Right Places And Not Turning The House Upside Down While Screaming.
Open Forum
Monday at 8:00 PM, 2 hours.


Class 8
Health Watch--Bringing Her Flowers Is Not Harmful To Your Health.
Graphics and Audio Tapes.
Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.


Class 9
Real Men Ask For Directions When Lost--Real Life Testimonials.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM Location to be determined


Class 10
Is It Genetically Impossible To Sit Quietly While She Parallel Parks?
Driving Simulations.
4 weeks, Saturday's noon, 2 hours.


Class 11
Learning to Live--Basic Differences Between Mother and Wife.
Online Classes and role-playing
Tuesdays at 7:00 PM, location to be determined


Class 12
How to be the Ideal Shopping Companion
Relaxation Exercises, Meditation and Breathing Techniques.
Meets 4 weeks, Tuesday and Thursday for 2 hours beginning at 7:00 PM.


Class 13
How to Fight Cerebral Atrophy--Remembering Birthdays, Anniversaries and Other Important Dates and Calling When You're Going To Be Late.
Cerebral Shock Therapy Sessions and Full Lobotomies Offered.
Three nights; Monday, Wednesday, Friday at 7:00 PM for 2 hours.


Class 14
The Stove/Oven--What It Is and How It Is Used.
Live Demonstration.
Tuesdays at 6:00 PM, location to be determined.


Upon completion of any of the above courses, diplomas will be issued to the survivors.

Today

Today has been so different than any other but then isn't every day supposed to be?

I woke this morning in a sweat from a fever.
I called in sick, today.
The news said if your sick don't go to work.
yeah, right.

I worked all weekend very very sick. I knew I couldn't find anybody to work for me let alone the fact I was shorthanded with the guy who quit with no notice on Saturday. Got a phone call from one of my other employees, Saturday evening, she flipped her car and totalled it on her way home from work.
Would not even think of telling her there was no one to replace her while she was recuping.
Was blessed with one guy who did come and relieve me for a couple of hours on Sunday. TY Jesus for that. I slept the whole 2 hours I went home. He ended up staying close to a whole shift.

Sunday being Mother's Day
I was just totally bummed with not being able to go to church to do my prayer group, let alone be able to enjoy the awesome lesson I knew the Pastor had for us mothers.

I usually am able to sneak out to church on the weekends I am supposed to work, just hasn't happened the last couple of Sundays that I did work.

Let me be honest here also, I was totally bummed with not having any contact w/the kids this year. On and off love has been tearing me up.
I have lifted my children and our siutation up to the Lord and do not fret as much as I had. I am trusting the Lord will touch their hearts and their lives.
But it still hurts sometimes.
Mother's Day I did get a text message from one of my girls, so I was blessed with that.

I love my Lord, I trust Him to lead me in the right direction. I feel sometimes that the more I want to do for my church and my God the more everything tries to fall apart on me.

I love my job.
Let me rephrase that.
I love what I am doing where I am doing it.
But it seems the job that once made me feel like I was doing the Lord's work for a while is now hindering me as I have grown in the company.

I used to be able to witness to the inmates, now it could be classified as fratenizing and I could be fired.
I always had time for church, now it gets in my way.
I don't understand why I am getting so discouraged.
In my walk w/ Jesus, I have learned to live life so differently,
so much more forgiving, so much more compliant with what is expected of me as a christian. The rebellious side of me (the world)that I thought had just been totally eliminated from me is popping up once in awhile. I don't like it.
I am praying that somehow, someway
I am just going to pray.
I am going to try to gain some wisdom reading fellow bloggers pages.
I do love you all
especially the blessed one from Iowa.
((((((((((((mel)))))))))))