Dear sweet sister Mariel,
I post once in a while on Five Doves and have been reading
what you have been going through for years with your health, and your dear sweet
Irv, and I just felt led to tell you today that I love you in the Lord and I
can't wait to give you a big hug in heaven!
You are such a dear soul and I know the Lord loves you very
much. Be blessed today sister and be strengthened in the Lord. Soon
we will all be home and together and you will again be with your dear Irv.
Let's hope our Lord comes for us SOON!
Love, ysiC,
Diane C
Rowina (24 July
2010)
"Yes, pray that we "may escape all these
things""
Jim Bramlett quotes the above at the end of his
article on CJ and others' reasoning
that TuB'Av may be the rapture
date. This scripture quotation is one which is most
likely to
impress me with the hope of the rapture, for the Lord Himself asked us
to
pray to escape evil. He also asked us, in "The Lord's Prayer", to
pray to be delivered
from evil. Delivery means taken completely out
of the fray, in my understanding.
I too hope that Tish B'Av will be the
rapture date. I think it's the only Feast of the Lord
which is
specifically dedicated to marriage, thus evoking the Marriage of the
Lamb.
Today July 23 is my birthday, and like most days it has been a
difficult day. I am in
a rehab place, almost ten weeks into recovery
from a broken kneecap. I fell down
the stairs at my nephew's house in
Seattle, because the stairs were steep and my
feet are somewhat
numb.
I spent the first 6 weeks in a bad facility due to not being able
to afford a proper
Rehab, and being told Medicare did not cover rehab for a
broken kneecap. But
then I had a TIA (threatened stroke) and was
again hospitalized, this time in a
different hospital, where they
interpreted Medicare as meaning that I could have
rehab for a broken
kneecap, so I was placed in a very good facility by that hospital.
(I did
not have a stroke, not yet anyway).
I prayed to have some good slip-on
shoes arrive, because I had been unable to
wear shoes for two months---just
socks, due to feet swollen from the break and
from the usual pain and
numbness from Polycythemia Vera. I ordered some shoes
which were
shown on sale in the paper on Sunday, and during the night I prayed
that I
would be able to wear the shoes. The shoes are the best ones I've had
in
years, remarkably cutting down foot pain, and looking nice too, which
helps me
in my effort to learn to walk and especially to bend my knee after
6 weeks with the
leg immobilized in a cast. It hurts a lot when the
PT bends the knee, and I get
exhausted from it, but today I can't rest even
though I have the opportunity.
Like many now, I am anxious!
Waiting for the Lord to deliver me.
Please Lord, I pray that we may
"escape all these things" that are going on in
our world and which are
threatening to be the next disaster.
Mariel