tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8864578279111273742024-02-06T21:14:18.256-05:00Cyber-HotFlashOut of the blue, straight to the point, tell-it-like-it-is, no holds barred, break a sweat, warm & fuzzy or rants & riffs on Life...the things I love and the things that drive me crazy...mostly the things God reveals within the mess and embracing it all.shepherdess56http://www.blogger.com/profile/17242965170070616459noreply@blogger.comBlogger102125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886457827911127374.post-6344239878618301232020-06-17T11:30:00.000-04:002020-06-17T11:40:52.257-04:00Apologies - I am in Facebook Jail!Apparently, writing and discussing, menopause, mid-life crisis, parenting, children, faith, and telling my story is abusive.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">I am in Facebook Jail. </span><br />
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You cannot share any story from my blog on Facebook because someone reported that my content is abusive.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">WHAT?!!! </span><br />
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Several of my friends have told me that probably no one really reported me, but a BOT scanned my blog and keywords that are considered abusive popped. I believe it might be the word "crisis". Still, that is crazy and it is cen$0r$hip.<br />
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I will update you as soon as I hear from Facebook Authorities on my punishment.<br />
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<br />shepherdess56http://www.blogger.com/profile/17242965170070616459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886457827911127374.post-15547069195933195962020-01-27T12:42:00.000-05:002020-01-27T17:10:07.033-05:00Vision 2020 - Revisiting Vision Boards<h2 style="text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have been creating vision boards since I read "The Secret" and realized that there was no secret. Before dismissing the new age tome, I did grab the Vision Board tool to reveal God's desires for Him and for me to see mine. You see, God has had the secret all the time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Yahweh has been speaking to us and giving us visions for centuries. On most occasions, we choose to ignore His voice and tune out His views. A Vision Board is a tool to re<b>focus</b>, re<b>assess</b>, re<b>direct</b>, re<b>present, </b>and </span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">re</span><b style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">cord </b><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">His vision to remain accountable to His plan.</span><span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> Placing the images down, moving it from our brains to the board through words and pictures can be revealing, prepare our hearts, and allows us to get a peek at the intricacies of the tapestry He weaving for our life. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Instead of reinventing the wheel, I have found several articles and blog posts that will help to inform you in what direction we are going with a faith-based vision board. Please follow the links and read them. Some articles are simple and give you the gist of the power of creating vision boards, while others go in-depth and even have a video to watch. If you have learned something or received inspiration, please leave a comment of appreciation to the writer, as this is how they create followers and move up in the Google analytics in the search engines.</span><i style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> If you are interested in creating a Vision Board, please consider coming to the Art and Worship - Vision Board Workshop at <a href="https://harvestva.com/">HarvestVA</a> on February 8th from 10:00 am to 2:30 PM to create your vision for 2020. A fee of $15.00 for supplies and lunch will be collected before the event or at the door. We hope to see you there!</b></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>shepherdess56http://www.blogger.com/profile/17242965170070616459noreply@blogger.com0525 Kempsville Rd, Chesapeake, VA 23320, USA36.7447728 -76.22247319999996836.3374228 -76.867920199999972 37.1521228 -75.577026199999963tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886457827911127374.post-9590596812912756812018-09-30T18:39:00.004-04:002018-09-30T18:39:56.666-04:00When God Whispers- One of the 99<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you feel lost today...</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish."</i></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">NIV Matthew 18: 12-14</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You WILL be found...He will leave the 99 to find the one that has wandered off...YOU...WE...I am that precious to the Father...His search is tireless. You can not run or hide...He will find you and bring you back to the flock.</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is HOPE in this verse....even when we find ourselves running....escaping from ourselves...the lives we have created by filling holes with people and things of the flesh. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Long ago during one of the many "prodigal journeys" of my life, a woman whom I had met at a conference and hardly known for 24-hours came to me saying that God had spoken to her during her prayer time. God had laid His message for me upon her heart so strongly that she had to relay it even though we didn't know each other well. She apologized for being so bold but proceeded to tell me things she could never have known about my family, marriage and recent bad decisions I had made. She then warned me to stop what I was doing as it would destroy my marriage and family, and if I continued I would not be able to retrieve the relationships ever again. This woman then told me I was one of the 99 and God knew that I was lost and running. She told me to stop running. We can never outrun the Almighty because we are His children. The Shepherd will always search until He finds us and will carry us back to the flock even if we don't want to return. This woman stopped me in my tracks. I was amazed. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How could she have known? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How could she have guessed the details?</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">God does see and know everything.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">We can not fool or outrun Him.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I tried.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I am blessed that He found me and dragged me back to the flock. I am blessed that this woman, who to this day I do not remember her name, heard the Father and relayed His message of hope to me. No other person could have delivered it. I would have ignored anyone that I knew personally. It was the only way I would have believed...to have a stranger know my most secret sins and tell me that God saw them and it was time to stop. </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I did listen. </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I did stop.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I changed that day because I truly saw God save me from myself.</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">If you need encouragement, prayer, please reach out here at the website. </span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><br /></span><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Do you have a "When God Whispers" story? Please share it with us and you could be published on our new website called "<a href="https://whengodwhispers.cyberhotflash.com/" target="_blank">When God Whispers</a>" and possibly be included in a "When God Whispers" a compilation of stories. More details are forthcoming. Message us here.</span>shepherdess56http://www.blogger.com/profile/17242965170070616459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886457827911127374.post-86910015781055237102015-04-12T12:00:00.000-04:002015-04-13T09:45:15.187-04:00The Lake House<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span data-offset-key="5neje-0-0" data-reactid=".77.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.0.$5neje.0:$5neje-0-0"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">My father passed away in 1994 after a terrible bout with liver cancer. Though I knew he would not make it, I also knew where he was going...into the Saviors arms that he loved so much. I grieved my father's lack of presence here on earth for almost ten years.</span></span><br />
<span data-offset-key="5neje-0-0" data-reactid=".77.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.0.$5neje.0:$5neje-0-0"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was devastated and prayed.</span></span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="5neje-0-0" data-reactid=".77.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.0.$5neje.0:$5neje-0-0"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">God spoke to me and told me that HE had to take him beca</span></span><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">use it was time for me to learn to lean on Him completely...and I prayed.</span><br />
<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Then one night in the tenth year when I prayed out loud to get to see my father for just a few minutes, so I could hug him, see his smile and smell his presence again...God gave me a dream.</span><br />
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<span data-offset-key="5neje-0-0" data-reactid=".77.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.0.$5neje.0:$5neje-0-0"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I stepped on to the balcony deck I saw people to my left standing by and leaning on the rail, gazing off longingly at the beautiful site off in the distance. Then I turned to the right and there...sitting in a pool of the brightest light was a person who was resting in a white Adirondack chair with his feet up, his head leaning back and his hands resting on his belly. The person slowly began to smile. I knew that smile...it was my Dad!!! I almost yelled out; "DAD!! DAD!! It's me Amy!." I immediately stopped myself, covering my mouth to ensure no sound would leak out that would disturb him. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5neje-0-0" data-reactid=".77.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.0.$5neje.0:$5neje-0-0"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As I stood there looking at my father resting in the light, I realized the look and smile was one of pure peace, contentment...joy! How could I be so selfish after so many years to ask my father to come back to hug me for a split second when he indeed was in the presence of the one he so loved? I couldn't...I loved that man that much and I thanked God for giving me such a great father. </span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5neje-0-0" data-reactid=".77.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.0.$5neje.0:$5neje-0-0"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I drank in the sight...memorizing every aspect of it, knowing I would not see him again this way until I joined him there someday on that Lake House porch sitting in white Adirondack chairs basking in the Sonlight together!</span></span></div>
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<span data-offset-key="5neje-0-0" data-reactid=".77.1:4.0.$right.0.0.0.0.1.0.0.1.0.0.$5neje.0:$5neje-0-0"><span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Look for signs from your mother and from God. They will comfort you in this early time of grieving. Pray and if you can't sit and pray because your mind wanders from the sadness ...write your prayers. It is amazing how God will take the pen out of your hand and comfort your heart with His love and peace. </span></span></div>
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shepherdess56http://www.blogger.com/profile/17242965170070616459noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886457827911127374.post-22398694164127660872014-10-06T10:52:00.002-04:002014-10-09T21:20:38.416-04:002 Things Your Children NEVER Want To Hear From YOU<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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shepherdess56http://www.blogger.com/profile/17242965170070616459noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886457827911127374.post-79781040253319865672014-05-26T12:22:00.001-04:002014-05-26T12:22:25.388-04:00The Voice: Are you listening to it?<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><b><i>What does your inner voice say to you?</i></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">We spend most of our younger lives having our parents or significant others train us to listen to this tiny voice and then we go to school and out in to the world to have that training tested. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace;"><b>In our present culture, our training is muted by media...we hear the voice of television, music, social media...our experiences in college through professors, our college friends and at work through our workmates. </b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;">IF...we have had any experience of hearing the voice of God through scripture, prayer and meditation or song....It is <span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS, sans-serif;"><b>THIS</b></span> voice we need to listen to when it speaks from our inner spirit. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47; font-size: large;"><i>Turn down the volume of our culture and listen to the TRUTH...Listen to the voice that is within. </i></span><br />
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<span style="color: #741b47;">Oprah has called it your gut...my father and mother always told me to listen to my gut feeling...I HEARD it as a voice and was once thought to be crazy by a preacher because I told him I heard a Voice. I always knew this Voice...I heard and spoke with this Voice often when I was young. I am not crazy...I believe I am just open and allow God to speak to me directly, through human messengers, in visions and in dreams. I hear and listen to the Voice all the time now and then I try to represent Him the best I can after hearing the message!</span><br />
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shepherdess56http://www.blogger.com/profile/17242965170070616459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886457827911127374.post-69042723333661606582013-07-22T19:22:00.000-04:002013-07-22T19:22:41.737-04:00"This is the father of your children!"<span style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">When I was a little girl, God whispered in my ear that when the man that He had chosen for me came along, He (God) would whisper in my ear, "<b>This is the father of your children!</b>"</span><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;" /><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">For many years I kept my ear attuned to hear that quiet voic</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; line-height: 18px; text-align: left;">e. In my impatience to hear His voice I married another man who was an alcoholic and abused me...we got pregnant four times together, but not one child survived. I was even told by specialists I would never have children. I was devastated.<br /><br />Then one day in Paradise, while stationed with the Navy in Hawaii and while my divorce was waiting to be finalized...a gorgeous man walked on to the elevator where I lived carrying a laundry basket...and I heard..."<b>This is the father of your children.</b>" I am not sure if I said it out loud, but I certainly thought loudly..."WHAT...this guy?! He's hot!" I dropped my eyes and thought: "Are you sure?"<br /><br />"<b>This is the father of your children</b>," God whispered again.<br /><br />I was caught off guard and walked all the way out to my car and then decided I needed to go back in the building and check the father of my children out again. He was no where to be found...so I rushed back up to my room and told my roommate all about it. She knew exactly who I was talking about...she helped me cleverly meet this man.<br /><br />Five children later and soon to be 26 years of marriage on August 8th, the man in the elevator and I have had our ups and downs...but God ALWAYS brings us back together. I love you to pieces Dave!<br /><br />Don't ever question God when He has a plan for you OR a person picked out. He will let the man HE has picked cut in, as long as that man is HIS pick.</span></span><br />
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she may be tired. SEX is NOT on the top of her list. But a bubble bath, nap,
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<b><span style="font-family: Courier New, Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><span style="color: #262626;">WE both (</span><span style="color: #0b5394;">men</span><span style="color: #262626;"> and </span><span style="color: #990000;">women</span><span style="color: #262626;">) need love and nurturing...to be listened
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<span style="color: #660000;">OR.........A person can choose to get off the roller coaster also...sometimes it is just too scary....Exhausting or a roller coaster you didn't choose to ride on...you were forced to ride it because of someone else's' choices. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">Many women in mid-life crisis put their families on an emotional, physically and spiritual roller coaster that literally changes their lives forever.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">When in MLC, as women, we must realize that WE are changing and our changes do force others to change also...BUT we must be patient and understand they may not want to be on our ride. Consider what you are doing, feeling and saying in relation to others when in MLC, which may be the hardest thing you do....MLC is a very selfish event...it needs to be as we neglect ourselves up until that point...but we must not forget we are in relationships and they will be effected by our changing and our roller coaster ride. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #660000;">To help with your roller coaster ride check out Women in MLC...a website to help</span><span style="color: #3d85c6;"> <a href="http://womeninmlc.com/" target="_blank">Women in MLC</a> </span><span style="color: #660000;">and for the partners and family of those who are on the roller coaster.</span>shepherdess56http://www.blogger.com/profile/17242965170070616459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886457827911127374.post-40695780463114136162012-07-26T00:30:00.000-04:002020-05-26T21:00:51.379-04:00Doodlers, Unite!: Maggie's Story<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Okay...so for many years I have fought teachers who insisted that our talented artist and daughter MUST stop Doodling on her homework and test papers, also </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">while they are teaching.</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> They said it was distracting...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Apparently, to the teacher...a child with their head down and doodling must be goofing off and not paying attention.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In fact, one teacher that Maggie LOVED (despite) punished her all the time for Doodling on her papers or called her out to stop while she was teaching the class. I would get notes, phone calls and even a Parent/Teacher's conference primarily on the topic of her "continual" Doodling!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I was told at one said meeting that the continual Doodling was not a measure of good discipline and that she would not tolerate her doodling while she was teaching..."it was not fair to the other children...that they had to have their eyes front on <b><i>her </i></b>concentrating on the subject at hand, while, my daughter, was off in 'dream-land' doodling. <a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_762766909">(</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;"><b><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fx0QcHyrFk&feature=share" target="_blank">Please refer to the video below as this theory is debunked</a>) </b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">As for her doodling on her test and homework papers..."this was just a distraction and made her work look messy."</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I challenged this teacher saying: "First, let her doodle and then quiz her on the material, then have her not doodle and quiz her...see how she does." </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">2nd Quiz without Doodling... 40% correct.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maggie doodled the rest of her time in this woman's class, but she had to sit in the back of the room to do it AND then I had to have a 504 created to allow her to do it without question. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Ah!!...but this wasn't the first time I had come against the Anti-doodlers!<br />
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We first came up against them in Kindergarten and then in First Grade, as my daughter was noted as a daydreamer, constantly doodling and not staying on task. She was not allowed to doodle and as before...notes, phone calls, and meetings on the topic arrived at home. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">She was NOT doing well in class and her self-esteem and love for learning dwindled.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I knew she was a creative, a visual learner and needed physical activity or be kinesthetic to focus. I wouldn't let her be crammed into a box or have her multi-sided peg pounded into their square hole like some of my other children had been. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I had gone down the "your child is not succeeding in class" road before with three of my other children. They must conform to our rules even though this is not the way your child learns.<br />
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One daughter suffered from school anxiety right up to the day she graduated from high school; another was held back in first grade for low performance, but then was diagnosed with visual/spatial problems/dyslexia. Then, my son was wrongly diagnosed with ADHD and was on meds for 6 years. His diagnosis at 13 years old was sleep apnea, large tonsils, and severe food and environmental allergies. He came off the meds; his tonsils removed; the sleep apnea disappeared; allergies treated and diet changed. He was a different kid...soaring to success throughout High School! He is now in Marine Corps Pilot training.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I knew if I didn't nip this in the bud with Maggie right away...putting my foot down with the teachers, yet another one of my children would be labeled and struggle in school because their natural way of learning had been redirected in a damaging manner.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">My daughter was "Tested" to see if she needed an IEP(Individualized Educational Program) or...</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">Don't say it out loud</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><b> <i><span style="color: #990000;">(</span><span style="color: #4c1130;">Teachers can't say it out loud to parents, just nod their head if they think it</span><span style="color: #990000;">)</span></i></b></span><span style="color: #990000;">...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="color: #990000;">if she might have had ADD. </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: xx-small;"><span style="color: #990000;">(</span><span style="color: #4c1130;">All day-dreamers have ADD, ya know!</span><span style="color: #990000;">)</span></span></b></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now, the school </span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">psychologist determined that she had ADD because, during her interview with him, she chose to doodle while listening to him..though she answered all of the questions. He also pointed out that she laid her head down while doodling, which in his opinion was a symptom of ADD. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><b><i>No, it was a symptom of needing visual therapy and glasses!</i></b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">In the end, I refused to put her on the ADD/ADHD medications, as I knew through my own research she was fine and in fact, quite bright and talented. They were just trying to make her into every other kid. We opted for a 504 that would allow her to doodle, get front seat preference, and help with an assistant if she needed with reading and math.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This was six years ago. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maggie is moving into the 8th grade this Fall after another successful straight "A" Honor Roll year. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Each Fall, I meet with teachers and tell them about her doodling and how it helps her think and learn...I also direct them to the video below if I see </span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">hesitation. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Maggie has become a talented artist and animator, even at 13 years old. (Update: She is now 21- years, and a graphic artist). She continually practices and learns new styles, while using different mediums. She already knows what she wants to do when she grows up...she wants to be an animator at Pixar, Disney or one of the other studios...even create her own comic books. She is preparing her portfolio to audition for the <a href="http://www.gsarts.org/" target="_blank">Governor's School of Arts.</a> ( Update: She got into the GOvernor's School and graduated from there.)</span></span><br />
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shepherdess56http://www.blogger.com/profile/17242965170070616459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886457827911127374.post-26137142506904121242012-07-23T11:26:00.001-04:002012-07-26T05:52:10.107-04:00Reserved Parking for Hybrid Cars...Say What?<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Yesterday, my family and I checked out our new historical park at Great Bridge in Virginia and was surprised to find this sign right down in front at the docks alongside the handicap spaces. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Why would people with hybrid cars get preferential parking? Do more handicapped people buy hybrid cars or is this a perk of being a hybrid car owner? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">In my humble opinion, this little perk is so minuscule and so out of left field it is ridiculous!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">I would rather their be more handicap spots to allow those with large handicap vans to park or those with wheelchairs who need access and off load. Now this makes sense...doesn't it?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">But giving a person a parking perk for buying and owning hybrid car is crazy progressive thinking! It will not make me run out and buy an expensive hybrid car!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Could it <i>really </i>be a progressive idea to help promote the sale of hybrid cars?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">If it is...I find it very interesting to think that those with a progressive viewpoint are trying to encourage purchase of hybrid cars by teasing us with THIS type of perk. Really? No...I mean really?!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Let me point out one thing... the majority can't afford the new hybrids...only those who are in the $250K and above tax bracket or the government can afford them. So, how does this help those of us who are still driving our gas-guzzlers? I guess we get to walk to the docks and museum after finding our space.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Do they think that a plethora of hybrid car owners will be visiting? I don't think so. They aren't the folks that will be partaking in the Great Bridge Historical Park and intended Museum. It will be families, schools and history buffs...not the elite. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Did hybrid cars owners show up in a demographic or some sort of poll they took when designing the parking lot? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"> "Oh, I see....People owning hybrid cars will have need to park nearer to the docks and museum, so we must accommodate them." ;- /</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Could these spaces be in anticipation in the future <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">increase</span> of hybrid cars that the many of the upscale boat and yacht owners who will be passing through the canal and docking there?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Nah! They will be on their yachts tootling around the canals...they won't have their hybrid cars with them.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-size: large;">I KNOW!!! </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Tucked deep inside the new ObamaCare Law there is a small regulation that states that ALL new parking lots must provide THREE reserved parking spaces for hybrid cars, as a way to encourage patrons to purchase and use hybrid cars and NOT discriminate against them or separate them from the rest of the society who refuse to go hybrid....hybrid car owners are a minority and we must not discriminate against them! THIS is one of the surprise "details" Nancy Pelosi spoke of when we finally got to reading the whole ObamaCare bill thing!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"><i>If not a secret little regulation...</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">Who thought of this and determined the need?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">I find it very perplexing that an effort has been made to offer preferential parking to a group of drivers that still is very small and in the end, a waste of spaces that could be offered to those in need...the handicapped!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">This falls under the stupid category, but can be included in issues that government seems to think are important...like breeding ants and stuff like that!</span>shepherdess56http://www.blogger.com/profile/17242965170070616459noreply@blogger.com1Chesapeake Chesapeake36.698511 -76.26002tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886457827911127374.post-23160448100116086962012-06-10T11:59:00.000-04:002012-06-10T12:00:27.679-04:00Sunday Smiles....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">"The Hell that you have gone through was to make you who you are so you could reach others that are where you have been. Here's a reminder, Whatever the devil took from your life and made a mess, God cleans up and makes it your message. God never puts more on you than he has put in you!"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: black; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;"> </span></span><a href="https://www.facebook.com/KIMBERLYANNJONES">Kimberly Jones-Pothier</a><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">On Maunday Thursday and the next several days, may we all understand the sacrifice and miracle of this time of year! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This arrival of postal paper garbage only affirms my theory that her appearance on the show was </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;"><b>primarily </b></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">promotion, to get her on magazine covers and lots of visibility for her modeling career!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">But please...after Omarosa Of Celebrity Apprentice fame...Courtney may be the most hated reality star contestant since and like Omarosa, she is a horrible gift that keeps on giving! </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Will this gal ever go away?!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I mean few people were convinced she was genuine during the show...Viewers tweeted and Face-booked about how Ben should give her the boot every week and then...sure as shootin' Courtney got a rose and then gloatted off camera. </span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; font-size: large;">"Winning!"</span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;">Courtney was picked for the show in the first place because...</span></span></div>
<a name='more'></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 14px;"> her "agency" told her that this would be great for her career...she might even get some tabloid presence, which is a great boost for an unknown...so, she was placed and told to be the "Evil Mole"...create discontent and drama amongst the girls and they'll (The Bachelor producers) would choose the best of the video of her doing this...it would be great reality television...Especially, when they set it up for Courtney to surprise Ben and take him skinny dipping! Nothing like letting the Viewer in on the secret and keeping all the unknowing contestants in the dark. The producer could promote the heck out of that skinny dipping scene....more ratings!</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace; line-height: 14px;"><b>Oh, the drama of it all!!</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"><br /></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Now, Ben has a winery in Cali somewhere, the name escapes me...and the rest of his partners don't want or can't be on "The Bachelor". So, they get Ben to join <a href="http://abc.go.com/shows/the-bachelorette/?cid=abccomsearch_results" target="_blank">"The Bachelorette"</a>. How could it hurt? Free publicity for the winery...Ben might get to kiss a girl AND travel. WIN...WIN for all!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">People liked Ben when he was on "The Bachelorette" with Ashley and then at the end, when Ben turned quickly against Ashley with his cutting last comment...more drama and GOOD TV! Let's have Ben back as "The Bachelor!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Ben was not the typical bachelor but this will be MORE great publicity for Ben's winery...RIGHT?!</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">(<i>Producers to Ben</i>): "Oh, and by the way...there is a model named Courtney that is amongst the girls...you need to pick her every show, cuz she is there to stir up drama amongst the girls and we want to keep the ratings up. People love to hate the evil chick and they will tune in every week to see if you boot her off...which you won't because she is stirring the other girl's pot, keeping the ratings up.</span></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Oh....and if you keep Courtney down to the end and EVEN propose to her, you won't need to follow through on the proposal because the girl is not in it to get married, just to boost her modeling career. At least that is what we plan...but if you could fall for her and do, we could drag this thing out through the Final Rose...and IF you two</span> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">hit it off maybe even a wedding!"</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I was suspicious of Courtney's agenda starting from the first show and especially after Ben Flajnik sent protective, tell-ya-like-she-sees-it Emily away for repeatedly telling him that Courtney was the devil's spawn. (Emily: Ben knew all along, but didn't know how well Courtney was playing the part)</span></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I mean, Emily's non-verbals when she spoke</span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"> to Ben about Courtney was not only frustrated but was totally confused at how this guy didn't see or know that he was having the wool pulled over on him. Em...he wasn't thinking with his head, at least not the one on his shoulders, if you get my drift!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">...and THEN we have sweet and perfect for Ben, Kacey B who wouldn't lie to anyone cause that is the way her parents raised her.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(<i>Thanks Dad for helping Kacey B dodge that bullet! You did great job in scaring the b-jeezers outta that Cali boy</i>)</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Kacey B tells Ben the same thing as Emily...</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">EVEN returns to the show to warn him YET AGAIN about Courtney! She repeats how mean Courtney has been to the girls and that he shouldn't fall for Courtney's innocent/play it dumb act. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Ben is confused and worried...he should be! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Throughout this season various gals are warning him, while Ben coolly sits there looking straight at them not registering what is being said or telling them he needs to give her the benefit of the doubt( he was following direction)...He is still blinded by the week he and Courtney went skinny-dipping....What young buck wouldn't be?!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">These gals might as well have been saying "Blah...Blah...Blah...Blah!!" </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">The clincher is this...none of the women fell for her game and neither did the audience.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Each week everyone wanted Courtney gone and we all knew why we wanted her outta there! No one was going to let Courtney off the hook, not even at the <a href="http://abc.go.com/watch/the-bachelor/SH559030/VD55177941/the-women-tell-all?cid=abccomsearch_results" target="_blank">"The Women Tell All" </a>show...they weren't buying one word of Courtney's "boo-hoo, poor me...I'm sorry I did wrong speech!"</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">The Bachelor producers hung Courtney out to dry with those ladies, not thinking or remembering that "hell has no fury then a woman scorned"...or being catty!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Even Ben turned his back on her when the going got tough...which showed HIS true colors in the end.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">For a second I felt sorry for Courtney...but nope! This gal made her bed and she needed to lie in it...even if it was for the sake of her modeling career.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">Finally, I believe it is time to give "The Bachelor" a rest...let it die a silent death or fade in to Bachelor heaven or hell, which is more like this last seasons show...it was pure torture and the Evil Queen got the last rose! That is not the way the fairy tale should end, despite what those stupid producers think...they got it wrong!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><b><i>Post Script: Final <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Theory</span>-After The Rose:</i></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">(<i>Producers to Ben and Courtney</i>) Come on the show and be all apologetic, Courtney. Throw Ben under the bus by telling the world that he broke up with you when the going got rough...but then Chris will have the engagement ring and pose the question if he(Ben) wants to give it back to you...BEN...you will give the ring back to her as the audience melts in a puddle of Oooo's and Ahhhhs! Don't worry you don't have to go through with it. Keep the ring and look like a couple trying for about 2-3 weeks and then we will announce a final break-up and the two of you can go your separate ways. </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">If we can't get the audience to buy it <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">(we didn't)</span>...we will get Ashley and P.J.(the guy who took the other gal from ya, Ben) to come on and tell us all their happy wedding plans!!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">It will be a great show don't worry!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I want and need this welcome mat!! I would not be embarrassed about putting this outside my door...at least those who enter are forewarned!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I used to have poem posted by my front door that was titled "</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/howtosuramidc-20/detail/B005EA1KG4" target="_blank">Excuse this House</a></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">"</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;"> which pointed out to those entering that I chose to play with my children, enjoy my life with my family and husband instead of being worried about making sure my house looked like something out of "</span><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/howtosuramidc-20/detail/B002PXW0EO" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">Martha Stewart</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">" or ready for an "</span><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/howtosuramidc-20/detail/B001U5SPHO" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">Architectural Digest</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000;">" shoot.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">I have five children and at the time they were all young and </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Who was I kidding?</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Martha was not raising five children...taking care of two Golden Retrievers and dealing with a husband who was on six month deployments and work-ups. Martha has/had a team...tons of money and had several homes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Reality made it clear I would never be a Martha Stewart Super-Mom!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Now that my children are older, we are a bit more clean...the clutter still prevails...but there is hope one day that I might be able to have that magazine shoot here....</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">...BUT my mother-in-law tells me that this only happens after all of the children are gone and the house has become quiet and sometimes loneliness and silence fills the gaps and spaces where the dirt and clutter once lived. She has told me not to worry about it and enjoy the time that they are here with us...a clean house comes later in the winter season of your life...when you can remember all the wonderful times of previous seasons spent with your children and family.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">So, put out your Welcome Mat to a home not quite ready for Prime Time or a glitzy magazine photographer...sit down and play with your children...watch a movie with your teens...take a walk with your college aged son or daughter...before you know it they will be gone and you will be filling the quiet with memories...choose to fill it with memories of happiness and fun with them...not days of cleaning and laundry.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">This is your Season to be a Mother!!! </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: "courier new" , "courier" , monospace;"><i><b>I must thank my Facebook friend...as I believe I just wrote most of today's blog post at her profile page...THANKS Gwen!!</b></i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Drop the <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><b>negative labels</b></span> and replace them with positive affirmations of </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>how <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">God</span> sees <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">YOU</span>!!</b></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Forgive yourself above all things...</span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;"><i>Let go!</i></span></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...and allow <span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">God</span> to do <b>GREAT WORKS IN YOU!</b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">You</span> are</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b> beautiful </b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;"><b>wonderfully</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> made!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">You </span>are </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b>precious</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> in His eyes.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: large;"><b><i>God loves you and so do I!</i></b></span>shepherdess56http://www.blogger.com/profile/17242965170070616459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886457827911127374.post-21985820344472503322011-12-01T10:14:00.001-05:002018-09-30T18:39:10.513-04:00When God Whispers: Are you lost?<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">“</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><i>What do you think? If a man owns a hundred sheep, and one of them wanders away, will he not leave the ninety-nine on the hills and go to look for the one that wandered off? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he is happier about that one sheep than about the ninety-nine that did not wander off. In the same way, your Father in heaven is not willing that any of these little ones should perish."</i></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"> NIV Matthew 18: 12-14</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">You WILL be found...He will leave the 99 to find the one that has wandered off...YOU...WE...I am that precious to the Father...His search is tireless. You can not run or hide...He will find you and bring you back to the flock.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">There is HOPE in this verse....even when we find ourselves running....escaping from ourselves...the lives we have created by filling holes with people and things of the flesh. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">Long ago during one of the many "prodigal journeys" of my life, a woman whom I had met at a conference and hardly known for 24-hours came to me saying that God had spoken to her during her prayer time. God had laid His message for me upon her heart so strongly that she had to relay it even though we didn't know each other well. She apologized for being so bold but proceeded to tell me things she could never have known about my family, marriage and recent bad decisions I had made. She then warned me to stop what I was doing as it would destroy my marriage and family, and if I continued I would not be able to retrieve the relationships ever again. This woman then told me I was one of the 99 and God knew that I was lost and running. She told me to stop running. We can never outrun the Almighty because we are His children. The Shepherd will always search until He finds us and will carry us back to the flock even if we don't want to return. This woman stopped me in my tracks. I was amazed. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How could she have known? </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;">How could she have guessed the details?</span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">God does see and know everything.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">We can not fool or outrun Him.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">I tried.</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">I am blessed that He found me and dragged me back to the flock. I am blessed that this woman, who to this day I do not remember her name, heard the Father and relayed His message of hope to me. No other person could have delivered it. I would have ignored anyone that I knew personally. It was the only way I would have believed...to have a stranger know my most secret sins and tell me that God saw them and it was time to stop. </span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">I did listen. </span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">I did stop.</span></span><br />
<span style="color: #990000; font-family: "verdana" , sans-serif;"><span style="caret-color: rgb(153, 0, 0);">I changed that day because I truly saw God save me from myself.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Thank you for walking my Bloom grocery cart all the way to cart corral, while giving me the stink eye and then <i>dramatically</i> <b>slamming </b>the cart into the others as you vigorously strode back to your car.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I am truly grateful, as my daughter was standing alone up at the high school in the </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b>dark</b></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b> </b>waiting for me to pick her up.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You did me a great favor. I hope you understood me when I mouthed "<i>Thank You</i>" as you stomped to your car.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Believe me, I wanted to mouth something else</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...even use some sign langu</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">age...but decided your random act of kindness should not go unnoticed.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So...Thank you!</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">BTW: I believe you may have been so caught up in your random act of kindness that you didn't notice the cart corral was much farther away then the front of the store. You could have taken less stomps to the front of the store then to the corral...but then maybe you needed the exercise.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sincerely,</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Do you have any stories like this...Stories where the Random Act of Kindness came from you by NOT reacting negatively...but positively...then turning or making the other person think about their own reaction to YOUR action? </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I would love to hear them.<br /><br />Can you "Catch more flies with honey then vinegar"?</span></div>shepherdess56http://www.blogger.com/profile/17242965170070616459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886457827911127374.post-71384077924077000142011-11-04T18:58:00.000-04:002011-11-05T10:10:12.216-04:00Dr.Oz Gives Voice to the Mid-Life Silent Scream<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 14px;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">Dr. Mehmet Oz of </span><a href="http://www.doctoroz.com/" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">The Dr. OZ Show</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"> finally gave the mid-life silent scream a voice and a label...Periomenopausal Rage.</span></b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 14px;">PMR, in my opinion, is the root or the first place every women who suspects that they are going through mid-life transition or crisis should investigate to deal with the physical and emotional upheaval that can come at this time in her life. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;">For the past several years at this blog and my forum called </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/goog_977530574"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">Women in MLC</span></a></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 14px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"> I have addressed PMR or Periomenopausal Rage...the language that I used may have been different, as I didn't label it as PMR, but purely as hormone imbalance that may be attributed to the hormone changes that are occurring prior to menopause.</span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 14px;">As teenage girls we are prepared and educated for the emotional and physical changes that occur when "our time of the month" begins...</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 14px;">BUT...no one prepares OR educates us for the the multitude of changes that occur within our body as it prepares to stop our monthly visits by "our"little friend".</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 14px;">So, when we suffer from fatigue, confusion, memory loss. lack of patience, irritability...even split second rages...then falling back in to equilibrium or calm; we have no clue as to what may be causing it or what is happening.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 14px;"><br /></span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">The elephant in the room concerning PMR is many women are in denial about it...refuse to get help OR they are misdiagnosed as bi-polar or severely depressed.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">In many cases that I have seen at the forum, PMR is either ignored until the spirit of the marriage and family and the woman are damaged or destroyed. Soon it becomes more then just imbalance, but a crisis of the mind, body and spirit.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Proper treatment with testing, medications/diet, along with a therapist familiar with PMR/MLC, while teaching and replenishing coping and life skills is imperative to stop what Dr. Oz mentioned in the show. The bad behavioral habits that can develop to rationalize and justify the rage concerned Oz...and rightly so, as I have found that the rational-lies and just-if-cations will feed the rages. </span><br />
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<span style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">I also suffered from PMR...until I finally got to the bottom of all the problems that were happening due to my hormone imbalance. There is much more to investigate then your hormones...having a sleep study done(sleep deprivation), allergy testing(food/environmental</span><wbr style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"></wbr><span class="word_break" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; display: inline-block; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;"> allergies)...these ALL trigger the same symptoms...PLUS what Dr. Oz advised the during the show.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Irritability/Rages</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">P</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">anic/Anxiety Attacks</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Fatigue/ Sleep deprivation/Restless sleep</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Heart Palpitations</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Foggy Brain/Confusion/ Memory loss</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Achiness, Joint pain</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Hyper-activity, Manic behavior or lack of</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Increase of Obsessive/Compulsive behaviors</span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Depression </span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px;">Changes in diet, cravings</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">When left unchecked or ignored PMR becomes a crisis of the mind, body and spirit....a storm that can leave devastation in its wake.</span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">There is much more to this story and it needs to be told...marriages, families...children are suffering, along with the women who finally figure it all out and are left with burnt bridges and shattered lives.</span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><br /></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 14px;"><b>Thank you Dr. Oz for finally giving PMR a voice...yet PMR is just</b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 14px;"><b> the tip of the iceberg...We need to reveal what is hiding</b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 14px;"><b>underneath also AND address openly how devastating the results</b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 14px;"><b><br /></b></span></span></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; line-height: 14px;"><b>of untreated PMR can </b></span></span></span></span><b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">get!!</b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Watch both videos at Dr. Oz's website:</b><br />
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<b style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-large; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;"><a href="http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/treating-perimenopausal-rage-pt-1" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">Part 1</span></a> <a href="http://www.doctoroz.com/videos/treating-perimenopausal-rage-pt-2" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">Part 2</span></a></span></b><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">Please take the time to check out my bookstore at </span><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/howtosuramidc-20" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;" target="_blank"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #45818e;">Amazon Bookstore</span> </a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">where I have read and selected some of the BEST resources/books for those dealing with PMR and MLC</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="-webkit-text-size-adjust: none; color: #990000; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: large; line-height: 14px; text-align: left;">. </span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">You just have to figure out what/who EXPIRES you and what/who
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Those who expire you will suck you dry of your energy, enthusiasm and ability
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> “Today, I declare
blessing over you — that you are strong and courageous. You are full of talent,
creativity, and wisdom. You can accomplish your God-given dreams. You walk in
divine health. You have favor with every person you meet. Everything you touch
is going to prosper and succeed. Those seeds of greatness on the inside of you
are growing stronger and stronger. That hidden treasure is about to burst forth
and you’re going to come in to new seasons of increase.”<a href="http://kimberlydoggett.blogspot.com/"> Kimberly Jones</a></span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">As hard as we might try to ignore the reality that sexual human trafficking occurs...it is even harder to wrap our brains around the fact that it happens in our own US cities and hometowns.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In "<a href="http://astore.amazon.com/howtosuramidc-20/detail/1596693061">Deliver Me from Evil</a>", author Kathi Macias weaves a story of how the paths of those that have their lives stolen from them with those who are totally unaware that it has happened. Many of the characters are caught unaware...off guard as fate delivers them to the lives of either being the abused or being tested in the face of an evil that rarely enters their quiet and clean-cut Christian lives. It is a wake up call even for the reader!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I do not want to give away any of the details of this gripping and timely novel. Ms Macias has brought to life the ugliness and struggle that occurs in the world of sexual human trafficking, while delivering the message to the reader that this is no longer something that they can ignore, turn their backs on...in fact, it can happen even within our own families, in our own towns and cities...it no longer happens over seas in foreign countries!</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Christian perspective is subtle (yet powerful) enough that even the secular reader will not be put off by the urgency of the message that is given throughout the book. As the mother of five children ( four girls and one boy), the story reached in to my brain and grabbed at my own fears of their safety, then broke my heart, while being shaken with the sharp reality of a child going out of sight for just a few minutes and how it could be the last time!! It truly made me think and even speak to my children who are of the ages of the children and teens portrayed in this book.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Ms Macias has done a wonderful work with her first book in her Freedom Series. I look forward to reading the next novel and hoping that the stories of the characters established in the first continue.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="http://astore.amazon.com/howtosuramidc-20/detail/1596693061">Deliver Me From Evil</a> will shake and wake you up to a societal problem that is slowly but surely creeping in to our own neighborhoods, is no longer just in the news or happening to another family...sexual human trafficking can no longer be ignored.</span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><b><i>If you would like to read this novel, I will be randomly selecting someone from those who comment on this article. The drawing will occur on November 1st, 2011 and I will notify the winner via e-mail and here in the comment section. </i></b></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-size: 15px; line-height: 23px;"><span style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">How did you come up with the idea for <em style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; position: relative;">Deliver Me From Evil</em> and the Freedom series?</span></b></span></span><br />
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-size: 14px; line-height: 23px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #660000; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" />It actually came out of a phone conversation with Andrea Mullins, the publisher at New Hope. We were discussing the Extreme Devotion series (about the persecuted Church), which I was still working on at the time, and we began to consider topics for a second series. Andrea was the one who suggested human trafficking, and it really struck a chord with me. The more I researched it and worked on the proposal, the more excited I became about joining forces with others working to abolish modern-day slavery, which is exactly what human trafficking is.<br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" /><b><span style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">What was your favorite scene to write in <em style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; position: relative;">Deliver Me From Evil</em>?</span></b><br /><br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" />This book/series has been the most difficult I’ve ever written, simply because the subject matter is so dark and heavy. More than once I had to walk away and clear my thoughts before moving on from one scene to another. But interspersed between the heartache and tragedy are several lighter scenes (written and incorporated into the book out of necessity), dealing with a pastor’s family and their Bible college-bound son who inadvertently discovers the human trafficking ring and becomes involved in the heroic and dramatic rescue attempt. Any scenes revolving around the absolutely functional and loving life of the Flannery family are my favorites.<br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">What was the most difficult scene, and why?</strong><br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" />There were many difficult scenes in this book due to the subject matter, but the hardest had to be when the main character, 18-year-old Mara, realizes that one of the younger girls is being tortured and killed in an effort to extract information and punish her. Though the actual violence is done offstage, Mara experiences each blow and muffled scream, as does the reader.<br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">Did you always know you wanted to be a writer? If not, how did you catch the writing bug?</strong><br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" />Oh yes, I never wanted to be anything else. From the time I discovered the power and allure of words, I was hooked! I was an avid reader before I started kindergarten. A short story I wrote in the third grade was turned into a play for the entire PTA, and I won all sorts of awards for poetry in high school. I even told my then boyfriend (now husband) Al when we were in our early teens that I was going to be a writer one day.<br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">How do you go about writing your fiction books? Which comes first for you, plot, characters, and/or theme?</strong><br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" />I usually get what I call “a niggling in my soul,” which eventually emerges into the very basic theme of the book. I hate outlining and writing proposals because I do NOT develop plots or even characters ahead of time. I start with a couple of main characters, a starting and ending point for my story, and just let the rest unfold as I go. I know. We’re not supposed to do it that way, but it works for me, and I so enjoy the surprises as the story develops and my characters take over. So much fun! So long as they don’t try to lead me away from my pre-determined ending. Then I have to reign them back in a bit.<br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">How do you get your ideas for your books?</strong><br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" />I have ideas coming out of my ears! I am a seriously addictive idea person. You want ideas? You can have my overflow! My challenge is to figure out which ones are worth pursuing. Not every cute or fun or even meaningful idea that pops into our head is meant to be a book. I pray, think, study, bounce them off people, etc., before committing to moving ahead with one of them. For the most part, however, nearly all my book ideas are, to one degree or another, born out of some moral or social issue that I care about.<br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" /><strong style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;">How can we find out more about you, The Freedom Series, and other books you are writing?</strong> <br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" /><br style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt;" />Please visit my website at <a href="http://www.kathimacias.com/" style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-left: 0pt; margin-right: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt; padding-bottom: 0pt; padding-left: 0pt; padding-right: 0pt; padding-top: 0pt; text-decoration: none;">KathiMacias.com</a>. </span></span><br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">This good-bye doesn't make me sad.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">I have discovered what it feels like to do the unthinkable.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">The hard.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">The Long.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">The challenging.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">You have no business here anymore.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">From now on, difficult will seem doable.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">I will see the impossible as simply not yet conquered.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #990000; font-size: large;">You will haunt me never again.</span></div>
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shepherdess56http://www.blogger.com/profile/17242965170070616459noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-886457827911127374.post-44130798787721023092011-09-06T21:39:00.003-04:002011-09-06T22:53:50.056-04:00Social Media Leader, Trey Pennington Remembered<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="Apple-style-span">This story is just so incredibly sad...please read/watch(video link above) Trey Pennington's story...there are lessons to be learned...his passing should not be in vain.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">When I read some of the details of the possiblity of why he committed suicide Sunday morning, I wonder if our little group of support at <a href="http://www.womeninmlc.com/">Women in MLC (Mid-Life Crisis) </a>could have given him a place to go and receive support from other men who are struggling with difficult divorces....and then in a split second I wonder IF one of the men that are there with an alias WAS Trey seeking help, comfort and support. Preventing suicide, helping with depression is one of the many reasons why I created the forum. <a href="http://www.womeninmlc.lefora.com/">WINMLC </a> (forum) is to help the husbands dealing with a wife who no longer wants to be in a marriage, may be going through severe mid-life changes...it can take many men to the edge of the abyss. I have held many hands (figuratively) mostly through chat, e-mail and SKYPE...talking some men away from the edge of suicide. Many men are in shock, lost and totally taken off guard...many can't let go...many give up not only on the marriage...but on the family and themselves. Could we have helped Trey step away from the abyss? Maybe or maybe not...All I know is that deep down this man was hurting, lost and at his wits end feeling he had no reason to live any longer...and IF for one moment his script was the one we hear at our forum all the time...Oh, How I wish that we could have reached out a hand to him.</span></div>
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<span class="Apple-style-span">I am not privy to the exact reason why Trey Pennington took his life, but as small details start coming out, I start seeing the same script that I read every day at my forum from many of the men AND the women that come there seeking help and advice about how to handle the breaking up of their marriage, while trying to deal with the CHANGE that occurs at mid-life. Please pray for the Pennington family and friends...on-line and off-line. </span><br />
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