Posted by shirley on 9/27/2009, 7:12 am |
- Mine
Posted by Gee on 9/27/2009, 3:00 pm, in reply to "Grateful for anything on this Sunday morning? Tell us about it. :)"
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My faith - Cinq Choses Pour Moi
Posted by Krista on 9/27/2009, 9:41 am, in reply to "Grateful for anything on this Sunday morning? Tell us about it. :)"
1) finished the 10K in 1:23 this morning with my friend, Chris
2) the medal we got for finishing
3) that I am healthy enough to walk / jog a 10K in the first place!
4) rest of the day for R'n'R ~ I'm getting a cold so I'm just going to spend today resting and medicating
5) the comraderie (sp?) of the Marathon by the Sea - Well Done
Posted by Kerrie on 9/27/2009, 9:38 pm, in reply to "Cinq Choses Pour Moi"
Congratulations, it must be wonderful to look back and see how far you have come over the last year +, This is success. - Wonderful run!!
Posted by Beverly on 9/27/2009, 3:11 pm, in reply to "Cinq Choses Pour Moi"
THat's terrific.
Take care and feel better soon. - How super wonderful!
Posted by Gee on 9/27/2009, 2:58 pm, in reply to "Cinq Choses Pour Moi"
You are fantastic. Now rest up! - WOW!
Posted by shirley on 9/27/2009, 12:54 pm, in reply to "Cinq Choses Pour Moi"
Great job meeting your goal!! - Woohoo!!
Posted by Karla on 9/27/2009, 12:08 pm, in reply to "Cinq Choses Pour Moi"
Way to go, Krista! You were really movin'! Next, the 1/2 marathon in Eugene on 5/2/2010???
Congratulations!! Big achievement! - Awesome Job!
Posted by Fran on 9/27/2009, 12:04 pm, in reply to "Cinq Choses Pour Moi"
you go! That's a great time Krista! You truly rocked it! - Great Job Krista!!!
Posted by Brandi on 9/27/2009, 10:59 am, in reply to "Cinq Choses Pour Moi"
I bet even though you're under the weather it still felt awesome to cross that finish line! 
- Great job Krista!!!!! You did it!! You even beat your time, right??
Posted by Gina on 9/27/2009, 10:42 am, in reply to "Cinq Choses Pour Moi"
How did it feel crossing that finish line????? - mine
Posted by Beverly on 9/27/2009, 8:48 am, in reply to "Grateful for anything on this Sunday morning? Tell us about it. :)"
- my sweet Murray - he is so kind, loving, hard working, giving, funny - with all those wonderful qualities I am grateful that I have learned to overlook the fact that he swears like a drunken sailor.
- my sister's back is doing a bit better. I am so so grateful. Now she is 'fighting' with her insurance company so they can put a pain pump in her back.
- this weekend Kroger is having triple coupon days - 50 cents and under. I save about 4 Sunday's of coupons. (I had to dig them out huge copper apple butter bucket where we keep paper for a month before recycling ) I will go and stock up on things we use at a good price.
- willingness to keep trying
- friends and family - Mine..
Posted by Kerrie on 9/27/2009, 8:38 am, in reply to "Grateful for anything on this Sunday morning? Tell us about it. :)"
A Warm comfy house to spend what has been a wild wet, windy Sunday.
A long Weekend.
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Posted by Paula on 9/27/2009, 8:31 am, in reply to "Grateful for anything on this Sunday morning? Tell us about it. :)"
-Quiet evening at home last night
-Insurance
-My stepson's baby is due in a few short weeks
-Planning for more flowers
-the Internet - mine
Posted by shirley on 9/27/2009, 7:42 am, in reply to "Grateful for anything on this Sunday morning? Tell us about it. :)"
great cup of coffee this morning
my two fall service projects are complete... two weekends full of working hard with friends and having a lot of fun, and at the same time accomplishing so much. Yesterday we painted an entire house inside in a day and it was just beautiful by the time we finished. So many phases to go through to get to this point, but the whole project served to mirror to me about my progress of change in this journey. When I first walked into this situation with this single mom, they had no running water, or electricity, had a home where generational hoarding was going on and many rooms were so cluttered that it was 4 and 5 feet deep with trash. She and her 10 year old son were deeply depressed, in unbelievable debt and mold and mildew were everywhere and they were both very sick. That mirrored to me how desperate my situation was physically, emotionally and even spiritually at my top weight. My life was out of control and I needed help, just like this lady and her son needed help. So this project meant a lot to me because it wasn't about doing a good deed to me. It was about one beggar helping another, and I know this lady will now turn around and help someone else because her life and heart has been so transformed throughout this clean up project. She has a financial accountability partner now who sits down with her every Saturday morning and holds her accountable and is helping her get out of debt. She records every penny she spends and sees some light at the end of that tunnel. My church paid to have her electric and water unpaid bills from the past caught up and turned back on. Then we went in and gutted the bathroom and she has a new one now. They can shower for the first time in 6 years. Her son has never had a bathroom in his home that he remembers until now. We literally went in and shoveled out several rooms of trash and filled up two city dumpsters. We salvaged through a lifetime of hoarding and got rid of about 80% of all the stuff she had because most was just moldy and ruined. Then we went in for several weekends and started the deep cleaning process and what a difference that made, and also exterminating her home. We got her a new refrigerator and a microwave. Then yesterday we went in and painted the whole inside an antique white and the trip a bright high gloss white and it was so beautiful in there. Paint sure can make a difference... She has other things she wants to do, but now she is motivated to move forward. She has been a big part of the change and has gone from hanging her head feeling ashamed and deeply depressed from the first day we went there, to someone who was laughing and singing and hopeful for her future, and for her son's life now. It was so wonderful to see her so happy yesterday. And it was just a very deep parallel to me of what God has done in my own life through the last few years. I'm hopeful for my future, and as painful as some of the process of change has been, I know it's necessary to get to a better place. Long gratitude... but I just wanted to explain a little about what we did because it tells my own story in so many ways. My hoarding was not in a physical home, but was about the extreme amounts of food that I used to put into my body... but the end result had been the same. Discouragement, depression and hopelessness. I hope these last few weeks of walking through this journey with my friend stays in my heart and mind for a long time, as a reminder that nothing good comes easy, and it takes a lot of work, perseverance, and a few good friends to make it. There is ALWAYS hope.
great coffee
my glucophage for my diabetes is working PERFECTLY. My bg was 96 this morning. THANK you God!!
my back is feeling a little better
fsf to come to each morning - I love it when God shows the parallels in life!
Posted by Gina on 9/27/2009, 10:41 am, in reply to "mine"
When He takes a situation and uses it to open our eyes. He does this a lot with my children and how our parent/child relationship runs parallel with our Heavenly Fathers relationship with me.
I LOVE what you do at your church!!! You are not just a group of people who talk about what needs to be done, you all go out and DO it!!!
I pray many blessings come your way!!! Enough to fill that gigantic heart of yours!!
- Shirley...
Posted by Kerrie on 9/27/2009, 8:32 am, in reply to "mine"
In the little time I have been back at fsf I have come to know you as a beautiful lady, with a giant heart. The world needs more Shirley's. - I totally agree.
Posted by Beverly on 9/27/2009, 8:49 am, in reply to "Shirley..."
Shirley is a very, very special person. I feel blessed to call her a friend. - Thank you for saying that but I really
Posted by shirley on 9/27/2009, 1:01 pm, in reply to "I totally agree."
think the truth is that this is just what I am called to do. Mercy ministry, especially to the poor is my passion. And I have time because I am not married, nor do I have children. So your passion may be in being a mom, a wife, a counselor, a musician... Mine is no different. It's just what God sort of put me here to do. We all have a purpose, by His grace.