It’s Thursday, so don’t forget to pray for Jo, her students, and the people of PNG.
Anyone else?
Psalm 16
¹Preserve me, O God: for in thee do I put my trust.
2 O my soul, thou hast said unto the Lord, Thou art my Lord: my goodness extendeth not to thee;
3 But to the saints that are in the earth, and to the excellent, in whom is all my delight.
4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied that hasten after another god: their drink offerings of blood will I not offer, nor take up their names into my lips.
5 The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.
6 The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places; yea, I have a goodly heritage.
7 I will bless the Lord, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
8 I have set the Lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
9 Therefore my heart is glad, and my glory rejoiceth: my flesh also shall rest in hope.
10 For thou wilt not leave my soul in hell; neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.
11 Thou wilt shew me the path of life: in thy presence is fulness of joy; at thy right hand there are pleasures for evermore.
No news yet on how our church friend Paul came through surgery. I’ve prayed for him throughout the night, and his wife Linda, too. I can scarcely wrap my brain around it.
I commented last night about the result of the cataract surgery on my right eye. It did not improve overnight. 😦 I am worried, but hoping it is due to something simple, & will fade away with time. Or maybe they can do something about it in the office today? I’m also bummed that I won’t be seeing Dr. D, who I usually see, & did the surgery, but will see an associate of hers.
Last night, I described it as feeling like there is a film over my eye. There is a yellow-orange cast to it (not that you can see looking in my eye, but how it looks looking through my eye), & I cannot see very well at all through it. In fairly bright light, I can make out what is around me, but in dim light, I can’t see much at all, if anything.
Until I am able to get a new prescription for my glasses (in over a month), reading will be difficult, even with my left eye.
My Baby Girl is having a hard time right now. Most of it she has brought on herself by choices she has made.
As I told the therapist yesterday, they come here hard wired. You can bend them,shape them, encourage them down the right path, but there comes a point that your influence has reached it’s limit. Mother Kim wants to fix it all for her, but Realist Kim knows I can only encourage from the sideline. We are scheduled to have lunch today. I need the right words and the proper mindset. (If some of you haven’t noticed, I can be quite opinionated and stubborn in my own way)
I think most of it is that she is at a crossroads in life. She isn’t in high school anymore where she has that structure. She chose not to attend college or a trade school. She realizes she is in a dead in job. She wants to move forward, but doesn’t have a direction. I remind myself that her father played until he met me when he finally buckled down at THIRTY and finished college. Her aunt didn’t decide on a career until she was in her 30’s and makes more money as a hair stylist than I do. THEY are both happy and content with their lives and I–the over educated idiot–see a therapist.
That can be a really hard time Kim. I didn’t plan to go to college so I’d gotten an office job during the summer after my high school graduation (I still lived at home, and my dad was terminally ill which made things more stressful).
I HATED that job, I was miserable. One of the guys in the office was signing up for the local community college that fall so I asked my parents if I could quit and do that, maybe work part time. They said sure (I had great parents).
Anyway, the rest is history, I found my niche, I absolutely loved college (which was surprising since I wasn’t that “academic” at all in high school). I got a job at the local Sears where I could work night and weekend shifts and still have plenty of time for homework and to dig into my studies.
My friend’s younger daughter struggled with learning disabilities in school but she recently signed up for community college and is doing well, surprise, surprise.
Is there a community college in your area she might sign up for? Just take a few classes, see what grabs her interest? I didn’t get into journalism until I was a junior in college, but those first couple years were so beneficial in being able to take a wide variety of courses.
It was just what I needed to expose myself to the possibilities …
Karen, praying for that eye — that would be disconcerting, glad you’re going in today.
Carol has been in the hospital for going on a week, they’re transferring her to a rehab in Silver Lake where she was before as she needs to continue on an antibiotic IV. She has an infection, but Carol never asks questions so she doesn’t know any more than that. (I can’t believe the doctors are explaining some of this to her at least in some detail, I don’t know if she doesn’t “hear” it or what; but the lack of questions and answers drives the reporter in me crazy 🙂 )
Hopefully she’ll get back on her feet by the weekend. She wanted me to visit but I have a window company coming at 10 a.m. and then I’m off to the tile center and after that to make sure I can find a bathtub in stock somewhere, if we need to replace that as well (we won’t know until after demolition begins).
Back to community college, it’s just a great way to find a direction that you may never have even thought of before. It wasn’t until I took a bunch of career aptitude tests after I transferred to a 4 year college and had to nail down a major that a counselor said “take a journalism class.”
Huh? I was on the shy side and thought that can’t be a good fit for me. But it was. Who knew?
And my first semester or two I just mostly took business/office skills classes because I knew I was good at that — it was enough to get my toes wet (first semester I only attended part-time). Once I took my first English and political science classes, I was totally hooked. 🙂
Kim – I so understand that helpless feeling of wanting to guide her but knowing that it isn’t your “job” anymore, & she probably wouldn’t listen anyway. I have to keep surrendering my daughters into God’s hands, asking Him to do the guiding & leading by His Holy Spirit. (Quite frankly, I’m afraid my sweet Chickadee is heading for a crisis eventually, but I hold on to knowing that God is in control.) Prayers for BG to have open eyes, open ears, & an open, receptive heart, & for you to “let go” (still working on that myself) & rest in God.
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Dr G (Dr D’s associate) says everything looks good – minimal inflammation & minimal edema. The only thing that looks bad is that the eye is very dry, which could be what is causing this. (It is the right side of my face is that is mostly affected by the Moebius Syndrome, so that eye has weak blinking ability.) She suggested a lubricant gel to use a couple times a day & at night, & thinks this will eventually help.
However, she says the yellowish-orangish tint that I see is odd. (I’m not sure, but I think that is slowly fading. Last night I would have described it as a reddish-orange tint.)
Well, I have another post-op appointment next week, with Dr. D, so if it hasn’t resolved by then she’ll be able to take a look.
Nightingale was a homeschool drop-out, which is embarrassing to admit. (She did get her GED when she was 19, I think, & scored so highly she earned a state high school diploma.) She took a few classes at a community college, but it wasn’t until after Little Guy came along that she started to think about being a nurse, & she began her education towards that goal a couple months before she turned 25. There were several in her class, probably most of them, who were her age & even older, one being in her 50s.
They have to figure it out for themselves, but you all know that. Many need to grow up a little more before they go to college–because they need that time to figure it out. Some just don’t realize how much bigger the world is out there.
Glad to hear the good report, Karen — orange tinge, maybe it’s a Trump thing. Might as well blame him for that too, right? 🙂
Got a call from Carol, guess they’re treating her both for the MRSA and a very severe UTI — she needs an antibiotic IV for about a week, they think, to try to clear it all up. She’s feeling blue also from a text she received from Ben’s brother, sounds like it came off rather curt, explaining he couldn’t send her photos of Ben right away (she’d asked for 2) and that she still owed Ben $400+ and they were expecting her to repay that.
So pray for her physical health and comfort, but also for a better awareness of her financial habits that seem to get her into these spots where she always owes people money.
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No news yet on how our church friend Paul came through surgery. I’ve prayed for him throughout the night, and his wife Linda, too. I can scarcely wrap my brain around it.
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I commented last night about the result of the cataract surgery on my right eye. It did not improve overnight. 😦 I am worried, but hoping it is due to something simple, & will fade away with time. Or maybe they can do something about it in the office today? I’m also bummed that I won’t be seeing Dr. D, who I usually see, & did the surgery, but will see an associate of hers.
Last night, I described it as feeling like there is a film over my eye. There is a yellow-orange cast to it (not that you can see looking in my eye, but how it looks looking through my eye), & I cannot see very well at all through it. In fairly bright light, I can make out what is around me, but in dim light, I can’t see much at all, if anything.
Until I am able to get a new prescription for my glasses (in over a month), reading will be difficult, even with my left eye.
More prayers appreciated. Thank you.
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My Baby Girl is having a hard time right now. Most of it she has brought on herself by choices she has made.
As I told the therapist yesterday, they come here hard wired. You can bend them,shape them, encourage them down the right path, but there comes a point that your influence has reached it’s limit. Mother Kim wants to fix it all for her, but Realist Kim knows I can only encourage from the sideline. We are scheduled to have lunch today. I need the right words and the proper mindset. (If some of you haven’t noticed, I can be quite opinionated and stubborn in my own way)
I think most of it is that she is at a crossroads in life. She isn’t in high school anymore where she has that structure. She chose not to attend college or a trade school. She realizes she is in a dead in job. She wants to move forward, but doesn’t have a direction. I remind myself that her father played until he met me when he finally buckled down at THIRTY and finished college. Her aunt didn’t decide on a career until she was in her 30’s and makes more money as a hair stylist than I do. THEY are both happy and content with their lives and I–the over educated idiot–see a therapist.
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That can be a really hard time Kim. I didn’t plan to go to college so I’d gotten an office job during the summer after my high school graduation (I still lived at home, and my dad was terminally ill which made things more stressful).
I HATED that job, I was miserable. One of the guys in the office was signing up for the local community college that fall so I asked my parents if I could quit and do that, maybe work part time. They said sure (I had great parents).
Anyway, the rest is history, I found my niche, I absolutely loved college (which was surprising since I wasn’t that “academic” at all in high school). I got a job at the local Sears where I could work night and weekend shifts and still have plenty of time for homework and to dig into my studies.
My friend’s younger daughter struggled with learning disabilities in school but she recently signed up for community college and is doing well, surprise, surprise.
Is there a community college in your area she might sign up for? Just take a few classes, see what grabs her interest? I didn’t get into journalism until I was a junior in college, but those first couple years were so beneficial in being able to take a wide variety of courses.
It was just what I needed to expose myself to the possibilities …
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Karen, praying for that eye — that would be disconcerting, glad you’re going in today.
Carol has been in the hospital for going on a week, they’re transferring her to a rehab in Silver Lake where she was before as she needs to continue on an antibiotic IV. She has an infection, but Carol never asks questions so she doesn’t know any more than that. (I can’t believe the doctors are explaining some of this to her at least in some detail, I don’t know if she doesn’t “hear” it or what; but the lack of questions and answers drives the reporter in me crazy 🙂 )
Hopefully she’ll get back on her feet by the weekend. She wanted me to visit but I have a window company coming at 10 a.m. and then I’m off to the tile center and after that to make sure I can find a bathtub in stock somewhere, if we need to replace that as well (we won’t know until after demolition begins).
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Back to community college, it’s just a great way to find a direction that you may never have even thought of before. It wasn’t until I took a bunch of career aptitude tests after I transferred to a 4 year college and had to nail down a major that a counselor said “take a journalism class.”
Huh? I was on the shy side and thought that can’t be a good fit for me. But it was. Who knew?
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And my first semester or two I just mostly took business/office skills classes because I knew I was good at that — it was enough to get my toes wet (first semester I only attended part-time). Once I took my first English and political science classes, I was totally hooked. 🙂
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Kim – I so understand that helpless feeling of wanting to guide her but knowing that it isn’t your “job” anymore, & she probably wouldn’t listen anyway. I have to keep surrendering my daughters into God’s hands, asking Him to do the guiding & leading by His Holy Spirit. (Quite frankly, I’m afraid my sweet Chickadee is heading for a crisis eventually, but I hold on to knowing that God is in control.) Prayers for BG to have open eyes, open ears, & an open, receptive heart, & for you to “let go” (still working on that myself) & rest in God.
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Dr G (Dr D’s associate) says everything looks good – minimal inflammation & minimal edema. The only thing that looks bad is that the eye is very dry, which could be what is causing this. (It is the right side of my face is that is mostly affected by the Moebius Syndrome, so that eye has weak blinking ability.) She suggested a lubricant gel to use a couple times a day & at night, & thinks this will eventually help.
However, she says the yellowish-orangish tint that I see is odd. (I’m not sure, but I think that is slowly fading. Last night I would have described it as a reddish-orange tint.)
Well, I have another post-op appointment next week, with Dr. D, so if it hasn’t resolved by then she’ll be able to take a look.
Thank you for your prayers. God bless you all.
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Nightingale was a homeschool drop-out, which is embarrassing to admit. (She did get her GED when she was 19, I think, & scored so highly she earned a state high school diploma.) She took a few classes at a community college, but it wasn’t until after Little Guy came along that she started to think about being a nurse, & she began her education towards that goal a couple months before she turned 25. There were several in her class, probably most of them, who were her age & even older, one being in her 50s.
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They have to figure it out for themselves, but you all know that. Many need to grow up a little more before they go to college–because they need that time to figure it out. Some just don’t realize how much bigger the world is out there.
My own father needed someone to point out what he was good at and that teacher changed his (and mine since I wouldn’t be here with that intervention) life:
http://www.michelleule.com/2011/04/27/making-a-difference-the-power-of-observation/
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Kim, I know you aren’t looking for advice, but if you were, I would say, “Listen to Mumsee.”
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Glad to hear the good report, Karen — orange tinge, maybe it’s a Trump thing. Might as well blame him for that too, right? 🙂
Got a call from Carol, guess they’re treating her both for the MRSA and a very severe UTI — she needs an antibiotic IV for about a week, they think, to try to clear it all up. She’s feeling blue also from a text she received from Ben’s brother, sounds like it came off rather curt, explaining he couldn’t send her photos of Ben right away (she’d asked for 2) and that she still owed Ben $400+ and they were expecting her to repay that.
So pray for her physical health and comfort, but also for a better awareness of her financial habits that seem to get her into these spots where she always owes people money.
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Prayers for friend I am taking for pre-op work tomorrow.
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