The Encourager...Oct. Issue 
kathryn101
18 y
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RN
I put out a monthly newsletter...and used to post bits and pieces
on curezone from it all the time. I was just reading this morning and
decided to post a few exerpts from this months issue.
Hope you enjoy it!
SLOW ME DOWN, LORD
Ease the pounding of my heart by the quieting of my mind.
Steady my hurried pace with a vision of the eternal reach of time.
Give me, amid the confusion of the day, the calmness of the
everlasting hills. Break the tensions of my nerves and muscles
with the soothing music of the singing streams that live in my memory.
Help me to know the magical, restoring power of sleep.
Teach me the art of taking minute vacations…of slowing down to
look at a flower, to chat with a friend, to pat a dog, to read
a few lines from a good book.
Slow me down, Lord, and inspire me to send my roots deep into
the soil of life’s enduring values that I may grow toward the
stars of my greater destiny.(Author Unknown)
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“I’m convinced that the man who has learned to meditate upon
the Lord will be able to run on his feet and walk in his spirit.
Although he may be hurried by his vocation, that’s not the issue.
The issue is how fast his spirit is going. To slow it down takes
a period of time.” (Quote By Charles Stanley)
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It’s easy to be pleasant when life flows by like a song.
But the man worth while is the one
who can breeze through the day with a smile on his face
when everything goes dead wrong.
For the test of the heart is trouble,
And it always comes with years.
And the smile that’s worth the praises of earth
Is the smile that shines through the tears. (author unknown)
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- Good to see you back, Kathryn101 Corey
18 y
1,345
This is a reply to # 752,088
You have been missed. Gives me a warm feeling to read your postings again.
Welcome back.
Corey- Re: Good to see you back, Kathryn101 kathryn101
18 y
1,388
This is a reply to # 752,430Corey...Thank you so much! I'm not necessarily 'back'. :-) I just don't have
much time for posting anymore. I used to post very early in the morning...then
I'd check in around noon to see if anyone needed any help I could give...and then
I'd check back late in the evening. I just don't have time for that kind of posting
anymore.
I don't know what has happened...but I've just almost lost total control of my life. :-) There are just not enough hours in the day these days.
My mother-in-law has come down with Alzheimers. And the 13 months that we tried
to see to her totally on our own was a living nightmare. My husband is an only
child...and our grown kids all live in the 'corporate..high speed' world...and
didn't have time to help. We just really had our hands full for those 13 months.
She's been in an assisted living facility now, since June. And even though it's
'assisted living'...she has round the clock care. But it's only 10 minutes from
us...so we still try to go see her almost every day. They have a choice at this
facility of having private quarters or a roommate, and Marie wanted a roommate.
And they're both at about the same 'point' in their illness. Some days are good
and some days are bad. On a bad day, we'll go out there and they'll be talking to
each other and us...and nothing that is said, makes any sense at all. You can
ask Marie and Nona how they slept last night and Marie will say something like, "NO, I don't like broccoli...YOU know that!" And Nona will chime in...
"Oh, you washed my CAR...well THANK YOU!" :-) You never know whether to laugh
or cry on their bad days. And they'll sit there and talk back and forth...and
neither one of them is really responding to what the other one just said. They're
answering with something completely off the wall. It's just pitiful.
But we're trying to get Marie's homeplace ready to sell...and that's a very trying
task. We're keeping a lot of her things and storing them in the 2nd floor of our
workshop. So we've got our hands full, even now.
But on a brighter note...it's FINALLY 43 degrees in our little woods in Southern
Illinois. My husband has just left to go deer hunting...so while he relaxes in his
'tree' :-) for the next 4 hours...I'm going to make hay even before the sun starts
to shine. I've got our fireplace going...it's quiet as a church mouse in here...
and I've got tons to do.
I hope you have a great day! kathryn
"Life's experiences can be better than any movie you've ever seen!"
- Re: Good to see you back, Kathryn101 kathryn101
18 y
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- Good to see you back, Kathryn101 Corey
18 y
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