> Introductions, Announcements, and More of Ray's Teachings
Here I am, on a rainy day in Oregon!
Grateful:
Hi Janice, et al !
I've been SOOOOOO busy this week, that I haven't been able to get back to Y'All and do you justice in a reply to all of you. For one thing, I'm now taking an 11-week class on Digital Cameras (to learn to download pix onto computer, manipulate them, print 'em, and / or Email 'em)....yesterday was the 2nd day of class. My assignment was to go out & shoot pictures. Ohhhh, boy, DID I get some totally gorgeous storm clouds and BLUE sky! I CAN'T WAIT to SEE them onscreen, and enlarge & print them! ;-DDD (Biiiig Smile!)
I'll try to get back to you later this evening. I need to re-read all your helpful hints, everyone, and try to make them work PROPERLY. Wish me luck! (Actually, I'm gonna need divine inspiration to get through all the instructions correctly! (I've ALREADY tried to apply one hint, and it DIDN'T work.....sighhhhhh.....)
BTW, one of you asked me what BBC's are.....I'd found them on the "Help" section (on the bar that says : HOME, HELP, SEARCH, PROFILE, MY MESSAGES, CALENDAR, MEMBERS, and LOGOUT) and the letters stand for Bulletin Board Codes (which explain the "Bold", "Italic", "Underline", "color of font", "font size' , etc., etc.).
Chat with you cooool cats later!!!
<3<3<3 ,
Linda
P.S. The <3 is my way of casting an "O" in a "Heart" shape, and when I combine three of them, I'm in actuality 'sing-saying' "Holy..Holy..Holy!" (For, God our Father is LOVE, AND He is most Holy....)
Grateful:
Hi again, Janice!
I'm STUCK here on MY "Here I am, on a rainy day" thread, because the Internet Explorer will NOT let me reply to YOUR post #44 addressed to me on your "Caregiver shares more" thread (I keep getting booted out of being able to log in online in that discussion board....I have NO IDEA how to get on!). So, here's the letter I started to you, and put on my EditPad & saved it for later (which is NOW..... :) :
Dear Janice,
I didn't discover your reply to my Email until just NOW (it's 3:45 pm PDT).
Yes, Mother took care of my dad for 8 years (My doctor told me that Alzheimer's patients usually pass away in 6 to 8 years, and dementia patients can take up to 20 years to pass away.....apparently Alzheimer's is much more swift. It was actually congestive heart & kidney failure that "finished" my dad in the hospital on his last day alive on Earth.) How FORTUNATE] you were to be able to sit on your husbands lap and hug him A LOT on his last day!!!! You & I are both GRATEFUL that their suffering is OVER!!
Yes, Mother is still very much alive (84 years old) and still kickin' (but not as high, as she laughingly said over the phone the other night! AH HAHAHA! I told her I'm not either!! ;D ;D ).
Ohhhh, I feel so sorry for your widowed friend's mother, being reduced to the fetal position now and having to have a special resting-surface to prevent bedsores!!
All we can do is pray to God the Father: "O, PLEASE be merciful to (whoever)....!!" , and let (whoever) pass away peacefully!!
I was just reading online (CNN.com) that the more self-disciplined a person is, the LESS likely he or she will develop Alzheimer's. The article even went on to say that those people who kept themselves vigorous in their daily lives, managing and organizing their affairs.....that some of them who were autopsied had the Alzheimer's lesions in their brains but did NOT exhibit Alzheimer's symptoms!!! Yee haa!! SO, there IS Hope!!!!!!!!!
Thank you for sharing your inner-circle life with me and the rest of us, Janice!! WHAT a Blessing! you are!!!
God LOVE ya!! :-*
Linda
DuluthGA:
YOU are a big blessing, Linda! :)
I'm very glad to see you are now able to make posts using the buttons. Yay!
And it's great to hear about your dear and active mum, and I will keep her in my prayers as well.
Also thanks about your info on preventing Alzheimer's. I try to keep up with the latest info on this because afterall I am an offspring of someone who has it, and there could be a genetic link... although I don't think they know about this for sure. There was no history of it in my husband's family. Scary.
From what I have come to understand mostly from AARP's bulletin articles and their invaluable website, the best prevention is to keep your mind regularly doing NEW tasks.... the keys being NEW AND DIFFERENT from the types of thought processes your mind regularly does, and do them often [daily] and once you get used to doing them, then doing SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT THAT IS NEW for awhile then change to something else again and so on. Examples include learning a new language, doing all manner of puzzles and games, etc., and doing vigorous exercise as well.
You are so so right my dear, all we can do is pray and accept God's will. It's a fine line we all tread between life and death in a multitude of ways. How fascinating it all is! :)
Have a great EXPRESSIVE time at Da Forum Linda! :D ;D
Joy,
Janice
Grateful:
Hi Janice!
It's so funny (coincidental, that is).....only just this morning before getting online, I was reading last night's newspaper about "exercising the brain," to prevent deteriorating mental "powers". It said exactly what you did yesterday afternoon, with the ADDITION of something I hadn't thought of before.....do the same thing DIFFERENTLY, such as brushing your teeth with your OTHER hand, to train the OTHER SIDE of your brain in facility of coping with "newness". Haha, I just this second had a funny thought.....could this be part of what God was talking about, when He said, "Behold, I make all things NEW." ? Another way of saying that there'll be more variety & niceness of life? I really DO enjoy learning to do new things, ESPECIALLY if they are beautiful in one way or another. It's fun!! Makes me wonder just HOw FULL a Spiritual Life can be once we ALL are safely ensconced in New Jerusalem forever and ever?!!
:D
I'm certainly finding my current humongous project the most challenging and rewarding I have EVER undertaken (studying the Scofield KJV Study Bible and Rotherham's Emphasized Bible simultaneously, from the very beginning....I'm in Isaiah 38 now, in both Bibles). It sure DOES exercise the "noodle-stroodle" to look up the cross-references, and read the footnotes & marginal notes in the Scofield version, and to write down the page numbers at the bottom of the pages of the Rotherham's where I can find the Scriptural passage listed in the footnotes there (I do that BECAUSE the Rotherham's chapter-numbering system is too unwieldy for me, since they're listed in Roman Numerals!! That is SO distracting to me!! I've even taken a yellow highlighting pen and highlighted EVERY chapter number in the body of each page on which they are, since the chapter numbers at the TOP of each page is, again, in Roman Numerals.). Anyway, I am finding out scads of exciting Spiritual information & truths, as well as just how plain GOOD our God IS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! O, HALLELUJAH!!!!! :D
Thank you, Janice, for your input on this very important aspect of our life : our mind !! We NEED the same mind in us that is in Christ Jesus in order to make any sensible sense out of life on Earth as it is today, with the seeming chaos in human affairs going on all around us. As Ray said in one of his articles (I think it was about Revelation), the "sea" represents "the teeming mass of mankind", and so we who are trying so hard to find out what God's Will is in any given situation and then to DO it, need to keep our heads (minds) ABOVE that "sea" in order BE righteous in GOD'S sight. It feels so good to "snuggle up to our Father in Heaven" like a small child!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (And hear HIS Heartbeat!) :)
Have a BEAUTIFUL Day, ALL of you Forum Members!!!
Linda
DuluthGA:
Thanks again Linda,
That is A GREAT idea about doing the routine things in our lives in different ways like switching hands... an ABSOLUTE GEM OF AN IDEA because it's so easy to do!
So glad you are enjoying your bible studies and more! :)
Enjoy!
Janice
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