Posted in Frustration, Impact, anger, emotions, family, future, goals, life, loss, love, mental and physical health, pain and misery, relationships, respect, sadness, spiritual, well-being, tagged acceptance, anger, care, circumsances, control, destruction, emotional, forgiveness, fulfillment, future, happiness, healing, home, hurt, love, past, patterns, personal, physical, relationships, respect, responsibility, sadness, school, self esteem, spiritual, threat, understanding, verbal abuse, work on June 30, 2008 | No Comments »
We are all born into circumstances that we have absolutely no control over. The best that you can hope for is to maximize the positive and to minimize the negative events, circumstances or experiences. All of those things, both positive and negative, help to shape us into the person that we become.
If we [...]
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Posted in Impact, cancer, children, courage, death, health, mental and physical health, tagged courage, cancer, healing, chemo, radiation, surgery, blessings, death, illness, prayer, teacher, focus, Impact, world, mother, Faith, breast cancer, disease, loss, donate, community, lost, educate, thief, heart aches, American Cancer Society, Relay For Life, American Cancer Survivors Network, stealing, stolen, clinical trials on June 3, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, another life was stolen by cancer. Today, we found out that a person that we loved and admired was taken too young by breast cancer. She was the mother of a young 3 year old son. She was the wife of a strong upstanding positive man. She was the teacher of my sons [...]
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Posted in Advocating for special needs, Business, Celebration, Dreams, Education, Faith, Family Time, Fear, Heart, Impact, Ken McArthur, Opportunities, What's Normal?, accomplishments, adoption, authors, book Recommendations, book launch, books, charity, children, commitment, communication, disaster, economy, elderly, emotions, family, foster parenting, friendship, giving, health, help, inspiration, life, loneliness, loss, mental and physical health, miracles, mother, pain and misery, parenting, pregnancy, sadness, stress, support, the impact factor, well-being, writing, tagged adoption, author, Bethany Christian Services, biological, book, building, businesses, children, circumstances, communities, donations, embryo adoption, financial pressures, fortune, gift, guilt, healing, health, hurts, Impact, individuals, infertility, Ken McArthur, legacy, lifeline, marriage, offer, option, orphans, positive energy, promise, relationships, restoring, sensitivity, stress, suffering, Time, un-planned pregnancies, United States, volunteer on May 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Raising children is one of the most important things a person can do. It not only impacts a family; it impacts communities, businesses, organizations and individuals. Raising children well; it is an art form. In our world today, there are many things pulling at a family unit trying to divide it and conquor it. [...]
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Posted in Faith, Family Time, Fear, Heart, Remembering, commitment, courage, crime, emotions, health, help, inspiration, joy, life, loneliness, loss, medical, mental and physical health, mother, news, pain and misery, resilient, sadness, safety, self doubt, sick and tired, stress, success, support, trauma, violence, well-being, tagged healing, depression, children, challenges, life, father, suicide, birth, health, destruction, relationships, mother, freedom, joy, well-being, neglect, personal, survival, prison, therapy, abuse, 24 years, psychiatry, victimized, oppression, human spirit, resilience, negativity, past, obstacles, Elizabeth Fritzl, Austrian, overcoming, devastation, fearlessly, fully, professional help, victory, determination on May 15, 2008 | No Comments »
For those of you who have been depressed, despondent, abused, neglected, suicidal, victimized or just oppressed; know this, the human spirit is subject to change at any moment…it is resilient. The absolutely amazing thing about going through any of those difficulties in life, is that it has the potential of either destroying a person, [...]
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Posted in Descriptive Words, Faith, Fear, Passing Away, authors, books, comfort, death, denial, grief, loneliness, loss, mental and physical health, pain and misery, sadness, stress, support, trauma, tagged abandonment, anger, betrayal, comfort, death, Fear, grief, grieving, healing, loneliness, loss, memories, normal stages, numbness, peace, prayer, sadness, spiritual guidance, unforgiveness on April 24, 2008 | No Comments »
Well, if you do any research at all on grieving you will find some very pat answers to describe what are considered “normal” stages of grieving. There are actually “lists” and books of normal stages.
One of those lists is from a book called “Death and Dying”; i remember reading this in high school as part [...]
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Posted in Good Morning America, Passion, Robin Roberts, accomplishments, cancer, health, inspiration, mental and physical health, support, tagged angel rock project, foundation, God, Good Morning America, healing, hurricane Katrina, Malaak Compton Rock, Nancy Block Zenna, organizations, research, Robin Roberts, support, survival, triple negative breast cancer on March 19, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Today on Good Morning America, Maalak Compton-Rock was on speaking about triple negative breast cancer and the foundation that was begun by a group of women who were all affected by their friend who was afflicted with the disease.
There is a lack of knowlege about this disease. It is a breast cancer that is [...]
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Posted in Faith, Fear, health, miracles, sick and tired, tagged diagnosis, disease, doctors, Fear, God, healing, human body, illness, miracle, sister, weakness on March 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
I don’t know about you…but, over the last few years, anytime any of my friends or relatives have gone to the doctor about some major sickness/disease; the doctors have not been able to diagnose it.
Now, it isn’t because they all go to the same incompetent doctor or anything like that. These are [...]
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Posted in Faith, Remembering, cancer, death, sadness, support, tagged cancer, healing, strength, grief, adopted, joy, blog, High on the Mountain, Vince Gill, rememberance, friendships, diamonds, disease, loss, eternity, survivor, battle, enemy, discomfort, ovarian cancer survivor, respectful tribute on February 20, 2008 | No Comments »
I read a wonderful tribute on a fellow blogger’s blog today. It was a respectful tribute regarding one ovarian cancer survivor’s feelings of the passing of another afflicted with cancer. They were in the battle against the enemy cancer. They had a rich relationship of love and support.
The respect and caring just comes through [...]
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Posted in Natalee Halloway, Remembering, death, grief, home, tagged healing, Remembering, grief, Natalee Halloway, disappearance, missing, suspects, murdered, beach, prosecution on December 18, 2007 | No Comments »
Today, it was announced that the three suspects in Natalee Halloway’s disappearance are not going to be prosecuted. After two years and, many different attempts to prosecute the suspect’s they are not going to pursue the case; unless new information comes to the forefront.
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What Love does is miraculous. It soothes, it heals, it eases, it teaches, it encourages, it softens, it comforts and… it sacrifices! I watched today as my father who is ill with the flu drive my mother on a round trip of a couple of hours to a doctor’s appointment with a lung specialist who [...]
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