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Comment by carols_kitchen on July 11, 2010 at 11:29am

This was our Bible reading today, and just felt I had to pass it on.
Colossians 1
1Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother,

2To the holy and faithful[a] brothers in Christ at Colosse:
Grace and peace to you from God our Father.[b]

Thanksgiving and Prayer
3We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, 4because we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love you have for all the saints— 5the faith and love that spring from the hope that is stored up for you in heaven and that you have already heard about in the word of truth, the gospel 6that has come to you. All over the world this gospel is bearing fruit and growing, just as it has been doing among you since the day you heard it and understood God's grace in all its truth. 7You learned it from Epaphras, our dear fellow servant, who is a faithful minister of Christ on our[c] behalf, 8and who also told us of your love in the Spirit.
9For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of his will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding. 10And we pray this in order that you may live a life worthy of the Lord and may please him in every way: bearing fruit in every good work, growing in the knowledge of God, 11being strengthened with all power according to his glorious might so that you may have great endurance and patience, and joyfully 12giving thanks to the Father, who has qualified you[d] to share in the inheritance of the saints in the kingdom of light. 13For he has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves, 14in whom we have redemption,[e] the forgiveness of sins.

Comment by carols_kitchen on July 10, 2010 at 11:55am

Dear Lord
Trhough tears, we ask that you surround Little Ray's family with our love. The grace of our Lord, Jesus Christ, has accepted this little soul into heaven. Please be with our dear friend, Ray's grandmother, Sue (she started "heads at ease" our pillowcase project for military troops serving overseas.)
Eternal and ever loving God, thank you for the time the family had with Little Ray to surround him with their earthly love.
Our hearts ache. We continue to praise your name and wait for the day till we meet Little Ray again in Your Home.
Amen

Comment by carols_kitchen on July 10, 2010 at 11:50am

Raymond Jr. is in the arms of Jesus
Posted 1 hour ago (Friday, July 9, 2010)

We spent a lot of time with Raymond. We had a bed delivered and setup in our great room that allowed all of us to be close. The girls both laid in bed with him. We all took turns telling Raymond the special things we like about him and about all the fun, crazy and loving things he has done. He has always been the center of our family structure. We got a few smiles and a couple of times he opened his eyes briefly. We read him bible stories and told him Jesus was going to take good care of him. Helen opened and read many of cards that he was not able to open in the last month and read them to him. We played music and caressed him and loved on him. We all slept campout style around or with him. He got meds throughout the night which I administered and then fell asleep after one last check of him. He was very stable over night but not peeing at all. That all but stopped early before getting home and what came out appeared to be just blood. His body edema was worse this morning and the hospice nurses came around 11:00 and said his lungs had much more fluid in them. Raymond was starting to labor more with his breathing so we decided to discontinue all of his meds that we administer except the continuous IV meds which were supporting his heart. We gave him morphine and continued all the loving attention. Then we decided to stop the suffering and allow Raymond to pass to Jesus. We stopped the meds supporting his heart to maintain his blood pressure at 12:51 pm, they were going to run out at 7:00 pm. We all continued to love on him for the next 3 hours and 16 minutes until 4:07 when his heart stopped beating and he passed to Jesus. After more private time with him our hospice nurses arrived to pronounce him deceased and the funeral company came and took him away. This was the toughest day of all of our lives but yet we had clarity and peace that Raymond would never be in any more pain. It was difficult to let him go but it was the best for him. We now can devote our love and attention to our other two older wonderful girls, Koren and Michelle.

Raymond Jr. will have a memorial celebration at Crossroads Fellowship at 7:00 pm Wednesday July 14th. Hope to see you there to celebrate Jesus and Raymond’s life.

Love in Christ,
Ray, Helen, Koren and Michelle

Comment by carols_kitchen on July 9, 2010 at 7:16pm

Please pray for our friend's little grandson, Ray Jr. Some of you may have been following this for the past several months. At about 9 yrs last fall, he contracted H1N1 flu. It has been touch and go ever since. He has been admitted to hospice and we expect the sad news soon.
Please be with his family and support them with your prayers and the love of God.

Comment by carols_kitchen on July 9, 2010 at 7:13pm

So blessed to have another prayer partner. Welcome, joeysmom.

Comment by Oneofalot on July 9, 2010 at 1:00pm

Amen

Comment by jean on July 9, 2010 at 12:49pm

please pray for my sailor who is trying to pass his qualls
next week
thanks
jean

Comment by BugsMom on July 7, 2010 at 2:14pm

I think God gives us the sneaky factor as mom's, it's a gift. And I agree, they understand their own language better than ours sometimes. I find myself using it pretty often when I'm talking to our youngest. It seems to get thru to her pretty well. She starts college this fall and is in the middle of a break up herself. It's her first real boyfriend. She tells me when she's "bummin" and I try to talk about other things with her. We're getting through it pretty well, she does have her moments of tears or anger, but she has the Lord as well, it helps tremendously. Hang in there NNM, your daughter will get through this, so will you mom! We're here for you!

Comment by carols_kitchen on July 7, 2010 at 1:35pm

Nurse Navy Mom
When my son had a big breakup, I just used some of his slang terms. Not only, it really hurts, doesn't it, but things like, it just plain old sux. He responded to that easier for some reason. Just told him when it got bad, to let us know--we wouldn't pry, but we would be open to talk with him and just listen. A year and half later he found his bride. He had church, too, which was a help. I knew his youth counselor, and just dropped him a line asking him, confidentially, to see if our son would like to go out to lunch or to the park.

Comment by BugsMom on July 7, 2010 at 1:04pm

NNM - break ups tear thru the heart like nothing else. You put your trust in someone else and when they let you down it just defeats you. Her heart will mend, it may take a great deal of time, but it will mend. The Lord knows how much she's hurting and will bring her comfort. It's always even more difficult to think this person you shared your life with, just goes on with life, like you just didn't even matter. She matters to God and she is blessed to have a loving mom who won't leave her side until someone else can be with her. I feel for her, college age is such a difficult time in a young woman's life, I have one starting in the fall. I pray that she finds the strength to hold her head up, wipe the tears from her eyes and find the love that I'm certain is out there waiting for her. Lord bless this young woman and help her to see her worth. Help her to realize that you have a plan for her life. She is loved Lord, please help her to feel that love. When the tears start to fall, Lord please be there to dry them. When her heart begins to ache, please ease the pain and each day Lord, mend her broken heart more and more until it is whole again. Give her mother the strength and the words to help her. We ask your name Lord, Amen.

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