Thanks

 

Good Morning

I just want to say thank you to everyone for their kind words and encouragement during my grief. I do appreciate everyone of you. I am slowly recovering from Hollye's death. I still cry but not as many times a day as before. I think of her many times during my day. Her death made me reevaluate my own life. I had become comfortable in my zone. God reminded me of a promise I made to him several years ago about the children I meet. I promised to make a difference and present them with the opportunity to either accept Him or reject Him. In the last couple of weeks we have had two 19 year old you men die. One from and overdose of pills, the other shot himself in the head. The young people in our community are crying out for help, but we have failed to answer that call. It seems that every spring we lose at least one young person in some sort of tragic way. Each time I am angered an upset because yet another child is gone before they really get started. Some of them will have missed graduating from high school or college, finding a mate, getting married, starting a family, earning a paycheck. Who knows one of these young people could have possessed the knowledge for a cure for cancer, or HIV, or some other catastrophic disease. We will never know. The time has come for me Mama Peaches to get back to the one thing I enjoy the most, reaching out to the young people in the community. God made a way for my WLS and the weight has come off. Last year this time I weighed 280 lbs, today I weigh 163 lbs, not at my goal but I'm so close I can smell it. I feel better and have more energy than ever. I even have an appointment with the plastic surgeon this month. We have ten days left of school and this summer I will begin a program that will provide lunch for the kids, some tutoring, and Sidewalk Sunday School. I am so excited! Life is precious, time is short, stop and smell the roses in your life. Tell them how sweet they smell and just how much you love them. Again thank you my WLS family. You guys are the greatest!

Hi Mama Peaches,

Reading your message, makes me feel so blessed that I was able to escape the depression that was plaguing the housing projects of Hot Springs when I lived there. I have been thinking of you and praying for your strength and comfort  as you grieve your dear friend's (really sister since you were so close) passing.  Yes, we have so much to be grateful for when we really just take a moment to think about it. I know for me...I feel my most relief when I think about the things that I have in my life as oppose to the things that are no longer there. Granted these feelings change with the tides but for me and it sound like for you....today we are just fine. I will keep you in prayer. Don't hesitate to call me. Lisa