miepie

Originally Posted by miepie

I'd like to praise Daddy for the wonderful afternoon that we had in the zoo yesterday! We were invited by Tina and her boyfriend Willem to go with them and it was great! Here's a report:

The weather looked good until we were in the zoo and every now and then it rained a little bit and one time it rained real heavy......... they had a lot of trees there and little houses where you could watch the animals and stop for the rain........ but it rained also when we were in open spots so

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I am severely disabled, I can't walk or stand and some more things, and I am bedridden and most of the time a shutin......... I have been like this for a decade now, although in the beginning I was able to get out of bed easier and do things, which is now impossible...... 99% of the time I am in my bed now and the 1% that I do go out is to take a shower mostly or to get my bowels flushed....... once a week I am outside for an hour, as we do our shopping then...... my husband pushes my wheelchair ...

Life has been difficult lately. Lots of pain on my part and Charles' throat infection, were enough to keep us from sleeping. Furthermore, my parents are both struggling with their health; My mom with her joints and my dad has the first signs of prostate cancer. However, there is light at the end of the tunnel. The study that I'm doing to learn to pray more efficiently got stuck when I had to pray God's will for my life. It took me a few days but then I could pray "Your will Daddy, not mine." ...

It seems that the sicker I get, the more challenging my life becomes and the more I want to study. It always seems that I'm running out of time and that I want to do so much more before I pass away. I received some great books for my birthday. One is to learn more about heaven, another is to learn to pray better and the third is a study on the book of Proverbs. I'm studying the book about heaven together with Charles, the prayer book on my own and the Proverbs study together with an online friend. ...

Sometimes I don't understand why I have to suffer and I get rebellious and angry that this disease is happening to me, especially after a dream where I can do a lot of things..... it happened to me the other day..... I was riding my bike, running at the beach and woke up to see I was still confined to my bed and depending on Charles to get me things...... getting out of the house is a problem, let alone going to the beach...... so I was a bit depressed yesterday......

Then He gave ...