I remember when I was a little girl and Sundays were always so special. Mom would stay in bed a little while and read the newspaper. We were all to try to be as quiet as possible so she could rest and read (she was a single mom raising up four of us at the time, working one or two jobs and Sundays were her only days off). To keep us busy, she would give us the Sunday Funnies, the comic strips, to read. 
What a wonderful mom she was in so many ways. I miss her very much. It’s been a year and almost a month since God took her home to heaven.
I miss my children and my grandchildren too. My grand baby Rory will be turning five on October 18th. That’s a milestone birthday. I’m so excited for her. She’s in California and I wish I could be there withher to celebrate but I will, if God’s willing and all goes as planned, be able to be withher and Tyler, my grandson and my sons and their wives during the Christmas holidays. I’ve probably mentioned this a number of times in my other daily blogs. One would think I’m really excited about it and that I keep thinking about it and can hardly wait to be with them.
I love living in Corpus Christi. I don’t regret living here and that gives my family members a place to come and visit me, a nice place with plenty of fun things to do year round.
The Cowboys play today around noon my time. I still have to figure out what channel they’ll be on. I prayed for everyone this morning.
I have some chores I need to do, dusting and vacuuming, but I’m feeling weak. I’ve gone (as per my doctor’s instructions) down to 15 mg of Prednisone today. It’s my weaning process. I’ll stay on 15 for two weeks and then go down to 10 mg per day. It’s scary going down because I could possibly flair, but, I’ll go in faith and trust that God will see me through this.
I also have some textbook reading to do today and maybe some online responses in my virtual classroom. Tomorrow starts week two in my CPU101 class. This is fun stuff for me. I really enjoy working on the computer and learning all the new programs and the tricks and shortcuts to use to work with them.
It ended up raining a bit yesterday and it looks like it may want to again today. That’s ok with me. I like the rain. While I was saying my prayers this morning, a disabled pigeon came and took refuge on my bedroom balcony. I felt so badly for him. He seemed to have a hurt wing. I prayed for him and he quietly sat there until two other pigeons came along and chased him off. 
whaa…
I won’t go to church today and maybe not anymore. When they needed a volunteer to help, I stepped up and gave them the help they needed. When I needed help and asked them, they poo-pooed my request and in essence said for me to go ask a family member for help. I guess they didn’t realize that my family members have helped me a great deal and in every way that they have been able to. I’m not one to judge, but I feel the church’s lack of help and support when I needed it was just wrong and I just can’t bring myself to overcome it, even though I’ve prayed about it often. I have God – He’s all I need. God’s will be done. I think it was a test for them (and to everyone who should help me if they know my situation and my need) and I think that they have failed miserably. And so goes the recompense – the economy the way that it has become… All because of my suffering and need, maybe so, only God knows. It could just be a coincidence.
That’s all for today. I’m nauseous and weak. I’ll have to take it as it comes.
Peace and love, Out! Linda
