~ Joy in a recess movie

Well, Jesus.... we have been nursing my mother-in-law through her last days. There has been EVERY kind of drama surrounding this group.... UNBELIEVEABLE. From dying great grandma, to the tonsilectomy gone wrong in great grandson, to DUI head-on collisions with the x-crack addict grandson, to HIV and cancer in the severely abusive crack addict nephew, to open heart surgery in the aunt, to the dirt bike accident for another nephew, to the Parkinson's ridden visiting niece reading poetry to great grandma with trembling hands, to the MS aunt and her 2 MS daughters, to the steady stream of neighbors bearing foods and full dinners, to the tatooed lady best friend who is too sqeamish to help with the bedside care, to the daughter-in-law cleaning every week, to the grandkids coming to say 'goodbye' or 'hello' to grandma, to my injured old father-in-law whose been stealing her meds, to my D.A.R.E. cop sis-in-law with brain trauma in the nursing home a few miles away since last spring's motorcycle accident.... to the RN niece providing bedside care with her "hide-a-pack ciggies" in the soup tourine. Did we miss ANYTHING !?! ALL these events in the past few months !!! Lot's of life and death in this death, Jesus. Hope my death is as eventfilled and 'mark-ed' a 'happening.' .....sort of...!?!!

Lordy....we got it ALL in Hubb's family ! ALL ! My brand new top smells like an ashtray after yesterday's helping out at my mom-in-laws all day.... this right after driving by the "NO SMOKING ~ OXYGEN IN USE" sign on the front door to opening the back door and being assaulted by a cloud of smoke. My mother-in-law is dying of emphasema. My father-in-law is stealing her sleeping pills from the hospice nurse's pill caddy and hiding my mom-in-law's ciggies, while my cousin, the RN, is hiding a "hide-a-pack" in the soup tourine. This is my life, Jesus. ... and You even know the secret things that no one is copping to....


I don't know how You do it? !

So, where's the joy?
....well, I'm TRYING to get a "Heaven," and "please leave some legacy about your faith, for my son, your grandson, in conversation... if he comes by again" moment with my mother-in-law. Fat chance yesterday. So, I took this movie over, for all to giggle at. Media, the grandma in the movie, has NOTHING on our group ! Right down to an extremely abusive nephew who is begging his soon to be x-wife to care for him through his imminent HIV cancer-ridden death ! Could this movie have been more ironic? I own it, and this is the first time I've watched it since all these events have unfolded in our lives. Bless me, Hubbs, his mother and our one brother-in-law who are Your's, the family Christian representatives. We ARE a shoddy lot !

"Diary of a Mad Black Woman"

It was FUN to laugh ! Thanks, Jesus. BE OUR GOD AND JOY. amen.
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