Forum Fellowship (2a)

[JoynTx]

Always good to fellowship with you quietbloke. You are such a blessing to us all.

SCJohnson, so good to see you!! We have missed you around here! Don't forget us now and come see us as often as you can ok? Love ya, Brother!

Cindy, it's too bad you have had to miss church but glad you are getting to go to the youth service. I'm young at heart, may I go too?? Yeah, Josh would love it. I think we may have to send out a search party for him. Haven't seen him in several days on here.
Thanks for sharing the scripture with us. God is good!!

Love you all....be blessed!

 

[birdofthunder]

Ok, wow, am so glad to see the posts from the last few days. Am rejoicing mss is back, along with the rest of us!

Some background for my prayer request for ya'll: Ok, here goes: she went for a broken leg, which given how she was last Saturday, doesn't surprise me. That was Monday. By Wednesday, she was basically in a coma like state, and on O2 'cause she couldn't breathe on her own. Then, she went on life support by that night due to her getting worse. Things got complicate 'cause my dad never did the paperwork for her never to have to be put on the machines, and....anyway, he was in NYC to boot.

So, when I talked to him yesterday, he was wanting someone there to give him a clear pix of what was happening, but since he wasn't here, he asked me. I went, and wound up talking to his wife before I called him back. Glad too, I did that. My gramma was at the point a decision had to be made: either take her off the machines, or leave her on 'em indefinitely, with no guarantee she'd live anyways.

So, we decided she'd talk to my dad, not me (I was glad of the offer). He did get back last night from NYC, and we're meeting this morning. Our last conseses (sp) was that she needed to be taken off the machines. We're going to see to that today. She's going home, but I know her death (or whatever happens) will still affect my dad most of all. I'm concerned about him more due to his own health being what it is.

Thanks in advance for the prayers!

Now for some of the rest of the story!:
They had taken her grandmother off of life support and apparently God had other plans because she's still with them. She's still in the hospital, but she is alive and doing alright for the moment. my grandmother was moved out of ICU Sunday morning. Doctor I spoke to that afternoon wasn't sure when she'd get out, but given where she's at, it may be by the end of the week. She went from no kidney function to 50% and counting up, etc. Saw her Saturday, and when she saw me, 1st thing out of her mouth was "God loves you". 2nd thing was "Gramma loves you". My dad behind me was like, "What?" I was grinning silly while I told her, "I love you too. So does God." Most amazing from the whole weekend...

 

[scjohnson1973]

Good morning everyone

 

[scjohnson1973]

I am off work today due to having pink eye.

 

[scjohnson1973]

A happy sunday to you all.I just caught up on the fellowship thread how you are all doing.Glad everyone is doing good.Miss you all lots but still kind of tired and weak but very,very happy.I will be back as soon as I can.....Love you all...Marlene

Will be praying for you sister. God bless you

 

[scjohnson1973]

Always good to fellowship with you quietbloke. You are such a blessing to us all.

SCJohnson, so good to see you!! We have missed you around here! Don't forget us now and come see us as often as you can ok? Love ya, Brother!

Cindy, it's too bad you have had to miss church but glad you are getting to go to the youth service. I'm young at heart, may I go too?? Yeah, Josh would love it. I think we may have to send out a search party for him. Haven't seen him in several days on here.
Thanks for sharing the scripture with us. God is good!!

Love you all....be blessed!

Thank you Joy always nice to fellowship with brother and sisters in Christ. God bless

 

[whatfor]

Hello everyone.
Thought I would have a look in here and see what I have missed.

Love you all

 

[scjohnson1973]

Hello anyone here?

 

[quietbloke]

Hello anyone here?

Hullo 'scjohnson!'

I'm here for a few more minutes,before going on the night shift at work.
Great to see you. I was away for a bit with computer problems,but it is so good to be back.
Praying success on your mod role in the other forum.
Hope your 'pink eye' gets better soon!

'CindyisHis!' Hi!

Hope you had a great time at the youth meeting last night.
That was a lovely scripture you shared. God really does meet us at the point of our need!

'JoynTx!' Hullo!

Making a joyful noise unto the LORD with you!
Hope Josh is too and comes on soon!

Hi 'birdofthunder!'

Great to see you and as you say,'great to see 'mssurrendered' back.
Really am praying for you in all the situation with your grandmother and dad.

'whatfor!' Great to see you again! God bless!

LOVE TO ALL MY FRIENDS HERE!

 

[mtchristiangirl]

Birdofthunder,
My prayers are with you and your family. I know that is a tough choice to make. I remeber all too clear the day we had to disconnect my grandmother. I sat by her side and held hand the last moments that she was somewhat responsive. She was coma like but when I tlked with her and let her know it was ok to let go cause GOd had a better plan in mind for her there were tears rolling down her cheek so I know she heard me. A few hours later we made th echoice to turn off life support and she quietly left this world while I sat and held her hand. It was a strange sense that she was one of the first people to hold me when I entered this world and I was there to help her leave this world.
So although it is hard it is also very satisfying knowing she is at peace. I feel your pain and will be praying to help you get through this time.

 

[mtchristiangirl]

Birdofthunder,
My prayers are with you and your family. I know that is a tough choice to make. I remeber all too clear the day we had to disconnect my grandmother. I sat by her side and held hand the last moments that she was somewhat responsive. She was coma like but when I tlked with her and let her know it was ok to let go cause GOd had a better plan in mind for her there were tears rolling down her cheek so I know she heard me. A few hours later we made th echoice to turn off life support and she quietly left this world while I sat and held her hand. It was a strange sense that she was one of the first people to hold me when I entered this world and I was there to help her leave this world.
So although it is hard it is also very satisfying knowing she is at peace. I feel your pain and will be praying to help you get through this time.

 

[mtchristiangirl]

Birdofthunder,
My prayers are with you and your family. I know that is a tough choice to make. I remeber all too clear the day we had to disconnect my grandmother. I sat by her side and held hand the last moments that she was somewhat responsive. She was coma like but when I tlked with her and let her know it was ok to let go cause GOd had a better plan in mind for her there were tears rolling down her cheek so I know she heard me. A few hours later we made th echoice to turn off life support and she quietly left this world while I sat and held her hand. It was a strange sense that she was one of the first people to hold me when I entered this world and I was there to help her leave this world.
So although it is hard it is also very satisfying knowing she is at peace. I feel your pain and will be praying to help you get through this time.

 

[lilmissmontana]

whereever you are ...

Where do I even start! I just read back three pages and I'll be lucky to not miss everyone ... I see I have much more reading to do.



ms: I'm so glad you're doing so well ... praise the Lord! I gotta tell you when you're not here there's that little cloud that hangs over a share of the sun in here!

liberty: Im gonna write you a long one sometime this evening ... e-mail.

Cindy: I'm so happy this bew venrure is working out well for you! You are such a woman with a sweet pure heart ... it's wonderful to see someone such as you blessed.

Joy: what can I say ... thank goodness you came a long when you did! This forum is blessed to have you. I didn't catch the latest ... how is your daughter doing? ... and your job?

Ainuhina: It is just plain fun to read what all yoou've been doing and experiencing. I'm thankful to get to read your posts!

birdofthunder: I'm praying for you, my sweet friend. Such harsh things you have to deal with!

Hisbygeace: I just love that name! welcome ... welcome ... welcome. I know you've been here vefore but it's just fun to have you here!

quietbloke: No one has ever called me their hero before ... really you're the hero. Everytime I think of when I first came to this forum I think of you. And it always reminds me of when the Lord said ... If I could just find one who is faithful (not exact) I think of you. A little more than a year ago I started posting here because the other forums just didn't work for me. I saw you faithfully day after day answer anyone who posted here and start threads, etc. Many times you were the only one posting. Mostly this forum was a skeleton. You were the "cornerstone" in a sense that this forum grew on.

sc: dude! where ya been!? how's everything? Is it against the rules for all our mod friends here to tell us where they're asigned so we can pop in and say hello there sometimes? Seriously. I wasn't joking when I said you all become mods and disappear! ... how's the pink eye?

whatfor: always a pleasure to see you!!! hope all is well ... what's happening in your world?

Josh: where the heck are you and whatcha doin? looking forward to another blast of Holy Spirit coming from you ... I swear it's like a strong good wind of His Spirit when you pass through!

mtchristiangirl: I think of you often. I hope all is well with your daughter and grandchild. I can certainly relate!

Ariel: I just love you so much! Your spirit feels so grounded! You thank me for inviting you. You deserve the thanks! You're a big huge large gigantic blessing!

rmw: love you to smithereens! have an awesome day!


to whoever I missed and I'm sure I did. This thread has turned into a rahter large family! WooHoo!!!

God bless all!

 

[rmw8855]

(((((Lilmissmontana)))))

 

[JoynTx]

Joy: what can I say ... thank goodness you came a long when you did! This forum is blessed to have you. I didn't catch the latest ... how is your daughter doing? ... and your job?

Good to see you on here lilmiss!! I am the one who is blessed... blessed to be a part of such a wonderful family. You are all so special to me. I love you all.

My daughter is doing so good... thanks for asking about her. She is beginning to get feeling back in her nose now and she says it doesn't feel so foreign anymore.

(For those of you who may not know, my daughter got skin cancer in her nose and had to have it removed. Then she had to have reconstruction surgery to repair the hole left from the removal of the cancer. It's been a really big ordeal but praise God, she is almost recovered completly and doing fine. God is good.)

Lilmiss, my job is going pretty well. I just have to get used to working longer hours and praying that God gives me the strength to endure. It gets a little rough at times but I thank God for providing always.

 

[JoynTx]

Birdofthunder,
My prayers are with you and your family. I know that is a tough choice to make. I remeber all too clear the day we had to disconnect my grandmother. I sat by her side and held hand the last moments that she was somewhat responsive. She was coma like but when I tlked with her and let her know it was ok to let go cause GOd had a better plan in mind for her there were tears rolling down her cheek so I know she heard me. A few hours later we made th echoice to turn off life support and she quietly left this world while I sat and held her hand. It was a strange sense that she was one of the first people to hold me when I entered this world and I was there to help her leave this world.
So although it is hard it is also very satisfying knowing she is at peace. I feel your pain and will be praying to help you get through this time.

mtchristiangirl, this brought tears to my eyes as I read it. My mom wasn't on life support but I was holding her hand as she slipped from this earth over to her heavenly home with Jesus. I had just leaned down and kissed her cheek and told her I loved her and a moment later she breathed her final breath. And like you, I'm sure my mom was the first one to hold me other than the doctor who delivered me and I was holding onto her as she departed this earth. Such is the nature of things I guess. My mom had suffered for almost a full yr. after being diagnosed with cancer and a few days before she died, I went into the bathroom of her hospital room and cried out to God to just heal her or to take her on to be with Him. It was a time of just letting her go. It was hard, even harder than her actual last breath. But I know where she is and I will be with her again someday.
I didn't mean to bring anyone down with this or to make anyone feel sad. It is always sad to lose someone you love but we grieve for ourselves and our loss. If our loved ones know the Lord, we should rejoice to know where they are....with Jesus.
Thanks for sharing mtchristiangirl.

 

[birdofthunder]

for both mtcg and joy! thank you both for those words. i saw her monday morning, and she was a bit better. she's very confused, but she's been losing her memory for awhile. the doctor said she should get some of it back, though she's probably not happy not being where she's used to being. (knew that already, as she keeps asking why she's in the hospital; she doesn't remember why she's there) though, she keeps repeating "God loves you; Gramma loves you" alot, and it just makes me smile when she says that.

*waves to all* I'm glad to see you all in here. We're definitely family!

 

[whatfor]

whatfor: always a pleasure to see you!!! hope all is well ... what's happening in your world?

Looks like I missed you all again.

All is well here, so much going on, God is teaching me so much.

 

[whatfor]

might as well start with tellign you a bit about Thailand It was absolutely great I thought I was going for teaching English in the schools there - but God didn't....the first day we went to school I wasn't feeling well (I think it might have been the anti-malaria tablets ) so I had to stay home...the next day we went to a different school and again I couldn't go (at first that is) cause the Chinese food from the evening before didn't go down well and I was sick...managed to join the rest of the team at school after the second hour though - did not do a lot that day except for sitting there trying not to move and taking pictures Teaching was what I thought I was there for!!! So why didn't God let me do it I felt really useless after those two days...ad we still had Church Conference to go...and knowing me there wasn't anything there for me to do since our main job would be to pray for people - and an Austrian never prays out loud for others...we might say thanks to God in Shakespearian language at least that's what I would call it - but that's about it...it's an absolute NO-GO to pray for people who can't even tell you what to pray for because they don't speak English and to lay hands on them
So after not being able to do what I had come for I was really asking myself why I had gone at all just for the holiday??? I already started thinking like that the first day I had to stay home....though I then decided to do the only usefull thing I could do in that situation and prayed for the others at school...

that was Tuesday and Wednesday morning...on WE evening there was the prayer meeting at church....and it was great - they didn't make me pray out loud so I was happy we sang a few songs, did a drama based on the prodigal son (just transfered the story to Thailand ) and the others prayed for people - or at least some of them did...we left at 10 pm being told that if we didn't sneak out during the break we would be there till 1 or 2 in the morning ever been to a prayer meeting that lasted that long?

Thursday in the evening we were teaching English to the grown-ups at church...lots of fun there...the lady I was teaching didn't speak a wrd of English so after my two sentences of thai we had to get someone to translate...in the end there was 3 of us teaching her

Friday we went to visit the daughter church and pray for it....which was alright for me cause again they didn't make me do it out loud....only thing was this stupid nudging (from God) to get up (oh no I can't) go out and pick up a stone right beside the door (I'm sure there's no stone there Lord!!!)....you can imagine me - the typical Austrian who never does as much as move during prayertime with that coming I was horrified - and I have to admit I didn't get up but as we left I had a look and that stone was there....so much for me knowing it better than God...I didn't tell anyone else about that (till right now )....

Friday evening was the start of the (dreaded) church conference....as expected there were lots and lots of people coming forward for prayer after the sermon....and just in time I managed to get my camera out and take pictures sitting at the side (the others didn't know I'd never done anything like that at that point) halfway through it one of them came up and asked me wether I was alright - I told her about me never having done that and it being completly out of culture for me and she prayed with me....but I still couldn't get myself up Then one of the guys started having words for people to get healed and they started praying for those people right next to me...in Thai culture males are not allowed to touch females - and one of them was a girl with hip problems...they didn't quite know what to do - and there was that small voice in my head again telling me to get up (oh no Lord...I can't do that!!!) and I remained where I was - watching and taking pictures God still healed that Lady but He wanted to use me just that I was toooo scared to move a bit

this is getting really long LOL

Saturday morning we were teaching the Compassion kids at church - Compassion helps save kids from being send to Bangkok either as prostitutes (the girls) or as beggars (the boys - usually they cut arms or legs off so that they get more money)...there is about 200!!! kids in the programm in that area alone We spend the first 1 1/2 days in Bangkok and went to visit the night market (where those girls would have ended up) and it was horrible...it was alright if you were female but the males got asked every few meters wether they wanted sex - the guys asking having price lists in their hands and at one point it was even a little boy (no older than 7) asking I just wanted to get out of there as quick as possible that evening...and now there were all this kids laughing and having fun...and you knew excatly what their life might have looked like...

Saturday evening it was church conference again....you can imagine me now everyone knew I didn't like praying the way we were supposed to do it at church - and they all were like "We'll get her to do it - even if it means dragging her along after us" I wanted to run but didn't get the chance LOL...
The sermon that evening was all about "Facing your Giants" - or to put it in other words "look to God cause He's bigger than your biggest fear"...and there I was dreading the moment that sermon would be over cause that would mean someone would grab my hand and drag me out to pray for people who weren't even able to tell me what to pray for Anyway...once the sermon was over I was grabbed by the hand and dragged along (yep...I know God you want me to do that so I might as well let it happen)...and made to pray for people...I was lucky cause the one dragging me along had been living there for 10 years as a missionary so she knew the people and what they might want prayer for a bit somehow I managed praying for the first lady...and then the second...and then was send to help someone else pray for the first lady again (they don't move till God did something - no matter how many people have to pray for them)...I had been praying in German all the time cause that was easier for me - but after praying for 2 or 3 people and running out of words to say I thought "This is stupid - I'm praying in GERMAN and they don't understand a word so really it only matters that you're saying something so I might as well give praying out loud in tounges a go!" (I have to say that this is something that before that evening I was convinced I would never ever do!!!)...so I did that - felt weird at first but at least I had something to say...
when we arrived back home that day I was really happy with me having actually done all those things - which in Austria I would never ever have done

This post is really long by now sorry for keeping on and on Anyway I think those have been the best points about the whole trip...
we went to Phuket for a few days afterwards for hliday - lying on the beach, swimming, elephant safari (ever been kissed by an elephant? ) and then going back home to 15°C and rain (in the UK that was - the weather was a bit better in Austria)...

might write more another day...really should be preparing for my talk on Thailand at youth on Saturday

blessings <><

Loved reading this

 

[birdofthunder]

whatfor! missed you!! ah, well, maybe later!