Good Morning, everyone!!! Hope you all are having a perfect June day Here's my 2 cents worth again. :o) All of my grandparents lived in with some of their familes until they went on to their heavenly rest, or rather some of the family stayed in their parents' LARGE homes to help take care of them. That's the way things were back in the good old days. Grandma Bessie Clem gave birth to 14 children. I never knew my Grandaddy John A G Clem. He died before I was born. He was a farmer and his single brother, George, lived there, too. One was in charge of crops and the other in charge of the livestock. They lived on a large self sufficient Fort Valley farm and the family survived the Great Depression without any serious problems. They took care of their own and looked out for the neighbors. But, now it's time for a REALITY check!!! Time to study the book of Revelation, and be ready for what we are facing in today's world. I look forward to the Wed am Bible Study at the Antioch Church of the Brethren with George Bowers, and my hubby and I are members of the Valley Pike Church of the Brethren. The church folks there brought meals into our home for a couple of weeks in April after my arm fractures and surgery. They are FAMILY, church family!!! I've broken seven bones during the last year. Yesterday, I had occupational therapy at SMH. They dipped my arm into hot paraffin and wrapped it. Felt so good!!! Hoping to have the brace off for good in another month. I've just about maxed my insurance limit for OT and PT already this year. This am UPS brought a box with five of my prescription meds, including the insulin, for another 3 months. My co-pay (out of my pocket) is almost $600 for that shipment!!! Yesterday, I picked up 4 monthly prescripts at Walmart. Just the test strips were almost $100. I will get some of that one back after I fill out the claim forms. My health insurance goes up next month from $621 to $758. That's all outta pocket, too. Thankful for my SSI. Sure wish I was 65 like my hubby!!! Well, I guess I better get moving. Needing to study my Bible lesson. One of my prayer concerns this week is about the missing honey bees. I have a feeling that it is all about Bible Prophecy. Today's high tech is going to be our demise. I feel the mobile phones and other hi-tech gadgets may be the answer to one of the more bizarre mysteries ever to happen in the natural world - the abrupt disappearance of the bees that pollinate crops. The implications of the spread are alarming. Most of the world's crops depend on pollination by bees. Albert Einstein once said that if the bees disappeared, "man would have only four years of life left". Although the Bible plainly speaks of great famine in the last days, the prophetic words of Revelation 6:6 states that the olive and grape harvest will not be damaged. Revelation 6:6 "Then I heard what sounded like a voice among the four living creatures, saying, "A quart of wheat for a day's wages, and three quarts of barley for a day's wages, and do not damage the oil and the wine!" Planning to start visiting the nursing home residents more. I always hoped that maybe, I would fall over dead in my garden. Maybe, when I am out there hand pollinating the gourd plants. God only knows!!! Catch y'all later Love and Prayers, Nancy, eating grapes and olives :o) "But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint". Isaiah 40:31 >Message: 1 >Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 08:09:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Tracy Sutherland Staadt <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Not genealogy... rant about "support systems" To: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I cannot Fathom the idea of my mother wasting away in a nursing home and I only hope that I do have the privilege of taking care of her in her later years. I am only 36 but I do believe that a family must help take care of their own. What else is a family for? Do our parents not take care of us for 20 plus years and then they also in small ways here and there help us out throughout our adult lives. If we throw our old into nusing homes and such, what are we teaching our children? We are teaching them that family is disposable, not something to cherish and learn from Tracy Staadt Message: 2 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2007 11:09:25 -0500 From: "Marge" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Not genealogy... rant about "support systems" To: <[email protected]> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original My 84 yr old mom stayed with me with she broke her arms two different times. And I would do it all over again. But you have to realize that in some situations, an elderly person needs medical care that you and your family can't provide. Those are the times they have to be put in assisted living care. "Shine like stars in the universe as you hold out the word of life......." Phil 2:15, 16 NIV