“The LORD is near to all who call on him,
to all who call on him in truth.
He fulfills the desire of those who fear him;
he also hears their cry and saves them.”
~Psalm 145:18-19, ESV~
Jadon’s Story: The start of week two on steriods
I slept all night last night. Yes all night!!!! I’m having anywhere
from 40-60 spasms a day. Still way to many:( I’m doing several new
things though. I’m saying ma not mama but ma. Mommy said that’s good enough for her. I’m also saying hey. We were eating at a restaurant today and someone walked through the door. I immediately said hey. I leave the y sound off but its still great news that I’m learning new words. I’ve definitely perfected da da and bye bye. I say those several times a day 🙂 If you ask me where is Mickey mouse, I look at the tv and laugh. I’ve learned to push myself to the sitting postion from my tummy. So we really aren’t where we want to be with seizure control but we are very excited about the new things I’m doing. Please pray that we can get better control. We have cut these spasms in half with this steriod and look at the new things I’m doing. Mommy says she can’t tell you how frustrating it is to know the potential your child has and to have to watch the seizure monster take that away. We just have to be thankful that I’m developing, even if it is slow. We also have to believe that one day we will get control of these. I’m a fighter and I will win in the end.
From Sherry Rosamond
McNabb Family
I would like for everyone to pray for them. Durning this time of lost.My Aunt Peggy and her kids, just lost her husband and kids there daddy.Now her daddy and kids Pawpaw. May God bless the McNabb Family and give them strenght during there lost.
Also, the wake will me in Amite, not Kentwood.
Elizabeth J. Hilbun
(May 24, 1925 – April 11, 2011)
Elizabeth Jane Roberts Freeman Hilbun, 85, passed away on April 11, 2011 at the Liberty Community Living Center in Liberty, MS.
Visitation will be Friday from 8 a.m. till services at 11 a.m. at Hartman-Sharkey Funeral Home in McComb. Rev. Ken Irvin and Rev. Woody Rimes will officiate; burial will be in Zion Hill Cemetery in Liberty.
She was born on May 24, 1925 in Liberty, MS. She was the daughter of the late Wiley Lamar and Ella L. Felder Roberts.
Elizabeth was a retired bank teller and a member of the First Baptist Church of McComb and also was a member of the Eastern Star Lodge #84 of Kentwood, LA. She was a member of the Senior Adult Choir and served as Associational Director of WMU.
Elizabeth was an exceptional woman, at the age of 16 she started teaching Sunday school and taught God’s word for the next 60 years. “I love to teach God’s word and I Love to teach it correctly’ was her motto. She was given a hero’s write up in the local paper which praised her for her love of God and the scriptures and yet she exclaimed to her family “I don’t feel like a hero.” She will be sadly missed and loved by her family and friends.
She is preceded in death by her parents, two husbands, Clinton Freeman and Hollis L. Hilbun, one grandson, Levi Freeman, two brothers, W.L. Roberts and Norwood Roberts, two sisters, Velma Roberts and Annadora Roberts Caston.
She is survived by her three daughters and their husbands, Beverly and Charles Calcote, Sandra and Jesse Singleton and Wanda and Tommy Simmons, one son, Wendell L. and wife, Joyce Freeman, two sisters, Rose Marie Finch and Novella George, six grandchildren, Jackie Smith and husband, Roy, Kristin Perry and husband John, Stan Simmons and wife, Bethany, 1st Lt. Jacob Singleton, Michael “Dooley” Simmons and Stacey Simmons, two great-grandchildren, Jackson Perry and Riley Simmons with numerous nieces, nephews, extended family members and friends.
Pallbearers will be Roy Simmons, John Perry, Stan Simmons, Michael Simmons, 1st Lt. Jacob Singleton and Clifton George.
Aftershocks keep Japan’s disaster survivors on edge
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=35033
People were sitting quietly–some reading their newspapers, some lost in thought, some resting with their eyes closed. It was a calm, peaceful scene. Then suddenly, a man and his children entered the subway car. Then suddenly, a man and his children entered the subway car. The children were so loud and rambunctious that instantly the whole climate changed.
The man sat down next to me and closed his eyes, apparently oblivious to the situation. The children were yelling back and forth, throwing things, even grabbing people’s papers. It was very disturbing. And yet, the man sitting next to me did NOTHING.
It was difficult not to feel irritated. I could not believe that he could be so insensitive as to let his children run wild like that and do nothing about it, taking no responsibility at all. It was easy to see that everyone else on the subway felt irritated, too. So finally, with what I felt was unusual patience and restraint, I turned to him and said, “Sir, your children are really disturbing a lot of people. I wonder if you couldn’t control them a little more?”
The man lifted his gaze as if to come to a consciousness of the situation for the first time and said softly, “Oh, you’re right. I guess I should do something about it. We just came from the hospital where their mother died about an hour ago. I don’t know what to think, and I guess they don’t know how to handle it either.”
Suddenly, I saw things differently, and because I saw differently, I thought differently, I thought differently, I felt differently, I behaved differently. My irritation vanished. I didn’t have to worry about controlling my attitude or my behavior; my heart was filled with the man’s pain. Feelings of sympathy and compassion flowed freely… Everything changed in an instant.
Has this ever happened to you? It’s easy to make a snap judgment without knowing all of the facts. You can’t always tells what’s going on inside a person or know why of what they’re doing unless you ask. Listen with your eyes as well as your ears and refrain from thinking the worst. H. Norman Wright, “Love Gives the Benefit of the Doubt,” Before You Say “I Do” Devotional, 19-20
“He who answers a matter before he hears it,
It is folly and shame to him.”
~Proverbs 18.13~
I’ll post a completed obituary for Bryan Dykes this afternoon. In the meantime, pray for the family as they face Bryan’s sudden death.
Anna Lee
The Prayer Link 