Listen up people, please! Serious Prayer request! This is Whitney. She is a friend of mine, a very important friend. I've told you about her before. Talked about essays she's written Any many other cool things. You can also Check out her public speaking page on FB. She Graduated from SFA & currently going to grad school for special Education. This is a very powerful voice for all people & especially those touch by physical disability A big influence on me & my on goals for teaching, at some point. Anyway, A few days ago... Her baclofen pump malfunctions, which is extremely serious . She is in the hospital and slowly improving. I have another friend who this happened to a few years ago. It can be a challenge to solve this problem. Whitney is always up for a challenge. But, if all i can do is tell you about her & ask you to pray with me Holding her & family up to the healing hands of God. Than that's what i'm going to do. Will you please pray with me for Whitney & the Bailey family?? Thank you all so much for all of the prayers & kind words for a very influential friend of mine. Some of you, i don't even know, but your friends of Whitney's & let me say without hesitation, if you're a friend of hers your a friend of mine, i mean that. This is a very powerful young woman. She's cutting a new road & raising the bar for what's possible for people in the "disability community" She's made it her personal mission to destroy the old, naive, ignorant, ideas that society tells someone with physical challenges. I admire that most about Whitney Bailey. "Whitney sat in her chair for most of the day and has been a lot less spastic. " She is tired & tight but moving forward from what i cam understand & will go through inpatient rehab When her doctors & family are for sure she's out of the woods & before returning to to grad school. " Look, i'm doing this for two reasons The first & biggest is, I believe in the power of prayer. it changes things. & the second is, there is too much misguided ignorance in this world. & ever since i've known Whitney Bailey, she's made it her goal through teaching, speaking, writing, & her own actions to defeat those misconceptions & doing it with an overwhelming positive attitude.And one hell of a smile. Please continue praying. The world needs this girl. Whitney Bailey public speaking https://www.facebook.com/whitneybaileymotivates "Still i Rise" Maya Angelou Always reminds me of you, Whitney Bailey. You've Got this beat. You will Rise.
I want to learn as much as possible in my pursuit of knowledge. While knowing very well, that neither you, nor I, will ever finish that pursuit of knowledge while on this earth. Why, with every new breath, comes a new lessen. I love it when God blesses me by allowing my eyes to open with a new sunrise. I love God. I love my family and friends, which in my life are one and the Same. I want to leave a mark; I want to make a difference. I sit now, But I will stand again. It may not be in this place, or “normal” by its evaporating standers which it falsely claims. But REAL, ever flowing truth. In my observation, rarely, in being REAL are we ever“normal”nor, in being “normal” are we ever being REAL. For who determines “normal” from REAL But HE, who holds all that is REAL in his hands. I am REAL, YOU ARE REAL, We are different in a few ways but in Many the same. We are REAL. What is “normal “but slow yet never ceasing evaporation of all that is false? And what is REAL, But, all that is strong, able, and, everlasting.
"He loved us, not because we were lovely to him, but to make us lovely."~ Tim Keller
“Going home Without my sorrow Going home Sometime tomorrow Going home To where it's better Than before Going home Without my burden Going home Behind the curtain Going home Without this costume That I wore” LEONARD COHEN - GOING HOME.
NOVEMBER is National Physical Therapy Month.... and I miss all of my P.T.S If you grew up with a disability you understand the impact a P.T. can have on your life. i miss them all everyday of my life.
Diane Funk Milhorn, You have no Idea how much i miss you... I don't have the words anymore.... Thank you for teaching me lessons that have lasted far beyond my walker and my attitude... Thank you.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put childish ways behind me. Corinthians 13:11 If you have someone who pushes you because they love you. to break down your walls of your own preconceived limitations, hold on to them. because they know what you can do.
You can only overcome your challenges after you accept them.
when your feet are on the ground everyday you take it for granted. When i could stand i was so focused on upset at the work that i had to do that i missed the reward, I never understood until much later that most times in my life how beautiful it was, My feet on the ground or my fragile step. A few years ago i went to run walk and roll with my father there were kids there in Gait Trainers walking slowly but determined every step of the little girl in front of me was the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
Without P.T.S that girl wouldn't be able to feel Gods ground beneath her feet.
I Was listing
to the Avett Brothers new album, and this is what came out of my heart.
god works in mysterious ways.
This is why i fall in love with music all over again everyday. Music
should be written with the soul intention of speaking to the human soul and
shocking our hearts awake to the deep, purposeful, pains.And the soft, yet
unshakable beauties we experience in this short and passing gift called
life."There's no falling back asleep
once waken from the dream." don't waste the gift of people, Love them. Don't
waste your gift of life, CREATE IT. I love you, Please remember that As you read all of this.
Therefore lift your drooping hands and strengthen your weak knees, and
make straight paths for your feet, so that what is lame may not be put
out of joint but rather be healed. Strive for peace with everyone, and
for the holiness without which no one will see the Lord.
"When i lose my direction i'll look up to the skies And remember we're all in this together. if i live the life I'm given, I won't be scared to die." The Avett Brothers.
HEAR ME NOW, I Have cerebral palsy. I'm in a wheelchair, 99.9% of time i'm in pain. GOD made me with his hands. and he is the MASTER artist of ALL. I am his masterpiece. My suffering, pain are of this earth. MY FLAWS OF WHICH, THERE ARE MANY are of MYSELF and my short falling short of GOD boy have I, EVERYONE HAS. You don't have to stand to fall short of The father of creation.
FREE WILL: MY FLAWS.“You don’t have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body.
Dear God, I come before you once again, knowing full well, That I
cannot be judged by any court of earth that holds true and final verdict
But, only when I STAND before you may I be judged. LORD, I Fall short
today, I will fall short tomorrow. But everyday i have an aching thirst
for the living water of your grace. God, I am a sinner FORGIVE ME. my
misleading words and ways, my misspeaking and my untruths For setting my
eyes upon things those things that are unclean and are not honorable to you And
misleading and not being truthful about it at the time FORGIVE ME for my
selfish ways, desires, words, and thoughts God, I’m only a man. A
selfish man, Only of soul, not body. My body will melt away like snow in
the sun. My body is meaningless if without my soul. For when the day
comes, and you count me among your kingdom, my body will be of new. God,
you said we would suffer in this world. My body is not who i am. i WILL
SUFFER with you or without you. I CHOOSE to suffer with you, So That I
may WALK down the streets of your kingdom when your day comes. Father,
take me in your arms, and may i forever be your bride. AMEN.
Its your mercy that makes me free.
When I say… “I am a Christian”
I’m not shouting “I’m clean livin’.”
I’m whispering “I was lost,
Now I’m found and forgiven.”
When I say… “I am a Christian”
I don’t speak of this with pride.
I’m confessing that I stumble
and need Christ to be my guide.
When I say… “I am a Christian”
I’m not trying to be strong.
I’m professing that I’m weak
And need His strength to carry on.
When I say… “I am a Christian”
I’m not bragging of success.
I’m admitting I have failed
And need God to clean my mess.
When I say… “I am a Christian”
I’m not claiming to be perfect,
My flaws are far too visible
But, God believes I am worth it.
When I say… “I am a Christian”
I still feel t he sting of pain.
I have my share of heartaches
So I call upon His name.
When I say… “I am a Christian”
I’m not holier than thou,
I’m just a simple sinner
Who received God’s good grace, somehow!
When I say I’m a Christian - By Maya Angelou
This man is amazing and he has been inspiring me all week. God uses his instruments like no other musician.
Chase your true passion before chasing your “goals.” because,
goals not built on your true passion, are not worthy of being your true
goals.
“Had I the heavens’ embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and
silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and
light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet:But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet;Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” William Butler Yeats My dreams, My passions, Love, Be loved, Make a difference…. You do not have to great mountains to make great differences….just a few mow hills. :)
