There's not a lot to say except, when I was young in my 20's and 30's, I was the pianist and choir director and singer for the alter services in my church. I loved it because so many people let me know that I blessed them, the way I sang and pplayed, but I asked my husband one night going home after church,"Why do people compliment me when all I do is get up there and ling back and let her rip for the Lord. I was a very strong vocalist. Didn't let the keyboard go without a beaten. I would get to feeling what I was singing and get to praising the Lord, shouting and speaking in a heavenly language. Sometimes the good Lord would let me sing in tongues. That's like heaven on earth. I always wanted to just drop this ole house of clay and fly on up to meet the Lord, because it was such a heavenly, peaceful place, I didn't want to stay here any longer. Those were the wonderful, miraculous times of my life. Now that I'm older, I've seen my precious Dad in a Nursing Home for 5 years, lost a leg, and couldn't eat. Now, I have a Precious Mother in a Nursing Home with Congestive Heart Failure, Can't walk, had 2 strokes, Kidney Dialysis, but God healed her of the kidney problem. She is not demented at all. She's as smart as a whip, still yet, but, she has to labor to breath and each day that goes by, it gets worse. She struggles to breath and on Oxygen. My sisters church in Texas, prayed over a prayer cloth, they prayed, shouted, praised God and had a shout down service praying over that prayer cloth and I pinned it to her pillow. I'm trusting that God will lift her up and make her whole again. AMEN.

P.S. I went through Depression and am diagnosed as Clinically Depressed because I layed on the couch and in bed for 2 years after my little Day passed away. It was just more than I thought I could take, But, God always shows you, you can go a little further in life's up and downs, with his help only. AMEN, AMEN AGAIN.

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