I am really behind. I have not been feeling well at all lately. I want to write letters to the inmates at the prisons but no one will send me any names to write to. If anyone can help me out with this request, please let me know as soon as possible. Thank you.

I resolve to be a better servant for the Lord this year. I will not think the way I have been thinking. I have been far too negative myself this year. I am disillusioned it seems all the time. I get upset over the stupidest stuff. I cry all the time about everything. If I'm not crying, I am the opposite to ward off the crying. I am easily offended by foul language and I have to remind myself all the time to be more like Father Mulcahy of MASH. Have the attitude of Jesus all the time and you'll do fine. Ask yourself that famous question, "What would Jesus do?" You'll find that making yourself answer that question gives you the time to come up with the right answer. When in doubt, listen for an answer from God. There is no higher authority.

No, its not because I didn't get that one particular gift I've always wanted. It's just not in the cards, so I don't even worry about it anymore. I will once again remind myself that God will provide if it is in His plan for my life. It's not like it is food, and I'm starving. God will provide me with the skills I need to complete the tasks necessary for His plan to be accomplished. He will provide me with the sustenance I need to live. How difficult is that? No, what I meant is, look at all the death and destruction and heartrending grief that the Asian world has experienced this past week. The children that have been lost and the parents that are sobbing for their lost children. Oh God! It is so awful! I feel their pain, and I suffer with them. Please God be with them and love them and accept their children to your home. Love them and comfort them and be with them always. It is perhaps a harder lesson to learn why God allowed this awful hurt to come upon all of us - again. This is the same question we had a little more than 3 years ago on 9-11. I decided at that time that considering how far away we were getting from God, He allowed this to happen to bring us back to Himself. He wanted to see where we would go. Of course, He knew, but we didn't. We were like chaff in the wind. And not that many of us stuck with God. I can see how this terrible event is just like this all over again. How bad had we gotten again? Way worse than we were then in my opinion. This tragedy has been to this point about 14 times worse than 9-11. And it's not done yet. The people that were chosen this time wore beautiful colored dresses and scarves and shirts. Up til this disaster, these people, to my knowledge, always had smiles on their faces. You always saw the children running off giggling and playing, their mothers close by. The women were always smiling and being pleasant and respectful. What did they do to deserve this? To me, I am reminded of someone else who had an even worse thing happen to Him who didn't deserve it, for the sake of an undeserving public. When did that happen? Does anybody remember? Will we catch on this time? Or will we have to hear the same old platitudes as we did 3 years ago before we say, "Oh yeah..." Will someone still be so insensitive as to not get it this time and require yet another example using another set of innocents to convey the same "incomprehensible" message, or will the next time be us? Do we really want this to continue? You know we don't. I know I can't stand anymore. My heart is breaking! Please, everyone, wake up. Please get it through your heads. Let Jesus into your heart. Don't go another day without Him. Don't wait til the time is up. You never know when it's over til we're gone. People, get ready!

Did you know that I lived in Florida for 6 months? That's where I believe God sent me to my lowest in order for me to have a pushing off point to look back on. I didn't know it then, but that's where He started on being my fix. How can God be your fix? #1 - You have to allow Him. You cannot be so full of yourself and of the world that you can't see He is necessary in your life. If you think you can do it, you already think and believe there is no need for God. He is nothing but a tradition to you, and traditions are meant to be broken, right? WRONG. Boy are you wrong. You have to be on the bottom reaching up, realizing there is nothing but God left - He will decide when and in what manner the time will come for you to make this concession. But know that if you tried everything else first, before you gave it to God, you will have a lot more trials to go through. When you make God a part of your life by accepting Him as your personal Savior, it will become natural to go to Him instead of trying to do it yourself. It will be alot easier on you in the long run. Giving up the control to God is very difficult. I cannot say I have been entirely successful yet in this endeavor myself, but I am working hard at it. It does get easier over time. Get started now! There are more ways to let God be your fix. I only showed the ones that stand out the most urgently for me. Have a great day before Christmas Eve.

Well, that is a question that begs to be answered, and I've got a few. Basically, this book, "God is my 'Fix'", provides the answers I have found in scripture to all that ails me. Well, that is not entirely true. I haven't found the cure for MS in the good book, but I have found the cure for me. Everything that is wrong with me can be fixed by everything of God that is in the Bible. I just have to allow it. Whenever I am troubled for whatever reason, all I have to do is read the word of God. EVERY SINGLE TIME. I find what I need at that exact moment, right there, wherever I open it up. I see relevant scripture, and it applies to my worries and woes like the nirturing balm that only it can be. I have never been disappointed. If you are ever looking for the answer in the Bible, and you can't find it, you've got your mind too much on your problems. Give it up and give it to God. Have a great day! We're having a snowstorm for Christmas!