God bless you Kriss for having the right spirit, if every one were to catch it {The right Spirit} we would see a good change in the world. Agape

Hi Starshine thankyou. That poem is actually derived from a Sylvia Brown Book. I can't remember the name of it but it was one of her earlier ones and it gave me

hope when Junior died in 2001, my other bassett who was only a year old and grew too big for the cancerous half kidney he was born with and without the other. I hope she is right. I miss all my animals I have lost and sometimes, especially with Richie, I was ready to go with him. One of my miniature dachshunds just had thyroid cancer removed and her sister has cushings disease. They are 13-14. I have told myself I will go with them to keep myself from dying inside anymore. My other cat is 14, a dog 12, 10, and 8-9, and 5 and a half. They go so fast. Thank you for reminding me. I was a Philosophy major and it is hard not to be pessimistic after existentialism and death and dying classes. My senior thesis was disproving Descartes Cogito Ergo Sum- I think therefore I am. I said I think therefore I think. I am a spiritual, sensitive and not sure if good or bad a person who has many alter states that believe and don't. I want to believe. I don't wish to see my father in heaven, but I don't think he went there March 11, 2010. Still, maybe that is why I am here-because I don't want to know. Thank you again. Emily

Starshine back here I want to share a poem with you about our pets and many here have lost their pets. I know it is hard to lose our furry companions. Read this and stay here. Richie is always with you looking down on you for the love you gave him and he gave you. And loves you for giving him rest humanely.

I love this poem and you will see why..

http://rainbowsbridge.com/poem.htm

Take care and you will be in my prayers and thoughts for your surgery on 12/15/2010.

hugs

Starshine

Hello

I am reading your post and you have been through a lot. I have a link on cancer information that might help.

CLICK HERE

I hear you on the PSTD as I had it but didn't know it. I feel better now. I too lost my cat this year. I had to put him to sleep due to kidney failure as the treatment for in June just didn't hold for him and he stopped eating for a third time. This time there was no pain for him to endure longer. It was hard to loose him and he was 8 years old and I had him for 7 years. We even shared the same birthday month .

You have come a long way and too bad people have to go through so much as you have .

I hope you get to a point when life starts to be good again. Maybe writing a book out about your life would be a good idea when you feel up to it.

Take care

Starshine

I have exhausted all the sources I know. Was disinherited this year and am so weary of jumping hoops to get meager SS and Food stamps. My bills are great medically cause I need therapy and Fixing to have double mastectomy. Medicaid said I am not medically eligible but I receive disability for Bipolar, and PTSD. Have 14 yrs sober, but am tired and want to give up. Lost my cat this year that I had for 15 yrs and the flood came thru my front door. Would be on the street without friend. I want to live again. I want a real life. So tired of being tired, scared, sick, and poor. IGBOK but still it gets tiring. Need some help, advice. a little God with skin. A government that cares. I did not get here by myself.

Hi Emil

I'd love to post the full article. It's so "aidpage".. you said.

I thought of that too when I read it today.

And not only that but the times we are living in way like the depression mom and dad went through especially recalling mom parents helping out strangers with food grandma had grown from the garden or bread she baked plus canned food for the winter in NE. They raise their own chickens and I remember mom telling me living on crackers and ketchup sometimes when she moved to Ca.

We have more resources now but they too are limited at times do to the needs of the people whereas I feel that when I grew up neighbors helped neighbors as I saw it in my neighborhood. I don't think people realized how needy each was or more needy than the next till later if even then. 

Keep posting great links to articles, Emil and take care.

Starshine

I am so sorry for your situation and I'm glad your kids have such a strong mother looking out for them!  I just started with a free referral service yesterday - here's the link: http://www.tmiwireless.com/affiliate/?aid=42042

You can also sign up for free on odesk.com to work from home.  I work with some other companies as well, but they do have start-ups.  If you're ever interested in those just let me know!  Best wishes, Rosie

Good Morning Charude:

First I'm going to Praise God for waking you and I up this morning, because that alone is a wonderful blessing.

Second I like to thank God for the opportunity to minister to you.  I know that we are living in economic and perilous times, but it is very important that we not put all of our focus and concentration on the world around us.

When ever the world begins to go through crisis this is a perfect opportunity to put all your focus, faith and trust in GOD, JESUS CHRIST, and the HOLY SPIRIT!!! They will be your resource and resolve to all of your problems. (even when it doesn't look like it to you)

I can say this because I truly am a living testimony to what the TRINITY can guide you through if you only allow THEM to!!!

I would like to ask if you have ever invited the TRINITY (the FATHER, SON and HOLY SPIRIT) into your heart, to deliver you from all hurt, pain, sickness, stress etc.....???

If have never invited THEM, today is your opportunity to invite the into your heart by saying this prayer:

"Father, I know that I have broken your laws and my sins have separated me from you. I am truly sorry, and now I want to turn away from my past sinful life toward you. Please forgive me, and help me avoid sinning again. I believe that your son, Jesus Christ died for my sins, was resurrected from the dead, is alive, and hears my prayer. I invite Jesus to become the Lord of my life, to rule and reign in my heart from this day forward. Please send your Holy Spirit to help me obey You, and to do Your will for the rest of my life. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen."

When we pray the prayer of salvation, we're letting God know we believe His Word is true. By the faith He has given us, we choose to believe in Him. The Bible tells us that "without faith it is impossible to please Him, for he who comes to God must believe that He is, and that He is a rewarder of those who diligently seek Him." (Hebrews 11:6)

So, when we pray, asking God for the gift of salvation, we're exercising our free will to acknowledge that we believe in Him. That demonstration of faith pleases God, because we have freely chosen to know Him.

 When we pray the prayer of salvation, we're admitting that we've sinned. As the Bible says of everyone, save Christ alone: "For all have sinned, and fall short of the glory of God." (Romans 3:23)

To sin is simply to fall short of the mark, as an arrow that does not quite hit the bull's-eye. The glory of God that we fall short of is found only in Jesus Christ: "For it is the God who commanded light to shine out of darkness, who has shone in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ." (2 Corinthians 4:6)

The prayer of salvation, then, recognizes that Jesus Christ is the only human who ever lived without sin. "For He made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us, that we might become the righteousness of God in Him." (2 Corinthians 5:21)

With Christ as our standard of perfection, we're now acknowledging faith in Him as God, agreeing with the Apostle John that: "In the beginning was the Word (Christ), and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made." (John 1:1-3)

Because God could only accept a perfect, sinless sacrifice, and because He knew that we could not possibly accomplish that, He sent His Son to die for us and pay the eternal price. "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.." (John 3:16) 

NOW LET US HAVE FAITH, TRUST AND BELIEVE GOD TO SEE YOU THROUGH ALL 6 OF THE SITUATIONS THAT LISTEED IN YOUR POST.

I KNOW HE WILL GIVE YOU THE STRENGTH YOU NEED TO MAKE IT THROUGH ........... HE PROMISED IN HIS WORD (BIBLE) THAT HE WOULD NEVER LEAVE US OR FORSAKE US...........HE IS NOT HUMAN THAT HE WOULD LIE TO US. HE IS A MAN (Spiritually) OF HIS WORD!!!

Hebrews 13:5
Keep your lives free from the love of money and be content with what you have, because God has said, "Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you."

PLEASE PUT YOUR TRUST IN HIM AND NOT IN YOURSELF AND HE WILL DELIVER YOU TODAY!!! RISE AND SHINE GIVE GOD THE GLORY AND THE ENEMY A BLACK EYE IN JESUS NAME AMEN!!!

I am heading towards a mental breakdown. 1.  I'm poor

2. I have 5 kids that I cannot provide for

3. I have a nervous problem from spousal abuse

4. I cannot work right now.

5. I have just lost my grandmother and I feel so guilty because I was not able to take care of her when she needed it.

6. I'm just a complete failure and I don't deserve the love and affection that I get from my kids. I want to do so much for them and it is eating me up inside cause I chose not to work and to stay at home and take care of my kids cause 2 cannot go to daycare due to weak immune systems due to their prematurity.

So, if anyone has any information on grants or free work from home jobs for companies please let me know and I thank you for your considration  and please keep me in your prayers.

bills credit cards loans car insurance taxes all taking its toll on my life any help most appreciated small or large

thankyou

either email me or paypal: inner_shadows@msn.com

hope things hold out for us all

.

  We also recently got a baby red eared slider turtle.  His name is Rollo (sticking with the chocolate names!) and is doing very well.  He has his own 50 gallon tank, water filter, water heater, two floating islands, heat lamp, UVB lamp, shrimp!  And now we are considering some live food!  When we first got him, though, he also had a brother.  Unfortunate, Metro didn't make it.  We got them from a friend who had had them in a tiny traveling/holding tank for about a week and only God knows how long the pet shop guy had them!  Well, they both were very sick and slept for days on end.  In fact, they only woke up if we picked them up and moved them.  Baby turtles are not suppose to hibernate so long.  We tried everything to make them better.  But as things happen, Metro didn't make it.  But now our other baby is doing so much better!  He swims and plays in the water filter current and has been eating a little bit more each day!  And now we, my boyfriend and I, are enjoying the company of our healthy little pets and each other more and more everyday...

thats really a great story from our American History. Thanks a lot!

I'd love to post the full article. It's so "aidpage"...

Here are parts of the true story told by Ted Gup - grandson of the mysterious Mr. B. Virdot:

In the weeks just before Christmas of 1933 - 75 years ago - a mysterious offer appeared in The Repository, the daily newspaper here [Canton, Ohio]. It was addressed to all who were suffering in that other winter of discontent known as the Great Depression. The bleakest of holiday seasons was upon them, and the offer promised modest relief to those willing to write in and speak of their struggles. In return, the donor, a "Mr. B. Virdot," pledged to provide a check to the neediest to tide them over the holidays.

Not surprisingly, hundreds of letters for Mr. B. Virdot poured into general delivery in Canton - even though there was no person of that name in the city of 105,000.

[The letters] had come from all over Canton, from out-of-work upholsterers, painters, bricklayers, day laborers, insurance salesmen and, yes, former executives...

[...]

One, written Dec. 19, 1933, begins, "I hate to write this letter ... it seems too much like begging. Anyway, here goes. I will be honest, my husband doesn't know I'm writing this letter... . He is working but not making enough to hardly feed his family. We are going to do everything in our power to hold on to our house." Three years behind in taxes and out of credit at the grocery store, the writer closed with, "Even if you don't think we're worthy of help, I hope you receive a great blessing for your kindness."

Another letter came from a 38-year-old steel worker, out of a job and stricken with tuberculosis, who wrote of his inability to pay the hospital bills for his son, whose skull had been fractured after he was struck by a car.

One man wrote: "For one like me who for a lifetime has earned a fine living, charity by force of distressed circumstances is an abomination and a headache. However, your offer carries with it a spirit so far removed from those who offer help for their own glorification, you remove so much of the sting and pain of forced charity that I venture to tell you my story."

The writer, once a prominent businessman, was now 65 and destitute, his life insurance policy cashed in and gone, his furniture "mortgaged," his clothes threadbare, his hope of paying the electric and gas bills pinned to the intervention of his children.

A mother of four wrote, "My husband hasn't had steady work in four years ... . The people who are lucky enough to have no worry where the next meal is coming from don't realize how it is to be like we are and a lot of others... . I only wish I could do what you are doing."

Another letter was from the wife of an out-of-work bricklayer. "Mr. Virdot, we are in desperate circumstances," she wrote. They had taken in her husband's mother and father and a 10-year-old boy. Now the landlord had given them three days to pay up. "It is awful," she wrote. "No one knows, only those who go through it. It does seem so much like begging. "

Children, too, wrote in. The youngest was 12-year-old Mary Uebing. "There are six in our family," she wrote, "and my father is dead ... my baby sister is sick. Last Christmas our dinner was slim and this Christmas it will be slimmer... . Any way you could help us would be appreciated in this fatherless and worrisome home."

The wife of an out-of-work insurance salesman added a postscript to her letter, one not intended for her husband's eyes: She had just pawned her engagement ring for $5.

[...]

A week later, checks, most for as little as $5, started to arrive at homes around Canton. They were signed by "B. Virdot."

[...]

Of course, the checks could not reverse the fortunes of an entire family, much less a community. A few months after one man, Roy Teis, wrote to B. Virdot, his family splintered apart. His eight children, including a 4-year-old daughter, were scattered among nearly as many foster homes, and there they remained for years to come.

So why had my grandfather done this? Because he had known what it was to be down and out. In 1902, when he was 15, he and his family had fled Romania, where they had been persecuted and stripped of the right to work because they were Jews. They settled into an immigrant ghetto in Pittsburgh. His father forced him to roll cigars with his six other siblings in the attic, hiding his shoes so he could not go to school.

My grandfather later worked on a barge and in a coal mine, swabbed out dirty soda bottles until the acid ate at his fingers and was even duped into being a strike breaker, an episode that left him bloodied by nightsticks. He had been robbed at night and swindled in daylight. Midlife, he had been driven to the brink of bankruptcy, almost losing his clothing store and his home.

By the time the Depression hit, he had worked his way out of poverty, owning a small chain of clothing stores and living in comfort. But his good fortune carried with it a weight when so many around him had so little.

Like many in his generation, my grandfather believed in hard work, and disdained handouts. [...] But he could never ignore the brutal reality of times when work was simply not to be had and self-reliance reached its limits. He sought no credit for acts of conscience. He saw them as the debt we owe one another and ourselves.

Read the full story in New York Times...

G-d bless you.

That was so nice of you ekikaseven.  It is a beautiful prayer, and it's message a comfort.

  The community of San Leon are a fine group of people.  As we worked to remove debris, 2 ladies came around with burgers and dogs...just going around the neighborhood and feeding everyone they see.  These ladies are not affiliated with any org.  just doing something nice for their community.  Another truck was driving around handing out bottled water, just because.  Lots of older citizens there, nice to be able to give a hand where needed.  The weekend was a nice lesson in appreciating what I have been given.  I have been humbly reminded to give a louder voice to my Blessings than my laments! 

L-rd,

Pease bless 'K".  Bless all of the people who are affected by the hurricanes.  Help them to get their lives rebuilt speedily.  Provide for all their needs.  Please bless all the ones who were in those train wrecks, bless them to heal speedily.  Comfort all the loved ones who lost people.  Provide for all the needs of the ones who come here on AidPage.  Please heal all of Your sick children.  Please remember my dear sister.  Heal her, make her whole, give her many days in the land of the living.  Reward all those who do 'good' for others, even if they just they say a word of encouragement or a prayer.  Thank You for answering this prayer.  Amen.

Hi everyone, I haven't posted in awhile, been trying to help out family members in the San Leone Galveston area.  It sure puts many things into perspective.  Things like:  People do care, and there is hope.  No matter what I don't have, someone else just down the road may have less.  Giving is a really truly great way to receive. 

Does anyone remember the story where the rich give and give with great pomp and circumstance surrounding it, and how upset they were that the little old women who had very little, but gave of what she had anyway, was blessed more....just a thought. 

I am off to give a ride to a few people who need to get back to their jobs in Houston/Galveston, even if they don't have a home, so to speak, they are thankful for the ride and that their job still exists.  I don't have extra cash for gas, but the riders are filling the tank, please keep us in your prayers that my car makes one more long distance trip,lololol.

Good day everyone, it really is you know!

People! This doesn't work! No one can afford to give and those who can don't care about anyone else! Sorry! Still though, I wish you all good luck.

To whom it may concern,

I am writing this in hopes to get a little help, I have never had the need to ask for help, however I do not seem to have any other choice. 

Last year, my father had a stroke, whiule he was living in Houston, tx.  I had to fly out there, and take care of him for awhile, and then bring him back to Charlotte, with me. To say the least, It was a very difficult experience, personnally, and financially.  I had to take so much time off of work, in order to care for him, that I fell behind with my bills. Now that I have him in an assisted living home, I have been trying to find a second job.  It is proving more difficult finding something that does'nt conflict with my day job than I thought it would be. So, now I am scraping and scrounging the best I can, to try to save my house. I'm not writing this just for the hopes of money, but for any thoughts or ideas that may be able to help my situation.

Dear 'Enterprise' A Hug Certificate sent right back to you! I hope you received many others!!

A Hug Certificate for You!

This poem is very sweet. It will be interesting to see who sends it back. Forward this on and back. I'm counting on you not to let me be the number one type person on the list below, but if you've got better things
to do, then at least you'll prevent me from being the number six type. Thanks!

If I could catch a rainbow I would do it just for you
and share with you its beauty
On the days you're feeling blue.

If I could build a mountain

You could call your very own;
A place to find serenity,
A place to be alone.

If I could take your troubles
I would toss them in the sea,
But all these things I'm finding
are impossible for me.

I cannot build a mountain
Or catch a rainbow fair,
But let me be what I know best,
A friend who's always there.

                    This is a Hug Certificate!!

Send One to All Your Friends You Think Deserve A
Hug (Which, Hopefully Includes the Person Who
Sent It to You).

You might send it to your enemies as well! It'll really tic 'em off!

If you don't receive this back .. nobody likes you, and they wish you'd stop bugging them.

If you receive this back 1 time ... Open up! Find more friends, enemies, or enemies pretending to be friends ...

If you receive this back 2 times ... You're off to a good start ... unless you sent it to yourself. that's cheating!

If you receive this back 3 times. You're a good friend

If you receive this back 4 times ...... You are popular,
-- I wanna be just like you.

If you receive this back 5 times or more. There are Angels watching over you....

If you get this back many more times than that, for cryin' out loud, get off the computer and get a life!

I found this really neat website where you can help many wonderful causes with the click of a mouse. I am sort of new to this web thing so you may already be aware of it but thought I'd add it anyway. I have a little girl with Cerebral Palsey which makes it difficult for me to do as much hands on volunteering as I would like. We visit the nursing homes, send cards and make little gifts for others, but as far as volunteering onsite, I have found it hard in my situation. This is a great way to do something special and not even hae to leave your home.

It's called care2connect and it has petitions for an array of causes. Pick one, pick a few or make a day of it. Either way, your helping. It's also something great to do with your chidren. A wondefu way to spend time with them and teach them compassion, caring and kindness. My daughter and I are going to spend some time this evening working on some. It is the holiday season and we all can make a difference with the simple act of kindness, no matter how small and it is something we can all do. Thank U

Please, also see my homepage and see if you have any of the information I am searching for. I woud deeply appreciate it. God bless and happy holidays