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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 4/24/2009 11:35:28 PM
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cherish405
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Jen, that would be great.
I know everybody grieves differently. They have to have their time to grieve. At the moment, I'm just concerned at the level of withdrawal. Hopefully before too long, they'll let people in to help and support them.
It's ANZAC Day here. Kind of like the US Memorial Day.
I'm just going to have a quiet weekend. I've got a penpal letter to reply to. I want to start writing some recipes down onto recipe cards. I have cookbooks, but there are some recipes that we like to use, and rather than having to go looking through the cookbooks to find it, it would just be good to pull out the card and have it handy. Hopefully I can start on those recipe cards this weekend.
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 4/26/2009 4:30:13 AM
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cherish405
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Just coming in this afternoon to try and catch up on some of these threads. Doesn't look like I'm going to get very far though. It's time to go and feed Bailey. When I get in, it will be my dinner time. Then John will have the use of the computer for a few hours.
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 4/26/2009 11:50:09 PM
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cherish405
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I don't know why, but Bailey isn't well this morning.  We haven't fed him anything that he shouldn't be having, but he still has an upset tummy. He's been digging in the fernery at night, so maybe he's found something there. Don't know.
Our friendship group meets here this afternoon.
The baby's grandmother came over yesterday for lunch. I gave her a hug and she just cried and cried on my shoulder. Even family members have to call her to find out if it's ok to drop meals off to the couple. She calls them to see if it's ok to come over and drop the meals in.
I guess my main concern about the parents is that they're cutting everybody off, including their families. Friends, I could understand, but I don't understand why they would cut off their close families. Parents have to ask for permission to quickly pop over to drop off meals then leave. It's just not something that I've seen before.
Still having problems with the car. We have the car and it works well. The guy won't give us the registration papers, but is still expecting to be paid. He had an argument with John in church yesterday about how he should have the money by now. John told him not until he gets all the paperwork sorted out. If he can't find his own copy of the registration papers, he could always get a duplicate, but he doesn't seem interested in anything other than being paid. It's getting messy now. John talked to a couple of the elders about it yesterday, and they agree with John. No papers, no money. The guy got angry at John, saying that John doesn't trust him. The way he's behaving right now, I don't know that I trust him! Without the registration papers, who's to say that he really does or doesn't own the car? He just keeps putting it off. I hope that we don't have to give the car back, but if we have to, we have to.
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 4/27/2009 10:54:46 AM
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..... (((((Bailey!)))))
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 4/27/2009 11:02:30 AM
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I hope the whole car thing gets straightened out.
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 4/27/2009 11:41:10 AM
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AlwaysR8chel
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I hope the whole car thing gets straightened out.
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 4/27/2009 10:49:36 PM
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cherish405
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I hope the whole car things gets sorted out soon too.
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 4/30/2009 10:23:50 PM
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cherish405
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YAY! We finally have all the papers for the car. It officially belongs to John and Joan! WOOHOO! The guy came and dropped them over last night. Thankyou to all of you who've been praying for us.
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 5/1/2009 9:29:55 AM
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I'm glad the car thing worked out for you! 
I will pm you with a couple of links re how to minister to your friends in their loss. It is a concern if they're shutting out their family. In my family, people always call for "permission" before stopping by, but if that's unprecedented in their family, then that does seem to demonstrate that they're shutting people out. It could be that they just don't want to appear vulnerable; ie they're scared someone will "catch" them when they're crying, when probably the folks who are visiting them feel like crying too.
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 5/1/2009 11:54:20 AM
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cherish405
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It's been tough on them, but they are slowly talking a little. The wife is handling it being than she was before. The funeral for the baby is going to be next weekend.
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 5/1/2009 4:48:42 PM
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Maybe they just needed time to work through the shock. Everybody grieves differently, and we shouldn't impose our expectations of how they should behave on them. They're starting to talk now, and that's good. Maybe they weren't ready before now.
Great news about the car, Trish!
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 5/1/2009 9:56:02 PM
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cherish405
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I'm just glad that they are talking. I know that they are grieving and that everybody grieves differently. I was just scared that they might stay in that state. I'm glad that I'm wrong about that.
Just going to have a quiet day today. It's supposed to be sunny. Might spend some extra time out with Bailey.
I'm not too anxious to be doing too much moving around today. At the start of last year, I cracked my ribs. I'm having rib pain again in the same area, and I'm hoping that I haven't done it again. My ribs have been sore for a while now. Bending and twisting don't do good things for me.
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 5/2/2009 6:03:54 PM
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bride48
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I just read you blog entry about the supermarket donating food to your church, Trish. Way cool!
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 5/2/2009 8:20:51 PM
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cherish405
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Yeah, it is really cool. Apparently our church is the first one in our city for it to be trialled on. Other churches will receive the same programme. I know that our shire's mayor has seen the things that our church does for the community. I don't know if he had anything to do with us being first to have the programme run on us. In any case, we're just so thankful. Just need the workers to be able to do the work. I wish that I could help them. As it is, I just have problems standing up, let alone walking around.
I was just thinking, with my brothers coming to Perth in November to see me, they're going to think that their sister is an old woman, the way I move around. I don't move easily, and it causes me much pain. At the moment, I can't even close my hands. They are too swollen.
If I didn't have fibromyalgia, there are so many things that I'd like to do. Like helping out in the kitchen at church or doing so many other things.
I was saying to John the other night that I just feel so useless. He just laughed and said to me, "Remember what I said to you years ago? Do what's in front of your nose". At that time, I'd just come out of hospital after having surgery, and feeling so useless. I'd made a couple of meals for people that were sick or needed food. So, I figured that was what was in front of my nose at that time. The Lord helped me make that my ministry for a time. I used to cook meals and freeze them. People who needed meals were just taken frozen meals. If people had special needs, I catered for those too. There were days when 120 meals were cooked in a day. All that was done from home. I'd used my pension, and occasionally the Lord prompted people to give me a little bit of money, and I'd put it back in towards buying more food. I wondered at times how I was going to get my own bills paid, but God managed my finances.
Now, John sees me knitting scarves that I'm going to give to the school chaplains. I had yarn sitting there for ages, and in the end, I just got sick of it sitting there doing nothing. I felt like I was being prompted to knit the scarves up and give them to the chaplains to hand out to kids that have a need of them. We have about 4 school chaplains in our church. I'd much rather see the yarn have a use. One of the chaplains was saying that she could take the yarn to teach the kids to knit. I said no as it is far too fiddly for beginners. It's a feather yarn, not a normal wool or acrylic. It feels very soft and very warm. John said to me the other night, "Do what's in front of your nose. Knit for Jesus". I don't know that I'm doing that - knitting for Jesus, but I don't mind doing it. It gives me something to do when I can't move around a lot. It serves a need in the community. I don't know what I'll do after this, but I just know that I need to finish these scarves. I think I've got enough yarn for about 40 scarves. I think I've got about 18-19 done so far. Still a long way to go, but at least there's a good start to things done.
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 5/3/2009 11:51:26 AM
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cherish405
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Has anybody noticed how much more quiet it is around CW? Some people who used to be regulars aren't even seen around here any more. I wonder how much of an impact facebook is making. Whether people are preferring to go over there instead of being here.
I've been trying to come online more often so that I can try and keep up around here. Sometime it works. Sometimes it doesn't.
I didn't go to church this morning. Was too sore. I went back to spend a lot of time in bed after getting offline here.
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 5/4/2009 5:22:06 PM
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I think Facebook is a big factor in why things are quiet here. I know I like interacting with people I actually know, and I suspect other people like that too. I'm getting more plugged into my church because of Facebook, which is important to me. Ideally, people could do both Facebook and Forums, but both sites are time-consuming. Something has to give, ya know?
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 5/4/2009 11:04:39 PM
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..... Trish. You are an inspiration!
I have an account on Facebook... but I am hardly ever there.
I don't like all the bling bling on facebook.... makes me crazy.
I have a few other accounts on other Christian chat sites... but I don't have enough time in my day to visit them regularly... hence - I feel guilty for not being there - hence, I hardly ever sign in!  (So like Deb, I totally agree that something has to give!)
Anyways... I was totally glad to read your blog, Trish! God is at work - BIGTIME!!!! 
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 5/4/2009 11:30:01 PM
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cherish405
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I know what people are saying about something having to give. I've been feeling guilty for not being here more and trying to keep up with things. Then again, with people being in other places though, it's getting harder to keep up with friends.
I wouldn't know the first thing about facebook. I didn't know how to use myspace. Then they brought out facebook. And now they have twitter. I know nothing about any of them, other than that they exist.
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 5/4/2009 11:32:03 PM
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Hey Trish, since you do not know about either Facebook or Myspace, Twitter may be more your speed instead.
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 5/5/2009 1:34:28 AM
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cherish405
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I don't know anything about twitter either. I think I'll just stay here on CW and hope that I occasionally see my friends when I'm here. Other than the last few mornings that I've been online, I've spent very little time on CW my night times. I just get too tired and fall asleep at the computer. That's why I say that there's really no use me going to facebook or other places. If I can't stay awake for this place, I won't be able to stay awake for other places either.
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 5/5/2009 9:38:25 AM
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If I can't stay awake for this place, I won't be able to stay awake for other places either.
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RE: Another place to cherish in 2009 - 5/7/2009 9:32:41 PM
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cherish405
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Yesterday was a sad day. Joan got a phone call from her brother to say that his bowel cancer is back. He has already beaten it once, and now he has to fight it for a second time. They can't do surgery on him as a result of the surgery he had last time. We don't know what treatment they will give him yet.
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I just really hope that I've never sent one of those 'messages' to anybody.