oh the unfairness

ok so im just here to vent i guess...where is the fairness in all of this...I watch these dateline shows and see this man who weighs 700 pounds...after he just lost 300 pounds. Hes the fattest man in the record books. Oddly enough all of his labs are great! even his cholesterol is great. He is Mexican which you would think all of the lard they use in theyre cooking his cholesterol for sure would be through the roof. Not the case. Now lets switch over to Fenton Mi. There is me...im not obese ok so I could lose 15 pounds but im not morbidly obese, fairly in shape and yes im pushing it saying that but im not a couch potato! I eat well, watch fat and cholesterol content, drink smoothies with flax seed in the morning etc. I get my labs drawn and my cholesterol is 205. My "bad" cholesterol is bad and my "good" is low. So me at my ripe young age of 34 im now on cholesterol medicine for the rest of my life. I was told today that I am at hight risk for heart disease and stroke and with family history sudden cardiac death if I dont take this medicine! I was pretty upset about this! I know some of you think its not a big deal really...but this is me...i worry alot...im the pic next to the definition in the dictionary! I know that I need to lean on God more and have way more faith and i am working on it. so I guess I need prayers to have more faith that God will take care of me and I need to not worry so much. but...really...the fat man is all good other than weighing 700 pounds...im just sayin'....

ahhh vacation what else can I say

Oscoda MI. Camping, fishing, s'mores, sleeping with the top off the tent..getting to hear w.t next to your site LOL...time spent with the fam! It was aweosme

great idea on making your kids think twice...

I got into a conversation with a friend of mine at work about my hopeful mission trip to Ecuador. I was telling her how I wished I could take my girls and have them learn a thing or two. " My girls really have no idea how good they have it" , I was saying. They always want more. Im so hell bent on trying to get my girls to follow Jesus and want to help and love onto others. Am I crazy to want this at their age??? Its mainly the older one who is very into her friends, clothes, jonas brothers and hanna montana...like OMG!!!...LOL. ANyway My friend Laurie told me this story about her friend. Her friend Bobby Jo was married to a very wealthy family. SO wealthy that she ended up leaving her husband because she was unable to have a life because the whole family made one for her and never let her make decisions. It was all based on fortune and fame and prestige. She had a daughter from this marriage. She had since remarried and had 2 other kids. Her oldest daugher is with her dad every other weekend as usual in divorces. For her birthdays and Christmas between the dad and her grandmother she was spoiled rotten.. Anything she wanted she got. She may as well have been Paris Hilton. When she returned home she was horrible because her mom and step dad were no match for the gifts given to her. One birthday her mom asked her after she got home from receiving lavish gifts form daddy and said I thought for your birthday we could go shopping, you can buy 5 outfits and well go to lunch! Her daughter was ecstatic!! They went to all of her favorite stores, she picked out her favorite clothes all 5 outfits were to die for. Then when they got into the car her mom said "ok..now all of those outfits you just got, were going down to the rescue mission a nd youre going to give those to 5 girls who need them." The daughter obvioulsly stunned thought her mom was crazy, but her mom stood strong on it. "and youre going to give it them with a smile on your face" This girl was 10 years old at this time. So they did....and she did. Then her mom said(with permission from the mission and a chaperone) she took all five girls out with them for lunch. After the whole day was over...her daughter was pretty quiet in the car until she looked over at her mom and said" mom....do people really live like this? they really have nothing?" Isnt that amazing what this mom did for her daughter???? She is 15 now and do you know she goes ON HER OWN to the rescue mission and helps out and donates every year since! What a christ-like example this mother showed to her kids! Again...I can only hope that I can do this for my own girls....anyone in for trying????...all part of my divine flick im getting...

feel like i keep getting divine flicks...

Its so awesome how you can be at work and run into some of the most awesome people. I have had the pleasure of meeting a father in law of one of my patients. My patient was deaf. Her husband is deaf also. Her father in law and son came in to visit and he talked to me for about an hour about his life and his son and how the son met his wife at the school for the deaf in Flint many years ago. The Father in law is a retired principle in the flint area. Im so amazed at what this man did for the city of flint. During his tenure, he got grants and started a program for pregnant and already mother teens. It was called cradle care. It was a school that had daycare for ages 0-4. He saw that msot of these teens dropped out and he felt a need to stop it. He also got a grant for a free immunization clinic for his students and their families. He personally made house calls to see how someone was and also would pick kids up from home and take them to school if the family had no car. There was soo much more but Im just in awe of what a wonderful man this was. He and his wife now care for their 2 grandkids whose mother is very ill and in the hospital(my patient). They were very well spoken, polite and sweet! He has been married for 54 years!!! If only I have the chance to make a difference in the world and have jesus work through me like this man!! You should hear the way he "disciplined" his students. So God like and awesome!! Teachers listen up! Obviously in inner city Flint it can get rough and you can have parents who dont really take part in their childrens lives. Many were suspended often. He started a plan where he would call the parents, who would give countless excuses on why they couldnt really help in theprob and he gave them a choice. Your kid gets 5 days suspension or just 4 and you cme in and sit with them for one whole day and only there to discipline! Youcannot help him, talk to him etc...just discipline when needed. He said "let me tell you how many parents by the end of the day were ready to discipline junioe...who wants to sit and miss work just to sit in a class and not do anything but be ready to discipline". It had a profound effect on hsi students and the way parents stepped up. anyway I had to share!!!
God Bless Mr. Lillard! At a time when I thought Flint was covered by Satan stands a shining light!!!