Greetings, Wow how the summer flew by!  The children now need to get up earlier, homework will be a constant and I will enjoy the business that wears them out, as they learn of thing they never could imagine.
Our summer flew by, with garden days and house work nicely matched with swim time at Koons Pool.  even more exciting are the grandchildren who are so much fun to watch and play with Josiah and Jeremiah.  I have working at Hospice of Central PA, calling families who are new to Hospice care.  Task them how things are going, i see if all meds, equipment and supplies arrive and do they understand how to use correctly.  i also was trained and now am on call for 11th hour vigil. So a bit of a busy summer!
I would love to here how your summer went, and some of your thoughts about the world around us.
please write a bit about your summer, I would love to hear.

Thank you so very much for your concern and prayer.  I was doing somewhat better and attended Arlene Nolls funeral yesterday. I am so glad I went and enjoyed the service as family recalled so very dear and fantastic memories of Mrs. Noll.
 Bruce took me golfing today (par 3 golf course).  I did ok, but by this evening I am suffer worse then ever.
As I rested tonight and listened to the storm and watched the lightening I am reminded that everything is in God's hands and I suppose this is just one of those storms of life and hopefully it passes quickly. ( :

It has been so very long since I wrote here, So I feel very few of you may see this.  I am praying that those who can and are willing to pray for myself and our family will be led to read this blog entry.
I am suffering from constant neuropathy and nerve pain in arms, hands and feet. I am also experiencing painful swelling and soreness in the feet, making it hard to stand or walk.  My mouth is very sore with cracks in the tongue, apparently from severe dry mouth. It is quite painful and the severity of it wains and then rebounds. As well the neck and the back are painful and the severity of that wanes and rebounds.
I am doing  water therapy 3-5 days a week, which really helps, i also do lap swimming too. But my weight just climbs. I have been fairly successful with eliminating sugar esp. in drinks.  I simply can not lose the weight.  I am taking a medicine  that causes weight gain, however it is a nerve calmer(neurontin).  So it is very hard not take it as the numbness and tinging, and radiating pain are very serious concerns, . left uncared for they grow to an out of control pain and loss of feeling.
We have no health  insurance presently.  We were given a quote by an agent, who told us that because of our pre-existing conditions it would cost between $1000-2000. a month to insure Bruce and I.
I am not to  lift more then 10lbs.. Our grandson weighs 36lbs.  Our daughter constantly needs me to watch her very cute boy. Problem is that he can out run me and he needs held quite a bit, he just turned 2yrs old .  There are other family issue I can not speak about but really need prayer.Prayer for order and peace in our house hold and for Hannah to find a home of her own certainly would help.  We have asked to complete this task by June.  Thank you for your willingness in  remember us as you go to the Lord Jesus Christ, Emmanuel, Yeshua our Savior! It is greatly appreciated! ( also please let me know if you able to pray, it will help encourage Bruse and I .    Love in Christ Mary

Lesson of the Peach Tree:
I learned a lesson from my fruit trees. And though I have known the lesson, I had not really lived the lesson.
One moist day this spring I noticed that my peach trees had a fungus called leaf curl. After learning at the library that I needed to cut all effected canes and leaves off the trees, I got to work with my pruners. As I cut branch after branch, I began to worry. There were so many branches effected, I wondered if I would kill the tree if I cut all of the effected canes. I also realized I could not reach the branches that were infected at the tops of the trees.
I was very humbled by the fact that as thorough as I tried to be I simply could not eradicate the fungus from my beloved trees.
I came to a point where I simply could do no more. So in humility I bowed my head in prayer and asked the Lord to please heal the trees and fix what I could not heal! The book from the library had said I needed to completely cut off all fungus laiden branches, but I could not, no matter how hard I tried. I had to trust God to help where I could not.
Many weeks had passed and the rain, humidity and balmy days contiuned. I figured the trees would  certainly continue to grow the leaf curling fungus since the weather was perfect for it's growth. But God had taken over where I could not do any more. The fungus completely disappeared from my peach trees and instead there grew beautiful bunches of pink fruits. God has showed me a lesson about life, from a simple problem in my earthly orchard.
Please learn along with me that He will take over where we can do no more, but Jesus wants us to humbly ask Him to help. Then we can enjoy fruit from His Holy Spirit which is sweeter then any earthly fruit we can grow!

Our trip today up through the Poconos to fellowship with our brothers and sisters (in Christ) was outstandingly beautiful.  The snow had laid a carpet of brilliant white and that in itself was picturesque!   But God had also created a work of art with the rain, as it had covered the mountain top trees with a heavy glass like coating of shimmering brilliance!The ice caused a dancing of lights through the woods.   The already brilliantly white birch trees bowed at the weight of the ice crystals and caused one to imagine them bowing at the presence of their Creator!
I hope the spring's fickleness, tricking us with summer like days only to throw a bit arctic blasts our way, doesn't cause you to be blue.  For Christ spoke of  the hope of better days, as He taught of the end time in Matt. 24:32 "Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh:"

  It has been a rather hard week, with  to much stress. My blood pressure has been consistently high and I had some strong vertigo to go with it.  I also learned from my doctor that the disks in my neck are not fusing.  But those things seem VERY small in comparison to what we witnessed in Japan this week.  How very devastating for these people! Also the news of the family north west of us, who lost 7 of there 8 children in a house fire.  How can you cope with such a disaster?
During one of my classes at hospice we were told to write, on squares of paper, some of the people, places and things we treasure the most.  Then the teacher came around and took some of them.  She was trying to help us to feel how devastated people can feel over dying or losing a loved one.  She asked us how it made us feel.  I felt I couldn't go on!  The life in me true felt utterly drained from me as I thought of what it could feel like. For you see she had taken my slip of paper that I treasured the most, "God's love".  I thought how horrible it would be to go on living with the knowledge that God did not love or care about us any more.  But then I remembered Romans 8:38  reassures us that nothing can separate us from the love of God.  What a relief, not even death can separate us from God's love, because of the awesome and fantastic sacrifice of our Lord and Savior!
May your week be full of reminders that God really cares about you and that He really wants us to talk to Him in prayer because he loves us so very much!

 Just got home from a very hectic weekend.  Springvale scheduled up the entire Sabbath from Fri. night through Sabbath evening at midnight, Sarah was involved in worship both days so we needed to be there.  Travel home was the worst, route 80 shut down before State college at Clearfield.  We waited an hour with little gas when a guy got smart and said for every one to move backwards enough so that we all could squeeze by a tractor trailer and drive on the burm to get to the Clearfield exit ramp.  We slid several times all over the road, we saw numerous  people in the ditch, I begged him to stop for the night but he wouldn't.  After driving in blinding snow for about an hour at about 30-25 miles an hour and passing up many gas stations we again got stranded on a remote mountain on 322 that was shut down.  After an hour of waiting Bruce turned around and traveled many miles to find a gas station only to go back to the same place that was shut down on 322 and wait again.  He actually fell asleep while waiting and he awoke when he started to hear motors starting up.  We got home at 6:30 this morning. Thank the Lord we made it home safely!