JUNE 23 GRADITUDE

 GRATITUDE

NEVER TAKE YOUR HEART FOR GRANTED!

I made it through the ablation.

Thank you, GOD!

I did have an issue.  Apparently, they use a LOT of fluid in an ablation. This is sort of common (?), but my body didn't get rid of the water as fast as it should have and my oxygen plummeted.

I had to be admitted into the hospital for a couple of days - and even with Lasix - and I mean a lot of Lasix, the water didn't flow out fast enough. 

Eventually I was sent home, and it is going slow, but sure.

I am so GRATEFUL TO GOD, I MADE IT THROUGH!   

THANKS FOR ALL YOUR PRAYERS - I can't thank you all enough.

An interesting story of a mother loving her child more than herself.

Winter, 1943. Lviv Ghetto. Hunger and fear ruled the streets. Deportations came like clockwork, each train a one-way ticket to death. And in that suffocating darkness, one young mother made a choice that would echo across a lifetime.

Her infant son had only her hope and a thin shawl to survive the frozen night. She connected with Polish sewer workers, men risking their lives to guide Jewish families through the city’s hidden tunnels. On a night so cold it cracked stone, she placed her baby into a metal bucket and lowered him into the pitch-black sewer. She whispered a single prayer: “Grow where I cannot.” Then she stayed behind, facing the inevitable.

The baby emerged on the other side, cradled by the sewer worker, past the walls that held so many to death. Survival was still possible, but his mother’s life had been the price. She would remain nameless, faceless, a shadow in history—but her love lived.

Decades later, that boy, now an old man, returned to Lviv. He stood over the same manhole cover—the threshold between death and life. With hands weathered by time, he laid a single red rose on the metal and whispered: “This was my beginning.”

Her sacrifice left no grave, no photo, no record. Yet in that quiet act of love, she gave him everything. Sometimes, the most profound courage is the one that never asks for recognition.

“To live a life fulfilled reflect on the things you have with gratitude.”

—Jaren L. Davis

THREE THINGS EVERY GRANDPARENT SHOULD SHARE WITH THEIR GRANDCHILDREN.

https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1FgPqdD6jG/ 

If you can't find anything to be grateful for - go back - because you missed it! 

Do you know "yes, but" people?  They always have a reason they can't do something.  They always have excuses.  Therefore, they will ALWAYS STAY THE SAME WAY! You have to be willing to try things - maybe again and again. 

 My dad was a tough man - I was never allowed to say 'no' to him or 'yes, but' or 'I can't'.  You just could not say those words as answers.  I was so angry at him sometimes.  But I did become a strong woman.

M's Corner

                                                         PHOTO BY MADSNAPPER

                                                 

                                                       9 Months Old:

kisses

hugs

shakes head no

waves goodbye

drinks out of a straw

standing holding on

has one adorable freckle on your nose

If you want to give a good gift to your grandchild - these are terrific.  You   squeeze them and the drink comes out of a straw, and the kids suck - learning how to drink out of a straw.

I Love you M,

NONA

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