Pray for me thread.... or whatever your gig is

[androgEros]

I attend church, sometimes, with my girlfriend. During service, there is a prayer request period. The congregation prays, collectively, for the concerns of members and friends of the church.

I've never requested prayer, myself. Somehow, it seems to me, like whining to God. I guess I'm a bit skeptical of Christians. (NO OFFENCE, the love of my life is 48; born Brethren.) But, it is my experience that most Christians, pray for others, because that is WJWD. But PEERS pray for one another because they truly want to see the outcome that is being focused on. Peers put their OWN power into the intention.

So...... If anyone here believes in the Powers that Be, please consider channeling me some vibes:


My (ex-girlfriend/ son's other momma) and I, received an evict notice from our landlord, two months ago. He lost his job, and can no longer afford the mortgage on his big fancy house. So, he is kicking us out, after eight years, so he can move back in. We have to be out, and have house ready for him on December 5. The house we were looking at renting, fell through. We have a new prospect. We turned in a rental ap, tonight. We find out, tomorrow.

This is my plea: Please put your best intentions forward, toward Cat and me getting this house. The landlady's name is Jo. Only assist me, if you truly care.

Thank you, and Blessed Be

please post your needs too!!!

 

[julesasnerisgod]

Prayer works, I will keep you and Cat in my thoughts. True prayer never fails.

 

[Wife of Bath]

I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers. Best of luck.

 

[none2_none2]

My thoughts and prayers are with you too.

I have problems with prayer myself. I find out in about 4 hours whether I'm going to get laid off or not from a job I've had almost 10 years. I haven't been able to get back to sleep since about 3am (1.5 hours ago), so I've only had about 3 hours of sleep. I doubt I can go back to sleep. I also turn 50 on Sunday, so I'm not looking forward to being unemployed and at that age milestone. Yes I have prayed about it, but it is weird to do so because on one hand you can bet I don't want bad news. Still so many people have to be axed to get the employee count down. So to pray to keep my job is like saying let the tree fall on someone else. Granted, someone may have won the lottery or inherited a few million dollars or got the calling to suddenly enter a life of pious poverty, but excluding such remote possibilities, anybody who looses his job will have the same depression and fears about how they will make it if they loose their job. So how do I pray for good news at my neighbor's expense? I guess the best I can hope for is I deal with whatever comes my way, and hope for the best.

Likewise, not that I believe the God of my understanding has a limited number of "phone circuits" for incoming prayer requests, but relatively speaking there are so many more who have more worthier needs. The most important thing is being alive, being healthy, being free of pain, being free of the possibility of death (war), being loved, and last but not least having those same conditions for those whom you love. So mixed in with my prayers not to loose my job, there are prayers for people dying, people sick and in pain, people in a war zone or being sent to one, people who have lost the love of their life (death, divorce, whatever). So in those contexts sometimes it seems kind of lame/selfish/pathetic to even bother to pray.

Finally, I would disagree with your assessment of Christian prayer. It doesn't matter what someone's faith is -- Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Zorastrian, pagan, etc. There are those that say prayers because it is expected, or they are so used to the routine that it is like brushing your teeth. Then you have those that truly feel for the people that have asked for prayer. It is all a matter of an individual person and where they are at the moment with their belief system. Shallow,insincere,misguided religious activities such as prayers aren't something that Christians have a monopoly on.

Good luck!

 

[Etoile]

I'm an atheist and don't pray, but I will wish you the best of luck getting a place to stay.

 

[none2_none2]

Well I can at least give an update to my story. I still have a job!!!!!!!!!!! What a relief. Hopefully, it will be a while before the next lay-off is scheduled.

androgEros, I hope you found somewhere since today is the 5th. I should have added that I can relate to your story. I live in the country now. I can afford the mortgage payments, but between the expenses on a farm and job security at times I worry about making it. I too held onto my former house -- mainly because home prices are depressed. I've been fortunate to have a renter now for 1.5 years. I don't know what I would do if I were in a situation where I lost the farm and had to move. I'd hate to evict my renter. If I were lucky enough to have a good renter for 8 years, to ask such a family to move would make me feel like I had kicked out an extended family member.

Anyway, best of luck!

 

[androgEros]

Likewise, not that I believe the God of my understanding has a limited number of "phone circuits" for incoming prayer requests, but relatively speaking there are so many more who have more worthier needs. The most important thing is being alive, being healthy, being free of pain, being free of the possibility of death (war), being loved, and last but not least having those same conditions for those whom you love. So mixed in with my prayers not to loose my job, there are prayers for people dying, people sick and in pain, people in a war zone or being sent to one, people who have lost the love of their life (death, divorce, whatever). So in those contexts sometimes it seems kind of lame/selfish/pathetic to even bother to pray.

This is the reason that I don't ask for prayer for myself. It seems like, no matter how bad I've got it, someone else is always worse off. What right have I, to be angry at being homeless, when other people have no home OR resources.

Finally, I would disagree with your assessment of Christian prayer. It doesn't matter what someone's faith is -- Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, pagan, etc. There are those that say prayers because it is expected, or they are so used to the routine that it is like brushing your teeth. Then you have those that truly feel for the people that have asked for prayer. It is all a matter of an individual person and where they are at the moment with their belief system. Shallow,insincere,misguided religious activities such as prayers aren't something that Christians have a monopoly on.

Good luck!

At my g/f's church, a first time visitor can request a prayer to kick an addiction, and the congregation spends five whole minutes praying out loud, and "yes Jesus-ing!" and nearly cheering "Oh dear God, our holy father, deliver this child from the hands of evil!"

IMO: "God, grant this person serenity, power and wisdom. Amen!", would have said more.


I totally agree, the path of your faith holds no bearing on your ability to bring about positive change, through positive channeling. All that matters, is emotional attachment to what you are focusing on.

That is why I can't bring myself to ask the church to support me right now. I can't go to a group of 50-60, senior citizens, (the congregation rarely has 5 attendants younger than forty-five,) and feel confident asking them to pray for a home for me and my EX. I am so alone tho, I am hoping someone here can relate, and help me keep the faith....

On that note, thank you all, for warm wishes thus far. Today is the day we are supposed to vacate. It is 5:00 A.M. Cat will be home in an hour. I've been up since 2:00. We are waiting for a phone call about one house prospect. We have another house to look at, at 10:00 am. If either catch, we have to move out today, and clean the entire house, by 9:00 P.M. Otherwise, our present landlord has agreed to let us stay here til January 5, if we pay rent plus an extra $100. ((That covers another month mortgage on HIS house.)) I am at my rope's end, with exhaustion and stress. I just want a home.

Well I can at least give an update to my story. I still have a job!!!!!!!!!!! What a relief. Hopefully, it will be a while before the next lay-off is scheduled.

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
I will pray for you, every day, that you retain job security, at the expense of none.

 

[Jenna2641]

Well I can at least give an update to my story. I still have a job!!!!!!!!!!! What a relief. Hopefully, it will be a while before the next lay-off is scheduled.

androgEros, I hope you found somewhere since today is the 5th. I should have added that I can relate to your story. I live in the country now. I can afford the mortgage payments, but between the expenses on a farm and job security at times I worry about making it. I too held onto my former house -- mainly because home prices are depressed. I've been fortunate to have a renter now for 1.5 years. I don't know what I would do if I were in a situation where I lost the farm and had to move. I'd hate to evict my renter. If I were lucky enough to have a good renter for 8 years, to ask such a family to move would make me feel like I had kicked out an extended family member.

Anyway, best of luck!

So glad you still got your job. Just saw this thread otherwise I would have definately said a prayer!

 

[Jenna2641]

This is the reason that I don't ask for prayer for myself. It seems like, no matter how bad I've got it, someone else is always worse off. What right have I, to be angry at being homeless, when other people have no home OR resources.

At my g/f's church, a first time visitor can request a prayer to kick an addiction, and the congregation spends five whole minutes praying out loud, and "yes Jesus-ing!" and nearly cheering "Oh dear God, our holy father, deliver this child from the hands of evil!"

IMO: "God, grant this person serenity, power and wisdom. Amen!", would have said more.

I totally agree, the path of your faith holds no bearing on your ability to bring about positive change, through positive channeling. All that matters, is emotional attachment to what you are focusing on.

That is why I can't bring myself to ask the church to support me right now. I can't go to a group of 50-60, senior citizens, (the congregation rarely has 5 attendants younger than forty-five,) and feel confident asking them to pray for a home for me and my EX. I am so alone tho, I am hoping someone here can relate, and help me keep the faith....

On that note, thank you all, for warm wishes thus far. Today is the day we are supposed to vacate. It is 5:00 A.M. Cat will be home in an hour. I've been up since 2:00. We are waiting for a phone call about one house prospect. We have another house to look at, at 10:00 am. If either catch, we have to move out today, and clean the entire house, by 9:00 P.M. Otherwise, our present landlord has agreed to let us stay here til January 5, if we pay rent plus an extra $100. ((That covers another month mortgage on HIS house.)) I am at my rope's end, with exhaustion and stress. I just want a home.


CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
I will pray for you, every day, that you retain job security, at the expense of none.

I will be praying for you. May your housing situation resolve soon and you and your girlfriend have the strength and patients to tackle the challenges its resolution will bring. May you have a blessed holiday season wherever you rest your hat. God Bless you through his son Jesus Christ! Amen!

 

[none2_none2]

So glad you still got your job. Just saw this thread otherwise I would have definately said a prayer!

Thanks. I just pray for the people that did loose their jobs. I don't know where you are from, but I really don't think the US is in better economic times again. They say the economy is doing better, but what is better when the unemployment is 10% or so and used to be 7% or so.

 

[none2_none2]

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!
I will pray for you, every day, that you retain job security, at the expense of none.

That on was cute!

...
On that note, thank you all, for warm wishes thus far. Today is the day we are supposed to vacate. It is 5:00 A.M. Cat will be home in an hour. I've been up since 2:00. We are waiting for a phone call about one house prospect. We have another house to look at, at 10:00 am. If either catch, we have to move out today, and clean the entire house, by 9:00 P.M. Otherwise, our present landlord has agreed to let us stay here til January 5, if we pay rent plus an extra $100. ((That covers another month mortgage on HIS house.)) I am at my rope's end, with exhaustion and stress. I just want a home.

Well I hope you either got a new place, or were able to pay up the additional $100.00. I don't know where you live, but assuming you are in some similar climate (I'm in the midwest USA.) today would be a HORRIBLE day to have to move -- cold and breezy. (At least there is no blizzard I guess for moving today.)

I do think it is very interesting that your son has both his moms staying together even if you no longer are partners. I know some do it for economics, but if your doing it for your boy then he's a very lucky kid. Centuries ago when I was 6.5 years old, my grandpa collapsed on his long haul trip near DC. My grandma flew out to be with him. When she found out he had a malignant brain tumor, my mother and I dropped everything and drove half way across the country to be with him. (FYI: My father isn't in my story as they had divorced when I was two.) Anyway, we had no place to live because we just left in an emergency to be there for grandpa. My grandma had been staying with my aunt and her husband, but we couldn't stay there as my uncle was mean SOB. (It is a long story, but for some reason while was really sweet with girls, on the other hand when he got drunk, he hated male children. Grandma was afraid he would do more than just yell at me.) With no home we had to live in the car for 2 weeks. Anyway, my mother managed to find an apartment for us and a job. Luckily for us, it was in the fall -- and not December like it is now.

I'll still remember that Christmas. We couldn't afford a tree. Either my mother or grandma bought a little plastic 1.5 foot or so miniature tree. While it was pretty and they found some blue lights for it, it still wasn't the same as having a full size tree. Nevertheless, just a few days before Christmas , I found one that someone had discarded a small Christmas tree in a ditch. I dragged that tree all the way to the apartment building then up one flight of stairs to our apartment. My mother and grandma found construction paper, so with that and glue, we made a Christmas chain to wrap around the tree in long strand. I was so proud that I had found that tree. Years later looking back on those events, felt that finding that tree just before Christmas when times were tough was just one more sign that there is some power in the universe that looks over us even in bad times. It is events like that which keeps me from ever becoming a practicing atheist.

Of all the Christmas I've had in the last 50 years, that one (1966) was the most memorable. I didn't know grandpa was dying, so all I knew was that despite his illness we stayed together under one roof (near the hospital for grandpa) as a family. I'm sure that for your 12 year old, he'll feel the same the Christmas of 2009 having his family all together.

 

[Jenna2641]

Thanks. I just pray for the people that did loose their jobs. I don't know where you are from, but I really don't think the US is in better economic times again. They say the economy is doing better, but what is better when the unemployment is 10% or so and used to be 7% or so.

Economists might say it, but it is not the case for everyone. So every prayer we make and every blessing we can offer our neighbor is still needed. Even when the economy really does turn around, we should be mindful there will still be those in need.

 

[Night_Jasmine]

Times are rough. I have health issues that prevent me from working and my ex left me because he didn't believe they were that serious (that I was lazy and doctors were enabling me)..so he packed it up and left me. Mom, who moved up here, finally found a job and finished her first week.

We were looking for help with rent and utilities. Most of the agencies have waiting lists up to the three years because the federal government dropped funding.

Weird..they can create frisbee golf courses and new cars for govt employees but can't keep people off the streets.

As far as religion..Mom is a christian and was praying..every gift we were given, she calls a miracle.

It aggravates her that I tell her it isn't that but simply humans actually unbending enough to feel compassion for the fellow man.

 

[Jenna2641]

Times are rough. I have health issues that prevent me from working and my ex left me because he didn't believe they were that serious (that I was lazy and doctors were enabling me)..so he packed it up and left me. Mom, who moved up here, finally found a job and finished her first week.

We were looking for help with rent and utilities. Most of the agencies have waiting lists up to the three years because the federal government dropped funding.

Weird..they can create frisbee golf courses and new cars for govt employees but can't keep people off the streets.

As far as religion..Mom is a christian and was praying..every gift we were given, she calls a miracle.

It aggravates her that I tell her it isn't that but simply humans actually unbending enough to feel compassion for the fellow man.

So sorry to hear that, Dear! My wife has issues like that. Some days she is rip roaring, taking care of friend or family. The next day, because she over did it so much, she can hardly get out of bed. Got to love her though. She is a blessing in our lives. All you can do is pray and try to be as much of a blessing in return. When your feeling well, I pray you can do that for your Mom. She sounds like quite the blessing to you. You are both in my prayers.

 

[androgEros]

That on was cute!



Well I hope you either got a new place, or were able to pay up the additional $100.00. I don't know where you live, but assuming you are in some similar climate (I'm in the midwest USA.) today would be a HORRIBLE day to have to move -- cold and breezy. (At least there is no blizzard I guess for moving today.)

I do think it is very interesting that your son has both his moms staying together even if you no longer are partners. I know some do it for economics, but if your doing it for your boy then he's a very lucky kid. Centuries ago when I was 6.5 years old, my grandpa collapsed on his long haul trip near DC. My grandma flew out to be with him. When she found out he had a malignant brain tumor, my mother and I dropped everything and drove half way across the country to be with him. (FYI: My father isn't in my story as they had divorced when I was two.) Anyway, we had no place to live because we just left in an emergency to be there for grandpa. My grandma had been staying with my aunt and her husband, but we couldn't stay there as my uncle was mean SOB. (It is a long story, but for some reason while was really sweet with girls, on the other hand when he got drunk, he hated male children. Grandma was afraid he would do more than just yell at me.) With no home we had to live in the car for 2 weeks. Anyway, my mother managed to find an apartment for us and a job. Luckily for us, it was in the fall -- and not December like it is now.

I'll still remember that Christmas. We couldn't afford a tree. Either my mother or grandma bought a little plastic 1.5 foot or so miniature tree. While it was pretty and they found some blue lights for it, it still wasn't the same as having a full size tree. Nevertheless, just a few days before Christmas , I found one that someone had discarded a small Christmas tree in a ditch. I dragged that tree all the way to the apartment building then up one flight of stairs to our apartment. My mother and grandma found construction paper, so with that and glue, we made a Christmas chain to wrap around the tree in long strand. I was so proud that I had found that tree. Years later looking back on those events, felt that finding that tree just before Christmas when times were tough was just one more sign that there is some power in the universe that looks over us even in bad times. It is events like that which keeps me from ever becoming a practicing atheist.

Of all the Christmas I've had in the last 50 years, that one (1966) was the most memorable. I didn't know grandpa was dying, so all I knew was that despite his illness we stayed together under one roof (near the hospital for grandpa) as a family. I'm sure that for your 12 year old, he'll feel the same the Christmas of 2009 having his family all together.

Oh my god, you made me cry!! Tri-fold law promises you will be greatly rewarded for your hardships. Ever-Blessed be.

WE GOT THE HOUSE!!!

Thank you all, SO MUCH!!! Your prayers, stories, and words of support, have helped me get through the past couple days. Cat and I got a phone call yesterday morning, saying that the house is ours, but we can't move in til Dec. 11, because it has to be professionally cleaned first, and remodeling has to be finished. I'll post pics after we move in. I am SO relieved. It is hard for Cat and me to start a new home together, all over again. Especially since I have a new partner. But we have heavily weighed every possible combination, (it gets very confusing,) and staying house-mates, seems the only viable choice.

 

[Etoile]

That's wonderful news, congratulations!

 

[Jenna2641]

Oh my god, you made me cry!! Tri-fold law promises you will be greatly rewarded for your hardships. Ever-Blessed be.

WE GOT THE HOUSE!!!

Thank you all, SO MUCH!!! Your prayers, stories, and words of support, have helped me get through the past couple days. Cat and I got a phone call yesterday morning, saying that the house is ours, but we can't move in til Dec. 11, because it has to be professionally cleaned first, and remodeling has to be finished. I'll post pics after we move in. I am SO relieved. It is hard for Cat and me to start a new home together, all over again. Especially since I have a new partner. But we have heavily weighed every possible combination, (it gets very confusing,) and staying house-mates, seems the only viable choice.

Thanks for sharing the news. Continued prayers for a smooth transition to the new place and good holiday season for all who live there! Hugs, Jenna

 

[none2_none2]

Oh my god, you made me cry!! Tri-fold law promises you will be greatly rewarded for your hardships. Ever-Blessed be.

WE GOT THE HOUSE!!!

Thank you all, SO MUCH!!! Your prayers, stories, and words of support, have helped me get through the past couple days. Cat and I got a phone call yesterday morning, saying that the house is ours, but we can't move in til Dec. 11, because it has to be professionally cleaned first, and remodeling has to be finished. I'll post pics after we move in. I am SO relieved. It is hard for Cat and me to start a new home together, all over again. Especially since I have a new partner. But we have heavily weighed every possible combination, (it gets very confusing,) and staying house-mates, seems the only viable choice.

Wow, I'm so happy for you. Like i said before, I think it is great that you and your ex stay together at some level. I don't think I have the emotional maturity to deal with being close to someone who has requested our relationship to change from intimate to just friends. But then it typically is simpler for guys to go their own way since it is rarer for children to be involved.

My prayer for you is that I hope that one day you can own a house so that you aren't at the mercy of anybody but the county property tax guy and the insurance agent for house insurance. To try to know where you are coming from, I read some of your prior posts. It think you had one where you wanted a trailer and some land. That is my prayer for you. Do know that owning land it is very easy to want even more -- call it land fever. I have it BIG time!

FYI, I'm sorry if my story made you cry. I meant it more as story of what families are made of -- sticking together despite the odds pulling them apart. It is those hardships that make us see what we are made of. The real hero in that story was my grandma. She was the glue that kept us together despite my grandpa's terminal cancer and a lot of other things going on at the time that would take to long to explain here. There is also a lot more to the story of my wonderful grandma. To me the saddest thing about not having kids (gay and infertile) is that there won't be another generation to pass on about her and all her family before her.

I should also share that I had a wonderful birthday today. I went to church choir as always - of course late. Anyway, at the end of practice and just before time to go up for church, someone announced that we needed to sing happy birthday. Well they didn't know about me, it was a young lady who turned 30 today - exactly 20 years difference. I didn't bother to tell the whole choir that it was my birthday too as that sound a bit self-absorbed. After church, I told one lady who is my age after she asked me how my day was. Then I finally personally got to wish the lady who had a birthday, happy birthday. Then I told her about it being mine to. We ended up talking for 15 minutes. Her past is similar to mine. (Again, this isn't anything about sexuality as I have to keep my gayness secret at church. Rather, I'm talking about other similarities like where we are from, how much our grandmothers meant to us, etc.) Anyway, It was wonderful to get to know a little more about another human being. She is not longer just a face in soprano section.

To top that off, I got to go to the Lessons & Carols concert in my little town. It is so inspiring to see what people are moved to do around the holidays. Young and old participate in the various solos and choirs that sing in this event. One that stood out was a solo by an older Christian lady who I think is part Native American. Anyway she sang a cappella (meaning without instruments to help keep the pitch) what she thought the angels in the new world might have sang when they saw the Star of Bethleham from this hemisphere 2,000 so years ago. Her singing was very beautiful. Also at the concert, I also felt good that a lady I didn't know came up to me afterwards and complemented my singing on the Christmas songs that the whole audience participated in.

So I know people out there are having problems, and today may have been horrible for them. I pray that they one day have a day like mine was today. Between keeping my job and the events of today, it make me realize how wonderful being alive on this planet can be. Everybody should have a day like mine was.

 

[lightsaver]

Happy Birthday to you http://thm-a03.yimg.com/image/86ac689fd49491c6

 

[none2_none2]

Even a better great day, but almost not the case...


1) We are having a light dusting of snow -- first for the season!
2) I figured I should light up the outdoor lights that I left up last year. Something to impress my guy when he gets off.
3) Unfortunately over the last year, something must of cut the cord to the outside lights.
4) So I was in a mad rush to be butch and fix the lights. I hunted and hunted for electrical tape. Finally, found it amongst our junk. Rushed to splice twist and tape the lights before my guy got home.
5) Got it finished about 1 minute before he got home.
6) He got home, and I got a cake, some gift, and a wonderful card.
7) I'm going to make him help me the meal that was my favorite meal that he made for me:
"Tuna Helper (cheesey pasta) mixed with fresh snow peas and delayed tuna."
(I call it delayed tuna because when he made it so many years ago, he forgot to add the tuna, so it got added at the last minute.)
8) Then if we are still hungry, I bought sunchokes & chestnuts to roast.


So yes it was a perfect day! (I might have felt differently if I had never found the electrical tape as I HATE trying to find something that has been misplaced and takes hours to find. I would have also felt bad if I couldn't have pulled off the butch act of actually getting it fixed once I found the tape. )

 

[none2_none2]

Happy Birthday to you http://thm-a03.yimg.com/image/86ac689fd49491c6

Thanks!

 

[androgEros]

none2.... happy Bday. Please feel that gesture, with as much sincerity as I mean it. I am three hours past bedtime, but must say u fascinate me. I hope to keep seeing you around. As well as everyone here. It's kinda nice to have a non-churchy-haven here.

.........more updates to come, tomorrow.

HUgs All,
Andi

 

[Jenna2641]

Wow, I'm so happy for you. Like i said before, I think it is great that you and your ex stay together at some level. I don't think I have the emotional maturity to deal with being close to someone who has requested our relationship to change from intimate to just friends. But then it typically is simpler for guys to go their own way since it is rarer for children to be involved.

My prayer for you is that I hope that one day you can own a house so that you aren't at the mercy of anybody but the county property tax guy and the insurance agent for house insurance. To try to know where you are coming from, I read some of your prior posts. It think you had one where you wanted a trailer and some land. That is my prayer for you. Do know that owning land it is very easy to want even more -- call it land fever. I have it BIG time!

FYI, I'm sorry if my story made you cry. I meant it more as story of what families are made of -- sticking together despite the odds pulling them apart. It is those hardships that make us see what we are made of. The real hero in that story was my grandma. She was the glue that kept us together despite my grandpa's terminal cancer and a lot of other things going on at the time that would take to long to explain here. There is also a lot more to the story of my wonderful grandma. To me the saddest thing about not having kids (gay and infertile) is that there won't be another generation to pass on about her and all her family before her.

I should also share that I had a wonderful birthday today. I went to church choir as always - of course late. Anyway, at the end of practice and just before time to go up for church, someone announced that we needed to sing happy birthday. Well they didn't know about me, it was a young lady who turned 30 today - exactly 20 years difference. I didn't bother to tell the whole choir that it was my birthday too as that sound a bit self-absorbed. After church, I told one lady who is my age after she asked me how my day was. Then I finally personally got to wish the lady who had a birthday, happy birthday. Then I told her about it being mine to. We ended up talking for 15 minutes. Her past is similar to mine. (Again, this isn't anything about sexuality as I have to keep my gayness secret at church. Rather, I'm talking about other similarities like where we are from, how much our grandmothers meant to us, etc.) Anyway, It was wonderful to get to know a little more about another human being. She is not longer just a face in soprano section.

To top that off, I got to go to the Lessons & Carols concert in my little town. It is so inspiring to see what people are moved to do around the holidays. Young and old participate in the various solos and choirs that sing in this event. One that stood out was a solo by an older Christian lady who I think is part Native American. Anyway she sang a cappella (meaning without instruments to help keep the pitch) what she thought the angels in the new world might have sang when they saw the Star of Bethleham from this hemisphere 2,000 so years ago. Her singing was very beautiful. Also at the concert, I also felt good that a lady I didn't know came up to me afterwards and complemented my singing on the Christmas songs that the whole audience participated in.

So I know people out there are having problems, and today may have been horrible for them. I pray that they one day have a day like mine was today. Between keeping my job and the events of today, it make me realize how wonderful being alive on this planet can be. Everybody should have a day like mine was.

Happy Birthday none2!!!