Journal- Working Miracles

I apologize I have not been on here sooner. I just learned that all the severe pain I am experiencing from my neck, left shoulder all the way down to my finger is from my stroke. I had thought I had some how injured myself from working in the flower bed, but come to find out often folks who have suffered strokes have ..how do i say this...aftermath pain. I mean this pain was so bad especially on New Years day. I felt my arm being crushed. there was also swollen in elbow, wrist and palms of hand...and I also think in neck. I have also have been having problems holding my head up because the pain in my neck and lately, I can't get up from my recliner chair or even from  the grounds

I was in extreme pain even on my birthday that I was not able to celebrate it the way I wanted too.   It reminded me of a year ago of the pain I was in due to part of my gut was cut out and I was missing time being with Timothy. I have been crying so much this year about this month. I have felt so cheated out spending time with him ... especially at God when He knew Tim was about ready to leave me.  Then to go through the misery of the Rehab to get out and really having to threaten them.

Then last Saturday (Sabbath), I got a call from Chaplain Angelo asking me to postpone my baptism to the next week due to my arm..and I quickly replied and said "no, I am NOT allowing the enemy to work and discourage this from happening..." I later found out that I was originally the only person to be baptized. But all along I have been encouraging the church and ACM that a miracle is about ready to happen. Bring your cameras, bring your joy, bring your souls to witness this. I wanted this baptism to be about the healing of the soul, mind, spiritually and emotionally. Not about church membership.


In the pastor study right before church, as we prayed, I concluded with Pastor Dan, chaplain Angelo and Jeremy from the Grace Tours that something wonderful was about ready to happen, a miracle.  I almost got the sense like they thought I was talking nonsense or didn't believe me.

Then it happened. I was first in the tank (and it as like 10 minutes as Jeremy kept appealing folks to come up and the water felt like it was getting cold and I was about ready to yell at Jeremy to "shut up" so I can get dunk or was about ready to tell Angelo to go ahead and junk me.  But while Chaplain Angelo was about ready to baptize me, suddenly there were like 23 more souls who too wanted to be baptized. Men and women, young and old. God was working His miracles.  


Its hard to believe its coming to a year since Timothy has died. I was going to do the BIKE a-THON (and walk a thon) for Tim's birthday at least in his memory when I realized I only had a month to prepare it and that just was not long enough for me to prepare. I was shock that GRACE marketplace & In His Hands blew me off but luckily ST. Francis House took me up on it.  So I am hoping to find some good volunteers to help me put it together for next year.

So hopefully for Timothy's birthday we will send up balloons...He will not be forgotten. Timothy Lived!