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I just returned from the LDA 49th International Conference in Chicago. I presented a session at the conference entitled The Beauty of Being LD.  I have presented this session about probably 3 or 4 times by now in the last two years. It gets updated, but the message stays the same. This arose from attending a workshop 2 years ago when a parent of a child with LD, who had grown into a successful adult with LD, gave a presentation. I was very excited at the time to attend this session. As the mother of a child with Aspergers and several severe learning disabilities, I wanted to hear how someone else's child had progressed and grown into adulthood. I wondered what this mother might have struggled with over the years and were some of her fears for her child the same as those I have? Did she have some of the same dreams for her daughter as I do my son? Encouragement within that workshop for me quickly turned from excitement and eagerness to discouragement. Thus, the session I recent...

Recently, the Lord has worked numbers over on me to purge and cleanse...and forgive, and be healed, and to let go. This is difficult. It is amazing what a powerful hold one's soul negative emotions can have. They take on a life of their own. So, for many months, I have worked to erase a debt I have held against someone for decades. I know not if this soul is now in Heaven or Hell. I can reckon to where he might have passed onto and now resides, but this pure speculation on my part. One day, I shall know. Now, it shall pass. But, for wherever this man's soul resides now and for eternity, he is released from the debt I held to him. His actions and my debt against him cursed me for years and affected many of my reactions to life's events. It is a journey to release something. It is a willful action to let go. It is a willful action to let go each day. Letting go and forgiving are separate actions from healing one's emotions. I think many get these intertwined, but heal...

 

So, lately, much has happened..and in all of this...we realize we have been under much attack from the enemy. Our friends and family are under attack as well. That being said, we know the tactics of the enemy and know YHWH is greater than all. We may be under attack at times, but we would not be under attack if our paths were not right with the Lord. And, His protection is OH! So grand! :)  And my child is coming into the fuller portions of his Spiritual gifts and growing in his knowledge of how to use them. And for as weird as it may sound, somewhere in this we have become the couple we used to look at and envy, or the couple people call for help and when they are need. I am not sure when we became these people who are the responsible, turn to leave your kids with, take care of my baby, fix my car, I need emergency food money, I need help, can we stay at your house for safety...kind of people. When did the Lord reach down and make us the stable couple? Wh...

Lab puppies from GA were found and had to be whisked away before the euthanasia monsters could get them...a new friend from GA rescued these beautiful puppies and their mommy...then found the daddy wandering alone and rescued him, too!! The puppies were handed off to us at the state line to transport to the new foster parents, with mommy and daddy, too! My son went along for the ride as well. He made sure everyone was loved and petted while I drove. We road to another part of the state where they would be safe from being killed and the mommy could get her puppies healthy and strong. The mama doggy, Millie, road with the pups in the crate and Romeo Ned, the daddy, road alongside my son.  Millie and Romeo Ned were whining about two hours into the transport, so we stopped to give them a potty break!! Later, once back in the vehicle, Romeo Ned and my son settled right in quite comfortably for the ride and my son went to sleep. For most of the ride, my son's hand never left this ...

  I realized after I wrote the title that it was not Monday...it is Tuesday...Oh, well.