It is still so hot. I am really looking forward to winter. Tomorrow the temperature is suppose to reach 100 and the heat index is going to be 125. Last week the heat index actually reached 130, too too hot!

Mom and dad are needing more help with daily tasks. Both are having trouble walking. Mom is having a hard time staying on her renal failure diet. I told her most people are like that and she just needs to get back on track. Dad had been getting shots for pain in his shoulders and knees but the relief was minimal. The doctor said his joints are bone on bone.

My sister's are telling me that I should move in with mom and dad and help. I have been going after work and doing what I can. We all do something for them; I am not ready to move in.

The newest thing at work is the requirement to wear a uniform. I don't know what kind it is going to be. They are suppose to give us an order form.

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In thee, O Lord, do I put my trust: let me never be put to confusion. Deliver me in thy righteousness, and cause me to escape: incline thine ear unto me, and save me. Be thou my strong habitation, whereunto I may continually resort: thou hast given commandment to save me; for thou art my rock and my fortress. Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the wicked, out of the hand of the unrighteous and cruel man. For thou art my hope, O Lord God: thou art my trust from my youth.

Psalm 71:1-5

This past week was my first week with my new group of children. I have had a constant prayer in my heart, Lord help me I can't do it without You. Half the group can't sit at all, the other half can not stop talking and not a one realizes I am in the room with them.

Friday I was in such a hurry to leave work and get home, I was trying to put the house key in the car ignition. The inside of the car was so hot and sweat was getting into my eyes and I thought I was just missing the key hole. So I leaned over to see around the steering wheel and as I was looking at the key hole I saw that the key I was holding was not the car key. I guess as I was thinking "home" my fingers selected the house key on the key ring.

About two months ago I started taking magnesium to help me sleep. One of my coworkers told me her doctor had suggested it to her. I don't have insomnia. My problem is I wake up off and on all night. Sometimes I wake up around 2:30 in the morning and can't go back to sleep. The difference I have noticed with my sleeping since taking the magnesium is I am able to get back to sleep easier and I am not waking up as often as I was.

I also found that magnesium helped with my shakiness. My blood work always came back good. The doctor kept saying it was fatigue related. When I read the web page I found that one of my blood pressure medicines could lower magnesium levels. I have found two benefits from taking magnesium-no shaking and more sleep.


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He that regardeth the day, regardeth it unto the Lord; and he that regardeth not the day, to the Lord he doth not regard it. He that eateth, eateth to the Lord, for he giveth God thanks; and he that eateth not, to the Lord he eateth not, and giveth God thanks. For none of us liveth to himself, and no man dieth to himself. For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord's.

Romans 14:6-8

It has been a while since I posted. The heat is relentless. All I really want to say over and over, even in the evening, it is too hot and I am tired of sweating. I stay hot at work and at home. It is better inside the house even though the air conditioner can only keep the house around eighty five. I keep fans blowing on my face all the time. When I move away from the fans I immediately start sweating. It is miserable but I know it could get worse. I could get without electricity. I shouldn't complain because I know lots of people earn their living outside in the extreme heat. I honestly don't know how they survive it. Being hot all the time takes everything out of me. I need the weekends to re energize myself.

I just got back from St.Paul, Minnesota where I was visiting with my oldest son and his wife . The weather was wonderful, you could stay outside all the time. I really didn't want to come back to Louisiana.

My newest song that I listen to is Todd Agnew's Grace Like Rain. His version of the song Amazing Grace reminds me, "they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.




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When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known. And now abideth faith, hope, charity, these three; but the greatest of these is charity.

1 Corinthians 13:11-13