Dear Friends and Relatives,
 
I have never done this before over the Internet,  but I'm asking for help your help for some thing very dear and close to my heart...  My sister, Joan, suffered a stroke last Sunday morning and has been going through physical, occupational and soon speech therapy to repair the paralysis of her whole left side.  As I sat with her yesterday I asked God to show me a way that I could help her.  On my way home from the hospital an e-mail that I had just received that morning...a part of it went like this, 
 
 I asked God to give me happiness.
God said, No.   I give you blessings; Happiness is up to you.
I asked God to spare me pain.
God said, No.   Suffering draws you apart from worldly cares
and brings you closer to me. 
 
 
Sure, when I am need help, what's the first thing I do...I go to God in prayer and feel His closeness... so I'm asking all of you to please just stop right now and bow your head and whisper a little prayer for Joan's healing.  God's lines are never busy or closed He can and will hear all of us.     
 
Please keep Joan in your thoughts today, intercessory prayers are heard and I feel all of you can and will help.  The load seems much lighter when someone helps me carry it.
 
I won't ask God to bless you, He's already done this, but I do thank you from the bottom of my heart for taking just a minute to say a little prayer for Joan and share this burden my family is carrying.  
 
 
In God's Light,  I am...
          Jalene