Last year we did receive a fund from the State Of Alabama for $360,000.00, this year we are asking for $400,000.00. This fund would help women who are not covered under medicaid or medicare program and who cannot afford Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening. Early Detection is the key ladies and gentlemen. Please call your Legislator and Senator ask them to support the Funding for Alabama's Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program(BCCEDP)and give $400.000,00 to the genral budget for this.
Here are some numbers of what other States did in 2009 for this specific fund:
Ark. 2 million
Ken. 1 million
Lous. $700,000.00
Ms. $150.000
Tenn. 1 million
ALABAMA $360,000.00
Please help us to fight for Women who are in need of these screenings.
Thanks so much Pennie
He comforts us every time we have trouble, so when others have trouble we can comfort them. 2 Corinthians 1:4
Thursday, January 28, 2010
Saturday, January 23, 2010
Damaged Goods
When you purchase something and it has a flaw you return it from where it came from. As you enter the doorway with your product Customer Service sees that you have come back for a reason. No one wants to deal with a damaged product, they look the other way hoping you will not come to them. Have you ever felt this feeling?
This is how I look at myself. I am a damaged product and it is easier not to look at me or come within my space. When you hurt so much because the damage is there and it will never go away after a loss that is so great our minds cannot think correctly. No one wants to be put aside, we all want someone to console us.
It is so good when people remember my loss, just as it is for you when you have a great loss.
Losses come in many forms: the loss of a family member, job, car, home, and the list goes on and on. Why is it so hard for us to console a person when they are in the middle of turmoil? This is the reason I believe we cannot accept someone who is damaged: We are all damaged in one way or another, pain is not on our agenda, we were suppose to live happy and free forever, so if I don't look I cannot see their pain.
This week I was at a hospital standing in the hall with my smile, I watched people as they walked by some look at me and smiled back, but most of the people would not even look in my direction. It is hard for us to look at others for our own reason’s, maybe because we are afraid we will be shunned if the truth be known we all have some area in our lives where we are hiding the real ME.
I encourage you this week to pick up the phone and call someone who you know is hurting. What do I say? Try this: Hey I just wanted to call and let you know that you have been on my heart and I wanted to make sure you are doing okay. Then ask the person after you here their reply: I am doing okay, NO HOW ARE YOU REALLY DOING? Be prayed up and don’t try to find the solution for their grief because most of the time there is no solution. Be a friend, love just as you want to be, pray with the person you call, be sincere, call when you have time to sit and listen, stay focused, encourage the person you choose or whoever God chooses for you, MOST IMPORTANT DO NOT PICK UP THE PHONE WHEN YOU HANG UP WITH THIS PERSON AND CALL SOMEONE ELSE TO TELL WHAT ALL YOU HAVE JUST HEARD, TRUST IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF MINISTERING TO OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE HURTING.
I hope you will take the time to share your damage, listen to someone else’s damage and don’t put on a mask we live in a harsh world as it is. I will be praying for God to work through all of us this week and put a new understanding in our way of thinking.
Trust God,
Pennie
This is how I look at myself. I am a damaged product and it is easier not to look at me or come within my space. When you hurt so much because the damage is there and it will never go away after a loss that is so great our minds cannot think correctly. No one wants to be put aside, we all want someone to console us.
It is so good when people remember my loss, just as it is for you when you have a great loss.
Losses come in many forms: the loss of a family member, job, car, home, and the list goes on and on. Why is it so hard for us to console a person when they are in the middle of turmoil? This is the reason I believe we cannot accept someone who is damaged: We are all damaged in one way or another, pain is not on our agenda, we were suppose to live happy and free forever, so if I don't look I cannot see their pain.
This week I was at a hospital standing in the hall with my smile, I watched people as they walked by some look at me and smiled back, but most of the people would not even look in my direction. It is hard for us to look at others for our own reason’s, maybe because we are afraid we will be shunned if the truth be known we all have some area in our lives where we are hiding the real ME.
I encourage you this week to pick up the phone and call someone who you know is hurting. What do I say? Try this: Hey I just wanted to call and let you know that you have been on my heart and I wanted to make sure you are doing okay. Then ask the person after you here their reply: I am doing okay, NO HOW ARE YOU REALLY DOING? Be prayed up and don’t try to find the solution for their grief because most of the time there is no solution. Be a friend, love just as you want to be, pray with the person you call, be sincere, call when you have time to sit and listen, stay focused, encourage the person you choose or whoever God chooses for you, MOST IMPORTANT DO NOT PICK UP THE PHONE WHEN YOU HANG UP WITH THIS PERSON AND CALL SOMEONE ELSE TO TELL WHAT ALL YOU HAVE JUST HEARD, TRUST IS THE MOST IMPORTANT PART OF MINISTERING TO OTHER PEOPLE WHO ARE HURTING.
I hope you will take the time to share your damage, listen to someone else’s damage and don’t put on a mask we live in a harsh world as it is. I will be praying for God to work through all of us this week and put a new understanding in our way of thinking.
Trust God,
Pennie
Monday, January 18, 2010
18 Months
This morning at 6:30 am has been 18 long months since I last seen my little man Daniel. Please pray for Donald, Ray, and me. I know he is fine, happy, and celebrating that cancer is gone. Lord please bless all the families who are fighting cancer.
Monday, January 11, 2010
A Great Honor
I will be speaking at Leeds/Moody tomorrow night to a Relay For Life group. I will be sharing my journey with cancer. I have learned that cancer cannot erase wonderful memories of my family. I still hear Daniel's laughter, his cute comments, but most of all I can still close my eyes and see his big brown eyes looking at me. I choose to do the next thing and that is to help others who are on a journey with cancer. Please pray for me.
Pennie
Sunday, January 10, 2010
Snow
As the snow was falling this past few day's I was reminded of a great time Donald and I shared with the boy's outside in the deepest snow we ever had which was in 93. Each snowflake is different and that reminds me that each person is different. I am sometimes to bold, Donald is shy, Ray is shy, Daniel was bold like me. I think that each one of us has a special journey that molds us like God wants us to be. Today I am a different person, why am I different than when I grew up? Life changes us, we go through bumps in the road that hurt, we walk on the mountain when life excels. I have became bold because cancer taught me how to stand up on my two feet planted firmly holding onto the Lord and asking for His grace to move me to the next minute. I am doing the next thing, and that is serving God, being humble, and never forgetting what it is like to battle a disease, or any thing else that comes my way. I hope as the New Year unfolds you will find yourself planted firmly on the ground holding onto Christ and remember who's you are.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Prayers Needed
I will be traveling to Leeds/Moody and Butler County this week to share my story of cancer. I ask that you pray for me as I share my heart with so many who are facing cancer, fighting for someone they love to beat this disease. I always let God speak through me and I ask that you pray for my safe travel and for me emotionally.
Pennie
Pennie
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