A lot of you may already know that I have muscle cramps often. These muscle cramps are torturous at times. A whole group of back muscles or side muscles may cramp at the same time. It honestly feels like the muscle is about to pull away from the bone. My sister Jean, also has these bad muscle spasms or cramps which ever one you'd like to call them. Me, sometimes I call them cramps and sometimes I called and spasms. Whichever way you say them they still hurt.
Well is so happened that yesterday Willard and I had a visit from Sherrill and Judy Glover. And I just so happened to be having one of those cramps in my back. It's still a mystery to me how God works his wondrous ways. Judy started telling me a story about her cramps and how someone gave her a remedy for them. She said that a friend told her that the next time she had a cramp to stick her tongue in apple cider vinegar. As with me, Judy would try anything within reason, to stop those cramps. Judy said, sure enough when she got into bed that night her leg started cramping as usual. She said Sherrill had previously put a cup of apple cider vinegar beside her bed on the nightstand. She said as instructed she stuck her tongue in the vinegar.
Well, when I went to bed last night one of those massive cramps hit me in my back. Willard got up and got the vinegar. Instead of sticking my tongue in the vinegar I took a teaspoonful, and swished it about in my mouth. One second a cramp that brought tears to my eyes, the next second complete peace from the cramp.
Now anyone that knows me, knows that I would not tell this if it were not true. I like to spread around home remedies when they really work. I'm not saying if you have bad cramps not to talk to your doctor, because there could be an underlying health problem. So please talk to your doctor first thing about your condition. But for relief from such cramps …….Apple cider vinegar. Swish 1 teaspoon in mouth spit or swallow, I swallow because I like the taste of vinegar any way, LOL. Hopes this helps
until next time, Willard and I wish you health and happiness, God bless and God save.

Have you ever been reading in the Bible, and you read one verse and kind of get stuck on that verse. You seemingly want to investigate and find out all you can about that one verse. I again have started from Genesis and am working towards reading the whole Bible through from cover to cover. While reading this morning I come across the verse in Genesis 3:15 which states......And I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel. Now it would be so sad, especially for us human beings if this was the end of the story. But in between the lines is the story of our salvation. You see, God stepped in and spoke the first words of the gospel of the good news of Jesus Christ's. He spoke the first words of forgiveness and salvation. God stepped in and promised that Satan would be crushed. And sure enough that day over 2000 years ago, when Jesus Christ hung on the cross of Calvary and died for the whole world's redemption, Satan got crushed.
What began in Genesis 3:15 appropriately ends in Revelations 1:18.......
I am he that liveth, and was dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore, Amen; and have the keys of hell and of death.

If I do no more today then to plant a small seed in your heart of Jesus Christ, and his love for us all. If I do nothing more than inform you that Jesus Christ is waiting for you, and all you have to do is repent and ask Him into your life, then it is well worth my efforts of writing my blogs.
Until next time, Willard and I wish you health and happiness, God bless and God saved.

Well, the ACLU has done it again. It does not take but one atheists or Antichrist to mess up what is a long-standing part of a commencement service. Now you may say that this one student has their rights. But what about all the others who wanted that prayer said. And you may object to me calling this one student an antichrist, and you may be upset that I call the ACLU Antichrist. If you're against God, if you're against prayer, to God. Then in my opinion, you are an antichrist.
1John 2:18
Little children, it is the last time: and as ye have heard that ANTICHRIST shall come, even now are there many ANTICHRISTs; whereby we know that it is the last time.

1John 2:22
Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is ANTICHRIST, that denieth the Father and the Son.

There are many Antichrist in this world. They're doing everything they can to stop the human race from showing reverence to God. It irritates me to no end, as God gets kicked out of one thing after another. As God gets kicked out of one building after the other. Many years ago one student complained about prayer being said in school. At the time this student was an atheist. He and his mother with the help of satan , stopped all prayer in all schools in the United States. Did you know now, to my understanding, that young man grew up to be a preacher. He grew up preaching the word of God. I wonder, now that he believes, how he feels about what he and his mother accomplished way back when.

People, we need some serious prayers for our country. This November during elections I hope you will consider what kind of religious person is the candidate that you're thinking about voting for. We need to vote for God-fearing candidates. One that maybe will lead this nation back to God.
Here's the news story, via WTVD television.
Until next time, I wish you health and happiness, God bless and God save.

LOUISBURG, N.C. (WTVD) -- Dozens of religious leaders, parents, and students protested in Franklin County Friday evening over what they said was their right to pray at Saturday's high school graduation ceremony.
They were upset after the school board banned the prayer last month.
"I'm disappointed ultimately in my superior adults and officials," said senior Jessica Woodburn. "I wish there would've been a little bit more time to bring it to the public and consult, and get our opinion."
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Story: Prayer banned at Franklin County graduation
The American Civil Liberties Union in North Carolina said prayer in public schools violates the separation of church and state. The civil liberties group said they responded after a Franklinton High School student, who isn't a Christian, complained after a prayer was said at a recent awards ceremony.
"They just wanted to be able to attend their commencement without feeling like an outcast," said the N.C. ACLU's Chris Books.
People at Friday's protest said the school board's decision is wrong.
"One person choosing not to [pray] and making a complaint should not make it so that entire 2012 class of three high schools cannot have it as part of their ceremony," said Franklin County resident Jeremy Neal.
Some students plan to hold their own prayer service before graduation Saturday morning.

Today was my last treatment on the cyberknife. I hope each of you will join me in prayer, praying that these treatments has done away with my cancer. And I hope each one of you will join me in my prayer that the cancer does not return again.


This is the first room of which they call you into. Sandy works here. She takes blood pressure and give the medications.




Meet Sandy, always helpful, always kind words to say. Always wearing a smile. I don't know how they do it.
I asked her the other day how can she stay so cheerful around people with cancer, knowing that some will not make it. I asked her did she get depressed. She said at times she did. She said when she did get depressed she always made herself think about the ones who were now free of cancer. She said it helped knowing that many do get cured.

As I said before, today was my last treatment. The day of your last treatment you go up and write a message in the book that's on the podium. My message was to thank all the hard-working professionals at UNC who have with kindness help me and many others through our ordeals of cancer.

The people at UNC are amazing. Always helpful always encouraging. I don't know of any other place like it.
The young lady standing beside me is Nadia. She is the technician that runs the cyberknife.
She's the one who hog ties the people to the table where they can't move, LOL. :-)
I am so glad that my treatments are over, and that Willard and I don't have to drive that long trip to UNC Chapel Hill every day. It's going to seem good to get up in the morning and not have to go anywhere.
Say a quick prayer if you will for all the people in this nation and throughout the world whom have cancer. They all need our prayers.

Continue if you will to remember my sister in law Janice Moore, with her continuing battle with this wicked disease called cancer.

Remember if you will also in prayer Judy Jackson, who just had open heart surgery. Her husband Leslie was diagnosed with cancer a few months ago. So both of them are really having a rough right now.

Keep remembering Roy and Francis Norris. Roy has not regained his strength back from the ordeal that he had with cancer, appendicitis, and a heart attack. If you'll remember all this happened within a weeks time. So please keep him in your prayers. There's so many things that are happening to so many people that we care about, it's, hard to keep up with it all. But the Bible tells us in many places of its pages that such things would happen. God never promised us a rose garden, did he? We all have our problems we all come upon troubled waters. And we all know somehow or another we'll have to get on the other side of those troubled waters. And if we asked for our Lord Jesus to hold our hands until we get to the other side, we know He is faithful and true to help us.
Until next time, Willard and I both wish you health and happiness and may God bless and may God save.

Okay, so yesterday you saw my letter to Willard. Today this is his letter to me. It's so precious to both of us to restate our love for each other once a year. On the day that we made those promises that we would love each other. These letters are more precious than many gifts anyone could receive. Here's Willard's letter.
Until next time, we wish you health and happiness, God bless and God save.

Willard and my anniversary is tomorrow, June 3rd. We have talked and decided instead of going out to dinner, we would make it breakfast instead. Willard and I do not buy each other gifts for our anniversary. Every year since the first year we were married, we have written each other love letters. And this year, I have decided to write my letter on my blog, for not only him to see, but all. So here it is……
Dear Willard
Happy 19th anniversary. I want to start by saying that I love you more today than yesterday. That's because each day my love for you grows. You are, as I have told you every year, the love of my life. You are indeed the best thing that's ever happened to me.
You have always been very respectful to all people. Sometimes husbands respect other people while showing their wives no respect at all. But you have always showed me respect and I do appreciate that. I think that's why our marriage is so good, because we do respect each other. You can make my day just by your smile and that little glimmer in your eye, that says I love you. I do want to thank you for being here for me and doing all that you have. I've watched you clean house during my treatments. You have cooked for me, washed clothes for me, you have completely taken over all the work and the house without complaining at all. Thank you.
Willard, as both of us fight this cancer, because truly it is affecting both of us. I want to thank you for all the times you waited in the doctors office with me, and for me while I take my treatments. I'd like to thank you for all the sleepless nights you spent in hospitals/emergency rooms with me. Every time I've ever needed you, you were there. Thank you so much.
Happy anniversary my dear sweet husband, I'll love you eternally.
Your wife, your friend Joan.

To those who have been reading my blog for some time, You'll remember about the gardenias that I rooted from a mother plant two years ago. This year they bloomed for the first time.
If you'll remember, I started out by snapping new growth from the mother plant the spring before last. It rooted very well, by just keeping them in water. Then I waited until the fall for the temperature to cool down, but still early enough that they would take root before cold-weather set in.
So as you see it takes three years for one tiny little twig to become a Bush of about one foot high, LOL, with blooms.
I hope that some of you rooted and planted some of your own. They smell so good in the springtime when they bloom. I have probably about a dozen in my yard. When all of them bloom the sweetness of their smell even penetrates into the house.
Until next time, this crazy old lady wishes you health and happiness, God bless and God save.