OH WHAT A BEAUTIFUL MORNING!!!

Oh what a BEAUTIFUL Morning in UTAH County!  The birds are singing and it is such a JOY to behold!  Each morning when I awaken - AND I have done this during my entire treatment time (except ONE day) - I LOVE to sit on the floor in my computer room, pull open the blinds and apply my makeup by natural light!  This is the site from my window today!  Beautiful Mt. Timpanogos - with all the BEAUTY and GRANDEUR she offers each and every day!  I LOVE IT!!  As I looked out to the left at the door on my front porch leading in the garage, there were two TINY birds making a nest in the wreath on the door.  Surely a sign that SPRING is almost here!  I was able to attend Church today for the first hour and it was such a JOY to be there and to be uplifted!  What a GREAT feeling and one I have truly missed!  My body is WEAK but my mind is HAPPY and GOOD and STRONG!

Thursday morning, the first day post six weeks of NASTY treatment, I awakened, applied my makeup and got dressed thinking I was back to NORMAL!  HAHAHAHAHA!  The joke was on me.  All that effort put me back on the bed for a half hour!  At least I was dressed and made up!  The first thing I do every morning after putting in my contacts is put on my LIPSTICK!   I LOVE my lipstick!  I feel that if nothing else, lipstick makes a girl look just a little better - at least THIS girl!  I do it every single day - makeup or not!  I actually have a YEARS SUPPLY of my lipstick!  I use two shades - first the darker followed by the lighter shade, apply a little powder and you are GOOD to go!  I love my LIPSTICK.  Friday evening my niece Mary Lynn, the oldest of my sister's 15 children arrived at the door with two of her daughters.  Abby and AnnaLee.  One of the first things Abby said was - "OH - you have lipstick on".  Ha Ha!  If she ONLY knew!  They came with a big loaf of homemade bread!  Mary Lynn is one of my many HEROES and I appreciate her for that.  She has always treated everyone around her with a Christ-like LOVE - NOT judging - simply LOVING and that is one of her many GREAT qualities!  THANK YOU Mary Lynn!

Yesterday when I awoke it was as if I had REAWAKENED!  I FELT my NAUGHTINESS/SPUNK return!  That in and of itself means I am getting BETTER!  I am not really naughty but I AM SPUNKY and it feels so good!  This truly helps me through this JOURNEY!

Last night Kerm and I visited with my friend MARJORIE!  Marjorie is in her LAST DAYS on this Earth!  It is hard to express the true LOVE that I feel for this beautiful woman!  She taught and CONTINUES to teach me - even laying there on the sofa - knowing full well that her days are numbered.  What an AMAZING LADY!  Marjorie will soon graduate from the Earth Life with HONOR!  She has served and CONTINUES to serve.  She has promised me that she will be there to greet me when my time here has expired.  Life is an interesting JOURNEY.  We are BORN to DIE!  I am truly THANKFUL for the knowledge that I have - that FAMILIES CAN BE TOGETHER FOREVER after we leave this Earth Life.  Please pray for my TWO friends - Marjorie and Sue - They are DEAR ladies who are experiencing terrible trials.  I love them dearly!

 As I laid on the radiation table for six weeks in a thick concrete-walled room - five days a week - all by myself - it was SCARY to me.   After prepping you for the radiation, they ALL leave because they don't want what you are about to GET - and the door shuts!  I am claustrophobic - BUBBA is with me - but he cannot be in this room!  I want to TESTIFY to all of you - regardless of what your beliefs are -  that GOD is REAL!  That HE is there!  It is during this time that I have fully experienced the outpouring of HIS LOVE for ME!  The communication that flowed freely - HE was ALL I had!  HE was the ONLY person I had to communicate with - to HELP me through this!   I KNOW this!  I TESTIFY that HE is there!  I am THANKFUL that HIS SON - even JESUS CHRIST is my REEDEMER!  HE died - so that ALL of us can once again LIVE and be reunited with that GOD who made us!  I KNOW this with ALL my HEART, MIND and SOUL!   The BEAUTY of this EARTH is such an example of the LOVE that GOD has for all of US!   Please continue to pray for me and my FAMILY!  I am HAPPY - I am GRATEFUL and I WILL return to being BETTER than I was before! 

I now excitedly await the birth of CHARLOTTE MELLOR - John and Kelsi's first daughter!  What a JOY it will be to see that beautiful daughter they are longing to hold!  I continue to fight for SIMONE - LUKAS and STELLA - the GRANDCHILDREN I LOVE and ADORE with ALL MY HEART!  These babies are my part of MY EVERYTHING!

THOUGHT FOR THE DAY:   EVERY person in this WORLD - is a DREAM of GOD!  The REAL MEASURE of a man's WEALTH - is what he has invested in ETERNITY! 

 I believe this with ALL my HEART!  LOVE AND HUGS TO ALL!