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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Rita Date: October 28, 2023, 1:04 am
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How is your toe and back ?
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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Helen Date: May 29, 2025, 12:48 pm
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I am feeling that today is not my best.
I’m enjoying reading all the posts , and I’m sorry I don’t
have the umph to respond , my brain is foggy and feels like
Swiss cheese , full of holes.
Sorry I can’t rise to the task today….
Love you all.
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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Pat Date: May 29, 2025, 12:55 pm
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[quote author=Helen link=topic=27.msg1608#msg1608
date=1748540924]
I am feeling that today is not my best.
I’m enjoying reading all the posts , and I’m sorry I don’t
have the umph to respond , my brain is foggy and feels like
Swiss cheese , full of holes.
Sorry I can’t rise to the task today….
Love you all.
[/quote]
Hi Helen, sorry you're not feeling too good but it's good to see
you.
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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Mike Waters Date: May 29, 2025, 5:07 pm
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[quote author=Helen link=topic=27.msg1608#msg1608
date=1748540924]
I am feeling that today is not my best.
I’m enjoying reading all the posts , and I’m sorry I don’t
have the umph to respond , my brain is foggy and feels like
Swiss cheese , full of holes.
Sorry I can’t rise to the task today….
Love you all.
[/quote]
That's an amazing coincidence .... almost exactly the same for
me, difference being that I have only just got round to
'reading'
Blessings to you all, and especially to Pat (just like the
welcome back given to the prodigal son) ;D ! :(
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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Pat Date: May 30, 2025, 5:40 am
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Hi Mike, sorry to hear you're feeling 'foggy' hope the fog soon
clears.
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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Amadeus Date: June 1, 2025, 9:47 am
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[quote author=Helen link=topic=27.msg697#msg697 date=1697981128]
Now Moses kept the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest
of Midian: and he led the flock to the backside, of the desert,
and came to the mountain of God, even to Horeb. And the angel of
the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst
of a bush" (Exod. 3:1,2).
The vision came in the midst of common toil, and that is where
the Lord delights to give His revelations. He seeks a man who is
on the ordinary road, and the Divine fire leaps out at his feet.
The mystic ladder can rise from the market place to Heaven. It
can connect the realm of drudgery with the realms of grace.
My Father God, help me to expect Thee on the ordinary road. I do
not ask for sensational happenings. Commune with me through
ordinary work and duty. Be my Companion when I take the common
journey. Let the humble life be transfigured by Thy presence.
Some Christians think they must be always up to mounts of
extraordinary joy and revelation; this is not after God's
method. Those spiritual visits to high places, and that
wonderful intercourse with the unseen world, are not in the
promises; the daily life of communion is. And it is enough. We
shall have the exceptional revelation if it be right for us.
There were but three disciples allowed to see the
transfiguration, and those three entered the gloom of
Gethsemane. No one can stay on the mount of privilege. There are
duties in the valley. Christ found His life-work, not in the
glory, but in the valley and was there truly and fully the
Messiah.
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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Helen Date: June 15, 2025, 9:59 am
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But I have prayed for you, Simon, that your faith may not fail.
When you have turned back, strengthen your brothers. (Luke
22:32)
Christian, take good care of thy faith, for recollect that faith
is the only means whereby thou canst obtain blessings. Prayer
cannot draw down answers from God’s throne except it be the
earnest prayer of the man who believes.
Faith is the telegraphic wire which links earth to Heaven, on
which God’s messages of love fly so fast that before we call He
answers, and while we are yet speaking He hears us. But if that
telegraphic wire of faith be snapped, how can we obtain the
promise?
Am I in trouble? I can obtain help for trouble by faith. Am I
beaten about by the enemy? My soul on her dear Refuge leans by
faith.
But take faith away, then in vain I call to God. There is no
other road betwixt my soul and Heaven. Blockade the road, and
how can I communicate with the Great King?
Faith links me with Divinity. Faith clothes me with the power of
Jehovah. Faith insures every attribute of God in my defense. It
helps me to defy the hosts of hell. It makes me march triumphant
over the necks of my enemies. But without faith how can I
receive anything from the Lord?
Oh, then, Christian, watch well thy faith. “If thou canst
believe, all things are possible to him that believeth.”
—C. H. Spurgeon-
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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Helen Date: October 12, 2025, 9:04 am
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Rita said that “Mike was ‘stepping back ‘..”
I’ve been stepped-back , for a while now.
Age is not a kind thing I find . I’ve never found the gold , in
“the golden years “!!!
I’m close to disabled now , the only places that I am pain
free is in my bed at night , and in my reclining chair in the
day. I can’t even wave a duster around now without pain , let
alone clean the home!! Never dreamed that I’d be like this in
my old age!
We just drove to the bank and back the other day , and I was
totally exhausted, couldn’t wait to get back in my chair .
Yet in all that, my heart is full of thankfulness . I
feel very rich indeed , God has led and kept us.
Dave and I have good fun days . I’m so very thankful that we are
both still here walking together.
No regrets at all, life has been good thus far . And we will
trust Him to the end.
What a full, colourful , rich and blessed life we’ve had. And
the end is not yet.
( though many days when I read the news , I wish it were the End
, and that God was ready to “roll up the carpet “ haha! )
We rejoice, we know who wins!
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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Rita Date: October 12, 2025, 10:01 am
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So sorry about the pain Helen , our bodies are our worst enemies
at times. At the moment I am fortunate as retiring rested my
knee and I am no longer in pain every day, but even I know that
time is going in the wrong direction for my body- so it’s always
there on the horizon. My ‘ fears ‘ are often in how it will fail
and when, it’s a strange transition in life and I am still
adapting to it all.
I often look back and wonder how my mum and dad felt about it
all, never really had those conversations. I never thought about
it at the time, but always had that fear of losing them ( which
I know my daughter has for me now )
We cannot stop the sands of time , but inside we are renewed as
our Spirit doesn’t age - so in essence it’s just the shell we
live in ( think you said that once and it resonated with me )
Are you helped at all by pain killers of any kind ?
Much love xxxxxxx
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Re: Helen's Corner
By: Helen Date: October 12, 2025, 4:06 pm
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[quote author=Rita link=topic=27.msg2416#msg2416
date=1760281295]
We cannot stop the sands of time , but inside we are renewed as
our Spirit doesn’t age - so in essence it’s just the shell we
live in ( think you said that once and it resonated with me )
Are you helped at all by pain killers of any kind ?
Much love xxxxxxx
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Because the medications I take , they only allow me to use
Tylenol as a pain med.
trouble is , I have to guard my kidneys (as they are compromised
) So I take one Tylenol once in a while. I try not to though.
I was fortunate enough to have those conversations with my old
parents.
I asked as many questions as I could in their final years.
I don’t think anything physical can be as scary or bad as
losing cognitive function. Which sadly my old mum did. She’d go
“in and out” of dementia . On her good days she’d cling to me (
they lived with us for ten years ) and say “ I’m back, don’t let
me go again “. It was brutal , bless her heart . But once she
lost it all , even clear speech , she was happy as a lark…he
last five years were good ones ! :) She lived to be 99 …she
loved seeing dog walkers , squirrels in trees , Geese on the
river etc etc…they were kinder days for sure .
When I asked my dad about it, he said - “ Old age is not what we
think , here I am , full of so much wisdom from a long and
varied life , yet old people become invisible , no young persons
ever ask me any questions …I thought it would be different “.
So I’m glad that from my youth , I always asked them questions .
:D
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