Recently I made it so that all of the blog comments that happen every day (even in these posts that are over a year old), now show up with quick links in the right side bar.

So when you gals make comments like this on some of the older posts, it will help other visitors to discover them as well. This blog is getting very large so I am always looking for ways to make the information as accessible as possible for everyone.

Happy Holidays to All!!!

I can’t always comment on the blog, but I read constantly, each time I get a chance.

Thank you from all of us who benefit from your hard work and dedication!

I tried every which way than actually taking a chain saw to my monitor to copy this poignant story. I would like to print it out and give to my Daughter-in-law. Would it be to much to ask for you to send it to me as an email attachment. Hope I am not asking for the moon here. If I am I apologize for my rudeness. Right clicking copies it in the smallest script I have ever seen and unreadable.

We all need each other. It is very touching to have you all here supporting each other.

Marsha, me too! A year ago, I would not have predicted that this blog would be such a human connection for me, with all of you. I thought it would be more about me teaching you about making beads. Turns out I am the one learning here too!

A year ago I never would have thought that a blog community would become so special to me. Thank you Cindy L. for everything!

I can really relate to this story. We almost lost our youngest daughter Kaylah when she was only 8 years old. Kaylah is 21 now, and since then she has had many surgeries, including a kidney transplant, and many close calls in several different areas regarding her health. She still struggles to keep her red blood count high enough to survive, her blood pressure down, and she still has rejection and failure episodes averaging once or twice a year. Kaylah takes many meds every day to keep her immune system suppressed so that she won’t lose her kidney, and many other meds just to maintain a somewhat normal life.

I had to learn to be like coffee beans within the first few weeks when Kaylah was first diagnosed, just to be able to survive all that we had to face, and continue to have to go through and face in order to keep Kaylah alive and well. If I had been carrots or eggs for very long even in the beginning, all of the fear and bitterness would have taken my ability away to care in the best ways possible for my daughter and for my two other children…who are all young adults now.

I think that when we turn around and find that we are coffee beans, we also find that we have become survivors of this life; survivors who managed to keep ahold of our hearts, and our spirits, and our faith, and our ability to love unconditionally, through any and all adversities.

Thanks for the story. It is very apropos at this time of year especially, when the Spirit of Love abounds.

:) Cindy E.