I Am Back and Maybe a Little Bit Wiser!

I don’t know if anyone missed me, but I was studying for a class that I take through work.  It’s called LOMA and if you are in the insurance business you know about it.  This was my third class out of ten.  And yes, I did pass it and much to my surprise I received the best score I’ve had so far!  I’m so proud of myself, three down seven to go.  I must say that it seems harder and harder to find time to study with all that life seems to through in the way.  I guess that’s why I’m so proud of myself.  My husband and I have had a big change in our financial situation and it seems like it will get worse before it gets better.  We’ve been struggling financially since August.  My husband got a second job and we hardly see each other anymore.  Just recently we didn’t even have money for food.  I cried all day wondering how I would tell my husband that after I paid the bills there was no money left.  You see, my husband is a diabetic and has to eat.  I’m not trying to make this a woe is me story.  I have no doubt in my life that God watches over me and he found us help through my wonderful Mom who keeps finding food in her pantry to share with us.  We were talking with our pastor on Sunday and told him of our situation and he told us that is what our church family is here for.  He told us of food pantries that are always available to us.  I told my pastor that if there is one thing that I’ve learned through all this, that I never would have even thought of if it didn’t happen to me, is what it’s like to go without food for a couple of days.  How hard it is to work and even sleep when your stomach is empty and your head hurts so badly.  Why do we feel so humiliated and ashamed when things happen like this that we are afraid to share with others?  We aren’t bad people, we are just good people that have had some bad things happen to us.  We’ll get through this and I hope that by opening up about what has happened to us others will do the same and hopefully one day we can offer help to others just like us.

 So, my friends, it’s good to be back with you, even if you didn’t miss me!  I missed you!  I still have about 110 emails to go through and about another 65 Gather emails!  Hey I did have close to 400, I really worked hard trying to get through them this past weekend, but I got too tired.  Anyway, once I’m through with all the emails I’ll be back reading your articles and looking at your pictures and videos!  I’m sure I missed a lot!