I saw her last week and well…she looked lovely. Shining Jesus all over me and everyone within sight!

Loring…I’m with you - I believe in miracles too! Let’s keep praying for one together.

If God chooses another path for our Peggy…we will both grieve and rejoice. Heaven will be eternally richer and we will miss her until we join Jesus and He shows us to Peg’s place … oh friends … I can only imagine!

I’m so jealous of you that you get to be so near my lovely sister in law. When I married her husband’s brother, I had no idea the amazing gift I had received in this family! We live so far away in Florida that we don’t see them much. Each time, my kids ask if she is still sick, because she doesn’t act sick. She lives every moment. Not that she doesn’t ever feel bad, but she makes the most of all the time she feels good. When Paul and I visited in their home last, we vowed to be more like them. We want to throw out the unimportant junk of our lives and spend our time on what matters - Jesus, kids, grandkids, telling the world about Jesus, loving others. Isn’t that Peg in a nutshell? What freedom to not worry about the expectations or opinions of others, or whether the house is spotless, or how to make time for this or that. Just do it! We get so bogged down in trying to figure out “how” to live that we forget to live!

I believe in miracles. I believe that Peg can live to a ripe old age. I also know that my brain is too small to figure out God, and sometimes the result is not what we would choose. What we can choose is to honor Peg with our love for her, but also with our love for others, following her amazing example. Peggy when you read this, know that we are praying for and loving you, and we are committed to “follow you, as you follow Christ” as Paul said. Thanks for being “Jesus with skin on” for us.

Thank you for much for sharing this with us, Joy. I had heard what a beautiful story of love and faith Peg shared last week, I just feel so privileged to have you share your heart with me and others in this way Joy.

I too have been so blessed, warmed and loved by Precious Peggy! Her life has ministered to me whenever I have seen her. She doesn’t have to say a word, its her presence, the sweet presence of Jesus that is so evident in her life.

So to both of you my friends, Peg and Joy thank you for sharing your hearts with me, I am indeed a very blessed wayfaring pilgrim to know and love you.

I continue to pray for you, Peg and your dear sweet family. Your life to me is a taste of what I can anticipate at the grand reunion in heaven when I see you and my wonderful parents and grandparents who are waiting to welcome me there!!

Louise

Debbie Brown

Thank you so very much for this insight. Prior to hitting full-fledged bi-polar, my brother suffered many of these same symptoms and never pulled out of it. But what I see now so clearly is that there were several things that happened prior to his becoming severely depressed that now that I think of it, I realize it very well could have created a PTSD episode. There may be others I come in contact with who are suffering from this, and though it is too late for my brother now, because of your insights, I will now be armed with better tools to help them.

These crises are never easy–believe me, I know. My brother’s suicide was horrible. But if you are willing, they can teach you how to love on a deeper level, and I believe at the base of it, that’s the point of being here.

Hang in there! Know I’m praying for you and thinking about you often. Also, just wanted to say I’m so glad to see you writing and getting this out. Stepping out of denial is always a step in the right direction!

In fact, it can affect anybody, young or old, who has experienced a traumatic event in their life.

Keep bloggin’ - I’ll bet it’s extremely therapeutic.

Hi Joy,

I didn’t see the video, but I can’t help wondering - is it possible that the reason they had the walrus doing sit-ups is specifically because he doesn’t have the same access to miles of sea to swim in, constantly, that he would in the wild? That they had to do something to counter-ballance the constricted life that would have led to his having just the kind of unhealthy body you mentioned?

Just a thought.

Cat Feral

P.S. In a more perfect world, perhaps there would be no walruses in captivity, but with what we’re doing to the world, I wonder how long it will be before captive walruses are the only ones left…