ALONG LIFE'S ROAD - FAMILY MATTERS AND PERSONAL GOALS

FAMILY MATTERS AND PERSONAL GOALS

MY LAST POST ON THIS BLOG - ALONG LIFE'S ROAD - WAS TWO YEARS AGO -

I HAVE BEEN BLOGGING REGULARLY - BUT SOMEHOW I "CANNOT KEEP MY BLOGS SEPARATE" NOW. IT SEEMS THAT THEY ARE ALL POSTED ON MY DASHBOARD - AND I CAN NOT ADD OR MOVE THEM - BEING A NOVICE BLOGGER, I

HAVE NOT YET UNDERSTOOD WHAT TO DO TO CHANGE THEM.

please know that I am

still blogging

still walking along life's road

and

still walking by faith

in the Lord Jesus Christ.

If you type in these titles,

you can find each one of them

Along Life's Road with Junebug,
Bibleladyjunebug99@blogpost.com
which will bring you to June's Lilac Corner,
Looking for Messiah's Return,
Climbing Higher with Junebug,
and
blogger profile: Biblelady Junebugcash
will take you to my dashboard
on which all my posts are seen.

Some dates for Perspective on
who I am may help you
get an idea of what these blogs
are about.

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2009

I fell outside feeding the birds on the morning of January 12.

One of my posts describes this event. My first operation was "the replacement of the ball" because it was fractured. No further damage indicated at that time.

2011

My husband Henry in September had an operation on his stomach. He knew that this was "a risk" but His joy in Christ and in whatever God would bring was evident to all of us.

Before his operation, the Doctor asked him, "Mr. Cash, you do know how risky this operation is?" And Henry smiled back at him, and said,

Well, Doctor, either way I cannot lose. If I

die, then I go to be with the Lord, and if I

live, I am still here.

Here he is at age 85, May 26, 2011.

William Henry Cash, Jr.

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THANKSGIVING DAY

WE CELEBRATED BECAUSE DADDY WAS HOME IN CLE ELUM, WA AT OUR HOME. WE HAD A GATHERING AT BECKY'S PLACE, ALL OF US THAT COULD COME. IT WAS A GOOD TIME.

It was a blessed time we had together.

Praise to God and Thanks for the joy

He gives in family.

2012

HENRY WENT ON TO GLORY ON

SUNDAY, JUNE 24, 2012.

HE WAS AT HOME,

FINALLY,

WITH THE LORD.

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2013

I moved to Ellensburg WA from Cle Elum WA before the winter came in 2012. Henry and I had planned to move if he had lived, so I went ahead with that plan.

God was with me in all of this.

There had been all the help of many folk from

my church, with a Garage Sale there at the place.

With my walker to help me get about, I readied everything that late summer day for the Garage Sale, boxes and furniture and putting

everything that I felt could be sold,

into the Cabana.

Henry fixed the Cabana - our getaway

It had been a chicken house - and was

attached to "the wood shed" ...

He took part of it down and used it to

make a floor - We had bricks underneath it.

A lovely place to sit, have devotions, and enjoy

the Shade on a bright day in the yard.

He did have it done by 1992, and here we see how it looked. Many times I went down there just to paint - spending a whole afternoon in revery. Other times, listening to the Birds and hearing the muffled traffic from the highway, realizing we had a BIRD HAVEN here in Cle Elum, WA.

So now I was loading this very same CABANA with all my things for the Yard Sale.

It was a success. Many people came, and it helped me a whole lot with the money it brought in.

I MOVED TO ELLENSBURG

BRIARWOOD MY NEW HOME

Somehow, my pain from the hip being 5 out of 10

I managed to pack, to put in place everything so that on the day that my church folk helped me load it on, it would go well.

Christmas came and went.

I was doing well.

Then, in the Spring of 2013

I began to have pain 8 and 9 out of 10

on my hip.

MY 2ND OPERATION

was scheduled.

I was in the Nursing Home and Rehab Center

there in Ellensburg for 13 days. I came home,

and began to recuperated. The Dr told me

"Mrs. Cash, it is a bone on bone replacement- I went in and found that you had nothing to put behind the ball, so I put a larger than normal ball in, and you may have much pain. Perhaps at a later time, you may opt for another operation.

OH MY!

OH THINK ! CHILD !

WHAT IS GOD DOING HERE?

I decided to go with it.

Somehow

PSALM 56 helped me through

this time in my life.

v. 3 What time I am afraid, I will trust in God.

v. 4. In God will I praise His word, in God have I put my trust; I will not be afraid what flesh can do unto me.

v. 12. Thy vows are upon me, O God: I will render praise unto thee,

v.13. For thou hast delivered my soul from death: wilt not thou deliver my feet from falling, that I may walk before the Lord in the light of the living?

So this passage was a comfort to me.

Reading in the New Testament, I was especially helped by the passage in John chapter 6 verses 15 - 21. Jesus went up into the mountain to pray while the disciples were in a boat on the sea. Jesus came to them walking on the water, in the middle of a storm. They were frightened. He spoke to them saying "It is I, do not be afraid."

In the Greek, he says "I AM, do not be afraid.

I got to thinking about that after the operation.

I could have died. I could be worse off. I am alive and able to get around, so I will do what I can, for however I can, and in doing so, trust God for my future.

Aug 18, 2013 I WAS HOME AGAIN FROM THE NURSING HOME.

ANOTHER CHRISTMAS

it is 2014 now

I was dependent on my daughters to come and help, but I was doing well. Briarwood was close to the Bi Mart - and so I chose to go there about two or three times a week to get out and about.

It paid off.

Winter I could not do that so much.

I was very careful to start exercising in my own home, and setting goals.

Playing the piano keyboard helped a lot to keep my spirits up. I was not worried. God would provide somehow, someway.

I missed my dear husband so much, but little by little I began, with the help of others, to do for myself.

2015

Rachel, my daughter was able to see me about three or four times a year. It took 7 hours to get to Ellensburg from Abbotsford BC Canada to see me.

She asked one day,

MOM, WOULD YOU CONSIDER MOVING CLOSER TO US, SO THAT I COULD SEE YOU MORE OFTEN?

Bill and Rachel were busy busy busy people.

He is a Band and music teacher in a Christian school there in BC. She is a Social Worker very occupied and also both are quite busy with their Church and other activities.

So at first I said, I do not think so.

But God did not let me alone until

I said "YES" to the idea of moving

closer.

AND IT WAS THAT SAME INCIDENT OF JESUS WALKING ON THE WATER THAT HELPED ME DECIDE.

My Journal on January 19, 2015 shows me that I had decided to move, God helping me. I thought maybe it would be a couple of years before I would. Oh, my!

I set out my thoughts and here they were

1. That if I moved I would want to be HAPPY in God's

Will for me.

2. That just perhaps a more rainy climate might help my

sinuses more.

3. It would be a fitting place to be - near the Ocean -

I have always longed to live near the Ocean. Cars on the highway

as I hear the murmurs and vibrations of traffic seem to be

as much noise as "ocean waves" would do.

4. Finally, I sense that like my great grandmother,

my grandmother's Mother - she loved her family

and lived in Eastham MA and later on York Beach, Maine

where the family would gather for outings and family

fellowship. Their church was very important to them.

My Grandmother Lillias May Carpenter loved me very much, and somehow I have always connected that relationship to my

love for the ocean. It may be good to consider

and see what God will do.

This was the wedding photo of my

great grandmother

taken at York Beach Maine

JANUARY 19, 2015

I WROTE THIS:

All of this I especially look for

(1.) Christ's Return for the Church, His Bride;

(2.) or seeing my loved ones by

traveling to see them

or for them

to travel to see me.

In making this move, I need to be sensitive

to God's leading. My heart's cry is to be surely

ever growing closer to the Lord Jesus Christ in intimacy, and trusting him in all things.

Most people at 84 (I was only 82 in 2015) seem to go downhill, both physically and spiritually, and mentally. So I wish to work with God's direction toward making my elder years be a Blessing to my family and to my children's children. As the great grand-children arrive, I would like to bless and welcome them by my presence and love.

It all is in the LORD MOST HIGH'S hands. He is everything to me. I will look for good things to come.

SO THIS IS WHAT I WROTE BACK IN 2015

AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED NEXT.

This photo shows my cousin Beverly with Gramma and Grampa Carpenter

back in the younger years. This is what Gram and Gramps looked like

in 1954 when I moved to California with my family. This probably was taken in 1953

when they came to visit all our families in Massachusetts.

This is my table set for Friday night through Sunday night.

It helped me get through the weekend. The Menorah represents both

the Church and Israel - so it helps me pray for both of them that God

will show His Will in the lives of all who call on His Name. Many

people of both Jew and Gentile will believe on the Messiah - Isaiah 53 tells us that He would come and indeed in the books of the Gospels He said He came from the Father to be the Light of the World.

John 8.12

WHEN I NOTIFIED RACHEL ABOUT MY DECISION

Rachel and Bill came and took me on a BIG TOUR OF BELLINGHAM TO BLAINE WA

AND WE STOPPED AT MANY RENTAL PLACES AND FACILITIES TO SEE

WHAT WAS AVAILABLE

AWESOME

WONDERFUL

AND

SO OVERWHELMING !

I FELT LIKE I WAS WALKING ON THE WATER TO JESUS AND

BEGINNING TO FAIL - LIKE PETER - I CRIED OUT "SAVE ME, LORD"

AND LIKE JESUS DID THEN FOR PETER - HE HELD MY HAND

AND TOOK ME RIGHT INTO THE BOAT -

WALKED WITH ME IN THE STORM OF MOVING

I REMEMBER THAT I DID NOT SEE ANYTHING THAT CALLED TO ME, LIVE HERE,

AND I REMEMBER

THAT

WHEN I STAYED AT BILL AND RACHEL'S THE NIGHT OF OUR TOUR

I STARTED LOOKING ON THE INTERNET FOR WHAT WAS AVAILABLE IN BLAINE AND BIRCH BAY.

AND HARBOR SIDES APARTMENTS HAD AN ADVERTISEMENT

THAT STRUCK MY ATTENTION.

AND SO BY THE END OF JANUARY I HAD ALREADY

PUT MY NAME IN FOR AN APARTMENT.

AND I STARTED TO PACK MY THINGS.

HERE IS A VIEW I TOOK OF HWY 101 THE OLD CANYON ROAD

BLAINE WA

WHEN ARE YOU MOVING? PEOPLE ASKED ?

SOON .....

I SAID, SOON.

I KEPT ON PACKING

BOXES

AND GIVING AWAY WHAT

I THOUGHT I MIGHT NOT NEED.

DOWNSIZING STILL MORE.

APRIL 23, 2015

I began to aim at moving by talking with my manager

in Briarwood. She said, I need 20 days notice,

and if I move - and the apartment does not rent right away, I would

have to pay the rents up until my lease is done which is October.

SO I PRAYED FOR WISDOM

AND STARTED TO PLAN.

I prayed for a major "MIRACLE" in

the opening of an apartment at

the Harborside Apts on Peace Portal Drive

OH MY!

I knew there were only 26 apts in the facility,

and of those 4 were one bedroom.

2 COR. 4.6

I DECIDED ON JAN 7 2017 I WAS ON A JOURNEY

NOT KNOWING WHAT LIES BEFORE ME,

I WROTE" I AM TRUSTING GOD OF THE

ETERNITIES OF ETERNITIES, FROM

EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING

TO LEAD

AND GUIDE ME

ONE STEP

AT A TIME,

ONE HOUR,

ONE DAY

A TIME.

---SHE SAID "I WON'T KNOW UNTIL THE END OF APRIL
IF YOU CAN MOVE IN JUNE"

So APRIL 24TH I BEGAN TO PACK MORE

ERNESTLY.

PACKING BOXES

PACKING THE BOOKS

PUTTING CLOTHES IN SUITCASES AND BOXES

LABELING EVERYTHING

I MADE A SIGN TO SELL MY WASHER

AND DRYER

WHEN GOING TO PUT IT UP

ONE OF MY NEIGHBORS BOUGHT IT

RIGHT THEN AND THERE.

APRIL 30, 2015

THE LADY CALLED TO SAY

"CAN YOU COME TO SEE

THE APARTMENT THAT IS

AVAILABLE?"

SO - I CALLED RACHEL AND

SHE WENT WITH ME TO LOOK AT IT.

IT WOULD BE VERY EXPENSIVE.

A TWO BEDROOM APT

OVERLOOKING THE OCEAN.

AWESOME.

WE GAVE THE LADY A "DOWN" TO SHOW

WE WANTED THE APARTMENT, IT WAS JUST $30.00.

THEY WOULD CALL ME WHEN IT WAS AVAILABLE.

AT THAT POINT I WAS NOT CERTAIN

ON THE TWO BEDROOM

KNOWING A ONE BEDROOM WOULD BE CHEAPER.

DECIDED TO GO WITH IT AND TRUST GOD.

IT TURNED OUT THAT

ANOTHER PERSON WANTED IT RIGHT

AWAY,

BUT THE MANAGER

CALLED AND ASKED, IF WE HAD AN OPENING,

COULD YOU MOVE IN JUNE? HERE?

OH YES, I SAID.

NO GUARANTEES.

SIGHT UNSEEN

NOT HAVING BEEN THERE

WOWEE

FAITH MIGHTY FAITH

THE TRIUMPH SEE

LAUGHS AT IMPOSSIBILITIES,

AND

CRIES

IT SHALL BE DONE.

ON APRIL 30th

2015

I wrote this:

"I am sure the move is from the Lord. Peter asked, if it is you Lord, tell me to come out on the

water with you. Oh my ! Jesus said,

Come.

Peter got out on the water, but then

he became too aware of himself and

the water, not looking at Jesus...he

began to sink....

I NEED to walk on the water. Jesus is Lord

in this move. He will orchestrate the

exact apartment and the time I am to move.

so here, Lord, I ask you to keep me focused

on you.

JULY 11, 2015

I MOVED

AUGUST 3, 2015

I visited THE LIGHTHOUSE BAPTIST CHURCH IN BIRCH BAY. My new chapter

has begun.

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So here I am with Rachel after

I moved

and AFTER

ANOTHER MAJOR HIP OPERATION

March 2016

After I moved to Harborside,

I did well, until about January 2017

when I began to have trouble with

the hip again.

Birch Bay WA

was a long way from Seattle WA

So I inquired with Doctors in Bellingham,

and they directed me

back to SEATTLE U W

I was given the name of

Dr. Adam Sassoon

in the Hip and Knee UW

Xrays

Trips

Decisions

and

yes

ANOTHER OPERATION

SCHEDULED

Again I had to consult the Lord about this.

At 82 I did not know what the outcome

would be.

Many women in the last 50 years had hip operations and within a year had died.

I looked into the Word of God my Bible.

Psalm 56 again came to my help.

Remembering God's faithfulness so far, I would

trust Him in this.

So, I reasoned in myself,

I have been active up until this pain

set in. So therefore, if I understand correctly,

a hip operation will be successful IF we get to do it before the bone deteriorates too much.

My next thought was, that IF an operation

could be scheduled before June, then I would be able to be into REHAB and home in the summer time.

They told me I might have to have 12 weeks of nursing home care - but I went to God about that, because I ONLY HAD SHORT TERM insurance, not long term.

If the NH called for 12 weeks of care I might be paying for it myself, for the Insurance would run out. I decided to trust God on this matter.

SO I HAD THE OPERATION

MARCH

Dr. Sassoon and Nathan Summers were the ones who performed this Revision of my hip.

As I understand it, they did an

excellent job.

So here I am.

I was in the Rehab for 5 weeks.

Two days before I was to go home, I was told, Mrs. Cash, your insurance is running out

Will you mind that?

I said, No. I will pay it as I can. I will be

going home soon.

And yes, two days later

I went on to my apartment

in Harborside

How Blessed I am to be alive !

How Thankful I am to have the pain behind me!

How I praise the Lord God of the heavens and the earth, who leads and guides me.

How I bless His Holy Name for His Faithfulness.

My aim is to glorify God

in all that happens to me

and to share with others

my faith in Him

that they

too

shall know

the LIVING AND TRUE GOD

IN OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST

WHO IS THE SAME YESTERDAY

TODAY

AND

FOREVER.

Hebrews 13.8

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