Be patient - God does talk to you and answer your prayers!

Have you ever wondered if God answers your prayers?  People always say take your problems to God because he will help you in his own way, you just have to pay attention.

This was me in May of 2009 when my Grandma was in the hospital in ICU from head trauma after her fall down the basement steps.  I prayed every night for God to send me a sign on what to do.  When visiting her in the hospital I felt in my heart that we were just standing around her body and she wasn't anywhere in there.  My prayers were answered on May 10, 2009 on Mother's Day.  Becky and I went to church that morning to give our church family a report from Grandma and then head down to the hospital.  It was during the church service that God spoke to me on three different occasions, there was a time during one of the songs that I felt something different but I didn't think anything of it.  Then during the sermon which was titled "Choose Wisely", but it was the last song "Trust and Obey" that I payed attention too and it got me thinking about what everything meant.
After church we headed down to the hospital and that is when I saw my dad in the hallway and he told us that it isn't good, something in Grandma's condition changed in the night and her doctor scheduled a CT Scan on her brain, and will get with us when he gets the results.  After dad told me this I found a corner away from everyone and sat down and prayed, then something made me pull out the church bulletin and looked at it again and it was that moment that is when I realized the three times that I felt something during the service, it was just God answering my prayers and giving me the answers that I needed and the title of the sermon and the last song was the ones that I knew what I had to do even though it was going to be hard to do.  After we met with doctors we had to make a big decision which was to say goodbye to Grandma and take her off all the machines and we decided that was the best thing because even if Grandma was to wake up, who is to say she would ever be the same person that we all knew and loved, so we all decided it was for the best to remove the machines and let her go to heaven and be back with Grandpa and my Uncle Lowell, which was another thing that was something because Saturday May 9 would have been his birthday and the change in the night could have been Lowell coming down from heaven and saying, "Come on Mom, spend my birthday and Mother's Day with me."
After we got to go back in her room to see her after they removed everything from her is when I looked at her and realized that we were just looking at her body and she wasn't in there and she was just waiting for the right moment to let us know that things will be alright.
So remember that when you think that God doesn't answer your prayer, just remember that he doesn't answer in ways that you think he would but he sends his signs in many different ways and through people that he brings in your life.

It was the day of the funeral and when I heard the following song titled "If You Could See Me Now" is when I realized that Grandma is up in heaven and having a good time being reunited back with Grandpa and Lowell and the rest of our family that were there and one day we will all be back together up in heaven for a reunion.

Meet Lucky!

It has been 1 week since we have an unexpected new addition to the family.  I went downstairs and saw our cat, Isaac looking up at the window or what I thought he was looking at was possibly a mouse that he couldn't get, so I went over there to see what he was looking at.  It was too my surprise it wasn't a mouse but a kitten in the window well meowing at Isaac and he was meowing right back.  I called for Jay and told him that I know where the cat was that we saw just a few days ago was.  He got his shoes on and grabbed a towel and went to rescue the cat from the window well, because if it would have stayed out there it would have froze because we were expecting below zero temperatures.  As he was going to take the cat down in the basement, that is when I saw it's back leg being all mangled like something got it.  We called Green Hill's Vet to see if we could take the cat over to see what could be down for the mangled leg.
Here is a picture of Lucky the night that we found her in the window well:

We scheduled to have her leg amputated on Wednesday because it couldn't be saved.  This first night all she wanted to do was stay in the pet taxi because she felt safe there and was ready to have a goodnights sleep.  The next day she was ready to get out and explore her new surroundings and the first thing she did was jump up on the couch and sniff our dog, Conan.  Conan didn't do too much, except when he had a treat when he growled letting her know that his his.

She took over the couch after that and that is when I took this picture:

On my way to work on Wednesday, I dropped Lucky off to the vet for her surgery where she had to be there all night.  It was a different house Wednesday night, because Isaac was roaming around the house looking for Lucky.  We got to pick her up on Thursday morning, and the vet had to remove the whole back leg, but she gets around pretty good on three legs.

The after picture doesn't look like the same cat that we found a week ago:

Isaac it coming around pretty good, he don't hiss at her anymore and he even goes and inspects the litterbox to see if she is getting everything covered up good.  

I feel that we gave Lucky another chance at living when we found her and brought her in last week and she is also adjusting pretty good on being a house cat.