Tag: You are not alone!

Living with vision and hearing loss!

I feel like it is easier to adapt a little better with hearing loss than it is with vision loss. I have lost more hearing  in the last seven years. So now I am an adult with hearing  loss. I was a teenager when I lost my vision. It took me a couple of years to really deal with the depression that comes with vision loss. I have adjusted quite well and it is all because of dealing with others who are deaf blind as well. Also trusting God through out all of it.

 

 

I’ve also have been put in touch with the Helen Keller National Center for the deaf blind. I never knew that there was so much support out there for the deaf blind.

 

I have met so many wonderful people who has helped and answered a lot of questions. I have had so many questions and they have been nothing but nice answering everything I have asked. I am so glad for all the support I have received.

 

Now wearing the hearing aids is a story in itself. The first thing is I have very small ears. So my hearing aids had to be made like a childs’ hearing aid. The part that goes down in the ear canal  kept coming out. So we decided to try a different ear mold and make it where didn’t go quite down in the ear canals but it fits like an  earbudd.

 Now these are working out really well. I have to adjust them but not as much as I did with the first  ear piece for the hearing aid. So now I am living life just a little bit easier.

 

The hearing aids are a big help to me because I do have a job and it requires me to use my hearing a lot.

 

I am also learning tactile sign language for the deaf blind.  As a teenager I learned the alphabette. So since I learned the alphabette I am well on my way to learning  tactile sign language.

 

 

I’m so excited to be able to communicate with other deaf blind people, who will become great friends. I really like networking and getting out there to make friends. It’s kind of hard at first but I make myself try hard and I forget about being shy.

 

I have to thank  God for some wonderful people in my life. Especially my friend  Lisa who taught me some sign language when I was a teenager.  Lisa and her husband have been working with the deaf and def blind for over 30 years now.  I am so glad we crossed paths many years ago.

 

God puts people in your life at the right  time.

 

Thank you for reading my  short blog. Until next time. KTF

 

Keep The Faith!

 

F forget!

A all!

I i’m!

T Trusting!

H Him!  

 

 

Mama Dottie

I wrote this six years ago and decided to clean it up and share.

This is something close and dear to my hart. I hope you can understand where I am coming from and how I am feeling.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 For those of y’all who don’t know my adoptive mom passed away on Oct 7th 2015  

 

 

 On the wings of a dove;

 

 

 My heart aches today for someone who I called mom who was taken to heaven on this date six years ago.

 

  Dottie Fraker was a very special person to me and she helped me in so many ways. She use to  tell me I  didn’t give birth to you but we do have a mother/ daughter bond.

 

 

 I just can’t find the words

 to explain  how  I’m feeling.

 

 

 I just listened to her favorite song and the tears just won’t stop flowing.

 

 I know I will see her again. She touched so many people lives. While she was on this  earth. She is truly what you would call a proverbs 31 woman.

 

 Whenever you were at her house you always felt at home. I don’t think she ever met a stranger in her life. She left foot prints on peoples hearts  when she came into their lives.

 

 I miss you so much Mama Dottie. I love you and you will never be forgotten.

 

I still have to stop myself from calling your old number to just talk or ask for a recipe.

 

I know I will see you again someday. I will close my blind eyes on this side of heaven  and wake in heaven and the first face I will see is Jesus.

 

So we have to say good bye for just a little while but we will see each other again.

 

 

Her favorite song was called , On The Wings Of A Dove.

 

I have played this song quite a bit, but it helps me a lot.

 

 

 

 

 

 On the wings of a snow white dove  he sends his pure sweet love. A sign from above on the wings of a dove.

 

 

Thank you for taking the time to read my blog. I appreciate it more than you know.

 

 

 

 

Until next time KTF Keep The Faith

Remember as much as I love you, Jesus loves you even more!

Autumn

Well Autumn  is here again and do y’all  know what that  means. Apple picking,  hay rides and hot apple cider and hot chocolate and nice days and the cool nights. There is a lot more i could write about but i’d run out of room. Oh yes let’s not forget football.

Also thinking about Autumn that is a new season and new things come about in a new season.

 

Right now my life is so different than last year at this time. I think about what was going on in my life and I cannot help but give God the glory.

I know he favors me. I am his and he is mines.

I know I have been talked about and lied on but my God knows me and he favors me.

 

I listen to a song every morning and it reminds me that I am not walking this journey alone and even though I feel like it at times he carries me  through. The title of the song is God favored me, by  Hezekiah Walker. That song gets my day started.  

 

In spite of everything I am blessed and his grace is sufficient for me. Like the season is new the day is new and even though I mess up on a daily basis  my God has me in his arms.

 

I just started a new job and it is right now overwhelming but I can do all things through Christ that strengthen me.  

Yesterday was very hard on my brain and I know the only way I got through it all was Christ. I did my six classes in three hours. Usually people do them over a week, but with Gods’ help I finished.

Faith as small as a mustard seed will move a mountain. This is my walk from now on. I have been looking at the broad picture and I just have to look on the small things.

 

Starting with me believing that the Lord has me and he will never leave me,  like man will  down here on this earth. When God says forever he means forever.

 

Friends may come and go from your life God stays with you until the end.

 

Just a few thoughts that are going through my mind. So thank you for reading my blog.

Until next time, KTF Keep The Faith. Remember as much as I love you, Jesus loves you even more!

Mustard seed faith

Thank you Lord for  taking care of me.

 

This journey started back in 2011. I was working a job that I couldn’t advance on  at all. My supervisor at the time wasn’t a very pleasant person to work for.

 

I went to the conference room for my yearly evaluation to receive my yearly raise.

Needless to say that meeting didn’t go as I expected it to go.

I was told that my attitude was bad and I would never make it on another job. Also was not given my full raise. I was disappointed when I left the conference room.

I felt like I was just kicked in the stomach and almost cried.

I couldn’t talk to my husband at the time about what was going on.

So I lasted only two more years on that job.

Work was slow and they lost some contracts. So  I was laidoff along with 27 other people. I was told it was temporarily. I was called back a couple of months later and worked for just one week and was just let go again. I didn’t know what to think about what just happened.

I have tried and tried to get back to work.

Everytime this particular company needed some people to work I called the temp service that we were told to call and get set up with. When all is said and done I was told that you are on the do not call back list. I don’t understand why this happened. I always did what I was told.

I just wasn’t going to let the supervisor and HR people talk to me any kind of way.

I felt harassed on the job and I really couldn’t report it, because I felt like everyone was against me.

I do admitt that sometimes I let my mouth get the best of me. Well when you’re getting picked at on a daily basis and your support isn’t there  then you defend yourself.

I had people watching me all the time and there were some lies told on me. I was written up for some things I didn’t do. I did not sign the write-up. I wasn’t going to take the blame for something I didn’t do. I stood my ground and lost a job because of standing up for myself.

This blog isn’t a pitty party for myself. I’m informing everyone that the Lord had different plans for my life.

He didn’t want me stuck on a job that I wasn’t about to be able to advance at and people mistreat me.

I have been trying to get some employment for the last eight years. I have been to the point where I felt like I would never work again.

My old supervisor’s words rolling around in my head and making me feel very low.

 

My confidence is a lot better now. I have the best support ever. I have the Lord on my side. When the Lord is on your side, you are on the winning side.I know I can do all things through Christ.

 

 

Philippians 4-13 says,

 

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

 

I have some news. I went to an interview a few weeks ago and with the help of my Lord and some people speaking on my behalf I received a job. So to God be the glory.

 

Faith as small as a mustard seed can move a mountain. I trusted God and he took care of me.

 

Thank you for reading my blog. Until next timeKTF: Keep The Faith, as much as I love you, Jesus loves you even more.

Life and death all in one day. please pray for my family

Hello darkness my old enemy.  You thought you had my family once again. Jesus Christ has the light that shines within. Christ has us from the beginning until the end.

 

Isaiah 41-10

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

 

Deuteronomy 31-6

Be strong and of a good courage, fear not, nor be afraid of them: for the Lord thy God, he it is that doth go with thee; he will not fail thee, nor forsake thee.

 

Although we have been visited by death our Lord will get us through this difficult time. We have each other and trust God he has  his loving arms around us.

 

This broke my heart to hear of my young cousins’ death.

During this time of mourning God has already showed grace.

My Aunt Edna and my cousin Monica has suffered a great loss. My aunt Edna has lost a grand son and gained a great grand daughter on one of the darkest days of her life.  

In spite of the storm we are going through right now there is a ray of sunshine.

 

I would like to take this time and let my family know I love y’all unconditionally. Also we need to stick together like gorilla glue.

Also a family that prays together, stays together.   

 

As much as I love you, Jesus loves you even more!

Just a little encouragement if you’re feeling sad or lonely

Just a little encouragement if you’re feeling sad or lonely

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