As I get older I find I have more and more aches and pains and I try to will them away, but that doesn’t always work for me and over the years I have tried many things like crystals, stones, and copper bracelets. If you can name it I probably used it along with a lot of positive thinking and if you believe something will work then it very possibly could and will.

Don’t tell me you don’t know what I’m talking about because I know you’re just like me looking for a cure for something, maybe a natural cure. I know I’ve tried so many things and they just haven’t worked because maybe I didn’t really believe it even though I wanted to. The mind has so much power and  energy and I totally like to see the positive energy work over the negative.

I have seen things work when I was young because my Mother  told me they did and I believed. I have a long scar on my thumb because I stuck it under her knife and she filled it with sugar and stuck a butter knife down the back of my neck my thumb stopped bleeding very quickly and eventually healed without stitches, but I still have the scar. There are a lot of old home remedies that work.

There has been so much talk over the years about magnetic bracelets and necklaces and even magnetic padding for your bed to help with back pains and other illnesses which I totally want. My poor old body needs all of that magnetic energy because of all the abuse over the years. If you have any electronic implanted medical devices like a pacemaker, defibrillator or insulin pump you shouldn’t use magnetic energy though.

Everyone should always check with their doctor before trying anything new.

I found myself thinking about a post I wrote recently and apologized for sounding bitter and then said I was, but that wasn’t true. I am not bitter and I forgave any bad feelings I had for anyone many years ago. There are too many blessings in my life to feel bitterness, maybe angry at circumstances sometimes, but nothing that would embitter me for long and hold me captive.

I am grateful that I was able to experience life with all of the ups and downs and I appreciate all the people that have been in my life whether good or bad influences I learned something from each and everyone of them and hopefully I imparted something to them they could use. I am not normally a negative person and always try to find the good over the bad.

I talked to my son last night and he gave me the updates, he just got out of the hospital again with a temporary pain pump because they found tumors on his lower spine so Monday they are going to embed a permanent pain pump that is computerized to send meds directly to the lower spine every hour so he can function and then he will start radiation for the tumors on the 17th for 10 days.

He is in good spirits because they didn’t find any tumors in his neck or brain and they told him it was stable right now, meaning that while it isn’t shrinking it isn’t growing either. After the radiation next month he will have chemo again for the tumors in his liver. He is very strong in spirit and he appreciates all the prayers. He told me he isn’t afraid of dying because he lived his life the way he wanted to.

He wants as much time as possible though to watch his baby grow and Ethan is now 3 months old. He told me he was worried about the crossing over part and what happens in that last breath and all I could tell him was what I experienced with my own Mother and Father and how I felt it will be. Neither of them was afraid and you could actually see and hear the peace and that they were ready to leave this reality.

I have mentioned before, I was young when they died, but it always had a very profound effect knowing that there was no fear. I don’t want to know when I might draw that last breath unlike my son he has always wanted to know every detail so he can be prepared, but no one can know when that might be unless they choose to take their own life, which sadly happens often.

I don’t want to end this on a sad note so I’ll leave you with the Serenity Prayer which I’m sure we all know well.

God,
Grant me the Serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
the Courage to change the things I can
and the Wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardship as the pathway to peace.

Taking, as He did, this sinful world as it is, not as I would have it.

Trusting that He will make all things right if I surrender to His Will;

That I may be reasonably happy in this life,
and supremely happy with Him forever in the next.

Amen.

Does everyone feel different today? From watching CNN even though our country is still in a mess there seems to be jubilation everywhere certainly more so than the feelings would have been if McCain had won. Even though I didn’t like either candidate I did vote for McCain because of his experience regardless of the campaign to make him look like a Bush clone.

I know the American people want change, but it certainly wont come over night. I hope that the American people aren’t hoping for an overnight fix because no matter who got in it would take time thanks to the mess the Bush administration has put us in. I thought it was great that so many young people actually got more involved in this election than any other and that was definitely a huge boost for President Elect Obama.

Did we make the right choice, maybe, but only time will tell. I do like Joe Biden and think Obama chose the right VP and McCain certainly should have chosen his VP as carefully as Obama did. There’s no doubt that McCain’s whole campaign was flawed and I’m sure it will be analyzed in depth for future Republican campaigns.

One bright spot we can all be happy about is that we will no longer be subjected to all those horrible campaign commercials and no more phone calls. America is certainly going in a new direction and last night was definitely a history making moment. Hopefully the new President Elect will be able to unite all of the people at least now African Americans know that anything can be achieved and there are no barriers.