My mom has been with a caregiver for almost 5 years, but as the year changed, her health changed and she was put on Hospice. Her caregiver wanted her to be in professional care and didn't want to
stay for her decline.
Psalm 71
In You, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
2 In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!
3 Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.
4 Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
5 For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
6 Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.
7 I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
8 My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
9 Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.
10 For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
11 and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”
12 O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
13 May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.
14 But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
15 My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.
16 With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.
17 O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.
18 So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
19 Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?
20 You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
21 You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.
22 I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
23 My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.
24 And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.
The Story has gone up and down.
We started in Winter and Texas Snowvid, Hospice arrived.
Mother's house had missed the October 2019 16 mile tornadoes by only two blocks. And then her trees suddenly needed to have help from the high winds and Snowvid.
And as Mother left for Hospice Professional and Managed care at Monticello West, she went in like a little lamb. Mother had not wanted to die at home with non-professional medical people. She began her retirement Long-Term Insurance in 1994. When she left her home to enter managed care, we later got a phone call asking us how she transferred so easily. This was a great Gift of God, but He had placed this on her heart, and in His Plan much earlier.
One of the things I discovered in the early March lamb going of my mother, were the Iris my grandmother had in her yard, from her own mother and, now, I'd remembered them and brought them to my house.
Mother had always loved to make her front flower bed and backyard beautiful. I realized as we started week 2 in early, early March, the front bed was going to have to be planted by Edward and me.
Working in the garden one minute and then getting a call to attend to her
records the next. One minute you're in the front yard, with gloves on, and the next you are surprised to find her bank is on the 18th floor.
One of the nice things for all the weeks we had put in arranging Mother's house to move
was the meeting of her neighbors. They had banded together during Snowvid and told us about her years, as her neighbor, when Mother loved to go all over Dallas.
The good portion of help from Hospice has been the phone calls every 2 days, Mother has forgotten how to work a phone. And with the traveling to Dallas we see her once a week.
But then after the sorting and moving had happened in phase one, we began to do things like paint and have tile put down.
God is our refuge. Even when all looks bleak. And Father God Helps.
After a surprise 3-day trip, we got to come home and have a change of clothing.
Update late today
We all prayed about this. Thank you for your prayers.
And sent a detailed text explaining to the corrupt tile man, that my brother and I were not going to pay the charges and instead present the tiler with his team broke the lock and locksmith bill and 2nd plumber bill, with the no $1g membrane because this would not be a cause for an additional one grand beyond the quote. It's extortion.
Faced with the attorney and the bills, the tiler said, "Never mind." (On his bogus mechanical lien for a false bill.)
Why we suddenly faced a Mechanic's Lien and God Helped Justice Prevail.
The Tiler met the Painter who has knocked himself out for us for a year. Our Painter fixes everything. We call him Bruce Wayne. Bruce fixes sidewalks, fences, paints, lights, installs washer, dryers and chandeliers. Suddenly, the demeanor of the tiler and crew changed. It became incredibly hostile.
The toilet was broken from the back and the front. Water valve turn off smashed and parts removed. Bruce Wayne discovered next to the toilet, the door lock was broken and, voilà, he repaired this when a 20-year prior locksmith told us this would be the end of the door. Not today, mean tiler group, not today. Not even when they left the broken door open 3 inches overnight after the smashed lock, and smashed toilet parts. Not today, mean tiler group, not today.
The tiler called to say that Bruce had quit and to pay before the job was complete. Completely astonished at the attack and the lie, I said no, he's standing here with me.
When the bill arrived, our surly tiler group had added on an extra thousand beyond the quote. Turns out the reason for the entire happy group changing into a very surly group was because Bruce Wayne found out they had not installed the thousand dollar membrane and had gone with the regular soft glue instead.
We received a phone call, that was just basic extortion saying pay or a mechanic's lien.
From Ghoulies and ghosties and long legged beasties - Good Lord deliver us!!!
In the Highest Name of Jesus, Amen
♔ Lord Jesus Saves! †
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