A Few of FR's Finest....Every Day....05-03,04-03....Week in Review

Billie and Mama_Bear

[firewalk]

Good morning LadyX (-:
beautiful picture

[LadyX]

Your songs are always "Right on Time" wherever they happen to land among us here, Music Lady..:))

You always take great care to find the right pictures to accompany them, and I'm "Singin' a Song of Susie" right now..:))

[LadyX]

Good morning to you, Miss ClaraSuzanne - and thank you for the hugs that I needed!

{{{ Hugs for CS }}}

[MeekOneGOP]

Re #132 & #134: hehe ! Just in a silly mood this mornin' ! No hangover here! :O)

[Pippin]

AHAH!

Trying to tell me something, Meekie?

Guilty conscience I guess!

;O)

[MeekOneGOP]

Between your and Meekie's Industrial Strength Coffees - am I in danger of growing hair on my chest? I wanna know!!

CarlsbadCaveman/MeeknMing coffee is a special blend. It is of the hairless variety, UNLESS you want it grow hair on your chest.

[Pippin]

Thanks, Maggie!

Glad I could make you feel better! :O)

[MeekOneGOP]

Whoops ! That should be:

UNLESS you want it TO grow . . .

[Pippin]

"Bu Bye, Chixie Dimps!" LOL!

[MeekOneGOP]

. . . Trying to tell me something, Meekie? . . .

Uh. . .I shoulda drank MORE beer last night? . . .

[MeekOneGOP]

hehe ! :O)

[Pippin]

AH! BUSTED!

[Pippin]

GOTCHA!

[LadyX]

"Whoops ! That should be:
UNLESS you want it TO grow . . .

Hmmm....no hair there, thanks, but now it causes forgetfulness and finger fumbling?!!

YIKES!!!

Sigh....anything for Carlsbad's attention, though...:))

[Pippin]

You have to excuse Meekie, Lady, he didn't get enough beers last night! ;O)

[nicmarlo]

Who? Me? 
Cause trouble? 

Surley you jest!

Nope, I'm vey series. : )

[nicmarlo]

My, what big eyes you have, meekie!

Good Afternoon!!!!

[grantswank]

SENIOR ABUSE HURTS


“I can’t drive my car any more. They have taken it. It’s supposed to be sold for $1000.”

I was talking long distance with a senior citizen friend of many, many years. She was alert, well balanced, and rather healthy for her octogenarian years of strong will.

“How did you ever allow that to happen?” I asked.

“It happened so fast. For the week after they took the car from me, I was very despondent. I have been deeply hurt—beyond words. I am still hurting.”

“I can imagine. Do you think that you made the right decision?” I inquired further.

“No, I don’t. Really, I didn’t have enough time to make any decision. It was pretty much made for me,” she lamented.

“I can hardly believe that. Lynn, I have never known you to be a pushover. But I think that this time you have been royally had.”

“I think you’re right. In fact, I know it.”

“What are you going to do about it?”

“I don’t know. I’m still stunned by it all. I know that one thing is for sure: If they try to put me in a home, they’re not going to get by with that. If they try to put one more thing over on me, it won’t happen.”

Lynn and her husband, Brant, live together in their own apartment. They have sound minds, being independent all their lives. They have traveled extensively, usually by plane, flitting across the country several times a year.

They go to church several times a week. “We never miss a service,” Lynn told me. And I knew that to be true for I have known these two committed churchgoers for over thirty years.

Yet her car was taken away quickly, supposedly consoling remarks surfacing to Lynn that it was for her best interests, and so on and so on.

I can understand that if there were genuinely medical problems such as vision, hearing and the like, Lynn giving up her driving privileges and automobile would make sense. But none of that is fact.

“I feel cooped up in this apartment. If I want to drive several blocks to the store, I am now dependent on someone else to take me. I don’t like that,” she confided. “I really am confined to these several rooms unless someone comes to the door to put me in another person’s car.”

I recall the same happening to another octogenarian friend who was whisked overnight out of her lovely three-room apartment. Relatives from out-of-state did not want the bother of seeing through detail of taking care of their spinster aunt, so off to the nursing home she was sped.

When my wife and I visited her in her new-to-her one room “housing” a week after she was moved, she was in tears.

“I want a lawyer!” she demanded to us.

“Well, get one. There is the phone book. Look up an attorney from the yellow pages. Call the senior citizens network in the state and ask for an advocate,” I strongly suggested.

She was nonplussed at what her clan had done to her. She had trusted them.

“But no more,” she insisted. “I did not ask for this. They sold my piano without me knowing it. They took away my furniture; the only thing I have left is this bed, dresser and a rocking chair. I don’t know what to do. I do have my music books that I’ve had for years; but I don’t have my piano.”

This sort of thing goes on too frequently today. And it is a travesty.

The three persons mentioned above are all believers. They have family members who regard themselves as believers. And yet this sort of abuse is going on in that so-called spiritual environs.

If there are seniors living with you, near you or under your soul care, please do not hurt them by trespassing upon their hearts, their rights. It is not fair. It is not Christian.

Think: Would I want this done to me? Would I want to make my own decisions about my present, my future? Would I want to be in control of my property? Would I want time to make major decisions regarding car, dwelling, bank accounts and contacts with doctors?

Someday you may be elderly. Someday someone may decide that you are not going to choose for yourself. Someday someone else may sweep from under your feet what you have held dear.

Will you permit that to happen?

Then will you permit that to happen now to someone near to you?

There are times when elderly persons need others to make their decisions; but those circumstances should be thought through to the depths in order not to abuse the very ones we claim to love.

If older ones around us honestly can make rational choices that are for their good, then take the high road. Let them lead their own futures.
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Reprint from THE AMERICAN COMMENTATORY website

[grantswank]

Yes, good morning indeed!

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[grantswank]

"the power of satan breaking"

!!!!

thanks so much for the needed reminder. wonderful. powerful.

grant

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romans 8:28