La Donna's Blog

Dear friends,
I have learned that even when things seem impossible -there is a way through.

There is a power outside of us who is there to help if we turn and ask. The POWER TO ASK is a mighty thing.

I 've found, while we should grow in understanding that individually we have inner strength we have to admitt that there are things even greater that challenge us.
Like David, the Psalmist said " I look up to the mountians where my strength comes from". Though he was a couragous man he knew there were times he had to look outside himself for strength.

When I was 6 years old we had returned to America from Australia and I was entering school. My teachers kept moving me closer and closer to the black board to help me see. My parents took me to the optician and found that I had a rare condition of congenital cataracts.
There were no options to operate as there is now..
They were growing and I would be blind before I was an adult.

So we began to ask..Asking Father in heaven for help. Every day we thanked Him at dinner for answering. For two years we did this.One day a pastor came to speak in a meeting and we asked him to pray for me. I didn't think anything had happened. But when I went back to the doctor he found that the cataracts had shrunk to nothing. A small fleck like scar was all that remained.

I was so excited and my little friends at school were amazed. No more thick glasses.
Many years later when I was working in a restuarant a young woman came in with some friends. She recognized my unusual name. She was so excited. She turned to her friends and said, "This is the girl I told you about!" She had remembered my experience all those years.

There are things that are too big for us.
Can we dare to ask? Are we trying to be the answer to everything? Look up and ask for help. Perhaps you can not ask for unseen help. But we can start by asking others for help. You'll be amazed what will open up.
It may not be a physical need but something you find
you can not solve. Keep asking..the answer will come.

HI! Friends.

I've been meaning to start this blog but my perfectionist/fearful side keeps rejecting what I'd say.
But finally that inner Wintness just said do it!

Well, in these days where people communicate around the world without meeting I thought it' important to give some history. Who am I.? My friends would be better at telling honestly. But I will try to be as honest as I know how.

All of our journey's start at birth.
Mine was a particularly difficult start.
I was born to two very interesting people (Jean and Elmer) who were always on the move and cared for people a great deal. They were ministers.
To some that means alot of rules.For me it wasn't boring.
I found that though my life was very hard at times, the sacrifices were completely compensated by the extraordinary things I experienced and the wonderful people I met. God was very much living and active
And I never knew what he was going to do next.

For instance.
Soon after I was born they found that I could not ingest anything without getting violently sick and breaking out in horrible sores. I was allergic to everything it seemed. Milk, formula,wheat,fruit Even wool would make me break out in painful sores.
It was weeping exzema.
They finally found I could hold down soy formula.

This was very difficult for my folks because they were leaving right after I was born for Australia.
But they were persevering. When they got to Australia they found there was no soy formula sold in stores . Soy they had to find soy beans, grind them and boil them to make formula. But they were believing in faith God would help.

My mother could really believe because when she was 15 years old she was dying from kidney failure.
She only had a few days to live. In desperation her mother took her to a church for prayer. When they prayed to Jesus she was miraculously healed.
She is now 87 years and still speaking and praying for the sick.

So they prayed often for a year for me and on my first birthday they decided to give me a cracker and a cup of milk. I didn't get sick.! Since then I've had no allergy problems. Even in my teens my skin was clear. I am so thankful. I am now 56.

well I've gone on too long.
I hope this has encouraged you to believe the impossible is possible. There is someone who loves you and cares about what happens to you.
It doesn't mean all hardships will disappear but there is a helper who cares.
I hope this will let you believe in something for yourself or your children.

God Bless you till next time
La Donna