Posted 11-15-19
What a busy Friday it will be heading into a less busy weekend! 🙂
Tonight I will run by and see mom on the way to watch a high school football game between my new hometown Bolivar Liberators and the perennial state champion Webb City Cardinals. Bolivar is undefeated and, on paper, matches up well with the Webb City team…but games aren’t played on paper. Webb City’s only loss is against a much bigger school…one of the best in their size class…and only by 7 points. They are state ranked #1 in their own class, as is often the case. In short, it will take a David/Goliath-sized miracle to prevent the Cardinals from laying waste to our team and moving on toward adding to their 14 state championships. ( They won state in 1989, 92, 93, 97, 2000, 01, 06, 08, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, and 17). We will have to earn it…and not quit.
That called to mind this little clip (that I absolutely love!) :
To purchase, this is the YouTube link.
Our loved ones with dementia are counting on us to model not quitting. I completely accept and embrace God’s sovereignty over life and death and all things, but I also know that He uses means to accomplish His planned ends. We are not puppets…we live and do our thing here… Anyone who has been around nursing homes and/or terminally-ill folks knows that it seems like there is a “will to live”. When the patient loses this will, however it plays out in God’s eternal timing, the lights are out in Georgia. If we give up visiting and they sit alone…and sad….how can we expect them to survive and especially thrive? We need to visit nursing homes and home caregivers. We need to love these folks. We need to give them more reasons to fight! Church friends/family, we need a ministry that does this. We are the eternal life/love people, remember? We can take a break from youth movie night and the 36 different programs going on to love on one of the truly least of these, can’t we?
Moreover, if we are to have a white flower at next year’s Walk to End Alzheimer’s, and we all want that, we have to work together. We have to raise money, support research, join clinical trials and fight for funding. We also need to help caregivers where we can so they don’t wear out!
Lastly, we have to pray and pray and pray and pray. I am not giving up on a cure for mom, the Sweet 17 or your loved ones with dementia. I know that we don’t even match up well against this disease….it is undefeated and wins every single time it is diagnosed. The giant is bigger than pretty much any of them. Think Ant Man reverse mode giant! However, we do have a sling. We may have trouble seeing the head it is so high…but we have to fight. Let’s do this thing! It has been done before…
And to the Bolivar Liberators, don’t quit! You can do it! You really can!! Joplin did it…you can too.
#EndALZ
Update: Mom did well again yesterday. She ain’t quittin’!
Thank you so very, very much for your amazing posts!
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God bless you and your family Mark, because God has greatly blessed me with your positive, encouraging posts!
Love Joanne and Dad (Dave)
Thank you very, very much! I hope and pray for a day that a cure is found. Thank you for the encouraging words. 🙂