I had an auntie (now passed on) who lived near Portland for many years, and my sweet younger cousin still lives there (hi, Elizabeth!)
I heard President Trump talk about the awful things happening in Portland, that things were burning up and that the stores all had to close! I called Elizabeth to find out. I love that town and it was very scary for me to hear that!!! I haven't been there for year's but I want to go there next summer (when its warm!!!)
She said that it isnt true at all! She said she has gone downtown a bunch of times and there are a few protesters here and about but no violence, no burning, all is just fine.
Why would President Trump say the other stuff? I don't know!!!
Elizabeth also said that there have been people in frog costumes out with the ICE people. What the heck! She sent me some pictures. My word, these silly frogs all out on the street with those scary ICE men.
I am not sure what to think anymore. I do not like that Trump did not tell the truth about what is going on there. Elizabeth even facetimed me once to show me that everything is "normal" in Portland.
Im going too put a picture here that she send me.
It really bother's me that President Trump made some stuff up about it. It's just not funny.
Anywoooo. that's all for today because I have the laundry to get done
Goodness! Alot of time has past again.It's real late and I'm running on fumes as they say but I wanted to jot a few things.
School is in! It's been a busy time! As some of you know, I am a lunch lady, a recess monitor and sometimes a crossing guard! Ive had to train a new gal too and it's been a bit much!
Please pray for the little ones, faith full friend's. The children's faces are showing some strain, I have to tell you. And there lunches are different this year. I tell you, our farmers are hurting something terrible, and it is showing in the kids. They look tired, and even skinnier. I try to keep cheerful for them, but I know that there weren't no soybeans going out this sesason. All the talk is how China isn't buying them. My heart brakes for those families!!!
Have you noticed that the shelves in the stores are a bit barer lately too?? Especially at Dollar General, it just seems that it's harder to find the thing's I need. I had too go back three times for hand sanitizer! It felt like the pandemic days all over again.
I been thinking that the tarriff stuff has got to stop. I just hate that President Trump is insisting on this, and all I see are barren fields, empty shelves and higher price's too.
And has this happened to anyone? My neice ordered a fancy dress to wear to a wedding this fall from somewhere in China and when it came UPS asked her to pay $107 more before she could get the package!!! What is happening?
This isn't right and I am feeling very mad and sad about it. I just felt I needed to type it all out so I can get to sleep. I haven't been sleeping much!!!
Please pray for our farmers most especially and the little children in school.
But if any provide not for his own, and specially for
those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an
infidel.
Hello Faith Full friends. Helena here. You may have noticed my absence. No I wasn’t traveling again and no I wasn’t sick. Well, maybe sick. Sick at heart.
You see, I was very angry and hurt when I read Kerrie’s last post and her and me had words about it. I felt the need to step away from Faithfull Ladies League for a bit. I didn’t want our thing to be public and I won’t share much about it but some of my own feelings. And yes, some changes in me.
I couldn’t believe when I read her word’s, “I now see that satan was living in the President all along.”
I love Jesus with my whole heart. I grew up in a Christian household and I have many preachers in my family. “Preachers and teachers” is what we always joked about. We even have many denomination’s, thanks to my mama being Catholic and my Daddy from a Methodist home, and others beyond that. We always made it work, and it was instilled in me all my life that Jesus is the Way. I have served God the best I can.
I voted for President Trump three times. I felt he was the right man to stop crime, get the illegals out, and especially bring down prices. I felt he was righteous and would do the job of getting us out of trouble and putting us back on top of the world. He is the man to Make America Great Again!!!
So, Kerrie's words were very strong to me and hurtful too.
I felt I needed to stop away and lick my wounds as they say, I did a lot of introspection and reading and talking to my family and my friend’s and my pastor. And Kerrie and I talked alot. Me and her are doing better and I will be here with my Faith Full Ladies!!!
Kerrie and her family have been going through so much!!! Please pray for her and Johnny. I know she is in pain in her heart and soul about what is happening to Johnny.
The world feels so topsy turvy right now and there is a lot of wildness around. I have a lot to say about it but Im not sure how to go about it quite yet. I think I need to take bite size piece’s of all my jumbled thoughts.
I am going to do that now and try to make some short blog’s about the current events and what is happening my my heart. For today, though, it's about Mr. Charlie Kirk.
My heart is aching so about Charlie Kirk. What a fine young Christian family man, willing to talk to people and have debate's. I just can't believe his two little children will grow up without a daddy! It's so sad!
Now, you know, I have too say that I didn't know a whole lot about Mr. Kirk until he was shot and I was able to watch some of his wonderful debating things on college campuses here and there. He seemed like such a wholesome sweet guy. And smart!!!
Its a real tradgedy that he died and in such a horrific way. Right in front of everybody and it was just awful. Murder is wrong wrong wrong and they say that it was political because his killer was from the left. This is even more wrong! If there can be "worse" part's of murder!
People are upset and then I found out that some liberals are not really that upset about it. How can you not be upset about murder? That made me even more upset!!!! All the people I know were saying that the violence was wrong and murder is wrong. Of course!!!
But my cousin “Alice” (not her real name) and me have been talking some since our visit last spring. We gotten a little closer. She is a real gem!!! (Hi A! I love you!)
Anyway she sent me a thing about Charlie Kirk that shocked me to the core! I'm going to see if I can put it in here. The things he said. I don't think its A.I. Alice said this is really things he has said and it really messed me up the thoughts I had about Charlie Kirk. I almost didn't finish it but becasue I have committed myself to new learning, I decided to share it because sometimes we need to learn things that upset us.
Proverbs 1:1-7
The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
2 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of understanding;
3 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment, and equity;
4 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and discretion.
5 A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:
6 To understand a proverb, and the interpretation; the words of the wise, and their dark sayings.
7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
And Helena will not be a fool! I will learn!!! So even though it is shoking I read it and watched the videos. This is a foreign newspaper adn they dont care about what is happening over here so maybe its better than the dang mainstream media!!!
"I think it’s worth it to have a cost of, unfortunately, some gun deaths every single year so that we can have the second amendment to protect our other God-given rights. That is a prudent deal. It is rational."
"The answer is yes, the baby would be delivered." (Talking about if his 10 year old daughter was r*ped and became pregnant!)
"We need to have a Nuremberg-style trial for every gender-affirming clinic doctor. We need it immediately."
"If we would have said that Joy Reid and Michelle Obama and Sheila Jackson Lee and Ketanji Brown Jackson were affirmative action picks, we would have been called racists. Now they’re coming out and they’re saying it for us … You do not have the brain processing power to otherwise be taken really seriously. You had to go steal a white person’s slot to go be taken somewhat seriously."
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I really disagree with him on these things and I don't think that they are kind words. Also I don't think that people should be told about how to think and say about someone. If the liberals don't like him, so be it.
Baby's should not be having baby's. Especially when they are r*ped!!! and you know my learning about "gender affirming" stuff from my post last spring. And even though I really disagree on those ladies and their thoughts, I don't think he should be talking about "brain processing power" - it really looks bad because they are african american and it makes me uncomfortable that he talked about "stealing a white person's slot" I don't think they are dumb at all or they wouldn't have the jobs. It isn't the way to talk about people. If I was in the debate with him I would disagree about the thing he said about cost's of gun deaths. We have a god-given right to have guns but any death is not a "cost" for it!!! I am sick at heart for all the gun deaths too not just Mr. Kirk's. To many school shootings.
Anyway I am sad for the whole thing. I don't like that people are getting fired for using their free speech even though it isn't nice, saying that they don't like Charlie Kirk. I hope people can come together and mourn the loss.
I have lots more that I been thinking about but I need to do it another time.
My dear FaithFull ladies: I have been up all night with Johnny at the hospital. yes, we are back AGAIN!
When the children were sick and I was up all night, I always turned to Prayer. Just like now. So far, God has seen us through. We have had a mighty good life. SO I know he will Hear me and see us throught this time too. He truly never gives us more than we can handle so we can increase our faith and become ever stronger in doing His Will in his Kingdom on earth.
As I pray, I am also taking stock of this world. I cant believe how things have changed in just lo these months. I remember back in January how thankful I was for President Trump to get into office and start all the things he promised us. Then my worries starting to come in as I saw satan's hand start to be shown with Elon Musk. Then I had hope that once our President had got shed of Elon, he would start to shake free of the evil one and solve the problems we need fixed.
My dear Ones, I am hear to say that I was tricked. I thought satan was fighting for control of our President to turn back the will of God. I now see that satan was living in the President all along.
I have watched more tv than I care to say lately. Its on in all the waiting rooms. Because I never watched too much before, I never actually saw too much what Donald Trump was saying nor what he was actually doing. I had too much on my hands running my own life!
I have seen him fill up the White House with gold and he even stole a soccer trophy and kept it. I seen him talk about how he loves our military. But at the same time, I have to fight the VA for care for Johnny (he served in Iraq in the first Gulf war). I see him say that he wont harm us but will fiht for us. But at the same time I got to know a young lady with cancer whose last hope was an experimental trial she was going to start and then they up and cancelled it and shes gone to hospice instead. Shes just a beautiful smart teen loved by her family and so many friends and shes been fighting for her life so long.
I seen him say he loves our farmers, but I hear form Helena that Kansas is in an awful way. The farmers got the wheat in the ground. The government used to buy all that up for feeding starving children. Not anymore. And no other place to sell it with the tariffs and trash talk of other countries. I think Nebraska too.
Just yesterday I seen him say that he was going to have Putin come watch soccer in our very own country. The day before he said he solved 7 wars but maybe it was 10 and he solved ones he didn't even know about.
I seen him wandering around on the White House roof. I would say that maybe he is just starting dementia. However when he was talking about that Aligator Alcatraz, that made me realize that he enjoys enjoys hurting people.
I also believe in my heart of heart that maybe he wasnt a client of Epstein, but he sure was abusing girls. I have seen just too much proof on the TV with my own eyes. That corruption of the soul only leads to satan.
I may lose some of my beautiful FaithFull ladies about this, and that makes me sad. I wish I could make you see what I see (but without the hospital stays!!!!) One day, God willing, this all will be known. I believe that much like God testing me and Johnny with some hard times, God knows that this country needs to go through some hard times. I believe that God sent Donald Trump to test us and yes, Make us Great Again. But not by lifting up Donald Trump and keeping him there. No. God put him in the White House to get us to fight for God and AGAINST Donald Trump. I believe that is God's will and I hope He does not find me wanting and I hope He grants me forgiveness for having my head turned for longer than I want to admit.
I will stop now, I hear the nurses starring to bustle around and they will be in soon to get Johnny started with his day.
Know that I love you Ladies! Even if you dont like what I am reporting and you want to turn away. As always I am here if you want to say what you think or if you have seen things that worry you too.
Help, Lord, for the godly man ceases to be, For the faithful disappear from among the sons of men. 2 They speak falsehood to one another; With flattering lips and with a double heart they speak. 3 May the Lord cut off all flattering lips, The tongue that speaks great things; 4 Who have said, “With our tongue we will prevail; Our lips are our own; who is lord over us?” 5 “Because of the devastation of the afflicted, because of the groaning of the needy, Now I will arise,” says the Lord; “I will set him in the safety for which he longs.”
6 The words of the Lord are pure words; As silver tried in a furnace on the earth, refined seven times. 7 You, O Lord, will keep them; You will preserve him from this generation forever. 8 The wicked strut about on every side When evilness is exalted among the sons of men.
My dear FaithFul friends: Well. It has been a hot minute since I had a moment to hop on here. This has been a hard hard year. Johnny has certainly had him a time. We keep thinking that all is good and then we find out another problem or whatnot. We are holding on tight to each other and to our Faith. There isnt any other way through life is there?
It really is true "I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."
To be honest, I havent had much time to think about any of the politics and goings on in our nation. It is surprising how your world shrinks down when your own true love is lying in a hospital bed with tubes and such. I kept watchin that he would take just one more breath. I wish I could report that he is out of the woods. He is not. I do thank all those people praying for him and for all the messages from all of you. I know several of you have asked me to post our Go-Fund-Me here. I appreciate you wanting to help, but I feel like this space isnt the place for all that. Just know all your care is seen by me and I feel the love.
I have seen some of the news of late, because when you are sitting in waiting rooms for hours, you are just going to.
It breaks my heart to say this next part to you, my Dear Ones. But I have seen all the coverage and photos and all and I cant come to any other thought than that President Trump is in those Epstein files. The evidence that is out on the news already is daming. The way he keeps saying this and that looks just like my youngest would do when he was naughty when he was little. There arent no files, There are files but they were made up by Obama.
Dear Ones, it kills me that the person I put all my belief into all these years to set this country right, is actually a monster. If not, then he needs to show everything the government has and that he isn't in them files. You cant be my president if you have abused children like that. I know that God will cast him into the pit for eternity, but he needs to be held to account here on earth.
I renounce Mr. Trump. I look back earlier this year and I read all my fears about Elon Musk and I read about my fears about how Trump was asking. Now I know I was seeing that Trump was the rot all along and I was just blind because I wanted the best for my Nation.
I wanted the abusers and murderers out of here. But now I see people in masks putting zip ties on children and pointing guns at them. Those children arent criminals. I see a lady taken away from her baby hours after giving birth. That lady and that baby arent criminals. Her husband is a service man!
I wanted us all to get a good shake after Biden ruining our economy. Now they signed a bill to take food away from children and veterans and medicade taken away. Rural hospitals closing down. We are lucky we are close enough to Austin we can get Johnny to help in a hurry. All the people further out may die if they have a heart attack or stroke or whatnot.
I am grieving so hard for all those people killed in the floods round here. Even more with everything taken away. That dont seem like an act of God that those people didnt get a warning.
And I don't hold with us burning food that our tax money paid for. We paid for it, it could save children's lives.
All this to say, I am exactly the same person as I was when me and Helena started this blog. But I am also way different. I cant believe like I did before. If that makes us lose readers, then that's just fine. You are welcome to put your thoughts in the comments. But you are also free to Go. Being Faithful to me means staying true to God and to Christ, to Johnny and the boys and to MYSELF.
I dont know what comes next for me on all this. If you are still reading, we can find out together. I love you all.
Picture above is one of my sage bushes. Can you believe the beauty that God brings even the most humble of plants and places? He reminds us of our love everyday if we have eyes to see.
Kitty, my friend in Cali, sometimes send me things that she thinks I would like. She clips them and mails them "old school"!!! LOL!!! Articles and recipes and etc.
She takes the Los Angeles Times and she just sent me an article about Stephen Miller. Have you heard about this man? I think he is the next "Elon Musk" -- someone unsavory who is bending our dear President's ear and making him do bad things. I looked up some pictures and he has those empty eye's like Musk when he was being controlled by the devil!!!
One line in the article that caught my eye reads "The 39 year old has remained essential through Trumps second term, piloting an immigration platform that has sowed fear across wide swaths of the country - nowhere more so than greater Los Angeles, where federal agents have mounted a relentless assault on immigrants , sweeping up thousands in deportation raids."
The article is titled "Stephen Millers revenge plot plays out" and the author is Julia Wick if you want too look it up. I am not able to see it on the computer but maybe some of you can.
This article tells about how Mr. Miller was kind of a mean bully back in high school and I think he is continuing that and steering President Trump in this deprotation thing!!!
I'm feeling many different ways. I do want the criminal illegals OUT of our country. But I do not like what I am seeing about what they are doing with ICE. People are scared!!! and President Trump said quite clearly that he was not going to hurt the farmers and take away there workers but they are!!! And other worker's are not going to work because there afraid!
And now I learn as I was writing this that a man died in California from a ICE raid!!! Oh no I am just so sad.
I dont like the idea that this Miller guy is "piloting the immigration platform" because Mrs. Noem is the leader of ICE not Miller! I don't want him telling the President what to do because I dont trust him and as much as I do want to keep a handle on illegals most importantly the criminals, I dont think this is the right way!!! It is scary and I do not at all like that Alligator Alcatraz place. It looks very bad and not a place to house people. Arent they supposed too be sending the criminal illegals home? Not keeping them in what look's like a very bad place!!!
Anywoo this is worrying me but Im not sure what all we can do. I've left a message on Representative Schmit's line and I hope that maybe he can help stop the scary ICE stuff and get back to orderly deportations. Maybe you can call your representative too. This is how I do it by going here: https://www.congress.gov/members
My family came from Ireland. I feel like if America hadn't been here to escape the potato famine I would not be here either. I was always taught that God answered my family's prayers when he showed them the way to America. This has always been in my heart.
“Also thou shalt not oppress a stranger: for ye know the heart of a stranger, seeing ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.” Exodus 23:9
One more note. Please pray for our Kerrie and her dear husband Johnny. They have been through alot lately.
I am so gutted by the news coming from Kerrville, Ingram and Hunt. I keep just refreshing the news hoping for a miracle for those little girls and all the other people missing or found dead. It is incomprehensible. It is still raining where I am, but we are away from any creeks or water.
I have been meaning to report on my experience on social media. Now seems about a good a time as any since I am glued to the laptop as I search for news. It has been interesting for certain. It is fun to be connected to people far and wide who love animals, roses and books and who are deeply Christian. I thought it would be all politics and hate and liberals. I would say that most of the accounts on there are libs. But I have been surprised that although they seem angry, they aren't very hateful or ugly. So there is that. I also have to say that the ugliness seems to be more so from my fellow conservatives. The crudeness and the violence expressed is quite scary whoever is saying it. I am told some of those accounts are not actual people but "bots" . I hope it is true. It makes me sad that there would be actual people saying some of those things, no matter if Conservatives or libs. I made one comment about "the libtards" and immediately felt bad. That is not the kind of person I imagine myself to be.
I also have noticed that there is a lot of information posted on there that we just aren't seeing from our usual news. I watch mainly Fox because I think it is the most reliable. I am not one to get my news from some of the less established places. However, we are not seeing SO MUCH.
I was particularly amazed at how the budget bill has been covered by Conservatives. We get told "no taxes on tips" "no taxes on overtime" and "no taxes on social security" and that medicaid won't be touched. Well, there is some fine print about all of that that I got pointed to. This budget bill now seems very very bad to me. Our rural hospitals will shut down and nursing homes. Now, Medicaid isn't being affected just yet. The cuts will come in 2026 after the next elections. So it won't seem that bad now. But it is bad.
I also don't like the fact that we are giving money to people who don't need it. I don't like the huge increase to our nation's debt. I called Chip Roy's office to tell him to stay strong and vote no. I am very angry that he folded like a wet napkin. It you live around me and Kerrie, just be aware that he is a play-pretend guy. He makes a big noise about the debt and deficit and then next thing you know, he just goes along to get along. He isn't going to stand strong for his constituents.
I am also worried about the education cuts. Texas is sending so much of our school money to vouchers and leaving public schools to dry up and blow away. When our schools die, our communities die. Some of our towns only exist because of the salaries and money from the schools.
I am also not liking what I see on Bluesky about ICE. I don't want criminals in my country. PERIOD. Biden let too many in. I don't think that means we need to zip tie children at their immigration hearing. I don't think that means pushing a 16 year old to the ground and hitting her head on the pavement. There are a lot of hardworking illegals here in Central Texas. They are our roofers and construction guys. They take care of our elderly. They have been here for years. They are good God-fearing people. Once time my truck had a flat out by the dump and an illegal came and changed my tire in the hot sun and wouldn't let me pay him a cent. They buy food and supplies at our local stores. They are part of our community and we don't need to send 20 guys in combat gear and military guns to detain them at Lowes. I am also worried about the reports of US citizens being rounded up and held.
I feel like my eyes are opening up a little and I am seeing things that I didn't know about.
Oh, and another thing I am getting my eyes opened to is President Trump's connections to Jeffrey Epstein. There are reports that some of the girls were actually recruited at Mar a Lago! There are tapes of President Trump dancing and laughing with that monster. Lots of photos of Mr, Trump and Melania with that Maxwell lady. There are depositions of victims naming him. Why don't they release the files and put all the rumors to bed?!? This is something we need to know. I have supported President Trump with my whole being since he won in 2016, but if there is any evidence he was involved in that man's evil acts, WE NEED TO KNOW.
There are a lot of things that worry me about him right now. I will continue to keep my eyes and ears open and my mind open. I teach math. Numbers don't lie so we build on our knowledge with LOGIC and FACTS. We can't just go on what we want to believe, even if it feels good. Even if everyone around us believes.
Finally, please also keep Kerrie and her husband in your hearts. She won't mention it, but she hasn't posted much because a while back he got some kind of urinary infection that turned into sepsis that then had infected his heart. He could have died!! They did heart surgery and he has come out of that ok and is now recovering. It has been a hard time for the family. However, God has been merciful and spared him. We are grateful.
Today on this day of Our Independence, our Central Texas communities are being hit by terrible flooding. I am calling all my Faithful to join in prayer that God will be merciful and spare the lives of our people.
