How did we get to AUGUST?!?

 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. 

Thoughts on a bully

 Hello, Faith full friends! Helena here!

 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. 

Stay faithfull, my dear friends!

Love, Helena 

Praying for Texas

 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. 

Join me in Prayer

 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.

Y'all. It is bad. Really bad.