Friday, July 4, 2008
Lift Up Your Prayers for the Kligmann Family
With a sad and sorrowful heart do I write this post. Rachael Emily Kligmann went to be with the Lord on the 2nd of July. Her family is broken. Here is what was posted on her Journal on CaringBridge.org -
I feel so sorry for the Kligmann family, for the friends who loved her, and the ones she will never know prayed for her. I was so sad when I learned that Rachael Emily Kligmann went to be with the Lord on July 2nd. I cannot imagine what the Kligmann family is going through right now. If I had lost a sister, or and aunt or a daughter, I would be heartbroken. I don't know how I would be able to go on. I pray that the Kligmann family will be comforted in this time of hardship. I will continue to pray for Rachael's family. They need all the prayers they can get, from their friends, and others who will never meet her in this world. Please pray along with me for this family. They are heartbroken over the loss of their daughter, sister, aunt, and neice.THURSDAY, JULY 03, 2008 02:19 AM, CDT
Our sweet little girl Rachael Emily Kligmann died at 11:50 pm on July 2, 2008.She is at home with the Lord and we are not. We don’t know how to go on. But we will find a way. We will somehow find a new way to do everything with a hole in our family, right in the middle.
Rachael died very peacefully and 2 someones tonight are in the middle or receiving lifesaving kidneys. I hope someday to know who they are.
We don’t know when a funeral will be yet.
We just want to finally sleep now that she is finally okay. We will face tomorrow when it comes.
Also pray for Amanda Kligmann, who was with Rachael at the time the accident occured. I can't imagine what she is going through, having seen her sister get hit by a car, and now that she is gone, I'm sure her heart is broken. Keep them all in your prayers.
With my heart aching with them,
I hope you have enjoyed reading the thoughts and happenings of a fourteen-year-old girl from the country. "You can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens you!" Philippians 4:13
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Wednesday, July 2, 2008
Prayers for Rachael Kligmann
Prayers for Rachael Kligmann
Some of you may not have heard of the family whose 12-year-old daughter was hit by a car one night when she ran a stop sign.. I am speaking of the Kligmann family. Rachael Kligmann was riding her bike with her sister, and was hit and thrown from her bike. I’m not sure if she was wearing a helmet or not, but she suffered serious injuries to her brain. She is in critical condition right now. She is on Life Support, but they don’t expect her to live very long.
Her family has been keeping a journal for her on CaringBridge.org. These entries are from her journal -
WEDNESDAY, JULY 02, 2008 07:58 PM, CDT
Rachael can’t survive her accident. She is dying. We will update here as we know more.
I know a lot of people have had their faith shaken to the core. We have trust that the Lord knows best and we are trusting that He loves us and Rachael is okay and we will be someday.
TUESDAY, JULY 01, 2008 08:19 PM, CDT
The MRI results were very hard.
TUESDAY, JULY 01, 2008 12:04 PM, CDT
Still waiting for MRI results.
Rachael moved her thumb in response to my asking her to squeeze my hand and then lifted a finger when I asked her to. Then I touched her left leg and asked her to move it and she did. The nruse witnessed the leg part. I let her rest for a few minutes and then asked her to lift her hand off of mine, which she did.
And YET…the nurse would not tell us anything about the MRI, the drs want to meet with us and anre conferring so I think they are going to tell us bad news about it.
And YET…if you don’t look inside a closed box does it change what is inside it?
This is by far the worst rollercoaster ride we have ever been on. I think next time we should just go back to Disneyland.
Pete and I are wearing down fast. Jodi (our pastor’s wife) promised us that this is the hardest thing we will ever have to do.
As soon as they tell us that she is likely to live through the night we can at least go home and sleep for a few hours and begin trying to figure out what our lives will look like from here, but she is still in critical condition.
It just keeps getting harder in lots of ways. But she is still alive.
TUESDAY, JULY 01, 2008 12:44 AM, CDT
I am so tired tonight. Early today was tiring by being good and later today was just tiring.
Rachael is *overbreathing* her ventilator by quite a bit now. But she is working SO hard to breathe that it exhausts me to watch her. Also she is running a really high fever; 104 + .
She had to have an MRI this evening. Poor little thing was having a hard time with it.
She cries. When something has been hard for her today several times I have seen tears from both eyes that seemed appropriate to what was happening. It seems like a cognitive sign to me.
Waiting for the results of the MRI is hard. They are trying to tell us what the range of expectations would be for her. This is hard on several levels. First of course is that it might be bad news… but even if it is…then it makes it hard for me to just believe that God might be doing something… and then on the third hand I am trying to guard my heart… and then on the fourth hand I am trying to be realistic… and then on the fifth hand…you get the idea.
I also really only got a couple of hours of sleep last night. I have been very emotional toight.
I want to go home. I want to spend time with my kids. I want to cook dinner. I want to just be normal.
Lord I do believe. Help me in my unbelief. She is not dead she is asleep.
Please pray for our finances as well. No one will tell me what exactly, since my son and daughter in law took over our bills (and they are very sweet to do so), but apparently there is a specifc need that they are praying for.
MONDAY, JUNE 30, 2008 09:27 AM, CDT
I barely slept last night. I was so afraid that I would miss the neurosurgeons rounds. But we didn’t.
When we went into her room this morning and started talking to her she started moving immediately. I watched her for a few seconds first and she was resting until we started talking.
Her arm started moving on my side where I was standing on her left. I asked her to squeeze my hand and her fingers started moving and her arm started twitching and moving. She started to “blink” her eyes even though her eyes are shut. fter a little while I lifted her eyelid for her on her right since I am not sure if she is blind in her left eye (they don’t know yet) and her right eye moved ever so slightly toward me.
She is initiating about 2/3’s of her breaths, not enough but certainly not nothing either. The ventilator senses when she initiates the breath, continues is and records it. Very cool. She is on only 35% oxygen now. Her pneumonia is doing much better.
She started coughing and it is just miserable for her to have her lungs suctioned. Afterwards I looked and she had tears in the corners of her eyes. Was it from the coughing itself or from emotion? I don’t know, but I do know that it broke my heart.
Just after that the neurosurgeons made their rounds. He talked to us afterwards and said that she had made purposeful movements but that she still has quite a bit of the pentobarbitol in her system and he is cautiously optimistic (too strong a word, but I can’t remember his actual word there…less than optimistic but in that neighborhood.) He also said he does not know yet where she will land on the brain-damaged-spectrum. Which is again my phrase not his.
What he did not do, which he had told us on Friday could easily come today, was talk to us about allowing her to die.
He also said that she is still at great risk for all of the other “ICU complications”; pneumonia again, blood clots, kidney issues, bowel issues etc. All of those things are dangerous for her too.
He wants to remove her ICP monitor and just leave in the catheter that is still draining a little tiny bit of fluid. After that is gone they can do an MRI and have it be more accurate which should tell them more about her initial injury.
Can you believe this is the first time they have even started to try to evaluate that?
I am starting to allow myself to barely become more hopeful that she will live.
My goals for today: Earphones and music for Rachael; seeing my kids; maybe leaving the hospital for a few minutes or even something like lunch. I *may* even try to run home and just look at my own house for a minute. Maybe, maybe not.
Pete is badly in need of a change of clothes though. :)
Today feels better.
After last Thursday almost anything would though.
This is the work of the devil. He doesn’t want her to praise God with her life. He wants to kill, steal and detroy her life. Please pray with me for Rachael’s recovery. The gates of hell shake every time we lift up a prayer for someone. Let’s shake them good now, let’s shatter them, brake them and detroy them. Pray for her and her family as they go through this time of trial. They need our prayers, they need them with a great need. Please, I ask you again, pray with me. Pray for her healing, pray for her protection, pray that she will live and glorify God with every day of her life. Pray also that her family will be comforted. PLEASE PRAY.
I know that if one of my sisters was hit by a car, and could possibly die, I would not be able to bear it. The thought of losing one of my sisters or my brothers makes me sick to my stomach. But this family may lose their daughter, sister, and granddaughter. Please, please, please pray for her.
I am praying. Praying hard. I trust that the Lord can heal this little girl’s body. He can!
Still praying,
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
Mark 3
Sincerely,1And he entered again into the synagogue; and there was a man there which had a withered hand.
2And they watched him, whether he would heal him on the sabbath day; that they might accuse him.
3And he saith unto the man which had the withered hand, Stand forth.
4And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.
5And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved for the hardness of their hearts, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thine hand. And he stretched it out: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
6And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.
7But Jesus withdrew himself with his disciples to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judaea,
8And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and from beyond Jordan; and they about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, when they had heard what great things he did, came unto him.
9And he spake to his disciples, that a small ship should wait on him because of the multitude, lest they should throng him.
10For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.
11And unclean spirits, when they saw him, fell down before him, and cried, saying, Thou art the Son of God.
12And he straitly charged them that they should not make him known.
13And he goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him.
14And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach,
15And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils:
16And Simon he surnamed Peter;
17And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder:
18And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite,
19And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an house.
20And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.
21And when his friends heard of it, they went out to lay hold on him: for they said, He is beside himself.
22And the scribes which came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and by the prince of the devils casteth he out devils.
23And he called them unto him, and said unto them in parables, How can Satan cast out Satan?
24And if a kingdom be divided against itself, that kingdom cannot stand.
25And if a house be divided against itself, that house cannot stand.
26And if Satan rise up against himself, and be divided, he cannot stand, but hath an end.
27No man can enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he will first bind the strong man; and then he will spoil his house.
28Verily I say unto you, All sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:
29But he that shall blaspheme against the Holy Ghost hath never forgiveness, but is in danger of eternal ****ation.
30Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.
31There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him.
32And the multitude sat about him, and they said unto him, Behold, thy mother and thy brethren without seek for thee.
33And he answered them, saying, Who is my mother, or my brethren?
34And he looked round about on them which sat about him, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!
35For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.
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Saturday, June 28, 2008
Saturday Psalm & Praise - A Closer Walk With Thee
Yes, we need a closer walk with Him. I hope you learn that with this song, and act on it. :)
by Haldor Lillenas, 1885-1959
Lord, I am pleading, hear Thou my prayer,
Let me Thy blessed fellowship share,
From day to day Thy servant I'd be,
Grant me a closer walk with Thee.
Oh, for a closer walk with Thee,
Near to Thy side I ever would be;
Shield me and hide me
Into a closer walk with Thee.
Voices of earth unnumbered I hear,
Cares and perplexing problems are near,
Trusting in Thee my soul shall be free,
Grant me a closer walk with Thee.
Oh, for a closer walk with Thee,
Near to Thy side I ever would be;
Shield me and hide me
Into a closer walk with Thee.
Strong are the foes that conquer I must,
Long is the way, but in Thee I trust;
In my own strength but weakness I see,
Grant me a closer walk with Thee.
Oh, for a closer walk with Thee,
Near to Thy side I ever would be;
Shield me and hide me
Into a closer walk with Thee.
Glorious Master, King of my soul,
On Thee my burdens gladly I roll:
Thou art my portion eternally,
Grant me a closer walk with Thee.
Oh, for a closer walk with Thee,
Near to Thy side I ever would be;
Shield me and hide me
Into a closer walk with Thee.
Sincerely,
Lady Rachel
I hope you have enjoyed reading the thoughts and happenings of a fourteen-year-old girl from the country. "You can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens you!" Philippians 4:13
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Graham Cracker House
Sorry, I have not gotten the post about vacation done yet. :( But I was looking for some recipes on Kraft.com, and found this one. It's like a gingerbread house, but with graham crackers. I can't wait to try it!
Graham Cracker House
9 squares HONEY MAID Honey Grahams1/2 cup ready-to-spread white frosting9 Mini OREO Bite Size Chocolate Sandwich CookiesASSEMBLE house, using 1 graham for floor and 4 for walls, sealing all seams with frosting. Cut 1 graham in half diagonally; with frosting, attach cut sides of graham halves to opposite ends of house top to form roof supports. With frosting, attach 2 grahams to form roof, sealing all edges. Allow house to dry completely.
CUT remaining grahams to use for doors and windows; attach with frosting. Separate cookies. Attach to roof, filling-side down, with frosting. Decorate as desired using remaining frosting, cookies, grahams and assorted candies.
If you make it, tell me how you like it. :)
Oh and I am hosting the Homesteading Carnival for this week. Come by and take a look please - The 56th Homesteading Carnival - Just Around.
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Friday, June 20, 2008
Happy Birthday Caleb and Daddy! :)
Today is Dad's birthday. The 18th was my Lil' Bro Caleb's birthday. I was not able to post about it then, so I am doing a combined birthday post for them both.
First, I must sing the song -
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR CALEB AND DAD!
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
If you wish to leave a comment for Caleb, go to Mom's blog, Walking Therein, and leave one. He thinks that her blog is his blog too. He is so funny when he says to Mom, "Can I looka mina blog?" :D What a sweetie he is! Caleb was the poster-boy for Miss Kylie's 20 Day Prayer Challenge, as you see here -
Miss Jocelyn did a super-neat post ab out his birthday... she even put a slideshow on it. Very cute pictures of him in his Cowboy Outfit. She wrote a poem about him too. Go check it out!
Our Cowboy Caleb
Sincerely,
Ps. I will also be blogging at our own URL here pretty soon. :) You can check out my new blog here: A City on a Hill There are no posts yet, and I am still looking for a title. Could you all help me with that? Should I leave it the Milk & Honey TeaRoom? Or change it? :) Help me, please!
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008
The 13th Psalm.................
Sorry I haven't been blogging that much lately... I've been busy. I do not have a post typed up and ready for posting, so I thought I would post a quick Psalm for you guys to read before I go eat lunch. :) Hope you all enjoy this one. Sorry I missed the Saturday Psalm & Praise last week. I will try to post for you all more often. :)
The 13th Psalm
1How long wilt thou forget me, O LORD? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
2How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
3Consider and hear me, O LORD my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
4Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
5But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
6I will sing unto the LORD, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.
It's a short one, but it will do until I can get an actual post up about what I have been doing lately. :) Have a great and blessed day! Many blessings fall upon the paths you tread...
Sincerely,
I hope you have enjoyed reading the thoughts and happenings of a fourteen-year-old girl from the country. "You can do all things through CHRIST who strengthens you!" Philippians 4:13
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Sunday, June 1, 2008
Have A Very Happy Birthday... Eric!
Happy Birthday, dear Eric. Today you are turning 11. 11 years you have blessed us... now it's time to say......
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You are my very best friend... and you mean a lot to me. I very much appreciate the help you give me with things like doing barn chores, and taking Blondie out, and drying the dishes when I need you to. You are a very helpful little boy. You are growing to be such a "wonderful worker" as Mr. Wonka would say. I wish you the very best of birthdays, and hope your party is very much to your liking.
Now, we are having your birthday in a very nice *barn.* Yes, I know that is not a very, *very* good place for a party, with the goats maaing, and the chickens clucking and crowing. I thought that would be good country music for the party. :D Don't you think it is a good music choice? We are also having country dances here. There are lots of dances... and you must dance at least half of them... ok... I will let you off easy - 4 dances will do.
There is a table with all kinds of country foods - Hot dogs, hamburgers, cabbage salad, home fries, home-canned pickles. Plus all the deserts and goodies you are having - Cookies *all the kinds you want* cranberry fluff, brownies, and lots of your favourite goodies and treats. We have lots of nice summertime refreshments - Honey lemonade, iced tea... and lots of other great drinks. :) How does the party look? I hope you are enjoying it.
The presents have been set out on an old tractor. I know you like tractors, so I arranged to rent an old antique one from an antique dealer. It's an old green John Deer tractors. There are so many gifts, it's completely covered! I wrapped my gift in old-looking wrapping paper.
Ok.... now... you'll have to wait until your *actual In-Real-Life* party, which I now must end this entry about your birthday and go prepare for.
Many blessings come your way, my dear brother. :)
With Love,
Big Sis Rae
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
Congratulations... Eyebright!
I want o congratulate my dear friend Eyebright on the event of her graduation. Eyebright, even though I don't know her as well as I like, has been a great friend to me. Not to mention an encouragement in my walk with the Lord and the calling of being a stay-at-home mom, with the examples I receive from her.
My blessings to you in this new year are:
May the Lord keep you and guide you in the way which He has appointed for you. May you always obey His commandments. May He bless you with a willing spirit to do His will. May He bless you with many friends (even though you already have quite a few!) and be gracious to you. May He also give you lots of sweet children, who will grow in righteousness and will be a joy to you. May the Lord BLESS YOU AND KEEP YOU ALL THE DAYS OF YOUR LIFE. :)
Here are some Bible verses for you to look at:
Psalm 1:1
Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful.
Matthew 5:5
Blessed are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
Matthew 5:6
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.
Matthew 5:8
Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
Matthew 13:16
But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.
Sincerely,
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
Saturday Psalm & Praise - Psalm 44
Bible Verse of the Day:
Psalm 44:26
26Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
I have yet another Psalm for today! I hope you enjoy this! I just random picked the Psalms.
Psalm 441We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
2How thou didst drive out the heathen with thy hand, and plantedst them; how thou didst afflict the people, and cast them out.
3For they got not the land in possession by their own sword, neither did their own arm save them: but thy right hand, and thine arm, and the light of thy countenance, because thou hadst a favour unto them.
4Thou art my King, O God: command deliverances for Jacob.
5Through thee will we push down our enemies: through thy name will we tread them under that rise up against us.
6For I will not trust in my bow, neither shall my sword save me.
7But thou hast saved us from our enemies, and hast put them to shame that hated us.
8In God we boast all the day long, and praise thy name for ever. Selah.
9But thou hast cast off, and put us to shame; and goest not forth with our armies.
10Thou makest us to turn back from the enemy: and they which hate us spoil for themselves.
11Thou hast given us like sheep appointed for meat; and hast scattered us among the heathen.
12Thou sellest thy people for nought, and dost not increase thy wealth by their price.
13Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.
14Thou makest us a byword among the heathen, a shaking of the head among the people.
15My confusion is continually before me, and the shame of my face hath covered me,
16For the voice of him that reproacheth and blasphemeth; by reason of the enemy and avenger.
17All this is come upon us; yet have we not forgotten thee, neither have we dealt falsely in thy covenant.
18Our heart is not turned back, neither have our steps declined from thy way;
19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.
20If we have forgotten the name of our God, or stretched out our hands to a strange god;
21Shall not God search this out? for he knoweth the secrets of the heart.
22Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; we are counted as sheep for the slaughter.
23Awake, why sleepest thou, O Lord? arise, cast us not off for ever.
24Wherefore hidest thou thy face, and forgettest our affliction and our oppression?
25For our soul is bowed down to the dust: our belly cleaveth unto the earth.
26Arise for our help, and redeem us for thy mercies' sake.
Sincerely,Lady Rachel
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