TnT

July 15, 2005

I must say I enjoy reading the scanner post. I really thing RRR does a great job keeping it up to date on the happenings in the county and I feel that is what this site is all about, informing the community.

July 14, 2005

Well Not all of us are bad.... Me and hubby both are PK kids and I feel we turned out pretty good...LOL

I think we are all human and we all make mistakes. I am sure that we have both done things that daddy would not be proud of but I am sure that everyone could say the same thing.

July 14, 2005

They will be in our prayers.

July 14, 2005

I do not know who this Ikaintspael is but it does seems to me IT is Trouble. And it cause it self littlefriend but that can't be true because friends do not do friends that way.

July 14, 2005

Very good looking young man....

July 14, 2005

I remember that saying. It was if your child ate sand or dirt they needed to take zinc.

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I am not sure if it is zinc or not that their body needs but if you just really like to eat sand I would say you are missing something in the head... I just can't seem to think why anyone would want to eat sand.

July 14, 2005

We need to get it fixed to where we can have all the computers in our house online at one time. The way it is now we have the DSL box on a computer in my bedroom but each of our kids have a computer and we have to sign off for them to be able to sign on to the other computers. We just have not took the time to get the other equipment so we can get them all on line.

July 14, 2005

We love DSL.... Did you go with Bellsouth or who did you go with?

July 14, 2005

I'm Lost....

Sorry Pauldingbiz for stealing your signature...

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Don't feel bad I am also LOST.....

July 13, 2005

We will keep this family in our thoughts and prayers. The days to come will be hard but with prayer God's GRACE will see them through.

July 13, 2005

We have a guy that comes by the bank about once a week selling steaks and I know several of the girls buy from him all the time. I have never bought anything but the girls have always had good luck with what they have bought.

July 13, 2005

A cold March wind danced around the dead of night in Dallas as the

doctor

walked into the small hospital room of Diana Blessing. Still groggy

from

surgery, her husband David held her hand as they braced themselves for

the

latest news. That afternoon of March 10, 1991, complications had forced

Diana, only 24 weeks pregnant, to undergo an emergency Cesarean to

deliver the

couple's new daughter, Dana Lu Blessing. At 12" long and weighing only

one

pound and nine ounces, they already knew she was perilously premature.

Still, the doctor's soft words dropped like bombs. "I don't think she's

going to make it," he said, as kindly as he could. There's only a

10-percent

chance she will live through the night, and even then, if by some slim

chance

she does make it, her future could be a very cruel one."

Numb with disbelief, David and Diana listened as the doctors described

the

devastating problems Dana would likely face if she survived.

She would never walk, she would never talk, she would probably be blind,

and she would certainly be prone to other catastrophic conditions

from

cerebral palsy to complete mental retardation, and on and on.

No! No," was all Diana could say. She and David, with their 5 year old

son

Dustin, had long dreamed of the day they would have a daughter to become

a

family of four. Now, within a matter of hours,that dream was slipping

away.

Through the dark hours of morning as Dana held onto life by the thinnest

thread, Diana slipped in and out of sleep, growing more and more

determined

that their tiny daughter would live and live to be a healthy,happy young girl.

But David, fully awake and listening to additional dire details of their

daughter's chances of ever leaving the hospital alive, much less healthy,

knew

he must confront his wife with the inevitable.

David walked in and said that they needed to talk about making funeral

arrangements. Diana remembers she felt so bad for him because he was

doing

everything, trying to include me in what was going on, but I just

wouldn't

listen, I couldn't listen. I said, "No, that is not going to happen, no

way! I

don't care what the doctors say. Dana is not going to die! One day

she

will be just fine, and she will be coming home with us!"

As if willed to live by Diana's determination, Dana clung to life hour

after hour, with the help of every medical machine and marvel her

miniature body

could endure. But as those first days passed, a new agony set in for

David

and Diana. Because Dana's underdeveloped nervous system was essentially

'raw', the lightest kiss or caress only intensified her discomfort, so

they

couldn't even cradle their tiny baby girl against their chests to offer

the

strength of their love. All they could do, as Dana struggled alone

beneath the

ultraviolet light in the tangle of tubes and wires, was to pray that God

would stay close to their precious little girl. There was never a

moment

when Dana suddenly grew stronger.

But as the weeks went by, she did slowly gain an ounce of weight here

and

an ounce of strength there. At last, when Dana turned two months old, her

parents were able to hold her in their arms for the very first time.

And two

months later,though doctors continued to gently but grimly warn that her

chances of surviving, much less living any kind of normal life were next

to

zero, Dana went home from the hospital, just as her mother had

predicted.

Today, five years later, Dana is a petite but feisty young girl with

glittering gray eyes and an unquenchable zest for life. She

shows no signs whatsoever of any mental or physical impairment. Simply,

she

is everything a little girl can be and more.

But---that happy ending is far from the end of her story. One blistering

afternoon in the summer of 1996 near her home in Irving, Texas, Dana was

sitting in her mother's lap in the bleachers of a local ballpark where

her

brother Dustin's baseball team was practicing.

As always, Dana was chattering nonstop with her mother and several

other

adults sitting nearby when she suddenly fell silent. Hugging her arms

across

her chest, little

Dana asked, "Do you smell that?"

Smelling the air and detecting the approach of a thunderstorm,Diana

replied, "Yes, it smells like rain."

Dana closed her eyes and again asked, "Do you smell that?"

Once again, her mother replied, "Yes, I think we're about to get wet, it

smells like rain."

Still caught in the moment, Dana shook her head, patted her thin

shoulders

with her small hands and loudly announced, "No, it smells like Him. It

smells like God when you lay your head on His chest."

Tears blurred Diana's eyes as Dana then happily hopped down to play

with

the other children. Before the rains came, her daughter's words

confirmed

what Diana and all the members of the extended Blessing family had

known, at

least in their hearts, all along. During those long days and nights of

her

first two months of her life, when her nerves were too sensitive for

them

to touch her, God was holding Dana on His chest, and it is His loving

scent

that she remembers so well.

You now have 1 of 2 choices.

You can either pass this on and let other people catch the chills like

you

did, or you can delete this and act like it didn't touch your heart like

it

did mine.

IT'S YOUR CALL!

I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me."

Smell the rain. THE SMELL OF RAIN ... IT WILL GIVE YOU CHILLS.

July 12, 2005

You can't go around Dallas anymore for redlights on 278

July 12, 2005

On which side of Dallas do you live?

<{POST_SNAPBACK}>

The side near Hospital

July 12, 2005

I do not know. I know that this is a new program this year at EPHS and she is going to teach.

July 12, 2005

Well if you come down the street by the courthouse also in front of Curl's you will see the new brick sidewalks with flower pots and they really take up a lot of the road...

July 12, 2005

I did not know when or if it would close but Cathy has taken a teaching job at EPHS. She is going to be teaching students to cut your hair...

July 12, 2005

How are we Suppost to get thur Dallas when the flower pot sidewalk takes up the whole street?

July 12, 2005

The land next to us is in the City and our land could be annexed (sp) in very easily.

July 12, 2005

Thats what we are worried about. We heard they were looking at our property and the one next to us.

July 12, 2005

I heard they were looking for property for a new court house Has anyone heard anything about it??????????

July 11, 2005

Thanks to you all for your prayers...

July 10, 2005

Please pray for my family. I lost my 85 year old grand father today. Had he made it 2 more weeks he and my grandmother would have been married 65 years. He is going to be missed so much.

And if it was not enough having to drive back from Summerville where they live and it raining and we had a wreck on the way home.

I really need prayers....

July 9, 2005

Congrats on the new baby. You will be in our thoughts and prayers for a healthy baby.

I know it is so hard to lose a child. I was blessed to have 15 years with my son but I understand the few hours you had with your son was also a blessing to you and either way hours or years it is still so hard to let one go. Just know you and your family are truly in our thoughts.

May God bless you with another child in my prayer.

July 7, 2005

You Know Your Church Is A Redneck Church if....

the finance committee refuses to provide funds for the purchase of a chandelier because none of the members knows how to play one.