Another Update.
My friend Carol, wife of Irwin who just passed away from Covid, now has it as well. She lives alone now and I know this is a very difficult periiod of time for her.
The caregiver to Irwin still has Covid, hit home but not doing real great right now.
Please keep them in your prayers and send them healing energy when you can. Carol will be getting a plasma treatment at the hospital tomorrow.
Thank You!
@lovendures what a tragic situation. Its so sad for all. I do believe that Ms. Carol will feel much better after the infusion. Praying and sending healing energy to them all.
@lovendures. Oh this sad to hear. I will send healing wishes to her and caregiver. Angels, hold them tight!
My deepest sympathy at the loss of your friend Irwin dear Lovendures! I will say prayers for his family and send protective healing energy to Carol and their daughter too. I am also sending you a virtual hug and know if I could - it would be in person! ? ❤️
Dear Friends, my friend Chris is better! I don't have a complete picture, but the word is her condition is turning around. Thank you all for your prayers, @lovendures, @opal, @theonegamer, @cc1, @Febby23, @moonbeam, @bluebelle and all others. I know your prayers made the different.
@jeanne-mayell, uplifting news! Light and comfort for her and yours ❤️
@lovendures, how horrible:-( Will continue to think and meditate for her and those around her.
@jeanne-mayell, thanks for sharing the good news about Chris. I pray that she continue to heal and become stronger each day.
I am sending prayers of comfort, strength and healing to @lovendures ’ friend Carol, her daughter Beth, and caregiver; and to @jewels ' friend, Molly. Please let us know how they are doing.
Much love to all of you.
@jeanne-mayell that’s wonderful news. May we hear more of these good stories each day. My heart goes out to those who have lost loved ones. Peace friends ☮️❤️
Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
Many people in the Jewish community refer to the act of this targeted murder of the Jewish community under the Nazi regime as an extermination. I believe this is an accurate description.
I ask for prayers and loving light to be given to all still dealing with the ramifications of this horrific legacy. Those who committed the murders, those who resisted courageously, those who were killed and those who survived. Prayers also for the healing of all family members and their descendants. There are far too may people carrying the scars from this dreadful time of our world history.
Not only must we "never forget" the millions of Jewish (and non Jewish) people targeted, but we must commit ourselves to do whatever is possible to never allow this to take place for any population again. We need to help heal our world from fear and hatred of others who are different from ourselves. We can begin by looking deeply within ourselves first.
These are things we all know but on this day, perhaps it is most compelling and appropriate to examine who we really wish become and how we can move forward to achieve all the good possible within ourselves. To then help others genuinely and lovingly see all the people of the world as brothers and sisters.
I feel that your post belongs in the Hall of Fame thread. My Grammy lost all her family in the Holocaust except for one brother and came here as a teenager.
I truly hope we will rise together in love and compassion for all others. Thank you for your beautifully written post so much.
I am so happy your Grammy survived with her brother, and so very sad for all they lost.
I am sure her trauma has impacted your mom and even you. My step grandparents survived the Warsaw Ghetto. They rounded up many Jewish children after the war and reunited them with a living relative whenever possible. My stepfather was born shortly after his parents arrived in the US after ww2. He never knew his grandparents, they were all killed along with most of his aunts and uncles. His 1/2 sister was a baby during the beginning of the war and her mom was taken by the Nazis to a concentration camp and murdered. His father put her in and Catholic orphanage and paid nuns to take care of her. He reunited with her after the war and that is how he came to find the relatives for the other children left behind at the orphanage and elsewhere.
His sister lived in fear most of her life, traumatized at such a young age. She was a lovely person, became a teacher and was very kind, but very haunted. She also was very vocal against ALL acts of genocide around the world. Notably what happened in Rwanda and Yugoslavia.
@walden-ponderer. Sending you love and healing. And trees.
Tears of relief today. FMLAand short term disability approved.
I handle escalated customers for a major online retailer, and I have felt so guilty over the last week leaving the burden to my fellow supervisors. See, we're one of the bigger companies to have told My Pillow to get stuffed.
I collapsed, almost into catatonia, on Jan. 5th, the day before the insurrection. It is not the first time a pending calamity (particularly one involving a mass of people behaving in a hateful, immoral way) has rendered me a quivering hysterical mess. I wish there were some way to harness this propensity as an early warning system, but in the meantime, I am just going to give thanks for a socially conscious employer with a good health care plan. Lots of folk aren't so lucky.
I too agree with @ghandigirl about your post.
My mother came to this country when she was 18 yrs old from Germany - sponsored by a wealthy Orchestra conductor name Hugo Winterhalter. Her 2nd oldest sister (My Aunt Mickey who died of covid April of 2020) married his son Hugh whom she met during the time the US occupied much of her area of Germany. If it were not for this sponsorship, she would never have been allowed to live in the US. My mother never spoke unkindly of any race or human being because of what she and her family endured during WWII. She didn't have a prejudice bone in her body and she taught me that everyone is essentially family, that we are all created equal and through God's love.
My grandfather spoke out against the Nazis so he was taken and put in a concentration camp for about 6-9 months. They killed his favorite nephew who was a soldier because he also didn't agree with the Nazis. He was released just before the war ended because he knew someone in the Catholic church who helped him. Plus my grandfather was a master wood carver and electrician, so they needed him to help the Church and his town. My mother was the youngest of 5 children, and all of her siblings had "issues" due to the war. They grew up poor, and they were all fanatical cleaners. My mother used to clean constantly, and one day I realized it was because she and her family were always hiding in the dirty root cellar of their building while the bombs were dropping. If we had an electrical storm, the thunder and lightning used to bring my mother to tears and she would huddle in a ball on her lazyboy chair.
I believe that's one of the reasons I felt such anger and conviction about T and the GOP right from the beginning. I recognized his and their "Hiteresque" ways. I get very emotional sometimes about the things I'm hearing from people in this country who are spouting such racist and fascist ideology. My mother is probably looking down from "heaven" right now ashamed and aghast about how folks are acting. She came here to escape from that ideology and embrace the way the USA was the "Land of the free and the Home of the Brave".
You are right - we must Never Forget. I hope they never stop teaching about the war in schools.
Sometimes, we need to hear about an answer to a prayer.
Just thinking about this prayer answered, has me in tears.
Many of you will remember the more than 276 Chibok schoolgirls abducted by Boko Haram in Nigeria 7 years ago. Over the years, some girls escaped and others were freed in government negotiations and in prisoner swaps. The last release of girls from their terrorists occurred in 2017.
I remember spending many days over the years praying for these young girls, and rejoiced each time another sweet daughter was reunited with her family.
Well, a beautiful answer to some prayers has occurred. Some of those still held captive just escaped their kidnappers and are now in the care of the Nigerian army. A father of one of the girls received a call on a military line from his daughter today.
"She asked me. Is this my daddy? Is this my daddy, and she started crying. The crying was so much and I couldn't hear her very well. I was crying too. I never expected to hear from her again."
"The whole family is so happy. Our house is full of people who are rejoicing with us".
Please send continued light and healing to these girls, those still missing, those who will shortly be on their way home and those who are still on their journey of healing from this tragic event. Their families as well.
I rejoice with the families of these young women and shed my happy tears with them. I continue to hold up the families of those who are still waiting on news for their daughters with love, healing light and many prayers.
Sometimes, we need to hear about an answer to a prayer. What a beautiful unexpected answer.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/01/29/africa/nigeria-chibok-girls-escape-intl/index.html
@lovendures, thank you for that message! That story send shivers down my spine when it happened (and it still does). I think it is one of the most horrifying things any group could do; stealing children and doing horrible things to them.
As for all of you mentioning the war; my family was in the middle of it in The Netherlands. My grandfather's two brothers were in the Resistance. They blew up the bridge of Arnhem and spent most of the war in hiding. My grandparents already had a family and tried to help people, scavenging for food in the middle of the night. My mother was born in the 'hunger' winter of 1944 and there was almost nothing more to eat by then. My grandparent's store was bombed twice and they've been on the run with little children along for the ride. I grew up with my grandmother's stories of hunger, pain and perseverance.
What I am trying to say is that I think a lot of Europeans have stories like this. We know the horror that racism and propaganda brings from a very personal point of view.
The holocaust was one of the greatest low-point of humanity. We must never forget. Extremism is always bad, no matter which side parrots it. We must be vigilant and we must teach. The stories need to be told and the people need to be remembered. We must never let this happen again.
So very well said Moonbeam. Your view as a European is so valued and important to this discussion. I am very much in agreement that the stories need to be told and retold. That we must never allow such an act to happen again. We all know it can and will if the opportunity presents itself.
Thank you for sharing your story with us.
Thank you so much for that incredibly great news! I could feel your tears because the part when she asks if she had her daddy on the phone just brought a tear in my eye too. What a wonderful surprise her father and she had to be reunited.