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    CRITICAL NEED!


    2008 - 09.30

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    CRITICAL NEED IN THE MINORITY COMMUNITY

    Minorities represent 50 percent of the more than 93,000 patients currently awaiting transplants, yet they represent only about 25 percent of those donating organs.

    The risk of end-stage kidney disease for some minorities (African American, Hispanics, and Native American) is three to four times higher than for the Caucasian population. Blacks and other minorities are hard hit by hypertension, diabetes, and kidney disorders… diseases which lead to organ failure. In fact, of the 45,758 people nationwide waiting for kidneys, 21,697 are African American (35%), 10,282 are Hispanic (17%), and 4,502 are Asian (7%).

    Also, African-Americans and Hispanics between the ages of 45 and 65 have twice as much diabetes as do Caucasians in this age group.

    Because the minority population continues to grow (they now make up approximately 20% of the US population), the need for minority donation and transplantation can be anticipated to grow as well.

    While the number of minorities waiting for a transplant continues to grow, minority organ donations lag behind those of the white population. A breakdown by race in 2004 shows that deceased donations are overwhelmingly from the white population (70%). The black population accounts for 14%; Hispanic, 13%; and Asian, less than 1%.

    It’s critical to increase the availability of minority donors, in order to save lives within those communities. Fact is the best matches between donors and recipients often lie between members of the same race. Currently, the lack of minority organ donors decreases the number of well-matched kidneys and pancreases available for minority recipients.

    Back up and running!


    2008 - 09.24

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    I’m finally back and running this website with full force. You are probably wondering what has been going on with this website. Why I haven’t been writing for the past couples months? Well after 3 years of sharing my story I lost all my work with a recent move. Even though it was devastating at first I became content and realized everything is restorable. I actually saved a lot of my work. Even though most of it is gone and the sad part is the postings from those who wrote comments on my website are now all gone. It taught now to have a back up to the back up, Always! So I have a lot ahead of me but nothing impossible for me to do. I will restore this website as much as my own life is being restored you will see how it is not hard to pick up where you left off. Determine what the mistakes are and move forward making better decisions. I’m actually really excited because this story of mine continues to change and develop during the course of time from one outlook to another. There is so much to share alot has happened in the past couple months. There have been some major changed which included the recent move to Sacramento and all these little events that have lead up to being where we are today. I have plenty to share so you will see I will not have much to ever run out of.

    When I started this website a couple years ago I had all the right intentions in sharing my story in the best positive light. I wanted to share all the healing scriptures, motivation and great days I was having. I had to come to a place of realization that my biggest blessing was also going to be my biggest challenge. Not only was I going to share a message given to me but I was going to share this while I was going through hemodialysis 3 times a week being poked with the biggest needles anyone could ever bare, ever changing unpredictable events and I wanted to stay commited in going through all this with a smile on my face. So okay I learned to fake it pretty good. But that very practice is why I am here today. I’m telling you I would try with every possible way.. I would bring my bible to dialysis and the minute the machine would turn on the words in the bible would suddenly jumble, I would pray but the pain would be so unbearable that I could only tell you if faith was really there. The only thing I do know was there was something in me that kept trying despite of it all. Each day I had to ask myself how I was even going to be able to receive this life message with all the distractions and pain my physical body can bring. I couldn’t even make sense of it. Nothing natural made sense. I can say that I’ve been fighting hard and was determined to act in faith until the faith came and guess what eventually it has and it has in a mighty way!

    I chose to speak life despite of it all. It did take a few setbacks; I am here to account that as my health had to take few hits and for a minute my faith was in jeopardy and old coping habits resurfaced. Anger, resentment, frustration started to plague me like a deadly disease and my body responded. As my body was adjusting to the routine of dialysis and always doing a balancing act with food and water intake my spiritual life was following this same pattern. At first I won’t lie this did not come easy for a stubborn person like myself. As I will share in this website through my testimony I had to learn things the hard way and little did I know I still had hard lessons to be learned. Most of you know my story, I’ve shared it openly, I put myself out there and I never knew why I was doing this. This wasn’t even really my personality. I was quite for the most part, reserved and kept to my own business. I always wanted to be bias and fair and I came to find this was not a weakness but became one of my greatest strength and ability.

    Moving to Sacramento was all in faith. There really was no reason other than the door opened and we followed. Unsure what we were coming here for at the time it just felt right and it basically we moved in within a couple of months. It was sudden and most people just don’t upchuck and leave. For me and my family we already knew nothing was ordinary anyhow to begin with.. I realized my comfort can only be where God will lead me. I can’t say it has been all good because there is a natural for us to feel the change and the transition wasn’t all that smooth but we pushed through went through the motions just like any other family would. We have no special exceptions but we have learned to seize the opportunity and make the best wherever we are called to be. As a family we all had to do this and spiritually we had no choice but to lift it up all to God. I could only share so much in words what is happening but this change has brought so much new insight to our lives and a family as a whole. There is just so much that are eyes can see and I’m willing to open my eyes.. Things are much clearer these days and the balancing act is pretty stable. I know I am able to sustain this by keeping active and going out in the world to live life. Keeping this desire in my heart to seek the daily nourishment that is needed. Digesting only life and leaving anything that breaths death at a distance.

    I will be working on this probably for the next couple days/weeks but however long it takes I am inviting you back to share in this endeavor and journey. Continue by reading my vision and my purpose so you can understand what lead me in creating this whole website and give you a little background of what I am envisioning for this site. In the meantime thanks for coming by. Feel free to check in and see what changes I’m making. I’m happy to be back up and running and ready for take off!

    God’s Love Always!

    Healing Bible Verses


    2008 - 09.23

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    I wanted to share some amazing healing and intercessory verses. These are words that has helped me each day. This spiritual word is as effective as any prescribed medicine. I can tell you while I await for God’s miracle I stand firm on these words. I trust God is working in my life and as long as I stand on these promises I know I am headin right into God’s plan. If you have any present ailments please meditate on any of these following verses. Speak to God through prayer and ask Him to give you His insights to how these words speak to you. Proclaim them and stand in victory as this penatrates your soul so strong that your spirit will take over your body and soon the health and restoration will follow.

    I will continue to add more as I run into scriptures:

    Now this is the confidence that we have in Him, that if we ask anything according to His will, He hears us. And if we know that He hears us, whatever we ask, we know that we have the petitions that we have asked of Him. ~1 John 5:14-15

    “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is there anything too hard for Me?” ~Jeremiah 32

    Bless the LORD, you His angels, who excel in strength, who do His word, heeding the voice of His word. Bless the LORD, all you His hosts, you ministers of His, who do His pleasure.” Do you want to put the angels of God to work in your behalf? Then begin to boldly proclaim the Word of God in prayer. It activates the heavenly hosts to minister effectively in the situations that concern you. ~Psalm 103:20-21

    Jesus said: “Behold, I give you the authority to trample on serpents and scorpions, and over all the power of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.” ~Luke 10:19

    Jesus said: “Assuredly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth will be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth will be loosed in heaven.” ~Matthew 18:18

    “But even if our gospel is veiled, it is veiled to those who are perishing, whose minds the god of this age has blinded, who do not believe, lest the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine on them.” ~2 Corinthians 4:3-4

    “For assuredly, I say to you, whoever says to this mountain, ‘Be removed and be cast into the sea,’ and does not doubt in his heart, but believes that those things he says will be done, he will have whatever he says. Therefore I say to you, whatever things you ask when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you will have them.” ~Mark 11:23-24

    “I will give you a new heart and put a new spirit within you; I will take the heart of stone out of your flesh and give you a heart of flesh. I will put My Spirit within you and cause you to walk in My statutes, and you will keep My judgments and do them. Then you shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; you shall be My people, and I will be your God. I will deliver you from all your uncleannesses.” ~Ezekiel 36:26-29

    “My, son, give attention to my words; incline your ear to my sayings. Do not
    let them depart from your eyes; keep them in the midst of your heart; for they
    are life to those who find them, and health to all their flesh.” ~Proverbs 4:20-22

    Combination of Scriptures:
    “I will live and not die, and I will declare the works of the Lord” (Psalm 118:17
    4:20-22)

    “He sends forth His Word and heals them and rescues them from the pit and
    destruction” (Psalm 107:20)

    “Who is own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead
    to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed”
    (1 Peter 2:24)

    From the Book God’s Creative Power for Healing:

    To be spoken by mouth three times a d day until faith comes, then once a day
    to maintain faith. If circumstances grow worse, double the dosage there are
    no harmful side effects.

    ~Jesus is the Lord of my life. Sickness and disease have no power over me. I
    am forgiven and free from SIN AND GUILT. I am dead to sin and alive unto
    righteousness. (Col. 1:21,22)

    ~I am FREE from forgiveness and strife. I forgive others as Christ has forgiven
    me, for the love of God is shed abroad in my heart by the Holy Ghost. (Matt.
    6.12; Rom. 5.5)

    ~Jesus bore my sins in HIS Body on the tree; therefore I am dead to sin and
    alive unto God and by His stripes I am healed and made whole. (1 Pet. 2:24;
    Rom. 6:11, 2 Cor.5:21)

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