Saturday, October 24, 2009
Keshaun is 8 weeks old!
Wow...it has been a while since I have posted anything. Life has been a whirlwind of changes! Keshaun is now living with me all the time. I have gone back to working full time...and....I bought a most beautiful Condominium for us!! Locked in at the low rate of 4.75 percent, along with the 8000 tax credit! Keshaun and I will be moving soon! Along with the three cats! Jerrica, his mom, is doing absolutely wonderful. She is very busy working, taking care of the other three boys, and doing what is necessary to establish a home for Keshaun later on! I am so proud of her! She doesn't have to worry about Keshaun at all, because Nana is absolutely spoiling him, and there is a long line of others who want to spoil him! Deanna, at www.motherhood.com has written a book about how the Lord redeemed her life, and her journey from having an abortion to being the mother to six children, four of them adopted! She also went on a tour interviewing mothers, and not long ago came over and interviewed Keshaun and I! It was pretty exciting, and I must say she did a most outstanding job! Deanna is very talented and very passionate about bringing motherhood back to the forefront of our society! I encourage everyone to check out her website and purchase her book! Well, hopefully, I will write again soon before a month goes by! Pam
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Keshaun - 2 Weeks old!
Keshaun is now two weeks old and doing wonderful! Even his older brothers have given him the stamp of approval, and boy does that mean alot! More than he realizes right now! Jerrica is doing good also, and I am just thanking the Lord constantly for her progress. I have a friend that is providing her with an older van, and another friend that works as a staffer for a temporary agency, and she has promised to find Jerrica a job. Isn't that wonderful! It is amazing how much the basics in life mean to some people. Things I take for granted. Jerrica and her family are definitely a blessing to me. This past Saturday I was going to bring Keshaun to my house to spend the night and go to church, but thankfully, the grandmother had more sense and suggested we wait a couple of more weeks until he was a little bigger! Since there are illnesses going around and he only weighs 5 pounds 13 ounces. I am thankful for her! All I was thinking of was holding and rocking him for hours! Along with loving on him! Well, that is the latest, but next week 40 Days for Life starts back up! It will be from September 23 - November 1, and I am praying the Lord lets us intervene in another woman's life, and she chooses LIFE for her baby! The Lord is good, all the time, He really, really is.
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Friday, September 4, 2009
Woo Hoo! The Baby Was Born!
Jerrica and Keshaun!
Alright, I am running WAY BEHIND! The baby was born on August 28th, at 11:48 pm! Jerrica got to feeling bad the night before, with her blood pressure going up. She has had pre-eclampsia before, and had to have a c-section. Therefore, they went ahead and broke her water at 3 am Friday morning. She had a VERY long day with him being born almost 24 hours later. She also got very sick and ran a fever, but he was born naturally, and I got to go in right afterwards! She decided to name him Keshaun Jerell instead, and he is so sweet and looks like a baby doll! I think he is beautiful! He weighed 5 pounds and 3 ounces, and was 17 1/2 inches long. That was good for being 2 weeks early. I am posting a few pictures, two of right after he was born and one of him five days later. Jerrica, Keshaun, and the other boys are doing wonderful, and they are enjoying being together. Jerrica is very happy, and it fills my heart with such joy! She has such hope for the future and knows the Lord will help her! Love, Pam
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Jerrica, Kaleb, and 23 Days!
Counting Down!
Today, Jerrica and I did our LAST minute shopping for Kaleb! 23 days left until he is due, but personally, I don't think she will make it that long! She is doing great, and things are progressing nicely. I ask Jerrica if it would be alright to blog Kaleb's life, and she has given me her blessing. For any of you that don't know, this is Jerrica's fourth child, she is twenty four years old, and her other children are 5, 3, and 1 right now. I met Jerrica when she was four months pregnant and everyone was telling her to abort her child. The Lord had me intercede in her life, and I have never left. We are close to one another, and I am going to take Kaleb when he is a month old, and keep him full time until she can get on her feet. She is doing wonderful, and is getting an apartment in a couple of weeks to establish a home for her family. She may even have a job lined up to start after the baby is born! Because of her prior drug use, Jerrica's grandmother has temporary custody of the children for right now. She has been working hard these past few months, attending mandatory classes and following the rules of DSS to get her children back. I can truly attest to that. She has NO desire to ever do drugs again, and has reestablished a wonderful relationship with her children, who tell her they love her quite a bit! How wonderful that is! I believe the Lord has great plans for her, and my desire is to see her succeed, giving all Glory to God! She will already tell you how much He has helped and changed her!
I feel so honored to be a part of this. There are a lot of things I have tried to do since being saved eight years ago to "help" the Lord, but I can honestly say, this was not me. This is all God. This was a terrible area for me, and something I would have never done six months ago. See, I had three abortions when I was younger, and they really did mess me up, very badly. The worse part was not being able to bond with my children. Abortion doesn't just kill a baby...it destroys the mother, and has effects on all of her relationships. Doesn't matter what the pro choice people say. I was pro choice also, and locked down my abortions, saying it was no big deal. They STILL messed up my life. However, I didn't put two and two together until this past January when the Lord opened the door to the truth. Twenty four years I lived in my own private hell wondering what was wrong with me. Why I was the worse mother in the world, why I couldn't feel like most mothers. It was amazing when I started talking to other women who had felt the same way. I can't begin to tell you the work God did on my heart to heal it, and then to set me free. It was through bible studies, going to the abortion clinics to pray, and helping other women, that God healed me. He is good. He is so good I am now taking on a newborn baby!! Can you imagine?? A heart that couldn't love a child very deeply can now take on another woman's baby and love him unconditionally? My friends, that is God! He is awesome! So anyway, now my heart just loves Jerrica, and wants her to do absolutely wonderful, and she is! Because the Lord is going to help her...and us together!! 40 Days for Life will be starting September 23 and I encourage everyone to go out and pray if possible! I also encourage everyone to get involved with someone's life that needs Jesus and some love, there are so many hurting people out there! We need to share the gospel with everyone! Which, by the way....Today, as Jerrica and I were leaving Bojangles, an older Middle Eastern man, smoking a cigar by his car, ask me if we would like to "spend the afternoon with him". I politely said "no", and then something compelled me to turn around and go share the gospel with him. I explained what Jesus did on the cross for us, and how what he was looking for would never fulfill him. Only Jesus would. There was such a sweet spirit present. I guess he never expected someone to respond to his proposition with the gospel! Praise the Lord! God is so Good! He is very, very good!
I also want to thank everyone that has sent gift cards to help out with diapers and formula! It is so greatly appreciated! What a blessing!
Love, Pam
President Obama Copying 40 Days for Life!
taken from Jill Stanek
Am listening to the liberal religious teleconference pushing Obamacare. Obama is supposed to speak at some point. (You can listen in, too, at 347-996-5501, no passcode required.)
The call, called "40 Minutes for Health Reform," will introduce 40 Days for Health Reform, an obvious knock-off of 40 Days for Life.
40 Days for Health Reform launches today. (40 Days for Life runs September 23 - November 1.)
Comment by David Bereit, executive director of 40 Days for Life:
Some say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but using the biblical 40-days concept in an attempt to salvage floundering health care reform proposals that would mandate taxpayer funding of abortion and force Americans into health plans with mandatory abortion coverage - we are anything but flattered.
I am confident that the prayers of millions of people, imploring God to inspire people to turn away from abortion, will be a much more powerful force in shaping the future.
Gag. The White House's Director of the Domestic Policy Council, Melody Barnes, formerly of Planned Parenthood and EMILY's List, is currently on the call.
This is amazing! Big difference however! We are trying to save the babies, and he is trying to kill them in the Health Care package! Pam
