The Right to Die?????

If you've been reading the newspapers or watching TV recently you will have found out that Obama has put into effect some kind of right to die program. Such as when "the doctors or whoever thinks there playing God, decides you won't have a quality life, they can assist you in killing yourself, legally." This is murder, suicide, and biblical and morally wrong! And frankly concerns me a little. Euthanasia is the worst possible invention man kind has created, legally assisting people to die because they are terminally ill. BUCKLE UP PEOPLE! Your in for a ride of your life!! I find this appalling for someone who has been greatly ill, but has chosen to believe in a power beyond myself to heal me and make me whole again. Quality of life, is when you realize that life is a gift from God and that no man or woman has the right to take it away, unless they will be held accountable for it as murder before God on judgement day! I can't believe that anyone would want to die, I have seen death, and people it ain't pretty!! Death is something you don't want to face unless it is your time to go, and no one, I repeat NO ONE has the right to decide when your time to go is BUT GOD HIMSELF!!! When the medical profession decides to stop looking for cures, to stop curing, to stop caring and just to place a stamp on someones records as time to die, that frightens me. I can not understand why on earth people have become so inhumane, cruel, cares more about PET RIGHTS, than HUMAN RIGHTS! WAKE UP AMERICA, DO YOU WANT TO GO DOWN THE S&*T HOLE, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU, YOU CAN'T HELP YOUR NEIGHBOR IN THEIR TIME OF NEED, WHAT'S WRONG WITH YOU, WHEN YOU BECOME TERMINALLY ILL YOURSELF, WOULD YOU WANT US TO JUST PLACE A STAMP ON YOUR PROFILE AND SAY TIME TO DIE AND NOT CARE TO HELP YOU, YOU REAP WHAT YOU SOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This is truly amazingly wrong and tells me that America has lost her heart, her soul, and worst of all her conscience. When killing people is legal, when suicide is the cure, when God is someone of the past, America has gone to the dogs, and frankly I miss the old days where people actually cared about people, that's what made us America, the right to a better life, the right to care about ourselves, our family, our neighbor's, our friends, the right to want to help total strangers in their time of need. But thanks to Obama we now can legally kill ourselves. What a sad, sad, sad waste of time, life, and energy. Obama your wrong, the quality of life is when God says LET THERE BE LIFE! And you don't have that power to take it away from us!!!

I Am Blessed!

I am blessed! I was thinking on my illness and reading stories of other people with the same condition as me, and I truly am blessed! Sometimes it's hard not to feel sad or frustrated about having a rare condition, because it casues so many problems. But, for me when I was sick the most I turned to God. And I always turned to God, I still turn to God to this day. Doesn't matter what you believe about God, the fact is He healed me and He continues to heal me each day, it is a miracle I have made it this far, it is a miracle He healed me when I was my sickest and about to die, it is a miracle just to have life. Anyone whoever experienced a death experience knows not to take life forgranted, your blessed to be alive and any moment could be your last, so don't waste your time here on earth, or you may end up to regret it. But, I've come so far in the last few years, and God has contiuned to heal me over and over again. I am so blessed that I do not have the horrific symptoms I did 10 years ago, I am blessed God took them away, I am blessed I'm in mimanl pain compared to what I was before, I am blessed!! Have faith and you shall receive!

My Porphyria Story, sort of, excluding the gross parts!!

OK, here's my story, if your interested. It all started when I was in junior high. I started having major stomach pains, sometimes it would just be dull pains, while others would feel more like stabbing knife pains or in extreme cases like a thousand knives carving out my insides. I was always really thin and could never gain any weight, 5' 7" 100 pounds, yeah looked sick. I always had yellowness to my skin on my face. I would have extremely awful periods. Where I've been admitted to the hospital because of my period alone, that bad! My period has been known to make my blood pressure fall really low, pass out, get white spots where I can only see white spots and everything else is blurry. Anyways, it was bad. But I always believed in God and I always believed that he could heal me. So I would pray all the time and ask God to heal me. I would also go down to the altar at church and be prayed for God to heal me. Anyways, so I would go to the doctor and they would do all kinds of tests, test after test after test. Finally in my senior year of high school they told me I had a rare blood disease called Porphyria. It wasn't until later that I found out I had CoProPorphyria. Anyways, there is no cure for Porphyria, so we just have to flow with it. NO FUN!! But anyways, one night I got really sick and I truly believe I was going to die, long story short God saved me that night and healed me and took away a lot of the pain. I quite having real bad periods (although sometimes I do get the not so fun ones, but nothing like what they use to be, I do get weak and dizzy though) But I no longer have the stabbing knife or thousand knives carving out my inside pain. Sometimes I get sharp pain, but again nothing like it was before. I quit having the yellowness about my skin and started gaining weight and feeling better. Although I am limited to my daily activities. I do get weak and dizzy, and I don't always have the energy I should have, and I do have weird pains all over my body, but God has truly healed me because from what I experience years ago, it was life or death, now it's so much better than it was I am thankful for his touch. Anyways, thought I'd share my story with you. I didn't go into all the details, you don't want to know the truly gross parts. LOL!

~Rachel ;)

Ode to Electricity

My Ode to Electricity, sung to the tune of home on the range! Wrote during the last ice storm where we had no electricity for four days!!

Oh give me a home where the power acutally works and the water is hot all day.
Where the fridge works and the food will stay cold and not spoil on my plate.
Oh home home with the lights where have you been all my life?
I'm so tired and cold, can't see the end of my nose and now my little candle is running low!
Oh home home with the lights hot water to bathe by,
Where I won't be cold and end up with pneumonia just trying to take a bath.
Now the trees are all falling down, the roads has limbs all around, and I can no longer see my neighbor's house!
Home home where's my lights?And my hot water to bathe by? Heat on my feet so they won't freeze and my toes turn blue and stiff! Well now my lights fading out, I think I'll go lay down, under twenty blankets or so just trying not to be cold and think of Tahiti and not snow!!

The Lord of the Hills

Up on a hill far away stood the Lord of all. The Lord who stood in our place on our judgment day. The blood of tears he cried for us, the moans of hell he moaned for us, the weight of sin he carried for us, our pain and suffering he felt for us. Despised and rejected of men, yet he still stood strong for us. Yet we rejected him, we turned our backs on him, but he never failed us. How did we deserve such a great God? We don't, but he deserves us, deserves our attention, deserves our time with him. And so I gave him my heart. Just like I hope all of you do. Jesus died for us on Calvary more than 2,000 years ago, but what he did for us then and what we are to do for him today is still them same. It's always be the same, the same in 1801, the same in 1902, the same in 1957, and the same in 2009. Over and over again the same question is asked throughout the decades, what can I do for Christ? And so the answer is the same for everyone in every time period, in every part of the world. It's so simple, I can't believe I didn't realize it before now. What does God want us to do? God wants us to come to the cross, accept him in our lives, and let his blood wash away our sins. And to take the story of Jesus dying on the cross to all the world. Now we may all spread the story of Jesus living, dying on the cross, and rising from the grave to live again in different ways. Some may be preachers and preach the words of Christ. Others may be actors and act out stories about Christ. Others may be singers and sing about Christ. Others writers and write about Christ, others teachers and teach the words of Christ. There are thousands of other ways we all can serve Christ with our life here on earth. But they all have that common denominator to tell the news about Jesus. It's time the world knew there is a God, and not just any God, but a wonderful God who scarified for everyone on earth and came down from Heaven above, left all his splendor, to die on a cross for all of our sins. To free us from an eternity of hell and pain and to save us from our sins. I can't think of a better way to live all eternity then in Heaven by Jesus' side, praising God forever.

Christmas Traditions!

My Christmas Traditions include:

1) putting up a tree
2) a nice fire place
3) hot cocoa
4) Christmas dinner
5) listening to my mom read Christmas stories that my grandfather read every year at Christmas:

The small one (the one about the donkey)
The story of the candy cane (representation of Christ's blood for us)
The tree story (the three trees on the hill)
and of course the Christmas story from the bible.

These stories she tries to read each year at Christmas, just like my grandfather did each year at Christmas.

So Merry Christmas to all, alive and long gone, and to my grandfather who I will see again in Heaven, we love you.

Merry Christmas!!

Love,

Rachel Michelle ;)

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas!! Yes I said it, I didn't say Happy Holidays, Joy to the world, Peace on earth, Merry Holidays, whatever. I said MERRY CHRISTMAS!! It seems to me that people are more and more trying to take the CHRIST out of CHRISTmas. Why, I do not know. I guess people on this earth have got so far away from God that they have forgotten what Christmas really is about. Sure it's about family and being together, but that's NOT the reason for the season! The true meaning of Christmas can be found in Matthew chapter 2 There came wise men from the east to Jerusalem, Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? For we have seen His star in the east, and are come to worship Him. The meaning of Christmas can be found more than 2,000 years ago in a manger in Bethlaham. Jesus was born into this world to come to the earth that He created to live and die for all of us. So this Christmas when you see a tree or presents don't think about all the gifts and fun things that goes along with the Holiday, think about the baby that left His throne way up in Heaven to come to a earth that He created to save a people that He created; from their sins, Jesus is the true meaning of Christmas!

Merry Christmas all,

Love,

Rachel Michelle ;)