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Name: Pam
Country: United States
Birthday: 2/12/1959
Gender: Female
Interests: besides my precious family...art, music, shakespeare. i'm crazy about the psalt db8rs. awesome people. mostly, i love my Lord and Savior. He is my breath.
Expertise: hmmm...these days it's photoshop, flash, fireworks, and lots of listening
Occupation: Artist
Industry: Computers (Internet)
Message: message me
AIM:  bigvision2001
MSN: pamhausner@earthlink.net
Yahoo:  hausner5
Member Since:
9/21/2004
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That I was crawling out from under an avalanche. Oh, wait...that's my life!
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| After an absolutely horrible winter, it is spring. It was winter when my mother fell, was hospitalized, went to rehab, back to the hospital, back to rehab, and after two months returned home. It was winter when our bed was destroyed, the water filtering system failed, the washing maching had a meltdown, and everyone's nerves were raw.
Now it is spring. Mother is smiling and doing well, getting around with a walker. We have a new comfy bed, our water filter works, the washing machine is fixed, and nerves are not just stable...they are awed. Stefanie will be interning this summer with the Washington Times. Zachary has been accepted to College of the Ozarks. Toby will be graduating high school. And I've had as much business this first quarter as I had all last year...with much more to come. The Kansas City Business Journal will be profiling my company in May's issue of the Small Business Monthly.
Best of all, after such a dark winter, I see the glory of the Lord everywhere I look. I see lives being changed. It's as if overnight the dead trees are bursting with flowers of hope and beauty. I have always loved spring. But this year, more than ever, it testifies to me.
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| What an odd December this has been! My mother, my dear precious
wonderful adorably sweet mother, fell and broke her femur on Dec. 12.
Everything changed then. She was in the hospital for 8 days, and now
she's been moved to a rehab center. It is so strange without her in our
house. It was very icky without her here over Christmas. I can't wait
till she comes home. In the meantime, I live between home, the rehab,
and client meetings.
Good things in December? My princess Stefanie has come home for
Christmas break. <happy, happy sigh> AND she has been published
in a national magazine, WORLD. The December 24 issue. An article called
"Fade to Gray." We are all so thrilled! She is down in TX now for her
best friend's wedding, but will be back on Sunday for a full TWO WEEKS!
I love it!
And somehow, Ruth Ellen and I managed to create another annual Christmas card.
If I didn't send one to you, it's because I don't have your email
address. But you can enjoy it now just for reading my xanga. Have fun
decorating!
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| What a trip! Took me longer to get life back to normal than the number
of days I was gone. That's the tough part of taking a trip. It was
incredible, though. It's just like the reporters have said...the TV
footage cannot begin to show what is happening there. So many lives
brought to an abrupt halt, then suspended with little to no direction.
I'm SO excited about the Pineda family. I met them at a shelter and
through God's mighty provision, they will be relocating to Kansas City
this week. They are a lovely family who, like so many others, lost
their home and their jobs by the flooding of New Orleans. Everything
they own is in two suitcases. I hope they like Kansas City! I warned
them we have snow and ice. That will be new to them. And I love talking
Spanish with them. I think they will be pleased to find so many Spanish
speaking people in Kansas City. It will certainly help them communicate
as they get settled here.
I made a photo slideshow of the shelters we visited and worked in. Pam's Pictorial Report.
The photos only tell half the story. And we didn't get a pic of me
chasing down a truck with no driver and two little boys in it. At least
that story has a safe ending! It was way too scary at the time.
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| Some week already but nothing compared to the next half. I leave red
eye tomorrow to go to Baton Rouge. My amazing friend Laurie and I are
going to work in the shelters. We'll be mostly with women and children,
and helping to set up training for anyone interested in homeschooling.
So sad. Lots of these kids were separated from their parents and now
that they're back together have to leave them again to go to an
unfamiliar public school. How ick! So, along with regular shelter work,
we're going to help anyone that wants to start homeschooling. www.nbhera.org
I'm floored at how the Lord is providing for our trip. FLOORED. I'm
taking my digi-camera and camcorder to capture as many lives in the
shelters as possible. How my heart aches for those people! There are
250 people sleeping in the sanctuary of my friend's church.
Well, I've got a major workload to accomplish today before I'm ready to
leave my family and business. If you're reading this and the Lord
brings us to mind, please pray. Pray that we will be used for His
glory. Pray that we'll be given wisdom in ministering to the evacuees.
Pray that we can encourage and refresh the evacuees as well as the
local volunteers who have been working in these makeshift shelters.
Pray that we will magnify our Lord.
Thanks SO much! You have no idea how much I value your prayers!
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