ME-as I go through this zany, marvelous, difficult experience called: "LIFE"!

Reply Dear Friends and Fellow Prayer  Warriors, I would like to wish all of you A Happy and Blessed Easter! I am so joyful at Easter. This time signifies, to me, forgiveness, grace, redemption, freedom, salvation and a personal relationship with my God through Jesus Christ. I'm free and forgiven! My sins have been wiped away and I now am clean. I can approach my God and don't have to be afraid because I know I am under His protection. I'm safe in His love, wrapped in His Arms.  I know salvation has been given to me, totally undeserved. I have the promise of eternity with Jesus. Yes, my dear friends, I Am Free! Have A Blessed Easter, My Friends. Please, remember not only the day of Easter but, also, the meaning of Easter. Love,                    Evelyn Pinto                    March 27, 2015

                           Safe & Protected In The Arms Of God "I will carry you in my arms, just like a father carries his child" Deuteronomy 1:31 Isn't this great? I know that whatever struggles I face, whatever trials I go through, whatever joys I experience, I am in The Arms of God. I feel so safe and protected! _                                                       Evelyn Pinto                                               March 25, 2015

      TODAY, A Gift From God                      Good Morning Everyone! Today is a brand new day. Yes, we've been given a present, a gift from God. My friends and family, use this gift wisely. It's a day to mend, and to go out to each other, it's a day to remember (and visit) the people you meant to visit but, didn't or couldn't find the time.  This is the day to make the time. Today it's time  to send a letter or card to someone who needs a cheer-up, a thinking of you, a miss you or an I love you greeting. Today is a new opportunity to mend yourself and others..  Today Is Beautiful! Praise Be To God, The Creator of Creation! Evelyn Pinto March 21, 2015

                God Is Good All The Time! Yes, God is good. This does not mean I will have a life free of illness, pain, hurt, sadness and grief. No. It just means I will have the peace that only Jesus brings. I will have this kind of super natural peace,  despite the stuff that makes my life unpredictable. I still live with sickness, pain much of the time,  illnesses that plague my body and acute health episodes that, most of the time,  require hospitalizations. I will continue to walk (metaphorically speaking) humble through my life in  peace and with calmness and love, and with God,  though still being a kind of crazy,  fun ME! Thank you everyone for reading and sharing my blog on Google +. Please, continue to read and share it! I would love that.   Signed With Love,  A Graciously Grateful and Blessed,                                             Evelyn                                               March 20, 2015

I really don't like to discuss politics  publicly. This is not what my blog is about. This commotion about Hilary Clinton's emails was so stupid to me.  The thought of the media devoting so much time to Hillary Clinton's emails when so much other more important hews is going on and needs reporting made me think. My thoughts are  some powerful people don't want her in office, especially as the U.S. president. I wish the media could have also told their viewers how many other government officials have personal emails. There are many more than the media is reporting. The media doesn't report stuff like that. Maybe the media should take lessons on telling the whole truth.                                         Evelyn Pinto                                         March 13, 2015

                                                ME I have very visible illnesses that sometimes hide both the invisible ones inside and the person I am.  I need oxygen to breathe and use a wheelchair. I am NOT the wheelchair and really dislike it when people refer to me as "the girl in the wheelchair." Please don't ignore me. Don't pretend I don't exist,or think I am invisible. I need help, yes and I appreciate help immensely, but, don't rob me of my independence, pride and dignity in the process. I am very capable of making my own decisions, don't make them for me. Please, do NOT talk to me like a child. I am an adult with a good mind and don't like it when people start taking over my life. Please get to know me before you judge me or label me. Don't be afraid of me because of what's wrong in me, NOT WITH ME. Going through this life threatening  struggles, I need everyone's support. Don't be afraid to have a relationship as my frien

I am home from the hospital! Thank you, Jesus! My labs looked good. My vitals were stable and I was given a prescription to rest! Thank you all for your prayers and good wishes. I appreciate every single one. After a serious, life threatening health crisis, I feel grateful to be alive, blessed and so, so happy to finally be home.! I want to thank all the doctors, nurses, respirator therapists, primary care assistants and everyone at the hospital and all who set me on the road to recovery. I want to send a special word of gratitude to Pastor Gary McClenthen, who, wherever I am, hospital, home or wherever, he visits me and continues to be a major support, my minister and an awesome friend! Praise Be To God!                                      _ Evelyn Pinto                                         March 11, 2015

                                               MY HEALTH UPDATE #4 I'm so much weaker than I have been. Just moving feels, well, it takes a lot out of me. I'm congested, to a much higher degree, so congested that my insides (where my lungs are) hurts badly. and I'm feeling a lot of pain. I think it's going to be :A Hospital Bed-Room Day!" I would appreciate, and be so,so grateful for any/all forms of contact w/ me. Thank you, Evelyn (In the hospital) 3-11-15

Sometimes You Not Only Go To Church But, Have to Be The Church!" What is the church mean? The word church means assembly. When you go to church, whether it be any, Catholic, Protestant, Evangelical or whatever religion we meet to worship, praise and glorify Our Creator. In the church, people are there for one another. Does it have to stop at the physical building? "Sometimes, You Not Only Go to Church But, Have To Be The Church!"                                                                             Evelyn Pinto                                                                             March 11, 2015

                        Love In my life, when it comes to me: Many know how to say "I love you!" Few know how to express it to me Fewer know how to show it, to me. And really not many people in my life know what love is. Love means thinking of that person so much that you' are willing to put a person's happiness before your own. As I sit, alone in this hospital bed,  in this hospital room , in this hospital - Alone ,as I have been many, many, many times before, I wonder about - LOVE!                                     Evelyn Pinto                                     March 10, 2015                               

ME-As I go through this zany, marvelous, difficult experience called "Life"!: MEDICINE: AN EDUCATED GUESS 1-28-15 : MEDICINE: An Educated Guess! The more specialized the doctor is, the more educated the guess is . The patient is in trouble when the doctor...

I really feel I'm in this battle alone (battle of fighting just to live), and fighting it alone too. I know Jesus is always with me and I talk constantly and diligently tell Him of my fears in prayer. The fears of the dying process and of going through it alone is what I convey to My Savior., I talk of my loneliness here (as a patient in the hospital), my feelings of abandonment,  my need of someone just to hug me so tight. The hug, maybe, would be so warm and passionate that  my fears will just melt like sugar in the rain. I also talk to Jesus of how blessed I am to have the love of my family and friends. I've been talking to Jesus a lot these days!                                                        Evelyn Pinto                                                       March 10, 2015

                          My Health Update #3 I'm somewhat stronger today than I was yesterday. I was able to go out to the large windows in the hallway of the floor in the hospital. Guess what?    I saw the moon during the night, outside my hospital window. I also basked in the scenes of the dark of the night as it made a pathway for the light of this day to enter. There were such a multitude of magnificent colors in this morning's sky. White, pink, blue, and a purpleish sky, gave  glory to Our Creator, who makes all this beauty. Yes, though today was a difficult day with sickness and much pain. Yet,  I saw a beauty coming  from God in today!                                                           Evelyn Pinto                                       March 9, 2015

                                       My Health Update: I'm significantly weaker today. It's harder to move. I forced myself into the wheelchair, washed up and stuff. Got on a new hospital wardrobe (johnnies) and other clean hospital garments and slept again. It helps me because I do feel better when I get myself washed cleaned up and in fresh attire. Weaker, I'm Zonked! (My doctor says that sometimes you feel worse before you're better. She (my attending physician) reminded me that I have, and am being treate d for, both (again) the flu and pneumonia).. I'm just wondering about things........                                        Evelyn Pinto                                       March 8, 2015

If  If my accomplishments, don't fit yours or society's views of accomplishments,  then change yours and society's views of accomplishments.                                               _Evelyn Pinto          

I was in the ER and now an inpatient, at the hospital I go for my medical care. I am sick and just tested + for the flu and for pneumonia. I was admitted into the hospital because, as the attending doctor in the ER explained to me, the flu can make a person with a lung disease (or in my case, lung diseases) dangerously ill. It surely, as predicted, did! I really, really thought I could be treated at home. I saw my pulmonary for an emergency appointment today for that reason, to be treated at home. I was experiencing congestion, shortness of breath and other painful and worrisome physical symptoms. I guess he was worried also because he sent me here, to the ER. It just reminds me how much I, as we all are, am in God's Hands.                                                                 Evelyn Pinto                                                                March 7, 2015                                               From My Hospital Room Window; HOPE ·

The pharmaceutical industry has, with the help of the Healthcare System has gotten to the "got a problem, take a pill" industry. Yes, some pills work and are necessary. Most pills taken for a medical issue are worse than the problem they are supposed to treat. Some issues are not meant to be treated or fixed just to fit the standards and norms of society. The saying goes: If it's not broken, why fix it?                                               Evelyn Pinto                                               March 5, 2015