Many of us lived to see yet another year that wasn't promised to us!! We still have a long way to go in our recoveries from the strokes or our care giving but I feel we can make the trip a little at a time! Each year gets harder and harder but our will power keeps us moving in the right directions by God!!

I do feel for the couple in this world that has been together for nearly all their lives then he decided to shoot and kill the wife for no apparent reason then turn the gun on himself!!

That happened last night just blocks from my house as if I wasn't already scared of people shooting their guns in the air and drinking not knowing where they got the gun pointed!! I said to myself my headboard may save me if a round comes in from the side of my house!! Well you know I prayed and said our prayers before we turned in last night or I should say this morning!!

Last year we seen so many things that was unbelievable in lost of lives and with the storm Sandy and others that caused so much damage!! They got the damaged cares lined up in New Jersey I think totaling over 16,000 cars and trucks that has to be disposed of somehow sooner or later!! It may be a time to watch out for used cars being damaged by water before you buy a used one!!

We are all glad and thankful we got to see the new year in reasonable health in as much has happened in those last few weeks of the year!! I know I'm getting better every day but still it seem like recovery is forever in my head!! I'm not complaining it could be lots worse so I'm very thankful for what I can do and have the wife I got now that makes for a good day every day and a wonderful life in my mind!!!

I will continue to pray for all the members of Stroke Net that their recoveries be strong in the Lord!! He allows us our peace and rest in life always!! Its back to living one day at a time as best we know how except we will be a year older at some point this year!!!

We can't change the world there will be wars and rumors of war in this world but can you think for a minute how peaceful the world would be if we all could live in peace????? We speak different languages wear different styles of clothes, eat different kinds of foods but we all are humans you would think could find a way to live in different parts of this world without fighting and killing each other including children and babies!! One day, one day that day will come about perhaps for our grand kids and their children!!

It doesn't hurt us to pray about it and I can say the living together has certainly changed for the better in many parts of the world and this country as well until one day that dream will come true!! When we think about it destruction does no good for anybody!! We don't gain one thing we can use not even the knowledge of how to destroy!!

What did we gain in invading Iraq>> What did we loose???? Many citizens that would still be here today raising their children had it not been for lies and war minded leaders making decision a father before them should have made at that time!!!

I really wish all the survivors here could come to Texas and visit with all the soldiers with limbs missing and prosthetic limbs and burns over parts of their bodies and ask yourself "Did this have to be??"

So then the question becomes I survived a stroke but I'm OK! These soldiers paid the price of a go to war decision that didn't have to be given at all much less by a lie!!!!! Please pray to bring our soldiers home from all our NATO countries and allies by years end!! Not 2014!!! God bless our president for trying to get them home and stop the spending!!!