Spread The Word Everyday

YESTERDAY: Yesterday was my (un)BIRTHDAY. Sally agreed to video tape me in my recliner and I also took a self picture and posted it on MY public blog. Yesterday was just another retirement day. I wrote about my thoughts for the day and posted to my blog. What was really neat was a phone visit with my mother. She turned 95 last Nov 1,2008 and I was thrilled to hear her voice. Mom is living in a retirement center in Brookings SD called Greenleaf. She is getting more and more physically frail. Fortunately MoM has all her senses about her and she can intelligently carry on a phone conversation. CeCe (that’s what my DaD called her) and I have a mutual sense of humor. She informed me that she loves me and she even loves my weird sense of humor. I felt so honored to visit with my mother on the phone. I MISS MY MOTHER! I’m a mommy’s boy if you all may or may not know. Another voice phone mail was from my great niece Taylor. She’s a beautiful girl. She’s maybe 5-6 years old? I’ll h...

MY (un) BIRTHDAY: OK .. It’s my birthday .. DAMM IT After next year, I’ll be 65. After that, I’m going the other way, reverse birthday if you’d like. I have uploaded a video and self photo. Sally has approved. No word from my prodigal family’s approval yet. Details on the Internet. Myron@myownfaith2.com Posted: 1/23/2009 9:32:16 AM

1/15/2009 5:16:17 AM CARLESS: I’m still without our beloved 95’ Camry. The body shop guy has the vehicle in his possession. Sally & I are doing some team work. Tonight we’re having week one of Dave Ramsey’s financial Peace course at our church. I promised our good friend Carol H. I’d pick her up. Sally will be getting a ride from work. Guess it’ll all work out. Signing off Mrs. MOM I will now post this to my public blog. Myron@myownfaith2.com

AUNT RUTH FINAL THOUGHTS: 12/30/2008 4:36:21 AM I have inserted a photo of the sisters of my aunt Ruth. The Bergh sisters all got together last summer. My mother is very appreciative of any time she can spend with her siblings. I will post her obituary in my obit web page also. RIP my beloved Auntie. myron@myownfaith2.com

AUNT RUTH IS HOME: An email from my 1st cousin Carol. 12/29/2008 7:29:06 AM Mom has gone home peacefully in the middle of the night (just after 1am). Martha and I both were speaking and singing gently to her as she was called home. She didn’t show pain these six days since she had her stroke, just deeper breathing on the last day. Of course there is always some discomfort when laying down all day and so we kept helping her adjust her position and using many pillows, but she wasn’t agitated nor did she appear to be in pain these days. To go quickly and without pain was an answer to prayer. She had looked so well just yesterday (Sunday) morning, we wondered if she might linger on for yet another week, but around suppertime, she started giving signs that she was soon leaving us, by the color of her skin. While Martha and Aunt Thea sang to her during the church hour yesterday, she raised her hand again, as she often did through the years, joining in worship to the Lord. Did she somehow re...

12/29/2008 6:58:33 AM HAPPY BIRTHDAY JOHN: Yes indeed, today is our # 1 son’s birthday. Sally and I were just discussing John’s birth on Dec 29, 1970. He was born in Omaha NE. I had just been honorably discharged from the USAF last Sept 1969. We were broke! It was a very enjoyable time. We were in love and our 1st born just joined our lives. We lived on 2821 Margo St. in southern Omaha near the stockyards. I was working at Northern Natural Gas and Sally was a new mother. It doesn’t get any better than this! My brother Dale came over and I remember one picture was taken. Unlike now with the digital age, we took only pictures on special occasions. Somewhere in our home is a picture. I’ll try to find it and post it to this blog. Brother Dale and Joanne are John’s godparents. Sally & I were young then. We were also immature. We didn’t care. We were in love. We still are. myron@myownfaith2.com

12/27/2008 7:18:22 AM Note the time, it’s SATURDAY! You know what means .. RED GREEN on pbs at 8:00 AM then Fox business news at 9:00 AM with Brenda Butner. I like to plug in the ticker symbols into my software programs while listening to them argue politics and finance. I then come to my own conclusions whether I would be willing to invest in the stocks. RUTH BILLMAN: If I repeat some stories about aunt Ruth, you’ll have to forgive me. My proof reader, Sally, is upstairs sleeping and I don’t want to awaken her just for a few typos, etc. Did you know that Herb an d Ruth spent a couple of nights at our little humble abode? Yes indeed they did. It’s been maybe 20 years ago or so. They were attending an eye seminar in Kansas City, MO and for some reason wanted to save money or maybe just wanted to see us. So they spent the night. What do we do to entertain them? We went bowling .. LOL ! Herb could barely broke 100, in fact if I remember correctly, he might have bowled a 70 or s...

Aunt Ruth stories: 12/25/2008 7:45:55 AM While my aunt Ruth is on my mind, I’ll write a few things about her and the Billman family. I have known my aunt Ruth as long as I can remember. This might be a LONG blog. I believe in my previous posts that I wrote about Christmas’s past. One year during Christmas, Ruth’s mother, my grandmother Julie, was crying. I was perhaps 10 or so. I asked mom why she was crying. Mom informed me that she was crying because of not ever seeing Ruth again. She was getting ready to go do the work of the Lord as a Christian missionary. Out of all the Bergh lineage, my mother, Clarice, Audrey & Dorothy were the only ones NOT either being pastors or missionaries of some sort. Ruth was no exception. My grandma Julie died some time later. I remember like it was yesterday. These events for some reason cast a lasting memory in my then virgin mind. My childhood memories of Ruth were mostly through postal letters from her and Herb from the mission field....

Hello Family: My aunt Ruth is my mother's younger sister. My mother is 95, so aunt Ruth is perhaps just past 90. Her daughter Carol is keeping us updated. Here's another email on Ruth. Dear Friends, Thank you for your many words of encouragement. My mom went to deep breathing last night and through the morning, but later in the afternoon and up till now her breathing is quieter. She is not quite so flushed as she was this morning I don’t what that all means, if anything. She still squeezes our hands when we reach out to hold hers. Hospice has come today and set things up a bit for us. They taught us how to look for signs of pain – which thankfully it doesn’t appear that she has. All the immediate family has been to see her now. We have sat around talking with and singing to her. When we start to sing, she often raises her hand up in a gesture of praise! It’s amazing to see her do that, when nothing else seems to get such response from her. Many gave volunteer words of a...