MadSnapper N Beau: 365promises

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Sunday, December 14, 2025

365 lesson 307

My life is in knots, so is my brain. each day has its own difficulty. My To Do list is long and filled with things I do not want to tackle. I put them off, go through the list and do the NEEDS and then the ones I can do easily, leaving the ones that make me anxious until another day. Phone calls, I have 4 on a list, involving health issues and insurance, and those are the ones that create worry and fears.

Lesson 307 in the book above is

OVERCOME THE BONDS OF PROCRASTINATION

If you do nothing in a difficult time, your strength is limited. Proverbs 24:10

If we are tied in knots, with fear, anxiety,worry, our challenge is to confront the fears and overcome them. Overcome the bonds that tie us. If that will be unpleasant, know that if we do nothing, our fears will continue. Make that appointment you dread. Fight that fight for insurance coverage.

If unpleasant work needs to be done, do it sooner than later.

The sooner we begin working to resolve our fears, the sooner our life will be better.

Don't wait, Do not procrastinate.

Do the worst, and do it first.

I wrote this little rhyme to help push myself to do what I do not want to do.

The prayer for lesson 307 is

Lord, today is a new day. Help me tackle the important tasks first, even if they are unpleasant. don't let me put off until tomorrow what I can and should do today. Amen

Below is a prayer I found several years back and is today From the past.

The Knots Prayer

Dear god:

Please untie the Knots

that are in my mind,

my heart and my life.

Remove the have-nots,

the can-nots and the do nots

that I have in my mind.

Erase the will nots,may-nots,might nots

that may find a home in my heart.

Release me from the could nots,

would nots and

should nots that obstruct my life

and most of all,

Dear God,

I ask that you remove from my mind,

my heart and my life all of the "am nots"

especially the thought that I am not good enough.

Amen. Author known only to God.

the color red for Christmas Past 2025

Thursday, December 4, 2025

365

I started this label DEMENTIA on August of 2024 because I feared I had it. I have not added to this label since January 31, 2025, that was the day after we spent the entire night in Vet ER with our beloved Beau, fearing his death was near. The $1500 cost added to my anxiety and fears

and a second label ANXIETY-FEAR on October 5th, 2025 with the intentions of doing a post once a week using the book, I told the story of finding this book.

This book has become ragged and marked and highlighted and has kept me going when I just knew I could not. Every page has a prayer and a promise. I have paged it so many times the spine is cracking. In the 8 months since my husband Bob, stopped walking and 4 months since the hospital bed came to our living room. I intend to post a post once a week, with a promise, prayer and short review of the words from this book. This graphic will be on the side bar with a link to the publisher and where it can be bought.

I chose today, on Thankful Thursday at Brians Forever Home because I had nothing to be thankful for and the day was blank. TodayI am thankful for God once again putting this book in my hands this morning. This is the email I sent to Ann this morning......

I am trying to lift myself up out of the doldrums with Christmas past.

I can't seem to decorate, I have not touched IPAD in 5 days, don't even know if it is charged and don't care.

Nothing new has happened, same old same old, but I have extreme Don't' Give a Darn Doldrums. even the new laptop I gifted myself is not helping. I am even getting more sleep that i was getting..

I sent the email, went to deposit 2 cups of coffee where it always goes and there sat The Book, that lives on the wall in front of the throne and It fell open to these pages.

LET GOD SOLVE YOUR BIG PROBLEMS

when times are tough, it's easy to become discouraged, to overestimate the size of your problems.

The truth is, there are two kinds of problems. The small ones that YOU can handle and the BIG ones that only God can handle.

Let God handle the big ones and you focus on the ones its in your power to handle yourself.

Every trial, every fear, every loss, every fail, can be transformed by God into "God-Sends"

The Prayer

"Lord,sometimes my problems are simply to big for me. They are never too big for you. Help me turn my troubles over to you and let me trust in you today and for eternity. Amen"

The promise: Isaiah 40:31 "But those who wait on the Lord shall renew their strength, they shall mount up on wings as eagles, they shall run and not faint,Walk and not be weary."

PS last Thursday I replaced my 11 inch Chromebook, with a 15 inch Chromebook, because Amazon emailed early Black Friday sale and its price was 459.00, on sale for 299.00 and a dear blog friend had sent and email with 50 dollar gift card and I got it for 266.00. My old one is OLD and My EYESIGHT is OLD as is the body, Now I can see what I am typing. I am thankful not only for the words from God, but thankful for friends, that visit and sometimes send and for having the money to buy it.

Christmas past and red and Santa all in one photo. This Santa was bought Dec 1966, for my oldest sons 1st Christmas, he was 10 months old that Christmas. I am off to pull him out with the other decorations... love you all, signing off as Thankful Sandra Claus

Sunday, October 5, 2025

Dementia, The Beginning -Anxiety and Fear

365 Promises and Prayers for dealing with Anxiety and Fear ©️Smith Freeman Publishing.

There is no author name on the book, no other info other than above.

No one calls this a self help book, no one is taking credit for the book.

I think I found this Book in July of 2024. Leaving the Automotive Department in Wal-mart, which is the corner of Wal-Mart I rarely shop in, I came face to face with a rack of books, right in the middle of the aisle, blocking it in fact I saw

a total of around 40 books six rows of 10 each, in fact a wall of the same titles,

all Shouting,

Anxiety - Fear,

365 Promises and Prayer

I bought it, $12.99

I glanced through it and never touched it again, until 4 months later, until the week after Dec 31, 2024.

(2024 rivaled 2020 in stress, fear, anxiety and the truth is, my anxiety and fears led me to a 3 hour test for dementia at a psychiatrist office. I am fine.

The beginning of our journey through dementia started when in 2020, the YMCA closed down for COVID, the rest of that year, I started to notice changes in my husband Bob. Personality changes, anger, not sleeping well.

The park that he flew his planes in daily was closed for a year as was the YMCA that allowed him to swim laps 5 days a week. When the Y reopened, in 2021 he went back to swimming, but dropped to 3 days a week, constantly complaining because I would not go with him. He could no longer fly his planes at Bray Park because they spent 2 million dollars in fencing everything in the 88 acres. Planes can't fly there now.

I attributed the changes in him to these two things that he loved so much.

He started to change in 2021 and I now know he was in the slow descent into dementia.

Because of his age, health issues came one behind another, 5 Melanoma surgeries, and in 2017 carotid surgery due to both carotid blocked, one 100 % the other 75 which caused a TIA that made his face droop on one side and changed his speech. Within 6 months he was back to new normal

The point of all this is this was a slow descent to where we are now.

New Years Eve 2024 Our precious Beau was so sick, I was afraid we were going to lose him. We spent New Years Eve in Animal ER. That post is HERE

My stress levels have been building and 2024/2025 have been the worse

My STRESS started in 2020, not just the covid stress but IBS came to live with me. I had to give up the pool at the Y, and when it shut down in March of 2020, I never went back.

Stress feeds on stress. I went from STRESS to Maximum Stress when husband Bob woke up and could not walk, on March 26th and EMT came and took him to hospital.

And here we are over 6 months later, 2 hospital visits, 3 weeks in a rehab and 8 weeks in hospital bed in the living room. Bob with hallucinations, and sun-downers and much more.

Anger at my life and all this became harder and harder to handle. Keeping my anger in caused me to sometimes explode and say things I should not.

I had been reading and marking this book since the first day of 2025, 6 months ago I hug a rack on the wall, you can guess which room and since that day I have started to change more and more.. I intend to do short blurbs here and there to share with you some of the promises and prayers that have helped me through these 6 months. This is a long post, but I want this one to say, that God put this book in my hands long before I needed it.. Each time I pick it up it speaks to what is happening on that day.

I do solemnly promise to KEEP The Shares SHORT