music-city-missy
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This really is like family and a pretty darn good one. It's not JUST a recipe swap board. It's a comfortable place where we can share our lives - our pains and our joys. I believe that the most wonderful things happen when people come together around food although usually in person. We wre talking about it during our last Lunch and Learn yesterday as we talked about food and faith. Sharing a meal breaks down barriers, overcomes hate and most importantly shows love. No matter what you do, preparing a meal for someone shows love. We do that every time we come here even though we are not sharing an actual meal together and even though a lot of us have never heard each other's voices or seen each other's faces.
I was feeling so down last night as you could all probably tell. I tried to sleep but couldn't and wound up just laying there with tears welling up in my eyes from everything going on and the stress.
But I come out here and find all your wonderful prayers and thoughts and care. There are comments that make me laugh. Ones that make me think that it could be worse. Ones that tell me I am not alone. And ones that tell me I can get through this.
We've been together through website changes, sibling fights, marriages, births, sickness and death (sounds like marriage) but we've been together and helped get each other through it. We've been through gingerbread house victories and disasters, dates with 100 year olds.
There have been phone calls and email exchanges and recently there have been the couple of face to face meetings with Randi and Deb in MI. It felt like having lunch with old friends not someone I had just really met for the first time.
There are private messages with incredible advice and even more incredible offers to help with things going on with my MIL. And as we share stories we find out that we are more alike than we know and share common issues.
And most incredibly for me today, I opened my email to find an email from one of you telling me that you were diagnosed with this extremely rare eye disease. Just finally knowing someone else that has this and has gone through it made me feel so much better. My daughter got excited - she no longer felt like such an oddity. Knowing that you have had it 10 years and just knowing you had it made us have some hope. The links you sent will hopefully lead to more hope.
A lot of people talk about how bad the internet is. I find mostly good on the internet. It brings this world closer together in a good way. I know I get crazy looks when I say I am going to meet up with 'strangers' I have met on the internet but you know what - I'm not going to stop because I can't wait to meet each and every one of you!
I just wanted to make sure that someone told you that they loved you today. You have no idea what you all have meant to me the last few days and years.
Melissa
I was feeling so down last night as you could all probably tell. I tried to sleep but couldn't and wound up just laying there with tears welling up in my eyes from everything going on and the stress.
But I come out here and find all your wonderful prayers and thoughts and care. There are comments that make me laugh. Ones that make me think that it could be worse. Ones that tell me I am not alone. And ones that tell me I can get through this.
We've been together through website changes, sibling fights, marriages, births, sickness and death (sounds like marriage) but we've been together and helped get each other through it. We've been through gingerbread house victories and disasters, dates with 100 year olds.
There have been phone calls and email exchanges and recently there have been the couple of face to face meetings with Randi and Deb in MI. It felt like having lunch with old friends not someone I had just really met for the first time.
There are private messages with incredible advice and even more incredible offers to help with things going on with my MIL. And as we share stories we find out that we are more alike than we know and share common issues.
And most incredibly for me today, I opened my email to find an email from one of you telling me that you were diagnosed with this extremely rare eye disease. Just finally knowing someone else that has this and has gone through it made me feel so much better. My daughter got excited - she no longer felt like such an oddity. Knowing that you have had it 10 years and just knowing you had it made us have some hope. The links you sent will hopefully lead to more hope.
A lot of people talk about how bad the internet is. I find mostly good on the internet. It brings this world closer together in a good way. I know I get crazy looks when I say I am going to meet up with 'strangers' I have met on the internet but you know what - I'm not going to stop because I can't wait to meet each and every one of you!
I just wanted to make sure that someone told you that they loved you today. You have no idea what you all have meant to me the last few days and years.
Melissa
) Thanks for the smile