Last Friday morning my mom called me witht he news that my grandma, Gloria Martin, down in Texas, was in the hospital. During the night someone or someones broke into her home and attacked her and brutally beat her and took her car and her purse. She was able somehow at 4:50 in the morning to call 911 even though she couldn't see and many of her fingers had been broken. She had to be flown to the hospital, where she is still in intensive care. She's had surgeries on her hands and the wounds on her scalp, but they have to wait for an infection to clear up before they can operate on her face. She is on a ventilator, and her face is majorly swolen, but she seems to try to respond when family members are talking to her.

I can't even imagine what kind of person or people could do something so terrible and senseless, and I've been having a hard time dealing with how God could let something like this happen. I've always been a strong believer (through others' trials) that God is ALWAYS in control and that everything has a reason...but this, I can't help but feel, is purely evil.

Proverbs 3:5- Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding;

Jeremiah 29:11- "For I know the plans I have for you," declares the Lord, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you a hope and a future."

Even though I don't understand it, I'm trying to trust, and not to let satan get his thoughts into my head, because God is good, ALL THE TIME.

So...I still have things from LAST Friday's to-do list that need to be done....when I'm at work or with other people I do better at focusing on other things but when I'm all alone I'm constantly thinking and worrying about my mom and her brother, and pretty much all of my energy and creativity is gone. Please pray for my grandma, for my mom, and especially for my uncle John and his family, they live down in Texas near my Grandma, and need extra strength to deal with everything. Thanks a bunch.