The Power of Prayer

Please see the short preceding post if you haven't already done so.  It says that, by many people uniting together, the North Dakota legislature has been persuaded to continue our current level of freedoms in home schooling.  We did not gain any of the further freedoms that we had hoped to gain, but we did NOT loose any of the ones that we gained in 2009.  This is a big answer to prayer which I received last night.
Now this morning I received this email from one of the Core Synchronization people who has been very active in trying to get the North Dakota Board of Massage out of our hair.  As I read it I wondered, "Can anyone hold even more joy?"  I'm sure that I'll learn how very quickly.  This is what it read.

HB 1304 passed the Senate ( 42-3) and was returned to the House unchanged
so the bill will now go to the Governor for signature.

Senators Burghard (Dist 5), Miller (Dist 16), and Warner (Dist 4) voted
against it. 

This means the NDBOM has nothing to say about what we do.  However, since energy work has come into the legislative discussion, I still feel it would be good for us to work on a simple registry for the modalities where people can not only check on training, but can also find practitioners in their areas.

Thank you all again for all that you did.  If anyone gets a chance, please email sjmeyer@nd.gov and say “Thank you” for HB 1304.

XXXXXXXXXXXX

This was NOT a case of many people working together as there are very, very few people who do energy work in the state.  However, it is a case of many people praying together and THAT works too!!!!!!! 

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO HAS PRAYED FOR US ENERGY WORKERS TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE SERVING THE NEEDS OF NORTH DAKOTANS NO MATTER HOW MUCH THE NORTH DAKOTA BOARD OF MASSAGE TRIED TO SHUT US DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Is this a Sabbath to be remembered or what? 

YES,IT IS AND I SAY, "PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!!!!!"

The Power of the people uniting

This came in last night from the North Dakota Home School Association.  YIPEE!

It’s
a VICTORY!

HB
1211 the North Dakota Home School Association bill

HB
1211— Heard by Senate Education Committee on Wednesday, March 23

Reported
out of committee with a unanimous ‘do pass’.

PASSED
the Senate on March 24—y43 n3

ANDREW IS GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yes, I am STILL alive but have had nothing but trouble with my computer and specifically with getting on here to post.  Now, tonight Andrew finally had time to work on it and LOOK--I'M IN!!!!!!!!!

It's a strange feeling not to be able to get into your own blog--kind of like being locked out of your car. I am soooooooooo blessed to have such bright children with each one adding so much to my life.

Now for another frustration.  I used to have to add the pictures in backwards order so that they'd come up here in the correct order.  After I spent 15 minutes picking pictures; waiting for them to load; and then checking if they all made it over here, I see that they are in reverse order.  Now, if you've ever tried to switch a bunch of pictures around inside a blog post, you'll know what a pain that is.

This is when the perfectionist in me said, "Oh rats, now I have to start all over again."  Then I thought, "Shoot, it's all old news anyway, just say that it's in the wrong ordre and post it as it is."  I'll let you figure out which voice ended up winning.  Oh yes, all of the pictures are in the middle of the page, instead of against the left border like they SHOULD be, so this whole post is imperfect--but hey, IT'S A POST!

This is what I looked like after 4 days of radiniocs course and a 9 hour drive home.  I never could have guessed that Andrew was standing inside the door with his cam-corder or I'd have stopped to comb my hair.  ):

You can see here that Millie was the first one to welcome me home from class which was held the second week in March.

Right before we left, the truckers FINALLY came and took away our organic wheat.

This is taken right after the home school convention on Cora's birthday. Being we were all gone at the convention before this, Robert had the idea of getting her an ice cream cake from Dairy Queen.  Good idea, Robert!

This is Cora and her good friends, Crystal L and Miranda G.  The convention was GREAT!

This is a group of ladies who sang for the open mic time.  They said that they were old and worn out home school mom.  Jacob leaned over 4 people and said in a loud voice just then, "Hey, Mom, why don't you go down and join them?"  THANKS A LOT, JACOB!!!!!!!

Our dear friends, the S family, opened their home to us and allowed us to spend the weekend in their home when we weren't at the convention.  Here Curt is making breakfast for Andrew and 2 of his kiddos.  I was just coming off my 5th master cleanse, so I had my lemon aid.  Later in that day I had my first solid food in 16 days.

The first day of the convention, we had a table at the used book sale.  I have not parted with any of my curriculum or books in 18 years, so there were a bunch.  We made about $100, even with offering half price half way through the sale.  I also put some of the items which didn't sell on the free tables which were available throughout the entire convention.

My main purpose in going to the used book sale, though, was to collect signatures for the Parental Right's Amendment.  I am very happy to report that I collected 2 pages full of them.  I also sent many people to the website which is: parentalrights.org.  PLEASE if you haven't signed the petition to keep parents in charge of their children's lives yet, go to the website and do so.  Andrew took this picture of me holding some of the information from parentalrights.org.

This picture was taken almost the moment that we arrived at the home school convention.  We had gone early so that Andrew could help the vendor folks carry in their books and set up their booths.  Being he was helping with GENERATION JOSHUA all weekend, he had hoped to be able to spend time with his friends beforehand.  It worked out well as they had a table next to ours at the used book sale.

One other thing that pleased me this year was that Andrew sang in the home school choir.  I took a picture of their performance but it was too dark to see as my camera was being stupid just then.  It was my most special moment of the entire convention to watch my son singing praises to the Lord with other young home schoolers.  To know that I've passed on my love of praising God with my voice is my greatest joy!!  Of course Cora would have sung along too but she was too old--can you believe it?

Here is Dr. Bartlett setting up the booth for the North Dakota Home School Association.

Before we left, I surprised Cora with an early birthday present.  This lady came to the house and I said to Cora, "Cora, this is Janet." 

Cora looked at me with wonder.

Then I said, "Janet is a piano tuner."

Then she got this humongous grin on her face and said, "OHHHHHHHHHHHHH."  Now her piano sounds sooooooooo much better and she is very thankful for that birthday present.

Well, that's catching you up to the time when we got home from class.  Much has happened since then but I figured that I'd best at least get you caught up that far.  It's nice to be eating food again but I am very thankful for the cleanse.  One thing that God showed me through the cleanse is that part of the reason why I have had a hard time loosing weight, is because of all of the bubble gum that I used to swallow.

Not meaning to be gross, but half way through the cleanse I noticed that some very slimy stuff was coming out.  I tuned in to my body and asked, "What is THAT?"

The words that popped into my head were, "It's some of that bubble gum that you used to swallow."

Can you imagine?  Yes, I swallowed a lot of it but to think that it was caught up inside my bowels for decades.  Well, it was and then I asked if it would all come out in this cleanse and got the answer that it will take 4 more cleanses before it will all be gone.

Why oh why didn't I listen when people told me, "Don't swallow your bubble gum--it's not good for you?"

I guess that's all spilt milk but you can be sure that I'll be doing another Master Cleanse in 2 months as that is the amount of time that the body needs before doing another master cleanse.  I want to get rid of ALL the junk from my past foolishness!!!!!!

I need to get to work but I just wanted you all to know that I am alive and well.  God has done some pretty awesome things in my life here lately but you wouldn't want me to tell it all in one post, would you?

Keep praising the Lord along with me,

Dawn 

Days 8, 9, and 10

Day 8 was Sabbath which was a blessing.  One does not have as much energy on the cleanse and I keep pushing pretty hard.  Like I said before, I know that I could not be pushing this hard if it weren't for Dr. Mercol's wonderful whey protein powders which I take when I get weak.

Day 9 was an exciting day as it was the house meeting in Napoleon which had gotten postponed in January.  9 ladies came and we had a ball.  I got 2 ladies to book sessions and sold 3 sleep machines.  The best part about the day, though, came when Shawn told me that Jackie had told her, "I just came from Dawn's house and she's loosing so much weight.  I'm afraid that we're loosing OUR Dawn."  I laughed so hard.  THEY NOTICED!

Yesterday was the first rough day.  It seemed odd that it didn't come sooner but it was very interesting.  Being I know how to do biofeedback I did what Cora keeps advising me to do, "ASK YOURSELF." 

When I tuned in to my body, I got an answer that I had not been expecting.  I've wondered why I don't loose weight on the cleans (or any time) like other people do.  I end up feeling better but it took me 4 cleanses to loose 40 pounds.  Cora lost 16 in one and many people loose 20 or more on it so this has been a source of discouragement to me.

What was revealed to me is that all the years of swallowing my buble gum has plugged up the works.  I mean I swallowed a LOT of bubble gum.  It's taken all of the former cleanses to get down to the level where we can work on this and now it has begun.  I'd say, "YEAH" except that I felt like I had the worse flue yesterday and wasn't too excited about that.  I REALLY felt awful--so I babied myself.

I only had one session and that was with my best friend who prayed for me and we visited again as long, so that helped.  The rest of the time I slept, soaked, or sat in the bathroom--it was BAD!

I kept praying, "HELP ME LORD, I HAVE A FULL DAY TOMORROW!"  He did, I feel lots better today and so I press on.  I had decided to do 12 days this time as I'm up against the home school convention.  I'm still not positive if I'm supposed to go through that or not so I'm praying about it.  I'd kind of like to get 15 days in now that this OLD bubblegum has started to move out.

I'd appreciate your prayers today.  It's going to be full with 5 clients; a BETAR meeting tonight; plus I keep looking for a cabinet for my office.  It needs to be large enough to house my health library which I plan on sharing with my clients; the BETAR units; our farm's organic wheat; and what ever else comes along.  It has to be nice looking but inexpensive; large enough but not taking up too much space.........  you get the picture, it has to be just right.

Gotta get going but I thought that I'd bring you up to date.  I covet your prayers as I finish out the cleanse!!

Keep warm,

Dawn

PS.  I forgot to say that Andrew helped me design my new business cards yesterday.  They have my new Bismarck office address; my new email address; my picture; the BodyTalk logo, PLUS a place on the back to write down the next session time.  We finally got around to doing it on the day that VISTA PRINT sent out an email saying that they were having 90% off of Premium business cards.  I'll be getting 1,500 of them so that should last for awhile and they said they will arrive before we leave for class.  No why do you suppose that I'd want them before we leave for class?  ;)

Day 7 included a Gentleman

I love to watch how the Lord brings people into my life--each day is so unique.  Yesterday, which was day 7 of my 5th Master Cleanse He brought a gentleman into my day.

Fridays are always so very busy for us that I rarely go to town on Fridays. We have much to do on Preparation Day to get things ready for our day of rest to be as peaceful and pleasant as possible.  With cleaning and cooking and finishing up laundry there's just not much time for anything extra. 

However yesterday I was unpleasantly surprised to learn, when I went to the net teller, that I was overdrawn.  How can that be?  When I had gotten home late on Thursday night, I checked my balance.  Seeing that it was overdrawn, I transferred enough money to cover it, and went to bed.  "Now, how come I'm overdrawn?" I growled.

Knowing that I needed to get my checks put into the bank, I asked if anyone needed anything else done in Napoleon.  Robert said to call the car dealer that we bought our new wheels at and see if they could put in the struts that were weak on the hatch.

Being it was only the week before that we'd bought the vehicle, the owner knew me when I called to ask if that would work for them.  He said, "I'll hold my man over if you'll come right away."  Quickly putting my deposit together, I headed for town and got there around 2:30.

I asked the fellows, "How long will this take?"  They both assured me that it would only take 10 to 15 minutes.  Handing the employee the keys I said, "Ok, I'm going to walk up to the bank while you're fixing it.  I can't wait that long."

When the owner heard that he offered me a ride.  Seeing as I was in a hurry, I accepted.  On the way to the bank, we talked about our first week with the Pacifica.  As we neared the bank, he said, "I'll pick you up when you're done.  Just give me a call."

Well, I've never been one to enjoy bothering others, I declined saying that it wasn't that far to walk.  He persisted,  "But it's 3 degrees below zero with a breeze."

I insisted, "I'm used to being out in the cold as I got out to do chores every day."

Then he got serious and said, "PLEASE LET ME COME BACK TO PICK YOU UP!"

Wow--what do you say to that?  So I laughed and said that it would be nice and got out of the SUV.  "Give me a few minutes to get the struts in before you call me to get you," he said and was gone.

To make a long story short, inside the bank I learned that the policy had changed last year about when the cutoff time is for deposits.  One of the things that we had liked about this bank was that they had an outside deposit box.  If you had the deposit into that box (or transferred online) before 8:00 the following basis day that you overdrew, then you'd be fine.

HOWEVER, I learned that that policy had changed so that the cutoff time is now 4:00 PM.  That is why I was overdrawn even though I had transferred the needed funds into my account before I went to bed.  I'm sharing this for anyone in our area who has not realized this so that you might be spared the agony and embarrassment of an overdraft.

So, after I was defeated in the bank, I asked if they'd call the car dealer for me as I'd forgotten my cell phone at home.  When the teller dialed the number and handed me the phone, I was amazed.  A few minutes later the vehicle pulled up in front of the bank and I hopped in.

When I told my family this story later on, they all were as amazed as I was and said, "only in a small town."  It truly was a joy to ride in a warm vehicle with a gentleman instead of freezing my legs walking the 5 or 6 blocks down there.  So that's my big news from yesterday--I learned that gentlemen still exist on this planet.  YIPEE!!!

We quickly finished cleaning the house when I returned home and everyone enjoyed their feast while I enjoyed some more of Dr. Mercola's wonderful whey protein powder.  Then we watched a fantastic movie which Cora had ordered for us called, "Faith like potatoes".  Now there's a fantastic movie for you about how God can change a life completely around.  PRAISE HIS NAME FOREVER!!!!

Happy Sabbath all,

Dawn

Day 5 and 6

Day 5 was the first day that I saw any "REAL" cleansing, meaning that it showed on the scale that I had lost 4 pounds.  It was a great day around here too as the hostess, who has so graciously opened her home up to me, and I made the final arrangements for her house meeting on Sunday.  This is the email that I received from her that night.
 Dawn,

Well, my homework is done.  Invites are out with extra emails sent
too.  I hope many can attend.

Thank you Dawn for all you do for me. 
I really do love you!

About an hour later I received this email from a client whom I had just worked on that afternoon here at my home.

Thank you so much for my session today!!!  You are an angel and I am so thankful
for you!  Have a great evening with your family.

WOW--talk about feeling blessed, but that's not all.

That day in the mail I had received a check for a distance session that I'd done for a friend.  In with her check was the cutest note that I've ever received full of squigglies and packed with love.  As best as I can remember, this is what it said.

Hey Sweetie,

Thanks so much for the session.  It was such a blessing.................

You are a good person--remember that.


Yesterday (Day 6) was great too.  I saw 6 clients; sold 2 BETAR units; came home with $600 in my pocket driving our new wheels.  WOW.
Then when I got home I learned that the cattle prices were VERY good at the sale and it looks like we'll be able to pay all of our bills on time!!!!!!!!  YEAH!!!!!!!!  PRAISE THE LORD!!!!!
On top of all of that, I stood on the scale this morning and saw that I have lost 6 pounds since I started.  Now, I know that some people loose lots more than I do on the cleanse, but I'm not giving up hope yet of wearing that cute red and black checked dress at the home school convention.  It seems to take me a long time to get the ball rolling and I have another week yet. 
I rejoice that, even though I'm cleansing, I'm able to work all day like before.  I KNOW that the difference is because of Dr. Mercola's whey protein powder giving me the extra energy I need.  I realize that this may mean that I actually end up loosing less weight, but I must keep my work schedule up.  I can't just tell people, "Sorry no sessions for half a month as I'm on the Master Cleanse."
I continue to need your prayers and words of encouragement.  If you have been blessed by my work in any way, I'd appreciate your dropping me a note to add to my LINKS TO HEALING blog to encourage others to open their minds to all that BodyTalk has to offer.
Blessings for a peaceful Sabbath tomorrow.
Love you all,
Dawn

MC 5--Day 4/Amended version

Day 4 was FULL of excitement.  First of all, we're trying to decide which radionics machine to purchase for Robert to use in the upcoming class--and thereafter.  I got no less than 4 emails from Ed at KRT so that was a thrill!
If ever I had a loving brother, it would be somebody like Ed.  He is so understanding, and supportive, and encouraging--surely this is the role that a real live brother would play in his sister's life in a loving family!  PRAISE THE LORD--HE FOUND A WAY TO GIVE ME BROTHERS THROUGH HIS NETWORK OF AWESOME PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then, the day went well as far as hunger pangs went.  I was happy to note that the worst is behind me as those first 3 days can be kind of grueling when you watch your family sitting here eating.  Yesterday and this morning, though, I found myself thinking, "I'm on a roll now and I KNOW that I WILL live without food for another week!"  In fact, I wondered yesterday if I am meant to go all the way through the home school convention and into the next week.  I certainly am willing to do whatever is meant for me to do.  Perhaps the home school convention is needing fasting, along with prayer, this year for some reason.
There was a box that came for me from Mercola.com too.  All right, it's confession time.  I have been doing something a little bit different this time around.  I fell in love with Dr. Mercola's whey protein powder.  He had a great deal on if you bought 6 containers of this delicacy, so I did. 
Truly, there were times on the first 4 cleanses (three 15 day ones and one 10 day one) when I was literally weak.  At those times, I'd allow my body the rest that it needed as it cleans out deeply junk that has built up in me over the past 5 decades. 
The trouble now is that I have a business where people depend on me to help them to get well.  I can't just lie around detoxifying and say, "Sorry that I can't help you for half a month but I'm doing the Master Cleanse, you see."
So, leave it to the Lord, He sent me Dr. Mercola's whey protein powder.  Yes, I am adding that to this master cleanse whenever I feel weak.  Within minutes I'm ready to go back to work and my brain just loves the stuff. 
Part of me feels like this isn't, "Perfect" because it's not sticking to the lemonade and herbal teas only.  However, I have made my peace over it and I understand that the perfect one, my loving Heavenly Father, knows exactly what I need to do every day.  Now that I'm resolved to this, I am loving THIS cleanse like none before it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Now for the most exciting part of our day yesterday.  We got an email from Gail B., who is with our home school association, stating that the House of Representatives was going to vote on the home school bill TODAY.  She said, "PLEASE write to your representatives and ask them to support the bill IMMEDIATELY--so we did.

It was so funny to hear Cora in on her laptop typing away and Andrew in his bedroom typing away as I frantically typed out here in the dining room asking our Representatives to, "VOTE YES".    After that, we rushed through lunch (for me that meant lemonade) and listened to the House meeting in the boy's room.  I'll never know how Andrew figures out how to go to all of these places, but it sure is interesting living with him.  At first we were watching it but it couldn't bring it in that fast so we just listened.

As we sat on the edge of our seats, we heard the call for the vote and I prayed madly as this was a VERY important vote.  When the announcement came that they voted "YES" by a large majority, we were all grinning from ear to ear.  There is just something about being a part of the political process that is so fulfilling--especially when we win!

Of course, the battle is only half over as we'll need to go through all of the this again when our bill gets to the Senate side.  However, if the House had voted, "No" that would be the end of things.  We'd go back to the dark ages of home schooling in North Dakota. 

Well, we're loading calves to sell tomorrow in  Napoleon so I've got to get going.  Please keep us in your prayers--today for safety loading and hauling them and tomorrow for as good a price as possible.  I won't be able to attend the sale this time as I'll be seeing people in my Bismarck office--6 tomorrow.  OH HOW I LOVE BEING BUSY DOING THE WORK OF THE KING!!!
Later,

Dawn