Role Models of America

The Role Models of America Proverbs 31 Talent Show

Shelby was the hostess and provided a wonderful evening for every women to be challenged and  stretch out into new areas of growth and maturity.

So many tips and ideas were given by different leaders who have experience and wisdom to share and mentor younger women.

 

 

Learning how to save money in our families is an important resource for every women.

 

Mentoring and teaching ladies about thrifty clothing and fashion was eye opening!

 

Having the older women teach the younger about sewing is invaluable training! Do you realize just how much money you can save by altering the clothing of your family?

Every woman was challenged to pay attention to her health and also the health of her family.  How and what we need to detox in our bodies is MOST IMPORTANT INFORMATION!

 

Learning how to organize a woman's prayer life and prayer room was the subject of Anna.  She encouraged, comforted and renewed the zeal in every woman to prevail in prayer.

 

The training of a woman would not be complete without understand how to provide nutritional meals for our families.  Especially when we as women have less and less time to prepare them!  We were taught how to make a week's worth of meals in 1 day - helping in the responsibilities of a women IMMENSELY!

 

Dr Gayla then spoke on Proverbs 31 and how each of these areas apply to these valuable informative scriptures dealing with the tools and freedoms of a woman.  Everyone is challenged to grow, develop and change their lives for the betterment and significance God's Word affords us.

The Role Models of America Proverbs 31 Talent Show was wonderful, and young and old, married and single, every ethnic group and culture ALL enjoyed it and we look forward to the next one!   

 

Do You Realize?

 

Do you realize there is no one to take care of your personal health but you?  No one is checking  to see if you are having good health or not.  Even mother's have a shelf life!  No one is going to put their hand on your forehead and check if you have a fever or not. No one is going to ask if you have taken good care of your body - everyone has their own to worry about.  Seriously you take so much time with your family members health and trying to make sure they eat right, get enough sleep, stay reasonably clean from germs, not too many sweets ...... you finish this sentence.  But WHO is watching out for you?

Nurturing others is important, but without your own health you will not be able to nurture them very well.  Don't wait until sickness hits you before you rest, start now.  Don't wait until all of your engines collapse before you start taking vitamins, start now.

I had a conversation with some friends about the need for self care recently.  They laughed about making sure their kids ate right, but personally they didn't always do it themselves. Funny yes, but it shows how often we women put ourselves last in line for care.  When we really should be up front at the head of the line so we can truly have strength and energy to give out.

When is the last time you........ drank a full big glass of water or took your vitamins or simply laid down to rest for 10 minutes or gave yourself a colon cleanse to show your body you really DO care about it.

When you get into the habit of caring for yourself well, it will become natural, and you won't believe how much better you will feel!

Here's some things  to consider changing about how you take care of yourself:

1. Go shopping - not at the mall, but the health food store for some quality vitamins.  Ask the clerk to help you find the right ones for your age.
2. Put them by your make up - so when you get your hair and make up on, you will remember to feed your body nutrition. Don't just let them set in a cabinet!
3. Get a 20 oz glass and put it where you will use it, fill it with water and drink first thing in the morning.
4. Drink water for your meals - it's a super easy way to get your body's need for water in.
5. Drink another glass before you go to bed, there now..... every system in your body will work so much better!
6. Buy a good quality colon cleanse package at your health food store (ask the clerk for best and most gentle ones) And take the whole regiment (normally it's 2 weeks) this will clean out your 'septic system' and remove harmful toxins, and the buildup of many beginning bacterial infections and diseases.  Do this process twice a year.  You take a shower every day - for the outside of our bodies, why don't we think about cleansing from the inside?

Six little personal habits to start, and 6 huge payoffs in your health year round! 

Women and Heart Attacks

Hopefully you will never need this information, but one never knows! LADIES (& gentlemen) . . . .   PLEASE READ  ALL THE WAY  THROUGH!  She said she didn't feel well and had  a backache and was going to lay down on the bed with the he ating  pad.  Awhile later her husband went to check on her and she was not  breathing.  They were not able to revive her.  The following is something all women should definitely take  seriously.  Did you know that women rarely have the same dramatic symptoms that men  have when experiencing a heart attack ...you know, the sudden stabbing  pain in  the chest, the cold sweat, grabbing the chest &  dropping to the  floor that we see in the movies ?         Here is the true story of one woman's experience with a heart  attack . I had a completely unexpected heart attack at about 10:30 pm with NO  prior exertion, NO prior emotional trauma that one would suspect  might've brought it on.  I was sitting all snugly & warm on  a cold evening, with my  purring cat in my lap, reading an  interesting story my friend had sent me, and actually thinking,  'A-A-h, this is the life,' all cozy and warm in my soft, cushy  Lazy Boy with my feet propped up.       A moment later, I felt that awful sensation of indigestion, when  you've been in a hurry and grabbed a bite of a sandwich and washed  it down with a dash of water, and that hurried  bite seems to  feel like you've swallowed a golf ball going down the esophagus in  slow motion and it is most uncomfortable.  You realize   you shouldn't have gulped it down so fast and needed to chew it more  thoroughly and this time drink a glass of water to hasten its  progress down to the stomach.     This was my initial sensation---the  only trouble was that I hadn't  taken a bite of anything since about  5:00 p.m.  After  that had seemed to subside, the next  sensation was like little  squeezing motions that seemed to be racing  up my SPINE  (hindsight: it was probably my aorta spasming), gaining  speed  as they continued racing up and under my sternum (breast  bone),  where one presses rhythmically when administering  CPR.        This fascinating process continued on into my throat and branched out  into both jaws.   AHA!! NOW I stopped puzzling about  what was happening. . . .we all have read and/or heard about  pain in the jaws being one of the signals of an MI happening,  haven't we?  I said aloud to myself and my cat, 'Dear God,  I think I'm having a heart attack!'     I lowered the foot rest, dumping my cat from my lap, started to take a  step and fell on the floor instead.  I thought to myself, 'If  this is a heart attack, I shouldn't be walking into the next  room where the phone is or anywhere else...,but, on the other hand,  if I don't, nobody will know that I need help, and if I wait any  longer I may not be able to get up in a  moment.'     I pulled myself up with the arms of the chair, walked slowly into the   next room, and dialed the Paramedics [911].  I told the  dispatcher I thought  I was having a heart attack due to the  pressure building under the  sternum and radiating into my  jaws.  I didn't feel hysterical or afraid,  just stating  the facts.  She said she was sending the Paramedics over  immediately, asked if the front door was near to me,  and if  so, to unbolt the door and then lie down on the floor where   they could see me when they came in..     </  FONT> I then laid down on the floor as instructed and lost  consciousness, as I don't remember the medics coming in, their  examination, lifting me onto a gurney or getting me into their  ambulance, or hearing the call they made to the St. Jude ER on the  way, but I did briefly awaken when we arrived and saw that the  Cardiologist was already there in his surgical blues and cap,  helping the medics pull my stretcher out of the  ambulance.      He was bending over me asking questions (probably something like 'Have  you taken any medications?') but I couldn't make my  mind interpret what he was saying, or form an answer, and  nodded off again, not waking up until the Cardiologist and partner  had already threaded the teeny angiogram balloon up my femoral  artery into the aorta and into my heart where they installed 2 side  by side stints to hold open my right coronary  artery.     I know it sounds like all my thinking and actions at home must  have taken at least 20-30 minutes before calling the Paramedics, but  actually it took perhaps 4 or 5 minutes before the call, and both  the fire station and St. Jude are only minutes away from my home,  and my Cardiologist was already to go to the OR in his scrubs  and get going on restarting my heart (which had stopped somewhere  between my arrival and the procedure) and installing the  stints.       Why have I written all of this to you with so much detail?  I want  all of you who are so important in my life to know what I learned  first hand.      1. Be aware that something very different is happening in  your body, not the usual men's symptoms, but inexplicable  things happening (until my sternum and jaws got into the act).   It is said that many more women than men die of their first (and  last) MI because they didn't know they were having one, and commonly  mistake it as indigestion, take some Maalox or other anti-heartburn  preparation, and go to bed, hoping they'll feel better in the  morning when they wake up....which  doesn't happen.     My female friends, your symptoms might not be exactly like mine, so I  advise you to call the Paramedics if ANYTHING is unpleasantly  happening that you've not felt before.  It is better to have a  'false alarm' visitation than to risk your life guessing what it  might be!       2. Note that I said 'Call the  Paramedics' [aka 911].   Ladies,       TIME IS   OF THE ESSENCE!        Do NOT try to  drive yourself to the ER . . . you're a hazard to  others on the road, and so is your panicked husband who will be  speeding and looking anxiously at what's happening with you instead  of the road.  Do NOT call your doctor --he doesn't know where  you live and if it's at night you won't reach him anyway, and  if it's daytime, his assistant (or answering service) will tell  you to call the Paramedics.  He doesn't carry the equipment in  his car that you need to be saved!  The Paramedics do,  principally OXYGEN that you need ASAP.  Your Dr. will be notified later.      3.  Don't assume it couldn't be a heart attack because you have a normal  cholesterol count.  Research has discovered that a cholesterol  elevated reading is rarely the cause of an MI (unless it's  unbelievably high, and/or accompanied by high blood pressure).   MI's are usually caused by long-term stress and inflammation in the  body, which dumps all sorts of deadly hormones into your system to  sludge things up in there.  Pain in the  jaw can wake you  from a sound sleep.  Let's be careful and be aware.  The  more we know, the better chance we could  survive!!     A cardiologist says if everyone who reads this  sends it to 10  people, you can be sure that we'll save at least one  life.  Please be a true friend and send this article to all  your friends!                                I JUST DID!!! size=2 width="100%" align=center> size=2 width="100%" align=center> size=2 width="100%" align=center>