Hello my friends,

I want you to know how MUCH I value your friendship. I try to picture you as I write. Once again I want to thank you for your prayers on my behalf. I am feeling so “full of life!” Today I scrubbed and waxed my floors, did several loads of washing and even managed to get a little shopping done! WHEW! No wonder I’m a little tired tonight as I write this! Ha! But I am so glad I can actually do housework again and that I am no longer running out of breath every time I bend down (to clean up puppy wee wee)! Ha!

Oh, yes, I can taste food again! Hallelujah! Ha! Ha! Unless you have experienced MONTHS of NOT BEING ABLE TO TASTE ANYTHING, you probably cannot realize how happy I am. I have gained 6 pounds! Everything tastes so good! And… my eyelashes have grown back! YEAAH! Now I don’t have to worry about them “falling off” if I should cry. However, believe it or not, I did go without eyelashes for several days. Ha Ha! Was I BRAVE or what? It turned out to be one of the most FREEING things that has ever happened to me. People still knew me; in fact they didn’t seem to even realize that I had no eyelashes on!!! And my husband still loved me. He said, “Honey, I didn’t marry you for your eyelashes!” Man, that was a relief! Ha Ha! I think God knew that loosing my eyelashes would be a good lesson for me and IT WAS!

I just got back last week from Atlanta, GA where my son, Jay Bakker, has just started a ministry in a bar every Monday night. He asked me to be his first speaker! What a wonderful night we had!! The building must be 100 years old. We got to do our ministry in “Heaven” as the room they call “Pergatory” was too small! Ha Ha!! We had about 200 that attended; people of all kinds and all walks of life. It was awesome! I thought that with that many people drinking it might get rowdy… I didn’t know WHAT to expect. But everyone was respectful and kind and loving and we all enjoyed being together talking about God and His unconditional love for us all. Some real changes were made in precious lives that night.

Then we had an auction to help Jay’s ministry; REVOLUTION. He works so hard in the inner city and has a small staff to pay, so Mom got together some of her “stuff” and we had a ball raising about a thousand dollars for a very good cause. I had signed a pair of shoes (leopard, of course) and someone paid $275.00 for them! Man, I almost took the ones off my feet and auctioned them off, but I liked them too much and would have had to walk around barefooted on those very old plank floors! A girl could have gotten slivers in her feet and I’ve had enough of anything that remotely feels like a NEEDLE! HA HA!

Then I got to do something I thought I’d never do in my whole life. I got to tattoo a cross on a tattoo artist! I had NEVER even touched a tattoo gun and I was so scared I thought I was going to throw up! Now wouldn’t THAT have been embarrassing! It was a wish of his for a long, long time. So, my hand shaking like a leaf… I dipped the needle in the black ink and made a cross but I was shaking so bad it turned out crooked! Well, after a couple of minutes and he didn’t faint and I didn’t throw up I was starting to get the hang of it. My cross was so crooked I decided to straighten it up (brave me) and it ended up looking like it had vines on it. Then I got real brave and put “T.F.” next to it. He said I did real good! I was glad he trusted me enough to do it!

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