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Sometimes I have dreams I think might be from God, but I wonder: Am I just imagining that a particular dream came from God? The other night I had a dream that me and a couple of associates from school were hiking, and we had to climb what seemed to me to be a mountain. I say this because it was outdoors, and there seemed to be an innumerable number of steps going up. It was treacherous, and your footing could easily be lost. So one of the girls I was hiking with kept urging me on, because it was a mission from our teacher, Dr. Paise. I don't really know what the payoff was for getting to the top, except that she would be waiting for us there. That wasn't the whole dream, but I believe that it was the most important part. I believe that Dr. Paise resembled God, and the mountain resembles life, which is all about our climb toward Heaven, and our uphill struggle toward that glorious end. I hope that you, my readers, can appreciate the sufferings and trials of your lives as steps toward Heaven, and that you will listen to the Holy Spirit urging you on, as my friend did in the dream. She never let me give up. There are two people whom I especially hope will read this post and be encouraged. You know who you are, and please know that I am praying for the two of you, in your respective situations, and urging you on. I hope everyone else who reads this will know that I am praying for them as well. That is what this ministry is all about--urging you, my readers, to climb to the top of the mountain, which is Heaven, where Jesus waits to speak to you, saying: "Well done, good and faithful servant.

music therapy in the ministry that is Frees

Many people who know me know that I have wanted to be a music therapist for a while, and that I'm in school to ultimately accomplish this goal. The road hasn't been easy, but I have been blessed by God because He has put many wonderful people in my life, and with their help, love and support it will all work out according to His divine will. Many also know that eventually I hope to expand what is currently only a blog into a support group which will meet not only on the Internet, but also meet in person. It will be a support group for sufferers of all diseases, and their family members and friends. Unfortunately, the logistics of this process haven't even come close to being figured out yet, but a thought struck me a few minutes ago. I think music therapy would be something awesome to incorporate into the ministry once the kinks have been worked out. I think it will not only bring the gift of healing to the people in the support group, but also to tho...

Fwd: another thought

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Sarah Baughn < sbaughn006@gmail.com > Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 02:03:11 -0600 Subject: another thought To: sarahb006.frees@blogspot.com A minute ago it was brought to my attention that I haven't mentioned what Frees stands for. I thought I had, but I will mention it again. It stands for Friends and Relatives Empowering and Encouraging Survivors. That is our mission: To empower and encourage survivors and to pay forward the gifts that God has given me. May all who read this be blessed by this ministry. in the love of the Sacred and Immaculate Hearts Sarah

what has happened since I last wrote

I write again now because of the promptings of the Holy Spirit. I am overwhelmed by the thingsthat have happened to me in the last seven months--well, it will be seven months tomorrow. But actually I need to start at the beginning before Frees even began. Frees had been, at this time, a budding thought form in my mind, but it had not been formed yet. Back on Dec. 26 of 2010, I got a call from my best friend Ray that had the potential to change my life. We had been talking about moving in together, and he had decided shortly before this fateful day that he wanted me to move down to Tennessee and live with him. So he called me on this day after Christmas, and tells me that a co-worker of his goes to the university that is very close to where he lives, called Cumberland University. Ecton, the co-worker, is good friends with the choir director there, and Ray had told him that I was a good singer. The man said he would talk to the director and see about me getting a scholarship. At...

Grandma

Well, the suffering is done and over with. My grandma passed this morning, and my feelings about this are bittersweet. This word, bittersweet, seems to be a theme for me for the last three weeks after having the most wonderful time in Tennessee visiting Ray, my best friend and co-founder of Frees. He has been so good through all of this, and the irony is not lost on either of us that the cancer situations that we have both been through--him with his mom and another very close personal friend--and me with my grandmother--have borne striking similarities to one another. We believe that God has divinely connected us, and I believe that it is for the divine purpose that this group should grow and prosper into the support system that I believe God intended it to be. Now a little bit about my state of mind during the last few days of her life: As I have written before, I have had times in which I have thought that I couldn't go on watching...

some thoughts

Readers may remember that on Friday I was saying that I think God allows bad things to happen so that good may come out of it. As I sit here writing this blog entry now I am really wondering what kind of good can come out of the suffering of my grandmother. I have said to people in the past that it seems like allowing someone as old as my grandmother to get cancer seems like a very cruel joke. I mean, she is eighty=seven years old, and, I don't mean this to sound cruel, but she will die soon enough, in my opinion, without her having to suffer through cancer. I ask myself: "If Jesus suffered and sacrificed Himself for my sins, then why can my family and I not suffer for love of Him, but sometimes I feel like stuff like this is just too much, especially for such an elderly woman who has already been through so much. I just thank God that He gave me this forum in which I and others can express our thoughts. Since the birth of Frees, starting ...

my faith

As I was in the shower this morning it was given to me by the Holy Spirit that I should let the readers of this blog know that my faith is very important to me. It was God who has given me the idea for Frees, and, since He is so important in my life, He made it known to me that I need to tell the readers that Frees is a Christian support system. Many times it is asked: "Why would God allow people to go through such horrible things as cancer?" I believe the answer is simple. It is so that good can come of it and I hope that we can do many good things for people using this forum. I hope that anyone who reads this will see the good that we can deriveout of something which, on the surface, looks bad. I beieve that this is our mission.