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#Merry Christmas 2023 12/29/2023
Dear beloved friends and family,
Normally, I have posted humorous Christmas posts sprinkled with family and friends greetings, news and photos: not quite a Festivus or airing of the grievances; or sometimes I would post some outrageously funny articles or share some accomplishments as well as some "not so beautiful" happenings in the life of the Isabella Kempf Hale.
After I sent a personal note to some very close friends of mine about this year which I will now explain, I literally got ZERO response from very dear friends. I mean; Crickets, even Christians and the reason is that I am a truth teller even if the truth clearly HURTS.
Briefly, I lost two of the best friends in my life, one a friend I had known since I was 5 years old: Libby. She is in my personal short story and memoir called the Metal Plate. She is a Christian and after a 10 year battle with non smoking lung Cancer, she died on Dec 5, 2023. For the past ten years, she and I were tight prayer warriors: reading from the book called Jesus Calling every night and lifting one another and all our family members and friends as well in prayer since there is such a great need this past year as well as back to the beginning of the Corona 2020.
My solace is that I know that I will see her again on the other side. We are both Christians and derive our faith on the shed blood of Yeshua, Jesus Christ.
Now that I have posted that I would like to say, that I have grieved and continue to grieve her passing because I miss her presence a co-prayer warrior. My sister, who also knew her since that young age also prays with me now and I am developing a new prayer warrior group because almost immediately the Lord revealed to me that another friend of mine, aside from Angie who prays but needs prayer (still has the ostomy bag) has developed Blood Leukemia; I don't want to get into the WHY right now or bring up the Corona, I just want to explain why I have not been my usual upbeat self; I am not sad or dismayed, I am just taking the time I need to RENEW and REFOCUS my efforts of prayer where the Lord has guided me recently.
There is lots of GOOD NEWS: first #JESUS IS ALIVE and we all have the power to pray for one another and lift one another up and KNOW that the Lord is faithful and He is alive and He inhabits eternity and He loves his people who seek his face and have accepted the Lord Jesus as Savior. We have our mission: Pray, Share the Good News, Love your neighbor as yourself. I won't quote scripture in this post, everyone who knows me has heard it all before from me.
So I will say this on the week between Christmas 2023 and the upcoming New Year 2024: I look forward to 2024 regardless what the "predictions, or pundits or so called prophets or forecasters" say because in my personal Gottedamerung (cycle of path of life) 2023 has been the top THIRD worst year of my life: 1993 1rst Top worst: 2003 2nd top worst and this year the 3rd Top Worst and THAT IS SAYING A LOT. I want to add so that anyone reading this thinks OH WOW, Isabell must be a narcissistic: The reasons those are the top worst including this year is not because I AM SICK (that was last year) it was because many of my friends are still sick and not doing well in many ways, financially or spiritually but mostly because of the LOSS of my LIFE LONG FRIENDS.. the kind which only come into one's life ONCE IN A LIFETIME on this planet. And I miss them now and will always miss them in my life for the rest of my life.
The older I get, the smaller my circle of lifelong friends shrinks and also my family. The LORD is already filling the spiritual void for me and is reassuring me. SO PRAISE THE LORD.
The good news is that my Adult grown children are healthy and happy in their choices for life long friends, wife and girlfriend! : no photos right now. Felix is doing well. I don't want to mention anyone right now who I miss and have not posted about in a while: KNOW THAT YOU ARE ON MY HEART AND MIND.
Perhaps a song by Willie Nelson: YOU WERE ALWAYS ON MY MIND; but with the amount of "censoring" by UTUBE and many of the songs from UTube and other sites I have posted they NO LONGER work. So dear ones.. I LOVE YOU.. very much, I hope and pray that you had a very Merry Christmas, and yes I am sticking to my story: there is no Santa Claus and there never was one. OOPS.. I pray and hope you have a very safe and Blessed NEW YEAR 2024. Though sometimes I sound cynical I still LOVE AMERICA, the greatest Country that I can think of, warts and all. :)
Love as always, "Izzy"
Isabella Musto Kempf Hale
P.S if you have the Powerball winning number could you please email it to me? I am working on getting my passport renewed and could be doing some traveling this year!.. :) xoxxoxoxoo
Photos and fun stuff to come.. just remember: I LOVE YOU.
