Also, I don't know how bad others experienced this, but my Uncle would become very volatile! He would, for no apparent reason, lash out at us and scream and holler and throw things. We had to take away all of his guns, even hide the kitchen knives.
My Dad and uncle had to take my Granny's car away and then she called the police on my Dad for taking her car! She had had her driver's license taken away and insisted she still had one. Then, she got shingles and fell in her apartment. My Dad had been with her every day. (This was so out of character for him but all the other siblings just kind of disappeared while this was going on.) He was having to make decisions mostly alone. I encouraged him to get her into assisted living. She was all alone in her apartment with nothing to do, unable to drive and so skinny and her apartment was not clean anymore. Now, she has company and people putting food in front of her.
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Those who say it cannot be done should not interrupt the people doing it. ~Chinese Proverb
When I was young and clever, I wanted to change the world. Now that I am older and wiser, I strive to change myself. ~
I have had 3 relatives with it, and it is not a pretty picture. They honestly don't understand.
They do get mad at you and it is very hard on the care taker.
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Happy moments, PRAISE GOD.
Difficult moments, SEEK GOD.
Quiet moments, WORSHIP GOD.
Painful moments, TRUST GOD.
Every moment, THANK GOD.
It is amazing how many people have been directly affect in their immediate or extended family with this terrible disease. I pray that I die quickly and don't suffer and become a burden on my family for an extendd period of time.
My wife has told us that if this happens to her to put her in a nursing home as soon as possible but I am not brave enough to tell my family to do that to me! I want them to wait until I really have to go. LOL.
__________________ "I think some people love spiritual bondage just the way some people love physical bondage. It makes them feel secure. In the end though it is not healthy for the one who is lost over it or the one who is lives under the oppression even if by their own choice"
Titus2woman on AFF
"We did not wear uniforms. The lady workers dressed in the current fashions of the day, ...silks...satins...jewels or whatever they happened to possess. They were very smartly turned out, so that they made an impressive appearance on the streets where a large part of our work was conducted in the early years.
"It was not until long after, when former Holiness preachers had become part of us, that strict plainness of dress began to be taught.
"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
Quote from Ethel Goss (widow of 1st UPC Gen Supt. Howard Goss) book "The Winds of God"
I went to visit a family that I had not seen in a long while. They were in a way like spiritual parents to me. The son was the one who laid hands on me to receive the Holy Spirit baptism and was witness to the initial evidence of my speaking in tongues. His dad baptized me in Jesus' name. His mom prayed for me much and showed me kindness.
When I saw the mom, she looked so "out of it", staring out into space vacantly from the pulpit while everyone else was celebrating at an event where her husband was being honored. When I inquired that she seemed "not like herself", I didn't get an immediate response, but later came to learn from other sources that she is suffering from the beginning stages of Alzheimers.
I am trying to reconcile the idea of a saint developing Alzheimers or dementia with the word that says that God is able to keep our minds in perfect peace. I could see how a physical illness might be visited upon us and that there are physical sicknesses that are unto death, but how is it that God can allow us to lose our minds if we love him and are faithful to him?
On the other hand, my grandfather who was not "saved" in the Acts 2:38 sense and called churches and preachers "thieves of the people's money and cults", lived to be 95 years old. In the end, he forgot his own children and me, but he would say things like "plead with the Lord for me". With him, I think that God had to allow him to forget some things and his own shortcomings (i believe that he had a lot of self-condemnation) so that God could deal with him. I don't know where his soul is and choose not to fly in the face of the Lord about it.
His wife, my grandmother, also lived to be 95. After suffering a stroke at age 85, she still knew who we were, but had tremendous fears, a strongwilled nature (she was set in her ways about certain things) and throughout her life, she practiced various African superstitions in addition to being a staunch attendee of the Episcopalean church. I do not know how she was baptized (and her chief caregiver - my aunt - would have not tolerated her going down in water once she had a stroke at age 85).
In the last weeks of her life, she would go in and out of lucidity, but one of my aunt told me that she would be praying and instructing her children and the people around her to praise God. She also would point upward and say "Look, look, He comin". Again, maybe she needed to go into this sort of weak mental state to get delivered from her strongwilledness and so that God could work out the dross in her heart. I don't know.
I don't want to pour salt into anyone's wounds as you all have boldly shared your painful stories here, but if we are trusting in Jesus fully and live long enough, will we also be prone to losing our minds in this way?
I just think Christians are common flesh and suffer that which is common to all flesh. We should not read too much into special cases - be they seemingly desirable or undesirable.
Our hope is not of this world.
__________________ "It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity." Dave Barry 2005
I am a firm believer in the Old Paths
Articles on such subjects as "The New Birth," will be accepted, whether they teach that the new birth takes place before baptism in water and Spirit, or that the new birth consists of baptism of water and Spirit. - THE PENTECOSTAL HERALD Dec. 1945
"It is doubtful if any Trinitarian Pentecostals have ever professed to believe in three gods, and Oneness Pentecostals should not claim that they do." - Daniel Segraves
When my mother had her 2nd stroke it destroyed a large portion of her memory. She could no longer function unassisted.
She was placed in a nursing home. It didn't start out as a great place, but due to her memory problems she was placed in the Alhzheimer wing. This was a great place. She received great care here for the next year or so until she passed away.
It was hard seeing her when she didn't know who you were. Since I lived in another state I at least knew she had proper care.
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"Le sens commun n'est pas si commun."
(Common sense is not so common.)
Voltaire
Common sense is genius dressed in working clothes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.
William James
We have recently been told that my mother needs to be placed on hospice due to her Alzheimer's and other complications. This disease is horrible on families. I too have questioned God on it. I have no answer for the WHY of it but I do have peace with it. I keep asking God to take her quickly. Do not let her suffer and be in pain. That hasn't happened yet but I know He loves her and will do what is RIGHT by her. So thankful for the teaching and training she gave me.
Thinking of the persons that I know personally who loved God and still developed these brain diseases of Alzheimers and dementia, it seems that they all had a common personality factor: they all had very strong, almost stubborn personalities. I suppose that if the prayer of our heart is that we be like Christ, God may have to allow us to become like little children and let a malady like this come on us so that we can stop leaning upon our own understanding and be put into a position where we have to depend upon God for our lives. We need to forget who we are: our past failures that we lament and self-crucify ourselves over, or our past social status accomplishments that we take false refuge in.
May God show His grace and mercy to us all, and may His light perpetually shine upon us from this day forth, even forerevermore, Selah and Amen0 in Jesus' name.
Thinking of the persons that I know personally who loved God and still developed these brain diseases of Alzheimers and dementia, it seems that they all had a common personality factor: they all had very strong, almost stubborn personalities. I suppose that if the prayer of our heart is that we be like Christ, God may have to allow us to become like little children and let a malady like this come on us so that we can stop leaning upon our own understanding and be put into a position where we have to depend upon God for our lives. We need to forget who we are: our past failures that we lament and self-crucify ourselves over, or our past social status accomplishments that we take false refuge in.
May God show His grace and mercy to us all, and may His light perpetually shine upon us from this day forth, even forerevermore, Selah and Amen0 in Jesus' name.
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Hebrews 13:23 Know ye that our brother Timothy is set at liberty
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