Hello MIP family,

   Though I don't have internet yet, I do have access for a few hours this morning and wanted to stop by and say hello, thank you for the well wishes and prayers that have come in for my family and I, and give an update. 

I'm typing on a children's keyboard and it is better suited for hunt and smash motor skills but I will do my best.  Please excuse any missing letters.  So, let's see... what is most important?  My wife achieved her longest sobriety while in prison and since coming home to me 26 months ago has struggled.  Four and a half months ago she found herself completely beat up and cried herself to sleep begging anyone who would listen for help.  The next morning, she walked out of the bedroom free.  Have you ever had the pleasure of looking into the eyes of someone who has just seen the face of their HP?  She never has to have a drink again and she knows it for the first time in her life.  She has been paroled from alcoholism and I have woken up in the middle of the night to find her doing step work more often than I have ever woke up and found her drinking - and there was a lot of that. 

My health is still iffy and I still cannot work.  If anyone feels like sending a prayer on that subject, please do not pray that I get better...or get worse.  Please just pray that I am of maximum service to my HP.  Maybe it is that I am to get worse before confounding the doctors and becoming well.  Maybe that will be walking without fear to the end.  Fact is, I don't know.  Information is on a need to know basis and as my life is no longer mine, I do not need to know.  What I do know is that I have turned my will and my LIFE over to the care of my HP who loves me.  Whatever happens, it is my HP's will and all I want to do is be the best son I can be in the time I have left - however long that is. 

Speaking of my HP, I was directed to write a book.  It is a young adult book and it is completed now and an excerpt has been sent to my publisher and I am waiting for a response.  I've gotten a bit of a chuckle from a recent conversation with HP that I'd like to share.  Prior to sending the manuscript to the publisher,  I spoke to my HP about it and was told, "I just told you to write it.  Forget the results.  So here I sit with a 350 page, 100,000 word manuscript and a mission accomplished sign.  We'll see what happens - once again, it's a need to know basis and apparently I don't need to know.  I'm going to try and paste what I sent the publisher (34 pages) on my bio page and see if it takes.  I sent the prologue along with chapters 1,2,18,22,27,36,45,48 and chapter 1 of book two.  You get the same caveat the publisher got - Chapter 1 of book 2 was written with a temperature of 104F (40C) to meet his deadline and so, forgive that chapter.

Love and blessings to all,

Angel

P.S. Well, it looks like it took but the format was lost.  There are no quotes on the bio page and the spacing is disastrous, but the words are there.  :)  Re-edit,,, well apparently it only took down to the middle of chapter 36.  I suppose there might be a different way to post the remainder but I don't know how.

-- Edited by Angell on Thursday 30th of January 2014 10:45:50 AM