Color on my Blog of thispart was to hard to see. So Sorry!

Any Cards or help even $1.00 please send to:

Rev. Teresa Piercey

P.O. Box 793

Mineral Wells, Texas

                          76067

Really How Big is Your God?

Psa 37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. I am relying on the words of this Psalmist.

Today our biggest fear came true. Pathology for the tumor returned and it is offically called an Intrinsic Brainstem high grade glioma, graded at a 3 - 4 scale on a scale 1-4. Tumor originated in the brainstem, highgrade is the active cancer aggressive cancer cell, glioma typle of tumor. There is no cure for this type of tumor, with radiation we were given 12-18 months for little Kendricks life. Originally it was thought the tumor originated in the PONDS of the brain then spread down to the brainstem then to the left lobe from the biopsy of begnin tissue from surgery but pathology revealled that this tumor began in the brainstem then cauilflowered out to the left hemisphere of the brain. Our Dr consulted with Dr from MD Anderson and St Jude and the response was the same no cure, he was straight forward. First thing this morning we were told that we were being transfered to the 6th floor rehab all was good then we left and ate breakfast to come back to a group of poeple who took us to a private room to tell me my boy will die in 12 months.... this has been a horrible ride of emotions, Alicia and I are hurting so bad.

ANGER, BITTERNESS, SORROW, KNOTS IN THE STOMACH, TEARS, GROANING, ASKING WHY, WHAT IF, DID I OR DIDN'T I, WHAT SIN, TESTING, TRIAL, JUDGEMENT, WHAT GOD? WHY NOT? WE ARE HURTING.

PRAYER: If I truly believe in this faith that I have devoted myself and my family to then I must rely that God does answer prayer. Specific Prayer: Please pray Kendrick will tolerate rehab quickly so we can enjoy a Christmas at home prior to Radiation and Chemo treatment. 2. We sit the boys down tomorrow and tell them their little brother will be having chemo therepy, they have been so strong but you can see and feel the worry in their hearts.

I have been tormenting myself with so much, Why haven't I taken my baby to the zoo or a recent ballgame why have I put things off or deemed other things more important. My baby has been wanting to visit, see and do somethings and I am going to dedicate myself to fulfilling his wishes while we have him for this short period of time. Those of you who know me, KNOW that everytime you ask me " How are you Doing?" I respond the same way... WONDERFUL, TERRIFIC, GREAT, SUPER DUPER, or BLESSED no matter the situation I am in, well honestly right now Alicia and I need Help we are hurting so bad, I am full of so much worry, I am worried about my little boy, I am worried about my wife, I am worried about my children, I am worried how am I going to make it without working, I am worried about how am I going to explain to baby Ruth who her brother is, she will never get to know the great little boy I know. I am worried how am I going to get through this, I love my boys, I should have played more soccer or bought him the bike he wanted or maybe let him stay up alittle later and rest in lap, 12 months is so fast, how do I make each moment, each second count, he is my baby, please help us we need your prayers, we need your words, we have to have all your hearts, I mean EVERYONES heart, forgive us we are so very sorry!!!

Alan Little

I am going to copy and paste my last 2 entries to my Church WolfPoet Ministries announcements & Blogs here. If you will please keep this going. Besides prayers if anyone can help even with cards or $1.00 please send to:

Rev. Teresa Piercey
P. O. Box 793
Mineral Wells, Texas
                                76068

This is concerning many things! But mostly my Nephew 5 year old Kendrick Little.

~Newest Update On Kendrick~Very Disturbing

Hello All,

Yesterday was Kendricks 5th birthday. The day before he had pulled the respirator tube out and when he did it damaged his vocal cords.

Then today we were hit with a bomb shell. The pathology report came back and Kendrick DOES have cancer. It's a very rare and incurable cancer. They said best odds are that with Chemo and Radiation he could live 12 to 18 months and without 3 to 4 months. We are all just devastated. Kendrick is such a beautiful little boy. He has the most beautiful eyes you have ever seen. I have been drawn to his eyes since he was just a baby.

Here it is only 3 days from my birthday and 14 days until Christmas and I can't even find anything to be happy about. My 74 year old Mother has surgery Fri. morning. I am so scared with everything on her right now for them to put her under. But I feel sure God will take care of her. I don't even have a place to live right now. I am at a family members house for a few days but then I don't know what. We plan to try to clean a room out at Mother's for me as I need to be there after her surgery anyway. But time and the weather is just making it impossible to get it done. Mother can not use her right arm at all and won't be able to after surgery for a long while. She won't be able to drive for a month maybe longer.

I have to say the Devil is sure attacking our family right now for some reason. I am at my wit's end right now worrying about my family and not knowing from one day to the next where I will be or if I will have a place to be.

During all this with Kendrick's surgery the place I volunteer at a lot and have worked over the years, VERY DEAR friends of mine who owned and ran it "Dunbar Neighborhood Counsel" and my friends home all burned to the ground in the early morning hours last week. The whole block burned it left nothing standing. It was a homeless shelter, school, after hours Children's  activities, food for any hungry at lunch time, lots of classes, drug and alcohol counseling, also I preached there some. Right next door to the large building sat Lavon & Lucy's home. It is all gone now. Over 50 years of hard work laying in a heap of charred remains. The week prior Lavon had laid his Mother, "The Founder" of it all to rest. So I know it isn't just my family who is being attacked. But in a way this is part of my extended family.

So sorry I don't seem to have any good news to give at this time. I also learned today a boy I watched grow up who was 4 days from leaving Iraq to come home was killed. So please keep the family off John Jared "JJ "Savage in your prayers. Such a horrible tragedy at this time of year.  I know many families here close to me and in my heart will have a rough holiday this year. We have to turn our focus at  this time on what it is we are to be celebrating anyway and not what the world has made of it. Still it's hard to celebrate a birth with so much death and devestaion looking us in the face. This is when we have to dig the deepest to find our Faith and cast the devil out.

I will post a photo of Kendrick as soon as I can retrive it. Your are each in my prayers and that of my family as we know we are in yours!

~A Note from my Nephew Alan Little (Kendrick's Father) and more!

This is a note my Nephew Alan Little put on the care page's at Cook's Children Hospital Care Pages earlier today about Kendrick!  My heart is breaking for them. We have been hit with so much and all I want to do is curl up and cry yet I can't shed a single tear no matter how much pain there is! It just won't come!

First let me tell you that Alan is a Minister and a nurse. This is a very spiritual family!

Really How Big is Your God?

Psa 37:25 I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. I am relying on the words of this Psalmist.

Today our biggest fear came true. Pathology for the tumor returned and it is offically called an Intrinsic Brainstem high grade glioma, graded at a 3 - 4 scale on a scale 1-4. Tumor originated in the brainstem, highgrade is the active cancer aggressive cancer cell, glioma typle of tumor. There is no cure for this type of tumor, with radiation we were given 12-18 months for little Kendricks life. Originally it was thought the tumor originated in the PONDS of the brain then spread down to the brainstem then to the left lobe from the biopsy of begnin tissue from surgery but pathology revealled that this tumor began in the brainstem then cauilflowered out to the left hemisphere of the brain. Our Dr consulted with Dr from MD Anderson and St Jude and the response was the same no cure, he was straight forward. First thing this morning we were told that we were being transfered to the 6th floor rehab all was good then we left and ate breakfast to come back to a group of poeple who took us to a private room to tell me my boy will die in 12 months.... this has been a horrible ride of emotions, Alicia and I are hurting so bad.

ANGER, BITTERNESS, SORROW, KNOTS IN THE STOMACH, TEARS, GROANING, ASKING WHY, WHAT IF, DID I OR DIDN'T I, WHAT SIN, TESTING, TRIAL, JUDGEMENT, WHAT GOD? WHY NOT? WE ARE HURTING.

PRAYER: If I truly believe in this faith that I have devoted myself and my family to then I must rely that God does answer prayer. Specific Prayer: Please pray Kendrick will tolerate rehab quickly so we can enjoy a Christmas at home prior to Radiation and Chemo treatment. 2. We sit the boys down tomorrow and tell them their little brother will be having chemo therepy, they have been so strong but you can see and feel the worry in their hearts.

I have been tormenting myself with so much, Why haven't I taken my baby to the zoo or a recent ballgame why have I put things off or deemed other things more important. My baby has been wanting to visit, see and do somethings and I am going to dedicate myself to fulfilling his wishes while we have him for this short period of time. Those of you who know me, KNOW that everytime you ask me " How are you Doing?" I respond the same way... WONDERFUL, TERRIFIC, GREAT, SUPER DUPER, or BLESSED no matter the situation I am in, well honestly right now Alicia and I need Help we are hurting so bad, I am full of so much worry, I am worried about my little boy, I am worried about my wife, I am worried about my children, I am worried how am I going to make it without working, I am worried about how am I going to explain to baby Ruth who her brother is, she will never get to know the great little boy I know. I am worried how am I going to get through this, I love my boys, I should have played more soccer or bought him the bike he wanted or maybe let him stay up alittle later and rest in lap, 12 months is so fast, how do I make each moment, each second count, he is my baby, please help us we need your prayers, we need your words, we have to have all your hearts, I mean EVERYONES heart, forgive us we are so very sorry!!!

Please keep Alan & Alicia in your prayers and pray that God will show us and help us make peace with this. It is so hard for us to understand. Even Alan and I who are Ministers and always trying to say what others in this situation need to hear. Now here we are asking WHY LORD?

I am sorry that I have such limited internet access right now. My e-mail is valid! It was just over storage limits and was bouncing. I am able to recieve but not able to send mail. To send mail I have to go into one of my on-line accounts such as yahoo or hotmail to send. I guess it is because I am pulling off of remote unsecure signals that it won't let me send anything out from outlook express.

NO LYN your not in my spam Sweetie and I have gotten a few things from you. My e-mail was just full and is still pushing the limits even though I have deleted hundreds!!!!!

Wayne my Brother I am so sorry I have not been able to stay in touch. I am pulling such a very low signal only 2 mbps that I can't even log into my yahoo messenger. I guess it is sheerly by God's will that I am able to post here.

I have been out of time on my phone so have not been able to keep in touch with even Laura. I did however have an hour conversation with her today and tried to catch her up on a few things. She is welcome to share that conversation with any however I didn't really say much that I haven't already said here on the church.

I am so very sorry I don't have much more to tell right now. I am so deeply in dispair over everything that I can barely function. I am out of all meds at the moment so my health is starting to fail when I need to be the strongest.

I will be 52 years old Sat. and my world is crumbling around me. I am HOMELESS, in a broken marriage, still in pain from the car accident, finally having to face and deal with the death of my Son & Granddaughter, ALL the while trying to stay strong for those around me. My Mother's upcoming surgery in 2 days, even the thought of facing loosing our precious Kendrick, the pain and suffering so many of my family and friends are going through, we had another family member by marriage (Cheryl Harrison) pass away this morning, as well as the news of the sweet young man I watched grow up (JJ Savage) killed in Iraq 4 days prior of his release to come home, and at a time when we are supposed to be smiling and happy because it's CHRISTMAS! Well forgive me everyone and forgive me LORD if I don't feel like smiling and making MERRY!

I am truly sorry I don't mean to sound like I am on my pity pot! I am just so very worried about EVERYTHING right now. It's hard when you are hitting the age of Senior Citizen, BROKE, HOMELESS and can't see anything good coming your way anytime soon! It's very scary I will tell you! I do appreciate everyone's continued prayers and concern. I love each of you so very much and couldn't make it without you!

God Bless each of you!

Rev. Teresa

Hi All,

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I want to add some to what Rev. Laura preached on today. She told of the significance of 40 days. I pointed out to her that she doesn't even realize that from the time she started asking me to come to Georgia and I was making every excuse in the book as why I couldn't at this time to when she had enough LOVE to manipulate the situation to where I could, (I fully BELIEVE it was God's will) it was just about 40 days to the day that I left to come here. And what did I find! So much love in a weeks time that it (besides FAMILY) surpasses what I have ever known. So I want to tell a little of what has happened and then the significance of Love!

I have had one of the most wonderful friends a person could ever hope to find in a lifetime. That is Rev. Lisa. She has meant so much to me over the years and has helped me to grow far beyond what I had ever hoped Spiritually. She was there through most of my darkest times. I had begin to wonder if I would ever get to meet her face to face with my health. We both just agreed that if it was God's will the day would come and if not we would meet at the gates of Heaven.

Since I was being hard headed about coming out to better my situation Rev. Laura just kinda took things in her own hands (Lead by God) to manipulate the situation along. She asked me to send Mike's Resume to her and let her vamp it up so maybe he could find a better job. She did a great job with it. BUT….She also sent it to her Husband at his job and he pulled it up with his Boss standing right there and his boss wanted to know where is this man at? Well the very same afternoon the Boss calls Mike and asks him about the machines he had worked and then asked him how fast he could get to ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Georgia. This made me think maybe I should rethink this. I prayed about it for a couple of days and it seemed God was telling me I have handed this to you and a much better chance at life if you will only reach out and accept it. So I said OK LORD I am going to go take a chance on a loan Company that had turned me down not long ago and if they approve me for enough to go then I will know it's your will. In an hour I was approved for MORE than I expected to receive. So I figured I had Gods answer. I met Mike at work and said do you want to take the rest of the day off and us get packed and leave for Georgia? He said yea let's do it. So that is what we done.

We had an Awesome trip with no problems. Before we left everything just fell right into place. We both saw places we had wanted to see on the way here. The first thing we did when we got to Georgia since she lives on the West side of the state is go VISIT REV. LISA! YES DREAM COME TRUE! I found just as much LOVE as I knew I would find there. We BOTH had been concerned about our mates because both of them are very quiet men! They hit it off as well as Lisa and I did and talked up a storm. Chris Lisa's son who Loves NOTHING more than he loves the Lord is usually shy and he was just as out going and excited to finally see me as Lisa & I were. In fact Mike and I stayed an extra day just to spend a little more time with them. It was 2 days of pure LOVE & pleasure.

I was a little more apprehensive about knowing I was going to have to stay & live with Rev. Laura and her family even though I had never had anything but an out pouring of unconditional LOVE from her either. And Rev. Lisa calmed my fears as I was leaving by saying you will feel just as much at home there as you do here because I guarantee you she loves YOU just as much as YOU love ME! So I felt much better about it then. And sure enough Rev. Lisa was right. I was greeted with so much LOVE that I finally felt my life was complete. So I am going to add what LOVE means to this sermon.

The Whole World Is Watching

Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples." (John 13:35 NLT)

We prove our faith in Christ, not by the rules we keep, but by the love we give.

Notice Jesus didn't say, "Love me," as proof of our discipleship. He said, "Love one another, and that will show the world you belong to me. One of the best things we can do to reach our community for Christ is to love each other that is, to love other believers.

Until the world sees the love of God modeled in Christian community, they're going to have trouble believing it can ever exist. When we truly care for one another, we show the world a love so tangible and contagious that they can't help but be attracted to it.

I have a good example to make here. Rev. Laura's husband I know was also a little concerned about another Minister moving into the house because he had never really talked to me or anything. All he knew of me was what Rev. Laura had told him. But it wasn't long into this that he saw I may be a Minister but am in fact a HUMAN and I have a sense of HUMOR & lot's of LOVE just as they do. He learned real quick he didn't have to change anything about his lifestyle to feel comfortable around me. That has just drove home the fact for him that even Ministers have a life outside of Ministry.  I also feels this has increased his faith some.

 As the world watches, they'll see us being of the same mind, maintaining the same love, intent on one purpose; not merely looking out for our own personal interests, but also for each other's interests (Philippians 2:3-4). The world is desperate for love and a sense of community, and we're meant to be the salt (Matthew 5:13) that increases their thirst for the living water. (John 4:10) Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, streams of living water will flow from within him. (John 7:38 NIV)

This has been drove home for me just by the LOVE Rev. Lisa & Rev. Laura and their families have extended to me. Because as I touched on earlier even in my home town with my own Families I was lacking something. After finally accepting what God was handing to me through the LOVE & desire to help of Rev. Laura and her Family my life is more than I dreamed it could be impacted in one short week. Rev. Laura wasn't out for how this could help her because other than to meet me in person she had little to gain from this besides my LOVE which she knew she already had from afar. However she followed what the Lord lead her to do out of LOVE and renewed not only some of my faith in my fellow Christian people which I don't think she even realized I needed but enriched all our lives just by lending a LOVING hand!

Our love for one another shows the world our unity with the Father and also shows them that community requires unity, a oneness about the purposes of life. Jesus said, I want all [my disciples] to be one with each other, just as I am one with you and you are one with me. I also want them to be one with us. Then the people of this world will believe that you sent me. (John 17:21 CEV)

This means the influence of our congregations is not about attendance, or buildings, or programs. Our influence within the greater community is based upon our love for one another.

Isn't it alarming, then, to think that we're often known for what we are against, rather than what we' re for and we are for the Good News of a love so wide and long and high and deep that it encompasses more than any of us could ever imagine. (Ephesians 3:18 NIV)

Our community of unity should reflect the faith we have in the love of Jesus Christ. Our congregations are meant to be points of love and light in the darkness of our communities. We're to let our light shine so that others will see the good and praise our Father in heaven. (Matthew 5:16)

People are less impressed with our words than they are with our actions of love for one another. Your love for other believers speaks about God's love. How loud is your voice?

Rev. Laura let me see how loud her voice is through the LOVE she sent my way! This is my little way of THANKING HER for that! And to show all of you just how much it does do when we show our Love to one another. Remember the old saying you catch more flies with Honey than Vinegar! The same holds true for leading others to the Lord through LOVE! If we love one another enough they can not doubt how much we love the Lord and the Lord loves us! Therefore we are living testaments to the bible and that the word is there in fact TRUTH!

So what?

· You witness to others when you love believers Jesus gave the world the right to judge the authenticity of our faith by how much we love one another that is, how we love other Christians. Yet some of the greatest conflicts we will experience are with other believers. Ask God what fences you need to mend. The whole world is watching how we love one another.

· What are you saying about God? We make a statement about God by the way we love one another. It may be a positive statement or it may be a negative one, but the fact is people often form their opinions of God by how they see us individually. There's truth in the old saying, You may be the only picture of Jesus people will ever see. People also may base their opinion of God on the reputation of our congregations how we get along, how we support each other, how we criticize others.

· Is your love tangible? Our love for one another offers a tangible, and contagious, reflection of God's love, allowing the world to witness the power of transformed lives. How loud do your actions speak about the love of God? How loud is the voice of our small group?

A MOTHER'S TORMENT

You've only to go behind the razor wire, bars and walls of cement;

If you truly want to see a Mother's torment.

For there he sits in his six by eight cell;

While his Mother lives a daily hell.

Her mind wanders over the so short years;

And for every day she sheds a few more tears.

If only she could go back to live in the past;

Where did the time go, it went so fast.

She hears the words he told her once more;

As she shudders with the closing of the iron door.

He said look at it like I'm going away to college;

Oh how she wishes he were just there for knowledge.

Her heart Screams "Son did I fail you as a Mother";

If not what would make you take the life of another?

When she closes her eyes at night she can't forget;

The picture in her mind so grim is permanent.

She sees her baby boy there behind the razor wire, bars and walls of cement;

From that day forward she lives with a Mother's Torment.

Copyright © 1999 by Teresa "WolfPoet" Piercey-Gates

I Won Poet Of The Millinium With This One!

At this time with so much uncertainty in our World we need to keep our minds and prayers on the Soldiers that fight for our freedom and the families of those men and women. I know because I was the child of a soldier in the Army so I knew the fear of a child who's Father has left them! I know because I am the Sister of Brothers who went away to fight! I know because I am also the Mother & the Daughter who went away to fight! I know because I am a Mother of just such a Son. My Son Chris is in the Navy as well as my niece and her Husband! So I know the fear of being a Mother, a daughter, and a sister of a Soldier but yet stand proud as I myself was a soldier at one time. I had a critical MOS in communications so I was one of the first on the front lines! I know the fear of staying alive to come home to my Kids and Family! Now I know the fear of having my child come home! His children know the same fear as he did when he was a child and I did as a child!
I ask that all band together in Prayer for the men and women who fight for us and their families that are praying they return safely!

Here are some Poems I wrote long ago Hope you ENJOY!

COMMON SOLDIER

He was getting old and paunchy
And his hair was falling fast,
And he sat around the Legion,
Telling stories of the past.

Of a war that he once fought in
And the deeds that he had done,
In his exploits with his buddies;
They were heroes, every one.

And 'tho sometimes to his neighbors
His tales became a joke,
All his buddies listened quietly
For they knew where of he spoke.

But we'll hear his tales no longer,
For ol' Bob has passed away,
And the world's a little poorer
For a Soldier died today.

He won't be mourned by many,
Just his children and his wife.
For he lived an ordinary,
Very quiet sort of life.

He held a job and raised a family,
Going quietly on his way;
And the world won't note his passing,
'Tho a Soldier died today.

When politicians leave this earth,
Their bodies lie in state,
While thousands note their passing,
And proclaim that they were great.

Papers tell of their life stories
From the time that they were young
But the passing of a Soldier
Goes unnoticed, and unsung.

Is the greatest contribution
To the welfare of our land,
Some jerk who breaks his promise
And cons his fellow man?

Or the ordinary fellow
Who in times of war and strife,
Goes off to serve his country
And offers up his life?

The politician's stipend
And the style in which he lives,
Are often disproportionate,
To the service that he gives.

While the ordinary Soldier,
Who offered up his all,
Is paid off with a medal
And perhaps a pension, small.

It's so easy to forget them,
For it is so many times
That our Bobs and Jims and Johnnys,
Went to battle, but we know, if you read between the lines.
 
It is not the politicians
With their compromise and ploys,
Who won for us the freedom
That our country now enjoys.

Should you find yourself in danger,
With your enemies at hand,
Would you really want some cop-out,
With his ever waffling stand?

Or would you want a Soldier--
His home, his country, his kin,
Just a common Soldier,
Who would fight until the end.

He was just a common Soldier,
And his ranks are growing thin,
But his presence should remind us
We may need his like again.

For when countries are in conflict,
We find the Soldier's part
Is to clean up all the troubles
That the politicians start.

If we cannot do him honor
While he's here to hear the praise,
Then at least let's give him homage
At the ending of his days.

Perhaps just a simply headline
In the paper that might say:
"OUR COUNTRY IS IN MOURNING,
A SOLDIER DIED TODAY."

© by Teresa Piercey (WolfPoet)
4-24-1987

The Line Begins to Blur

We are the ones on the line,
We are the few left to hold it.
Day in and day out,
We stand our bloody ground.

Mark your target carefully,
Body shot is always best.
So you squeeze the trigger,
Feel the rifle kick.

I see the other guy fall,
See his blood stain the sand.
You try not to see it,
Try not to think about it.

We hold the line every day,
Because we are told to.
We kill Men every day,
Because that's what we are told to do.

They are the enemy,
We are the good guys.
We stand for freedom,
They stand for hate.

Every day we kill more and more,
I see children and Women on the streets.
Have I made them orphans and widows?
Who's side are we on anyway?

How can I defend my nation,
Holding a line miles from home.
How can we defend freedom,
After we have taken it from others?

So we hold this bloody line,
Exchange fire and hate.
But as each day passes by,
That line begins to blur.

© by Teresa Piercey (WolfPoet)
6-13-1989

TAKE MY HAND

I cannot ease your aching heart,
Nor take your pain away,
But let me stay and take your hand
And walk with you today.

I´ll listen when you need to talk,
I´ll wipe away your tears,
I´ll share your worries when they come,
I´ll help you face your fears.

I´m here and I will stand by you,
Each hill you have to climb.
So take my hand, let´s face the world,
Live one day at a time.

You´re not alone, for I´m still here...
I´ll got that extra mile.
And when your grief is easier,
I´ll help you learn to smile.

© by Teresa Piercey (WolfPoet)
3-24-1976