Dear Gentle And Wonderful God
Truly Awesome And Ever-present Holy Spirit
Precious Lord Jesus
In our sadness, your love soothes our broken hearts and eases our pain.
In our sadness, your love is an infinite ocean of living water compared to this tiny teardrop on our cheeks.
In our sadness, when we think we are alone, your love is as a faithful friend who will never, ever leave us alone.
In our sadness, when our future looks bleak, your love makes our future as bright and gleaming as the sun.
In our sadness, when there is no hope, your love lifts our spirits up and shows us our infinite hope in you.
We love you.

T&J
A-prayer-for-us-all - Tuesday, September 30, 2003 10:04 PM CDT

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you probably won't remember me by my name but I work at Curves and was there quite often when you came in with your mom to tan. Just wanted to tell you my thoughts are with you and wish you a very speedy recovery.

Terry Marble <terrysbuggy@hotmail.com>
cortland, ny cortland - Tuesday, September 30, 2003 6:47 PM CDT

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I wish you could all know Mrs. J, and Linda E, and Kim Christy, and Janet Griffin and the many other frequent posters here. Folks, these are no modern-day icons...they are living, breathing, people who walk on sidewalks and do laundry and watch TV and go to the bathroom just like you and I do. But their generosity of spirit is amazing, isn't it? As Mrs. J suggests in her note today, sometimes it really is overwhelming to have so many people holding you up and looking up to you. Susie is no saint, doesn't want to be a saint. Of course we are overwhelmingly proud of her and of course by virtue of the aftermath of her accident she is an example of patience, persistence and hard work. In some ways, though, she has become a reluctant celebrity because of her random car accident. What happens next is only for the future to know, but please know meanwhile that Sarah and Julie and I are very grateful for your words here, your phone calls, your email messages and your cards. Love right back to you.
:) Jack
- Tuesday, September 30, 2003 8:41 AM CDT

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Good Morning Susannah,

Guess I’m just going to plunge right in. Susie, do you ever get to the point where you wish people wouldn’t say all these wonderful things about you? When you feel so far away from courageous, and a positive attitude you’d just like to scream, “Stop it! You don’t know what I’m really like or really feeling. Leave me alone. Let me be.” I fear there have been way too many times in my life when I’ve cried out and told God, “This faith stuff is just fine and I do believe but I want real arms around me right now. I want to be held and just cry. It’s hard. I hurt. I’m so angry and so alone.”

As a parent I’ve been hundreds and even thousands of miles away from my child when they have spoken such words and felt powerless to help. I had no answer for them and my arms were no where near to them.

Susie, I think these are literally times of personal crucifixion when we cry out, “Let this cup pass from me.” I have seldom been able to follow that by, “Not my will but Thine.” Why, oh why is it that “in the fire” we are purified and strengthened? Why can’t it be in the happy, cozy, comfortable times we grow, but we don’t. It really is in the painful times that we develop strength, endurance, compassion, understanding, humility, trust, and more.

Trouble is when you’re in the middle of crucifixion you don’t need anyone standing at the bottom of the cross telling you it's good for you, either. Gosh, Susie, I don’t really know what to say to help because nothing much usually does. Seems only the passing of time causes the pain and hurt to subside and even end. Then the air seems fresher and cleaner and life is a little more precious and sweeter, and horror of horrors, Susie, the next time you have to go through the fire, and you will, (There’s always another “first week at Kessler” even after age sixty) it’s a little easier.

Susie, Mom, Dad and Sarah, please feel the arms around you , holding you close to our hearts, rocking and singing softly, “Tell the world, go away. Get it off my shoulders.” as we all look to the time when like little Joshua, you’re ready to jump down and take the world on again.
XXXX OOOO Mrs. J
1Pe 5:10
After you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself perfect, confirm, strengthen {and} establish you.”
Zec 10:12
"And I will strengthen them in the LORD, And in His name they will walk," declares the LORD”


Judith Johnson
- Tuesday, September 30, 2003 2:21 AM CDT

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Dear Susie,

I so hope this week is a little better for you. You're on my mind very often. Stay strong, Susie, and know that all of us who are with you on this journey send you our love and our encouragement and our prayers.

with much love,
Linda E.
Mandana, NY - Monday, September 29, 2003 8:24 PM CDT

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Ah, Susie, I am sorry that your first week at Kessler was troubling...you certainly didn't need that!
****When you are going through a difficult time,
You may wonder if you're making the right choices.
You may wonder how things will turn out
If you take a different road.
But through these entries we have come to know you better
And see you for who you really are.
You are a strong and motivated individual
Who will rise to meet the challenges that face you
Because you are a loving and warm person who loves life.
We know you will get through this difficult time,
And I hope you know that "we all" will be there for you!

Lots of love, hope and encouragement coming your way!
Love, Mrs. Griffin
Janet Griffin
Cortland, - Monday, September 29, 2003 7:58 PM CDT

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we didn't have to go looking for a word this morning because I found this one in my e-mail


If I could catch a rainbow
I would do it just for you
and share with you its beauty
On the days you're feeling blue.

If I could build a mountain
You could call your very own
A place to find serenity
A place to be alone

If I could take your troubles
I would toss them in the sea
But all these things I'm finding
are impossible for me.

I cannot build a mountain
Or catch a rainbow fair
But let me be what I know best
A friend who's always there.


T&J <about_ms@yahoo.com>
food-for-thoughtville - Monday, September 29, 2003 8:59 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Susie,

I was taken up in wonder and imagination about who the Geismars were, what kind of people they were and their relationship to Henry Kessler. I tried to find any reference to them on the internet but was unsuccessful. I also keep thinking about giving and what a marvelous magical thing that is.

When my son was around four he came in one day all excited. “Mommy. Mommy! See what I found, diamonds, and they’re for you!” They were small fragments of broken glass from the roadside but they’re still in a tiny drawer on my desk nearly twenty years later. Silly? Maybe, but sometimes when I need to know my worth, I take those diamonds out and remind myself to see things through the clear, innocent eyes of love.

When Our Savior said in Lk. 6:38 “Give, and it will be given to you. They will pour into your lap a good measure--pressed down, shaken together, {and} running over. For by your standard of measure it will be measured to you in return."… I don’t think He meant, “You’ll get rich quick, Baby!” You give what you have and are bless with what you need. Can you bake, mow a lawn, write a letter, talk, pound a nail? Give that. Do you need peace, restored relationship, healing, answers, children righted? That may just be what you get “pressed down and shaken together and running over.” I’ve also experienced and been told of some very amazing financial needs being met through giving.

Little did a four year old boy know how big his gift really was or how long it would continue to inspire and uplift. Neither do we. Let’s all cut loose the purse strings of our lives and start giving even a smile and an
encouraging word, like you so often give others, Susie, is a treasure greater than diamonds.

You Carrs must have given a couple of smiles away in your lives. How else do you explain 30,766 visit here to see how you are all doing? Allowing so many to peek into your lives is also one enormous, appreciated gift.

Susie, Sarah and Mamma and Pappa Carr, May your day, week and lives be pressed down and overflowing with diamonds of love.

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Monday, September 29, 2003 5:15 AM CDT

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Dear Susie,
Look how much you have accomplished so far! My prayers are with you and your family. Keep your faith going. God loves you and He will guide you through this. Take care and God bless!
Jenn Eaker
Hobe Sound, Fl. United States - Sunday, September 28, 2003 8:58 PM CDT

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Hello Susie. It is good to get news about you and Kessler Institute. As you and your family learn, so do we, and as always thank you all for sharing. I am thinking of you and the hard work you are doing to get to your goal of standing. Part of that hard work is waiting for the right time. So I often envision you standing and feeling tall and use that image as a prayer. All the best to you. Shalom.
Denise Banner-Haley
Cortland, NY USA - Sunday, September 28, 2003 7:45 PM CDT

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Trish & Jesyca
- Sunday, September 28, 2003 10:37 AM CDT

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Susie,
I hope all is going well and that you are feeling all of the prayers that are being sent your way every day.

This morning I came upon a verse in the Bible that made me think of you and your family. Here goes:

Philippians 4:4-7

Rejoice in the Lord always. The Lord is near. Have no anxiety at all, but in everything by prayers and petition with thanksgiving make your request
sknown to God. Then the peace of God that surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and minds in Christ Jesus.
Carol Patriarco
Cortland, NY USA - Sunday, September 28, 2003 9:39 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Susie,

Emu, penguins, cheesecake, Chinese food and a chat with Sarah? Ooo- sweet water. Wha’da nice day!

We have penguins in our silo. They often sit on the silo roof but they fly down during the day to eat grain along the road. We even had one in our bird feeder a few times. We told Joshua they were pigeons but he was listening to one of his shows the same day and they had penguins on it and the two have been mixed up ever since. We love the thought of penguins on our silo and have used the corrected reference from that day.

Confusion is an interesting thing. Many of us children have Christmas and Santamas confused. God confused man’s language on the plain of Shinar after He saw the tower and made this remarkable statement, “Nothing will be impossible to them with one language.” The implications of that statement in light of the many advocates of a one-world language can be down right frightening. There is a lot of evil in us even with the wheat of goodness the tares grow, and tares look just like wheat until fully ripe.

God used confusion all through the Old Testament to defeat an enemy or chastise his people but this is my favorite confusion text, 1Co 14:33 –“For God is not {a God} of confusion but of peace, as in all the churches of the saints.” You could even leave out “all the churches” and read it , “as in all the saints.”

Susie if ever you’re confused and do not know which way to go turn to Jehovah Shalom, Our Peace and confusion will melt like an ice cube in a mug of hot chocolate!

Many folk confuse doves with pigeons. To carry the confusion further the “Pigeon of Peace” could possible be a ‘Penguin of Peace.’ Guess you could say that’d be a time of real heavy peace during very cold, bitter times that doesn’t take flight and leave you. May the "Penguin of Peace" visit today and stay.

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Sunday, September 28, 2003 5:31 AM CDT

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Happy New Year to all our Jewish friends all over the world. Mary Lee, I believe you are absolutely correct...as far as I can understand, your children and Susie and Sarah are third cousins. It is that once removed stuff that gets tricky.
Jack
- Saturday, September 27, 2003 1:46 PM CDT

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Susie Q
Finally back online after no internet at school for way to long. Actually there still is no internet. Right now I'm actually home lol. But anyways I had to get on and check on you and see how you were doing down there. I have to tell you a lil story bout what happened when your dad told me what the doctor said to you...
I was just getting online for the first time because I had just got dial up at school cause I wanted to see how you were doing. Well as soon as I get online and your dad is on so I start talking to him. Well as I was talking to him my room mate comes up and is like "dude it's only internet, you don't have to cry about it" I was seriously so happy I was just about in tears and didn't even know about it. Susie I told you if you worked hard enough you would find a way to accomplish that "impossible" goal you were telling me about an extra 30 days is nothing if you can come on out even more on top right . Well I have to get back to work, but I wanted to make sure you knew I was still keeping track of you, and I miss ya. Hopefully you will have a really nice B-day present.
Thomas Pirko
Dryden, NY - Saturday, September 27, 2003 1:29 PM CDT

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Trish & Jesyca
food-for-thoughtville - Saturday, September 27, 2003 9:43 AM CDT

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Hi Susie. How is it going at Kessler? We think of you often and my children (I think they would be 3rd cousins) (Jack, correct me if I am wrong) ask about you frequently. All of us are saying prayers for you. I hope your therapy is going well. I'll bet that your spirit there is contagious. That's okay, keep it up! And remember, God doesn't give us more than we can handle. Some of us just handle more than others.
Have a terrific day, Susie!

Mary Lee
- Saturday, September 27, 2003 6:23 AM CDT

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Ho- ho and good morning Susie,

Susie, some very sweet water filled part of my bowl yesterday morning. I’m still grinnin’.

Joshua and Grandpa were going to get some wood to start a first fire of the season. When it comes to fires in the fireplace, Joshua is a grand paper stuffer from way back…. at least a year and a half. As the two of them headed over to get the wood, I knew they couldn’t get past the driveway without a few tractor rides but when it got quiet and Don’s little red truck was still sitting outside I began to wonder what was up. I thought, “They must have gone in the studio but I can’t imagine Don making a picture with Joshua.” Just then an insistent little pounding came at the front door with a “Grama, Grama… come see!” I thought, “My goodness he did do a painting with Josh!” With David sound asleep I dared take a few minutes to go see.

There was no painting. Instead Johnny Cash music was testing the stability of the rafters with the Green, Green, Grass of Home and Josh and Grandpa were dancing their hearts out. What’s a Grama to do? I hit my rainbow makers and sent them spinning and a three year old boy, an eighty one year boy, a sixty year old grama and hundreds of rainbows danced away with legs, heads and arms flying.. It must have resembled some ancient inebriated whopping crane ritual or maybe turkey buzzards, but, my, that’s sweet water!

Later when I read T&J’s Mark Twain quote about “Forget and Forgive”, it dawned on me Don was forgetting the wood, probably because the green, green, grass was way to wet, wet, wet with morning dew, to get brown, brown, brown wood for the warm, warm, warm fire.

The “inconvenient duty” turned into dancing, like “mountains and hills breaking forth into shouts of joy, and all the trees of the field clapping their hands.” "Instead of the thorn bush the cypress will come up, And instead of the nettle the myrtle will come up, And it will be a memorial to the LORD, For an everlasting sign which will not be cut off." Is.55(my chapter from way back)

You know, Susie, even now some of your therapy sessions will suddenly turn into joyous clapping and one day even the hills and mountains you’re going over will become shouts of joy. Why you may even dance, hopefully better than inebriated whopping cranes. Did you ever think you may be creating an everlasting memorial to the Lord? You just may be.

Susie and all you Carrs, let us raise our bowl in a toast to all the sweet water in our days especially the unexpected little joys that make us forget inconvenient duties.!

XXXX OOOO Mrs J




Judith Johnson
- Saturday, September 27, 2003 3:34 AM CDT

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Susie,
I hope things are going well at at your new location! I have been thinking of you and hoping you can get adjusted and feel good about your progress. We are all rooting for you, far and away. People ask about you all the time, even the little kiddies. Take care, Allison
Allison <maxmags@hotmail.com>
Cortland, NY USA - Friday, September 26, 2003 1:07 PM CDT

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La Shonna Tov...Happy New Year to all the Carr's may this year the Shofar blow increase the blessings upon you. As always you remain in my prayers.
Lori Rai
- Friday, September 26, 2003 11:45 AM CDT

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Susie....God bless you! Keep that good cheer up! Hugs and love.
Kate Moss
Baltimore, MD - Friday, September 26, 2003 7:59 AM CDT

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Hi Jack, Julie, Sarah and Susie,

Wishing all of you a great weekend! Have a safe trip, J&J, a wonderful reunion with Susie, and a good time whatever you end up doing together! :) And Sarah, I hope you have a fun weekend, too. Fall weekends at college, especially during your senior year, are precious.

Our love to all of you,
Linda E.
Mandana, NY - Friday, September 26, 2003 7:28 AM CDT

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Trish & Jesyca <about_ms@yahoo.com>
FOOD-FOR-THOUGHTVILLE - Friday, September 26, 2003 7:17 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Susie,

Very nice meditation from Fr. Jerry. I was going to try it but between the cat and grandsons I feared it’d either get lapped up or spilled over. The symbolism of a feline consuming my gift of life would wrack havoc with my psyche.

Reminds me of a summer camp experience on Owasco Lake. The whole camp was at the lake side with these small candles on paper rafts. We were to all put them in the water, give them a gentle shove and send our “life” out into the unknown darkness trusting our God. Well I wanted mine to go way out, even out in front of the rest and gave it a healthy shove. It immediately sank never getting two feet from shore.

See how traumatic that was for me? I still vividly recall that nearly fifty years later. It has brought up many a lesson for me. Pride goes before a sinking. It is in God’s power that you shall go far- not you own. Your light will shine longer if you just relax and go gentle like you’re told. Let God chart your course… and Let God start it…. Or you’ll sink real fast.

Proverbs 2
“7He grants a treasure of good sense to the godly. He is their shield, protecting those who walk with integrity. 8He guards the paths of justice and protects those who are faithful to him. 9Then you will understand what is right, just, and fair, and you will know how to find the right course of action every time.”

Or

Proverbs 16:9
“In his heart a man plans his course, but the LORD determines his steps.”

I’ll try the water bowl when cat and kids pose no danger of drinking or dumping “my day.” ;o)
Carrs, may your bowl be sprinkled with Isaac dust!

XXXX OOOO Mrs J



Judith Johnson
- Friday, September 26, 2003 6:33 AM CDT

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Trish & Jesyca
Food-For-Thoughtville - Thursday, September 25, 2003 3:22 PM CDT

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Morning Susie!
I pray that all is going well for you. Remember to rest in between those hard pt & ot sessions. The best rest you can get is in the presence of Our Lord. Here is today's daily devotional reading:


Yes, come for rest. But stay for rest, too. Stop all feverish haste and be calm and untroubled. Come unto Me, not only for petitions to be granted but for nearness to Me.

Be sure of My Help, be conscious of My Presence, and wait until My Rest fills your soul.

Rest knows no fear. Rest knows no want. Rest is strong, sure. The rest of soft glades and peacefully flowing rivers, of strong, immovable hills. Rest, and all you need to gain this rest is to come to Me. So come.

-Matt. 11:28.
Enjoy your rest this day, Susie and all the Carrs!

Much Love to you all!
Kim
Kim Christie <dance61@odyssey.net>
Cortland, NY USA - Thursday, September 25, 2003 7:36 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Susie,

How are ya’ dewin,’ Susie? I keep wondering what you do in those P&O therapy sessions… any more frogs?

Every morning at school we all gather in the gym and have prayers. You would have enjoyed yesterday’s session. Because it’s the school 75th anniversary, Sr. has invited different alumni to come and talk about some of their memories of the school. A city legislator shared his memories yesterday. He stood directly across from the gym doors, which lead to the front office and said, “This used to be one big sidewalk,” motioning with both hands on either side of him. “And this whole area where the gym is was a dirt field. The boys (pointing south) used to play over here and the girls used to play over there and you couldn’t go across the sidewalk. If your ball rolled on the girl’s side they had to bring it to you. You couldn’t go get it. I was told these rules would make us bigger better people”

“In the class room we had to put our books, largest on the left and smaller ones on the right from biggest to smallest in a neat pile, sit up straight and, put our clasped hands on the desk. We were told this would make us bigger and better people if we did this.” He went on to share other things always ending up with “We were told this would make us bigger and better people.” At the end, this five foot two gentleman said, “Just think how short I’d be if I hadn’t gone to St. Marys!”

I had a neighbor boy stop a few years ago to visit. He’s grown and father to teenagers. He told me I probably wouldn’t remember but he was being picked on for being short and I said, in front of all the kids, “Steve, how big a man is never measured on the outside but on the inside and you are very tall inside.” He said he always remembered that.

True height measurement has not changed. In Luke 19, there was a very short guy named Zacchaeus who become an enormously great example of what it meant to know Jesus. The world still talks about him.

Have a wonderful day, Tall One! Being tall seems to run in your family.

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

j johnson
- Thursday, September 25, 2003 4:00 AM CDT

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Hi Julie and Jack,
Susie looks great and very determined to get all she can out of Kessler. Soooooooooo happy to see that darling girl's pretty little face.
I love that girl and all of you Carrs.....what a gift you all are to this world.
Pete, Kate and I will see you Sunday.
Love ya


Janet T <Artjmt5285@aol.com>
Sayville, NY - Wednesday, September 24, 2003 8:19 PM CDT

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Dear Susie and Family,
I am visualizing constant healing and recovery for you. God's Love is encircling us all and His Powers are endless. God Bless,
Marti
Syracuse, - Wednesday, September 24, 2003 11:37 AM CDT

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Memo From God

To: YOU
Date: TODAY
From: THE BOSS
Subject: YOURSELF
Reference: LIFE

Today I will be handling all of your problems.
Please remember that I do not need your help.

If life happens to deliver a situation to you that you cannot handle, do not attempt to resolve it.
Kindly put it in your For God box and leave it there. It will be addressed in my time, not yours.

If you find yourself stuck in traffic; Don't despair.
There are people in this world for whom driving is an unheard of priviledge.

Should you have a bad day at work;
Think of the man who has been out of work for years.

Should you despair over a relationship gone bad;
Think of the person who has never known what it's like to love and be loved in return.

Should you grieve the passing of another weekend;
Think of the woman in dire straits, working twelve hours a day, seven days a week to feed her children.

Should your car break down, leaving you miles away from assistance;
Think of our beloved Susie who would love the opportunity to take that walk.

Should you notice a new gray hair in the mirror;
Think of the cancer patient in chemo who wishes she had hair to examine.

Should you find yourself at a loss and pondering what is life all about, asking what is my purpose?
Be thankful. There are those who didn't live long enough to get the opportunity.

Should you find yourself the victim of other people's bitterness, ignorance, smallness or insecurities;
Remember, things could be worse. You could be them!!!!



Trish & Jesyca
- Wednesday, September 24, 2003 9:01 AM CDT

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Hi, Barbara! Good to see you and welcome aboard the SS Susie. The more passengers the better. I think we're all on a life changing cruise. JJ
JJ
- Wednesday, September 24, 2003 5:22 AM CDT

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Good Morning Susannah!

In all your busy day yesterday did you remember it was the first day of fall? I didn’t. When I was much younger I recall an Indian maiden in something (?) with the name Princess Summer, Spring, Winter, Fall. It could have been an animation by Disney because I have such a vivid memory of how lovely she was and of course I just loved her name.

Seasons. We have them a plenty in our lives. I’m in the fall of life and feel way to many chilly breezes of winter coming on. I know you’ve heard the phrase “…in due season.” I was thinking about you and all of “US” and something your dad said. “This thing is bigger than any of us know.” He was referring to you and everything and everyone involved or touched by what you’ve been through and are going through.

I have a tiny suspicion that God has a corporate plan in all this as well. Susie, you may be an instrument of change, freedom, homecoming, strengthening, new life and much more in the lives of people you will never even know and many you do know. Something in you lets Him know you can go through the flood, fire and water and come out, in due season, victorious. It means don’t think for a second you must always be “Superwomen.” It just means after the tears, anger, impatience, discouragement, fear, rebellion, pain, set backs, home sickness…what ever comes and GOES (AND IT WILL GO AWAY) you keep ‘keepin’ on!”…and you will. It’s in you.


“(Don’t) lose heart and grow weary and faint in acting nobly and doing right, for in due season (you ) we shall reap, if we do not loosen and relax our courage and faint.” Gal 6:9 Susie, “I exhort (you-and all of us) to humble yourself under the mighty hand of God, that in due time He may exalt (all of us.)” 1 Peter 5:6

Susie, Jack, Julie, Sarah and everyone, let us not lose heart for in due season winter passes, the rain will come, spring returns and summer will bring the blooming of the lovely, graceful lily which is what the name Susannah means, a graceful lily.

Blessings. XXXX OOOO Mrs. J


Judith Johnson
- Wednesday, September 24, 2003 5:15 AM CDT

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Hi Mrs J - I'd have to agree... the word "buzzard" is an awful-sounding word. And I don't care much for the word "lurker" either, it sounds so evil! I refuse to be either one! So....

Hello Susie and family - You continue to be in my thoughts and prayers. Wishing you good things with each new day. :)
Barbara Townsend
Virgil , NY - Tuesday, September 23, 2003 11:31 PM CDT

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Susie,
We miss you but want you to stay as long as it takes to get you back up on your feet again. We are all praying for you here in Cortland and we love you. Hang in there and remember "the promise".
Carol Patriarco and Family
Cortland, NY USA - Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:55 PM CDT

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Hi Susie!
I hope every day gets a little better. I know you will come out of Kessler far stronger than you were when you went in, and I'm praying you get the extra 30 days.

Balance will come....just take a deep breath and visualize. I know you can do it. I will keep your friend in my prayers too.

Have a great week!

Jolie Lindley,
MAO local director - Indiana
Jolie Lindley <JolieL@yahoo.com>
Jeffersonville, Indiana - Tuesday, September 23, 2003 8:45 PM CDT

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Hello Susie. How's The Kessler Experience? You've been there such a short time and ask us, through your Mom, to pray for another girl. Of course we will. And the congregation says "Amen". All my best wishes, keep up the great good work,
Denise Banner-Haley
not the Emerald city, - Tuesday, September 23, 2003 6:50 PM CDT

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Doozer and Family~ I recieved this email from a person i work with....that you would enjoy! I will see you in a week or so Sus... I LOVE YOU

Something to think about......
Read this line very slowly and let it sink in...

If God brings you to it, He will bring you through it.

THE BRICK ...
A young and successful executive was traveling down a
neighborhood street, going a bit too fast in his new Jaguar. He was watching for kids darting out from between parked cars and slowed down when he thought he saw something. As his car passed, no children appeared. Instead, a brick smashed into the Jag's side door! He slammed on the brakes and backed the Jag back to the spot where the brick had been thrown.

The angry driver then jumped out of the car, grabbed the nearest
kid and pushed him up against a parked car shouting, "What was that all
about and who are you? Just what the heck are you doing? That's a new car
and that brick you threw is going to cost a lot of money. Why did you do it?"

The young boy was apologetic. "Please, mister...please, I'm sorry
but I didn't know what else to do," He pleaded. "I threw the brick because no
one else would stop..." With tears dripping down his face and off his
chin, the youth pointed to a spot just around a parked car.

"It's my brother," he said. "He rolled off the curb and fell out of his wheelchair and I can't lift him up."

Now sobbing, the boy asked the stunned executive, "Would you please help me get him back into his wheelchair? He's hurt and he's too heavy for me."

Moved beyond words, the driver tried to swallow the rapidly
swelling lump in his throat. He hurriedly lifted the handicapped boy back into
the wheelchair, then took out a linen handkerchief and dabbed at the
fresh scrapes and cuts.

A quick look told him everything was going to be okay..."Thank
you and may God bless you," the grateful child told the stranger.
Too shook up for words, the man simply watched the boy push his
wheelchair- bound brother down the sidewalk toward their home

It was a long, slow walk back to the Jaguar. The damage was very
noticeable, but the driver never bothered to repair the dented side door. He
kept the dent there to remind him of this message "Don't go through life so fast that someone has to throw a brick at you to get your attention!"

God whispers in our souls and speaks to our hearts. Sometimes when wedon't
have time to listen, He has to throw a brick at us. It's our choice to listen or not.

Thought for the Day:
If God had a refrigerator,
your picture would be on it.
If He had a wallet, your photo would be in it.
He sends you flowers every spring.
He sends you a sunrise every morning.
Face it, friend - He is crazy about you!

Send this to every "beautiful person" you wish to bless, . God
didn't promise days without pain, laughter without sorrow, sun without rain, but
He did promise strength for the day, comfort for the tears, and light for the way.

Jenn Dailey
Cortland, NY - Tuesday, September 23, 2003 3:11 PM CDT

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HEY SUSIE!!

I miss you and I hope you are doing well and staying strong!! I think about you ALLLLLLLLLL the time (as well as your mom, dad, and my baby Sarah), and wish you the best. Don't ever forget how much of an inspiration you have been to sooooo many people, ok?!?!?!?!

I love you tons, but hopefully I wont see you for another 50-something days! :)

Theresa Bilodeau <bilodeau@oswego.edu>
Cortland, NY New Guinea - Tuesday, September 23, 2003 12:48 AM CDT

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Oops! Sorry, GINA!
Love,
Mommy
Aunt Kathy
Yardville, NJ USA - Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:53 AM CDT

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Hi, Susie,
It was great going to Olive Garden together on Saturday! We're already looking forward to our next get-together. Continue to hang tough, Susie, and draw strength from helping others to heal.

And tell all your friends to buy mark.!
Aunt Kathy, Uncle Jim, Gian and Joseph
Yardville, NJ USA - Tuesday, September 23, 2003 9:51 AM CDT

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I do hope that the extra 30 days works out. I know that it will just be another 30 days of good things happening. I send all my good thoughts and wishes your way!!!!
Kate M
NU, - Tuesday, September 23, 2003 8:50 AM CDT

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Susie,
Remember me. I your guide in Israel 3 years ago. What a wonderful time we had. You must come back.
Praying for you
Mark Deckelbaum
Mark Deckelbaum
- Tuesday, September 23, 2003 6:49 AM CDT

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Good Morning Susie,

We’re believing for another thirty days and peace during another adjustment phase.

I'm praying for no wobbles in therapy. I keep praying for you to have that strength that can bend a bow of bronze.

My sister’s boys and husband are great hunters and one of my nephews let me “try” to “bend” his bow. It wasn’t bronze. I don’t think the string left the perfectly vertical state once for all my grunts and sweat. I couldn’t move it. Then my nephew, the pain in the pa-tuti he can be says, “Here – it’s easy. Like this.” … and proceeds to pull the string back like it was a loose shoestring and lets an arrow go. “Hrumph,” says I to his devilish little grin, “I jus’ didn’t wanna show ya’ up.” I never have.

Can you imagine how hard it must be to pull the string on a bronze bow? Susie, that’s a lot of strength! Maybe I’d better tone down my prayer a little before you end up with an upper torso like some weight lifter. Never saw a Miss America built like that.

I was in Atlantic City once in the same building the Miss America Pageant was held. I’ll tell ya’ I didn’t walk down ‘no’ runway…. decidedly the wrong figure for such an event. It was a faith convention, a real spiritual experience. Being the morning person I am I decide to rise early, go to the beach and experience God’s presence. There was a huge pile of mammoth boulders that stretched way out into the water where very health waves were putting on an impressive show. I decided I wanted to go ‘way out’ there and experience a spiritual high with my God. I got about half way out where the waves were doing a most successful job at impressing me when this infinitely profound thought struck me like lightening, “You idiot! What on earth are you doing out here?”

I’ll tell ya’, Susie, sometimes good ole common sense is a whole lot better than some would be spiritual high experience.

“Dear friends, this is now my second letter to you. I have written both of them as reminders to stimulate you to wholesome thinking.” 2 Peter 3:1-2)

Susie, may we all have heads full of “wholesome thinking”

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Tuesday, September 23, 2003 4:59 AM CDT

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To the entire Carr family, Julie, Jack, Sarah, and Susie,
You are all in my family's hearts. We wish you good luck and pray that all turns out ok in the end. From everything I've read on this website, it sounds like things are looking in the positive direction and I hope that they continue this way. Bless you.
Sarah VanLiew <sarahvanliew@hotmail.com>
Cortland, NY USA - Tuesday, September 23, 2003 3:34 AM CDT

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Susie... I know you won't remember me and I am guilty of being one of the lurkers, so I decided this is the best time for me to write. I remember you when you were in your mom and dad's production of The King and I. (Well, actually I remember you and Sarah in many of those great plays your mom and dad did!) Yes it's been that long!

Just keep smiling! You are brightening many peoples lives without even realizing it! (and the reason for all the little surprises like the turkey buzzards and the deer... they just wanted to be close to an angel!)

Good luck at Kessler...(not that you'll need it.) I know you will be their miracle angel!

And Jack and Julie... Keep your heads up! You truly are blessed!
Kim Camarano <kjcamarano@hotmail.com>
Windsor, NY - Monday, September 22, 2003 11:00 PM CDT

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Ah, yes... Miss America Time!

Susie, the first time I met your dad was at Miss America. This man comes up to me and says, "Are you Ani Ross?"

Then I met your mom and Sarah a couple years ago at Miss DC.

I totally didn't realize it was Miss America week until Tuesday. I just hadn't been keeping up. In fact, I was out of town this weekend, I taped it, and I haven't even watched it yet!

It's hard to get enthusiastic about watching a tape delay (which is what it is on the west coast) when you've been there live and in person.

Glad to hear you're at Kessler-- I'm sure you're going to make great progress!
Ani Ross
Huntington Beach, CA - Monday, September 22, 2003 5:52 PM CDT

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Hi Susie,

Thanks so much to you and your family for letting all of us participate in the New Jersey trip! Can you believe that you've already been at Kessler for five days? I'll bet the days are going by quickly for you as you work hard, meet new people, and discover new things about your own strength and perserverance. As always, keep in mind that you have people all over the world thinking of you and praying for you....probably at any minute of the day or night there is someone, somewhere who is thinking of you.

Take care, and let's hope that no one delivers a "bouquet of buzzards" to you this week! :)

with love,
Linda E.
Mandana, NY - Monday, September 22, 2003 9:39 AM CDT

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Hey Susie,
How does it feel in your temporary home away from home? I hope you're making some lasting friendships and you're sharing your "Susie Spirit" with all those you come into contact with.
We have all been in the "wilderness" from time to time and I hope you consider this your "wilderness" and we all pray that your stay there will be short but also equally rewarding. Keep up your spirits as you encounter new and different people and situations. As always, we pray for your continued recovery!
Love, The Griffins
P.S. People of Cortland! Don't forget the can and bottle drive for Susie. Chrissy now has a new amount for you....$60! This will go directly to the Carrs to help with expenses to and from NJ. Remember...P&C on Homer Ave.
Thanks!
Janet Griffin
Cortland, NY - Monday, September 22, 2003 5:27 AM CDT

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A little geography lesson. West Orange, NJ is 135 miles, give or take, and 2.5 hours, give or take, from the famous Boardwalk in Atlantic City.

Ask me how I know? Because I commuted from Point A to B twice over the weekend, once *during* Isabel and once after. And when I met up with my Miss America volunteer friends from all over the country, the second comment they would make (after "How is Susie doing?") would be--

"I want to meet Mrs. J!!!!!"

Well, wouldn't we all?

Mrs. J is a precious friend. Susie, Sarah, Julie and I are so grateful for her steadfast support. Trish & Jesyca were among those I was able to meet up with in Atlantic City--they want to meet Mrs. J, too. I have a dream that it would be a mighty big party to get you all together...and more than likely NOBODY would shut up!!!

Thank you to everybody and swing by to see the updated Angel Garden (thank you, Jill and Nancy and scores of unknown volunteers!).
Jack
- Monday, September 22, 2003 4:54 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Susie,

Turkey buzzards and deer? Maybe this place IS somewhere over the rainbow. St. Josephs sounds like a comfortable pair of old shoes. Hope there’s a two-way street of blessings there for all.

You know, Susie, I’m totally blank when it comes to buzzards ‘cept whenever they’re mentioned in scripture it ‘ain’t’ nice. Even the word itself, buzzard, sounds a little snarly. Have you ever noticed how some words just sound good, almost musical like cellar-door or daffodil. I know someone named Theodora Wheatherby. I just love saying her name. O’Susannah is another, they ought to make a song out of it. ;o)

I really like receiving Christmas cards (I’m listening to Christmas music right now) that have all the names of Jesus on them. I’ve even tried my own designs a few times. My favorite name for God, even though I don’t think it’s as melodious as Theodora Wheatherby, is Jehovah. Wanna know why… sure you do… because it means ‘I Am.” I used to draw a blank on that… I Am? I am what…. I’ve since learned He is anything you need;

Jehovah-Jireh—My provider
Jehovah-Repheka--- My Healer
Jehovah- Tsidqeni—My Righteousness
Jehovah- Nissi- My Conqueror
Jehovah-Shalom—My Peace
Jehovah—Shamah—Always there….. etc. - etc

Get it? “I AM” anything you need. The marvel of it all is that these are all Old Testament references. His Son, who like Emril, knocks it way up a million notches, is yet to be incarnate and open heaven’s door to us as sons and daughters. …. And deer – here’s a beauty with YOUR name all over it, 2 Samuel 22
33
“God is my strong fortress;
he has made my way safe.
34
He makes me as surefooted as a deer,
leading me safely along the mountain heights.
35
He prepares me for battle;
he strengthens me to draw a bow of bronze.”

I’m not sure I agree with some famous guy :o) who once said, “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet.” What if it was called a buzzard… sorry! It just doesn’t work for me… a dozen buzzards, a buzzard vase… nope. I think a rose would even smell bad with the wrong name.

Susie, may you dance on the heights like the hind and fight the battle in The Strong Fortress’s power as healing becomes yours… and may the Name above all Names be your all in all.

Have a wonderful day!

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

PS---Hello, Hello-where'd everybody go? I feel like everyone fell asleep in the field of flowers just before the Emerald City. Don't forget... Dorothy had to kill the witch after she got to the city. The toughest battle for Susie may still lie ahead. Don't fear you "have no brain" to write an epistle or "no heart" to say something profound or "no courage" to even post... be a munchkin--- just say, "Hi!"




Judith Johnson
- Monday, September 22, 2003 4:23 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Susie,

My, the Scars entry makes one think, especially coming from Iraq. Blessing and prayer, Kathy and all who serve us. Susie, it reminds me of a visit I paid to my sister when she was in San Antonio serving in the air force, years ago. We took a walk one evening along the river which runs through the city and is like a huge deep trench with shops, cafes and little, white Christmas light on all the trees, very lovely. As we were coming up stairs to ground level something whizzed past us, then a guy ran by shoving us against the wall, then a policeman ran past. The whizzing thing was a bullet and both were still shooting. Between that and the cockroaches one couldn’t help but step on, it was a walk I’ll not soon forget.

Susie, I hope as you aim toward walking such trials don’t cross your path, alligators or bullets. You have already been through a deep dark trench and have learn first hand, more than I ever will, the truth of these words,

“Yes, though I walk through the [deep, sunless] valley [trench] of the shadow of death, I will fear or dread no evil, for You are with me; Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide,] they comfort me.” Amp. Beloved 23rd Psalm v. 4

Have fun at the zoo today. I love zoos. Took a studio class to Burnett Park Zoo once. Four of the older boys were drawing monkeys when two decided to procreate right in front of the boys. I had the worst time not laughing hysterically at the expression on their faces, the boys not the monkeys, sometimes it’s hard to tell. You just never know what you’re going to learn at the zoo.

May all the Carr spirits and souls be made to lie down in green grass beside still waters and be refreshed.

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Sunday, September 21, 2003 5:53 AM CDT

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Susie,
My name is Kristy Buerger from Watertown, NY. I was Allison Capano's roommate in college at Oswego State. She works with your mother. I am currently a 1LT serving our great nation in Iraq. I will be here a total of 365 days:-(
When I am not in Iraq, I am stationed in Bamberg, Germany. 1 week before my battalion left Germany for Iraq, my best friend, Theresa was in a car accident. She was not in good condition, however I had to leave her bedside and go do the Army thing. Her parents flew in from Ohio as soon as I left. She is doing well and back to work for the Army half days. She recently sent me a poem I would like to pass on to you. God works in mysterious ways but for you dear Susie, he watches over you and the scars are proof...

Scars

Some years ago, on a hot summer day in south Florida,
a little boy decided to go for a swim in the old
swimming hole behind his house. In a hurry to dive
into the cool water, he ran out the back door, leaving
behind shoes, socks, and shirt as he went. He flew
into the water, not realizing that as he swam toward
the middle of the lake, an alligator was swimming
toward the shore. His mother, in the house and looking
out the window, saw the two as they got closer and
closer together.

In utter fear, she ran toward the water, yelling to
her son as loudly as she could. Hearing her voice, the
little boy became alarmed and made a U-turn to swim to
his mother. It was too late. Just as he reached her,
the alligator reached him. From the dock, the mother
grabbed her little boy by the arms just as the
alligator snatched his legs.

That began an incredible tug-of-war between the two.
The alligator was much stronger than the mother, but
the mother was much too passionate to let go. A farmer
happened to drive by, heard her screams, raced from
his truck, took aim and shot the alligator.

Remarkable, after weeks and weeks in the hospital, the
little boy survived. His legs were extremely scarred
by the vicious attack of the animal. And on his arms,
were deep scratches where his mother's fingernails dug
into his flesh in her effort to hang on to the son she
loved.

The newspaper reporter who interviewed the boys after
the trauma, asked if she would show him his scars. The
boy lifted his blanket and showed his legs. And then, with obvious pride,
he said to the reporter, "But look at my arms, I have
great scars on my arms, too. I have them because my
Mom wouldn't let go."

You and I can identify with that little boy. We have
scars, too. No, not from an alligator, but the scars
of a painful past. Some of those scars are unsightly
and have caused us deep regret. But, some wounds, my
friend, are because God has refused to let you go. In
the midst of your struggle, He's been there holding on
to you. The Scripture teaches that God loves you. You
are a child of God. He wants to protect you and
provide for you in every way. The swimming hole of
life is filled with perile and the enemy is waiting to
attack. That's when the tug-of-war begins and if you
have scars of His love on your arms be very, very
grateful. He did not, and will not ever let you go.

Oh Heavenly Father, thank you for NEVER letting me go.
Sometimes I go my own way, and I do not listen to your
warnings, but your hand is always there to save me.
Thank for the scars, thank you for fighting for me.
May everyone who reads this, know they are loved, and
there is someone who loved them so much that you gave
your life for them. Lord you died for me, thank you.
And those scars on me and on your hands are from
fighting for me. Thank dear Jesus. In all my heart I
give you praise. In Jesus precious name, Amen.

Kristy A. Buerger <kristy.buerger@us.army.mil>
BALAD, IRAQ, - Sunday, September 21, 2003 3:57 AM CDT

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Kessler sounds like the perfect place. Many more good things are on the way, I can feel it.
I'm sending all my good thoughts your way!
Kate M.
NU, - Saturday, September 20, 2003 9:24 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Susie,

Sounds like Kessler is a “horse-pital” of a different color! Bird feeder? My fancy one was blown clean by today’s winds, had to refill it. I was glad my “Susie hummingbird” and all others have headed south. They left about a week ago. Did you see anything magnifying the fact that Edison was a leading resident of West Orange?

Had to smile when your dad said you were taking the ruby slippers. I remember Dorothy had to be told at the end of the story, she had the power to go home all the time, all she had to do was click those ruby slippers together and wish. Susie, you have had the power all the time, all you have to do is click on faith, believe and call on the One with red feet that couldn’t dance.

“Get up! Pick up your mat and go home. And (Susie) pick up her mat and went home” Matt 9:6&7

Yes!! And Amen! We’re all watching as you learn how to pick up that mat, walk and come home. “Oh, Toto, there’s no place like home.”

A little gratitude here for safe travel.
XXXX OOOO…Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Saturday, September 20, 2003 4:29 AM CDT

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Hey there Susie! I am going to email you also, but I didn't know if you'd be able to get it now that you are in NJ. Which how amazing! I hadn't been reading the journal since I got back to school with all the craziness, but was thinking about you today, so caught myself up. Good luck with everything there and I pray that it really helps in your progress. And I love that entry with the ELeanor Roosevelt quote. It is powerful.
Gods love and prayers always,
*Carey Stipe*><>
Carey Stipe <cstipe@su.edu>
Winchester, VA USA - Friday, September 19, 2003 2:33 PM CDT

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I contacted Kessler and for those who can visit Susie,
here are the visiting hours for Kessler.
Visiting hours are generally 8:00 to 8:30 pm daily. However, we usually recommend that visitors come after 5:30 to ensure that there is no interruption in therapy times or meal times. It's just time when there would be no interuptions during a visit.
Janet M. Trahan <Artjmt5285@aol.com>
Sayville, NY - Thursday, September 18, 2003 11:19 AM CDT

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Susie,
By the time you read this you will hopefully be settled into your room. Hope you are comfy.

Remember my promise to you every day, and know that you are being thought about and prayed for daily.


Carol Patriarco
Cortland, NY USA - Thursday, September 18, 2003 8:53 AM CDT

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Ha- never fixed my clock in the spring--- it was quarter to four... that's better.. :o) JJ
Judith Johnson
- Thursday, September 18, 2003 4:29 AM CDT

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Good Mornin’ Susie,

It’s quarter to five in the morning in my house and I’m thinking about sleepy morning sounds in your house; yawns, pitter pat of bare feet, stretch sounds, sleepy good morning voices… all wrapped in the quiet of morning. Getting ready for a trip in the morning….2Ch 20:20 -
Early the next morning, as everyone got ready to leave for (Kessler) the desert near Tekoa,(West Orange, NJ) Jehoshaphat(Jack-shapahat) stood up and said, "Listen my friends (family), if we trust the LORD God and believe what these prophets have told us, the LORD will help us, and we will be successful."
HA! You probably left yesterday afternoon. Just thinkin’ strong on ya’--- XXXX OOOO Mrs. J…. Sarah, hope your day was full of birthday joy!


Judith Johnson
- Thursday, September 18, 2003 4:24 AM CDT

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Hi Susie!
Have a safe journey to Kessler. You are in my prayers - that only great things come to you!
Much Love!
Kim

PS: Happy Birthday Sarah!!!!!!

Kim Christie <dance61@odyssey.net>
Cortland, NY USA - Wednesday, September 17, 2003 8:09 PM CDT

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I am so very excited that you are off on this new adventure in life. All my love, luck, and prayers to you and your family for a safe journey.

Erin Wilbur <deltagirl22@hotmail.com>
Plainville , CT USA - Wednesday, September 17, 2003 4:04 PM CDT

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Best of luck at Kessler Susie, I'll be praying that your "ruby slippers" work some magic for you there.

With Love,
Danielle
Danielle Routt <adr8@bulldog.georgetown.edu>
McLean, VA - Wednesday, September 17, 2003 2:54 PM CDT

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Susie!! I Missed Not Working With You This Summer...(oh the YMCA memories)!
Good Luck at Kessler...I know you'll do amazing things there!
My thoughts are always with you and your family.
Keep up the GREAT Work.
Tricia Bell
Rochester, NY 14618 - Wednesday, September 17, 2003 2:44 PM CDT

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Hello again this is Ryan Ferguson im in 6th grade now and will be turning 12 in december. I havent been loging on lately. How is Susie? what has she been doing? Hope to see
you soon! bye!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ryan ferguson
syracuce, usa - Wednesday, September 17, 2003 2:10 PM CDT

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Dear Susie,

We're so happy for you that you're going to Kessler tomorrow!

Have a safe trip, and may God continue to "hold you in the hollow of His hand."

with much love,
Linda E.
Mandana, NY - Wednesday, September 17, 2003 10:20 AM CDT

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Susie,

Best of luck during your time at Kessler - here's to a safe journey there and back!


Terry Mingle <tpm2@cornell.edu>
Cortland, NY USA - Wednesday, September 17, 2003 8:57 AM CDT

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Susie,
Have a Safe Trip to Kessler !!!
Work Hard but Don't Get Discouraged, Remember -
One Day at a Time !!
God Bless You & Your Family,
The Wells Family :)

Amy Wells <awells01@twcny.rr.com>
Cortland, NY USA - Wednesday, September 17, 2003 8:03 AM CDT

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Hi Susie,
Have a wonderful trip to NJ and an awesome stay at Kessler! I have faith that amazing things will happen for you there!! Good luck, and take care!!!!
Mary Ellen E. <mee224@yahoo.com>
Homer, NY - Wednesday, September 17, 2003 6:58 AM CDT

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Hi Susie,
So glad you'll be coming to Kessler. It seems everyone here in NJ that I 've talked to knows about it and its reputation for superb work with spinal cord injuries. I have a nurse in my class who works with Christopher Reeve's surgeon--she says he (the surgeon)is really hot! We just know amazing things are going to happen there...See you soon!
Aunt Kathy, Uncle Jim, Gina and Joseph
Yardville, NJ USA - Wednesday, September 17, 2003 6:30 AM CDT

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Mornin' Susie,

So-- you're gunna ease on down the ro-oad! May angels go before you to clear the path, be beneath and above and follow behind you. Ps 34:7 says the angel of the Lord encamps around them who worship and revere Him... guess they fly pretty good so guess they can encamp round you while you're moving too! Hope you're not all going bananas with the Mach III level of excitement and preparation. I’ll try John III:2 “Beloved I pray the you may prosper in every way and may keep well.”

Too-da-loo and God Bless you!

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Wednesday, September 17, 2003 5:33 AM CDT

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Hey Carrs!
Super news about Kessler and Thursday! I know you all must be scrambling around like mad making it all happen in such short notice. Good Luck!!
***I believe in the way that you are and the way that you will be.
I believe in the things that you say.
You mean the world to us and as you go...if you should turn around one day
Never doubt your dreams in ANY way!
Don't worry too long about whether you'll find a place for yourself in the world....you belong!
I know that you'll get where you're going some day.
For no matter what happens,
you will find a way.
I believe in the way that you are
and the way you will be.
You are a shining star in this world...
And you mean the world to us!
All our love!!!!!!!!
The Griffins
Janet Griffin
Cortland, NY - Wednesday, September 17, 2003 5:30 AM CDT

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Susie, I just wanted to wish you the best of luck at kessler. I know the people there are gonna meet a great girl! :-)
Desiree Bushnell
- Wednesday, September 17, 2003 0:03 AM CDT

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Dear Susie, Good news can be so bittersweet, like Toll House chocolate chips. Bitter because you will be missed, sweet because of your victories. And those little bits of flavors scattered in the cookies of life are what life is all about. Pete and I send our very best wishes with you as you go to Kessler. Hooray! We look forward to hearing more. Isabel was my grandmother's name, so I'll invoke priviledge and ask her to intervene for your safe arrival.
Denise Banner-Haley
Cortland, - Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:24 PM CDT

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Susie, I just read the wonderful news about going to Kessler!!! You are continuously in my thoughts and prayers.
I pray that the weather will hold out for you. Keep your chin up and keep reaching for that miracle!
Love You!
Kim
Kim Christie <dance61@odyssey.net>
Cortland, NY USA - Tuesday, September 16, 2003 4:20 PM CDT

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Wonderful, Marvelous!!!!!!!!!!
Lady Isabel is only a two now and she will hopefully just be rain and a little breezey, when the storm reaches NJ.
YAY!!!!!!!!
So glad for you Susie.
Praying for great success at Kessler.
Pulling for ya as always.
Love,
Janet Trahan
I love the new pictures. You all looked so lovely that I printed it and hung you all by my desk
Janet Trahan <Artjmt5285@aol.com>
Sayville, NY - Tuesday, September 16, 2003 3:12 PM CDT

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Dear Susie, I just wrote a long entry but I must have done something to lose it. Well, I am trying again and will write longer another day if this time it gets through. After all it took me awhile to find you and e-mail may be smarter tomorrow.
I met you on 2N one day when I visited Annalyse. My job for her is to find a toy skunk-- she already has one --some kind lady who remembered the tired nun touring stores to find one amazingly sent her one. But her new request is skunk number 2- by Christmas I may find one. chugalong
I did come visit you again but you had gone home which I find progress and now i read of some more progress. Great.
If you want to look up what I do look for the Mother Marianne Cope story. (Internet) She has miracles credited to her so pray to her-- some think Annalyse's recovery could be one and this may very well be so. However I just went to visit to help get her going again without any idea of tracking a case. You will not read about cures in the paper unless the people themselves put them in which I don't advise until Rome docs look our way-- but they are happening. Next month there will be a meeting at the Vatican and we believe Mother's case will advance. She was a Quiet Flame so when God wants more said, it will be said.
Anyway my other comment wishes you the best and I know you are giving a light of your own and I was glad to meet you and your mom, Julie. love and prayer SIster Mary
sister mary laurence hanley <mmariannecause@a-znet.com>
syracuse , ny ny usa - Tuesday, September 16, 2003 2:17 PM CDT

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Susie, Just heard about thursday and after getting to sit down and really talk to you sunday for the first time in a while (I really missed it) I just wanted to reiterate (badly misspelled I know) a few things and of course give you my best wishes. First of all Sus... you are like one of the toughest most will driven people I have EVER MET. In your own words that you told me several times "never give up and never settle". Listen to that song I gave you from the Man of Lamancha again.

"To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bare with unbarable sorrow
To run were the brave dare not go
To write the unwriteable wrong
to love pure and chaste from afar
to try when your arms are to weary
to reach the Unreachable star!!!
THIS IS MY QUEST
To follow that start
no matter how hopeless
no matter how far
to fight for the right
with out question or pause
to be willing to march into hell for a heavenly cause
and I know if I only be true to this quest that my heart will be peaceful and calm"

Never give up no matter if one of you goal seems impossible because one of these days susie your gonna reach all your goals, maybe not at the time you want them too, but we all know that the day will come when you are ready for it. Good luck down at Kessler we are all going to miss you so much, but when you come back things will be that much better for you. Then you can move on to the next goal. I want that supprise when you are ready k? Call me if you ever get the chance. Love ya lots and miss ya tons
Thomas Pirko
Keuka College, NY - Tuesday, September 16, 2003 1:52 PM CDT

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Reading news about Susie's progess is a big and major step toward recovery! I'm so grateful to God that he can cast wonderful spell about Susie's progress! And Susie looks beautiful on a wedding day. Lovely!

Keep up good work, Susie...maybe Christmas Day you will stand up and walk...that would be a great gift!! Take care!

Christine Cerro
Christine Cerro <Sierro2@netscape.net>
Alexandria, VA USA - Tuesday, September 16, 2003 12:57 AM CDT

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You all look so beautiful!! It is great glorious news to hear of Susie going to Kessler. Changes will continue and you all will see how HE works the every day miracles.

Can't wait to hear all about the Kessler adventure. Hope Isabel will stay out of the way of the Carr's adventure to Kessler and most certainly out of the way of all of the beautiful young women competing this week in Atlantic City, NJ for Miss America and all of their families and traveling companions.
Many Blessings, Cheryl Wehner =) <remngtn@hotmail.com>
Lawton, OK - Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:44 AM CDT

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Susie, Julie and Jack

Great news on Thrusday. Keep us posted, and hopefully no bad weather. Goood Luck. Our thoughts and prayers are with the entire Carr family.
Robin Ptak <rlp613045@yahoo.com>
Cortland, NY - Tuesday, September 16, 2003 11:26 AM CDT

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Godd Morning Susie!
Such wonderful news I see every time I look in on this sight!!! I look forward to more great news while you are at Kessler - as I'm sure you do also!!!!


Todays post from "God Calling"

My Peace it is which gives quietness and assurance forever. My Peace that flows as some calm river through the dry land of life. That causes the trees and flowers of life to spring forth and to yield abundantly.
Success is the result of work done in peace. Only so can work yield its increase. Let there be no hurry in your plans. You live not in time but in Eternity. It is in the Unseen that your life-future is being planned.
Abide in Me, and I in you, so shall you bring forth much fruit. Be calm, assured, at rest. Love, not rush. Peace, not unrest. Nothing fitful. All effectual. Sown in Prayer, watered by Trust, bearing flower and fruit in Joy. I love you.
Isa. 32: 17

Susie, continue to trust, and be at rest during "this eternity" with God. Remember that our time is not His time, and that you are already bearing much fruit because of your faith. Be at rest in the everlasting arms of God and continue to believe in miracles!

All My Love!
Kim
Kim Christie <dance61@odyssey.net>
Cortland, NY USA - Tuesday, September 16, 2003 8:03 AM CDT

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Hi Susie,

All the new photos are wonderful, as is the good news that the ramp is in!

It was also wonderful to see you and your family together at church yesterday....

Take care, and know that all of us continue to hold all of you in our thoughts and prayers.

with love,
Linda E.
Mandana, NY - Monday, September 15, 2003 10:53 PM CDT

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Hi Susie:
The pictures are great. It's good to see you looking so well! Take care.

Denise Mironti
Cortland, NY - Monday, September 15, 2003 7:24 PM CDT

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Hi Miss S,
I just shared the nutso parking story with Matt and Charlie. 6 year old Charlie has just declared that HE is going to put a ticket on any car he sees "parked in the special spots without the special pass". As I type, he is IN his room CREATING the tickets! He's thinking about you -- as are the rest of us. You look absolutely beautiful in the pre-wedding shot! I hope you had a wonderful day.
Your dad's keeping me posted on all of the Kessler info. ---GO GET 'EM! All good thoughts your way!
oxVal Schaffner
Valerie Schaffner <kschaffner@att.net>
Cazenovia, NY - Monday, September 15, 2003 6:35 PM CDT

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Hi Susie!

Such good news we are hearing. Here is hoping you will be able to shake much more of you than just that pinky of yours at your benefit on December 6th! All of the participants hope to see you there, and we promise to deliver a fun time for EVERYone that attends. Some of the confirmed entertainment now includes the TRAVIS ROCCO BAND, the AGELESS JAZZ BAND, TINK BENNETT and TAILOR MADE, and NASTY HABIT! Your emcee for the day will be Tony DeFranco, since I-100 radio is one of the benefit's sponsors (Ultimate Music is helping, too). So, we ALL want to see you AND YOUR PINKY moving around! It's going to be a good time, so I am asking EVERYONE out there to make plans to be there NOW...there will be lots of raffles, food, and all kinds (styles) of music - fun for EVERYone! Saturday, December 6th from noon to 9pm at POMEROY PLACE on Pomeroy Street in Cortland. This is a FAMILY event - ALL AGES!!
Terry Mingle <tpm2@cornell.edu>
Cortland, NY USA - Monday, September 15, 2003 4:02 PM CDT

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Susie, Jack, Julie, and Sarah
The family photo of you is beautiful. I can see by the look in your eyes and the smiles on your faces that the love you have for each other will help you conquer all your quests. Of course, prayer will help too!! Keep the faith, and Susie you will continue to achieve new hurdles every day.

Barb Hilsinger <bhilsinger@cortlandschools.org>
Cortland, NY - Monday, September 15, 2003 3:08 PM CDT

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Susie,
I heard that you were the "star" at Mass yesterday!!! How does it feel to be a celebrity? The new photos of you are great!! You really do look like a movie star darling!!!!Ha!!!
Bet it was great visiting with your grandparents and other family members over the weekend. Im sure you felt very loved surrounded by all of your family.
To love and be loved is like being warmed by the sun from both sides.
Carol Patriarco and Family
Cortland, NY USA - Monday, September 15, 2003 12:58 AM CDT

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This was Mrs. J's post for the day:
Good Morning Susie,

I’m comin’ at ‘cha in a different way this morning due to internet problems with site boxes popping up without invitation that don’t allow me to even get on my home page, thus no Favorites and no Caringbridge and Susie. Some of those pop-up sites are eye burners and I’m not messing with the E icon until I get someone here to eliminate the problem.

You know, Susie, sometimes life does that to you. All these things pop-up in front of us and don’t allow us to connect with The One we want to. You plan some quiet time connecting with your favorite Heavenly site and: the phone will ring, (for me) a child will want something, someone comes to the door or a number of things but the most boxes pop-up in my head: I gotta get this done for school, I should do a load of laundry while I’m sitting here, the piano needs dusting, I should really spend more time in the studio , etc. .. on and on and on and on……..

One of my favorite ways to virus proof prayer time is not the Norton or e-Safe programs but the Mornin’ & He-Safe program. No one is awake to interrupt early in the morning. I then ask for "That Spooky goldfish’s help" to clear my mind and open my ears and heart. Scripture usually takes care of a final scan of my thoughts and I’m happily connected. Even a little time in communion with Our Heavenly Daddy is like a quick breakfast drink.

Mrs. J via Julie
Mrs. J
- Monday, September 15, 2003 12:14 AM CDT

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Dear Susie,
Just love the new photos. You and the family look wonderful! It's really great to see.

LOVE IS ALL THERE IS
"When there is neither desire nor fear, there is but love."
-Jean Klein, Neither This Not That I Am
Aunt Kathy, Uncle Jim, Gina and Joseph
Yardville, NJ - Monday, September 15, 2003 11:00 AM CDT

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Hey there Susie girl! It's been a while but don't think I have forgotten about you. I check your webpage every nite before I head off to bed and am always thinking of you and praying for the best. It sounds like things are going well and of course you look as beautiful as ever. Congrats on Kessler and all the other exciting events. You're the woman by far! Love and miss you lots!!!!


Beth
Cortland, NY

- Monday, September 15, 2003 10:34 AM CDT

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WOW!!!!!!!!!!! I love the pictures-what a bunch of cuties!!
Everybody looks great-what a fabulous thing to see!!

Like the one picture of the room!!

When Susie leaves for Kessler-don't forget to post her address so we can send her cards, etc.

God Bless All of You!!
Ann <godmomfor2@yahoo.com>
- Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:27 PM CDT

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I decided to check in before I went to bed, and I found a wonderful thing: Updated pictures of everyone! Susie, you're looking fantastic. The new bedroom is coming along nicely. Everyone looks great! Take care of yourself Susie, and each other Carrs!!!
KM
NU, - Sunday, September 14, 2003 9:16 PM CDT

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IT'S SNAIL MAIL TIME FOR "T & J" AS WE HEAD OUT TO AC SANS LAPTOP.
BE BACK HERE ON THE 22ND, TAKE CARE - WE LOVE Y'ALL - Sunday, September 14, 2003 7:20 PM CDT

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Oh my goodness! You all are so busy, you must simply fall into bed at night! I have to admit weekends, though they are a joy, tend to be VERY busy. I think I over schedule mine!!
So glad you all got to the wedding and had a wonderful time. Hey, Jack....how about printing up some of those cards that say..."Thanks to you parking in a handicapped space, my daughter and her wheelchair had to go back home!"
I wonder if they would get the message then!
Lots of prayers coming your way. Today I prayed thankfully to God for sending us Susie and her willfulness...for this experience has been a life lesson to many.
"YOUR will, not mine, be done."
Have a GREAT Monday!:)
Mrs. Griffin
Janet Griffin <jgriffin@cortlandschools.org>
Cortland , NY - Sunday, September 14, 2003 7:08 PM CDT

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I come here for my smile a day :)
It's so exciting to read about everything coming together for you all. I'm quite jealous to hear of this Carr Family Reunion though... although I'm excited for you. I know how hard it is to be away from your family (as I'm now 7 hours from mine!). I hope everything continues to go so well! My thoughts are with you all.
Kate M
NU, - Sunday, September 14, 2003 1:23 PM CDT

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Hi Susie! Sounds like you're going to Kessler. I hope they are ready for your determination and persistence. And you can move your pinky!!!! Yahoo!!!!
Jack and Julie, will you be posting her progress on this site? I visit frequently and am inspired by all that I read. What a positive, uplifting experience for all of us "normal" (what's that???) people. I have always thrived on being somewhat abnormal and loving it.
I am praying for a wonderful experience for you at Kessler. You go, girl!
Mary Lee
- Sunday, September 14, 2003 9:27 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Susie,

Jokes huh?

I clearly remember three goldfish, two regular gold colored ones and one a haunting, mottled gold, white and black, we had when I was around 12 to 14 (do not clearly remember the age) This is why:

A boy entered a Catholic school for the first time. Sadly he came home the first day in tears. When asked by his mother what caused his tears he said, “I called a Father, “Pop.” The mother concerned, patiently explained respect, honor and propriety in such matters. The next day the boy came home crying a bit harder. It took some coaxing but the mother finally managed to decipher and understand that the boy had called a sister, “Sis!” The mother took great care to explain once again why such titles just weren’t used and finally felt she had made everything abundantly clear to her son and it would not happen again. Sad to say the poor child came home the third day so totally upset his poor mother could not get him to tell her what happened. Upon calling the school, this is what the principal said, “Calling a father, ‘Pop” and a sister, “Sis” is one thing but calling the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, ‘Daddy-o, Laddie-o and Spook’ is going a bit too far.” ….. our goldfish? Daddy-o, Laddie-o and Spook of course.

I must confess, when I taught Confirmation I used that joke to get the point across that, yes, the Holy Spirit can be “Spooky!” To allow such an unseen, uncontrollable, great force, the very creative force of God to come in and have control is spooky and frightening… but remember, “God is love.” (from wonderful Johnnie of yesterday’s post 1 John 4 – perhaps the greatest chapter in all scripture)

May the “together again” Carrs all be lifted, guided and strengthened by “the Third Goldfish” and allow Him full access and reign. Have a swimmingly wonderful day, Susie!

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J





Judith Johnson <jjohnso6@twcny.rr.com>
Cortland, NY - Sunday, September 14, 2003 3:27 AM CDT

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Hi,
My name is Amber Christensen... I'm deaf and am attending CJSHS. I've posted here earlier in the months.. I wanted to say that I'm proud of all of the work Susie that you've done! Even although I might not know you at all, but I've heard so much about you- keep it up! I look up to you.
Take care, big hugs.
Amber
Amber Christensen <babyspaz@twcny.rr.com>
Cortland, NY 13045 - Saturday, September 13, 2003 11:20 PM CDT

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Silliness Take Two
WARNING - WARNING - WARNING
Dirty Stories Below

One day a group of scientists got together and decided that man had come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one scientist to go and tell Him that they were done with Him. The scientist walked up to God and said, "God, we've decided that we no longer need you. We're to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why don't you just go on and get lost." God listened very patiently and kindly to the man and after the scientist was done talking, God said, "Very well, how about this, let's say we have a man making contest." To which the scientist replied, "OK, great!" But God added, "Now, we're going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam." The scientist said "Sure, no problem" and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt. God just looked at him and said, "No, no, no. You go make your own dirt!"


What's mainly wrong with society today is that too many dirt roads have been paved. There's not a problem in America today, crime, drugs, education, divorce, delinquency that wouldn't be remedied, if we just had more Dirt Roads, because dirt roads give character. People that live at the end of dirt roads learn early on that life is a bumpy ride. That it can jar you right down to your teeth sometimes, but it's worth it, if at the end is home...a loving spouse, happy children and a dog. We wouldn't have near the trouble with our educational system if our children got their exercise walking a dirt road with other children, from whom they learn how to get along. There was less crime in our streets before they were paved. Criminals didn't walk two dusty miles to rob or rape, if they knew they'd be welcomed by 5 barking dogs and a double barrel shotgun. And there were no drive by shootings. Our values were better when our roads were worse! People did not worship their cars more than their children and motorists were more courteous, they didn't tailgate by riding the bumper or the guy in front would choke you with dust & bust your windshield with rocks. Dirt roads taught patience. Dirt roads were environmentally friendly; you didn't hop in your car for a quart of milk you walked to the barn for your milk. For your mail, you walked to the mailbox. What if it rained and the dirt road got washed out? That was the best part, and then you stayed home and had some family time, roasted marshmallows and popped popcorn and pony road on Daddy's shoulders and learned how to make prettier quilts than anybody. At the end of dirt roads, you soon learned that bad words tasted like soap. Most paved roads lead to trouble, dirt roads more likely lead to a fishing creek or a swimming hole. At the end of a dirt road, the only time we even locked our car was in August, because if we didn't some neighbor would fill it with too much zucchini. At the end of a dirt road, there was always extra spring time income, from when city dudes would get stuck, you'd have to hitch up a team and pull them out. Usually you got a dollar... Always you got a new friend... At the end of a dirt road. ~Paul Harvey


There once was a farmer who had a donkey. One day the farmer's donkey fell down into a well. The animal cried pitifully for hours as the farmer tried to figure out what to do. Finally, the farmer decided that the donkey was old and that the well needed to be filled in anyway, and that it just wasn't worth it to retrieve the animal. So, he invited all his neighbors to come over and help him. They each grabbed a shovel and began to shovel dirt into the well. At first, when the donkey realized what was happening he cried horribly. But then, to everyone's amazement, he quieted down. After a while, and many shovelfuls of dirt later, the farmer looked down into the well and was astonished at what he saw. As every shovel of dirt hit his back, the donkey did something amazing. He would shake the dirt off his back and take a step up. As the farmer's neighbors continued to shovel dirt upon the animal, it would shake it off and take a step up. After a while, everyone was amazed, as the donkey stepped up over the edge of the well and trotted off. The moral: Life is going to shovel dirt on you.... all kinds of dirt. The trick to getting out of the well is to shake it off and take a step up. Each of our troubles is a stepping stone. We can get out of the deepest wells by just not stopping, by never giving up. Shake it off and take a step up!!!!

WOW Jack - you're fast! (tried to recant the deletion but you went "poof")
GladWeDidn'tOffendVille, - Saturday, September 13, 2003 6:47 PM CDT

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Editing tutor here--oh, yes, this is how we spell "disservice," my dear Linda E. So it is written and so let the record stand.
:) Jack
- Saturday, September 13, 2003 5:33 PM CDT

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Hi Susie and family,
Just wanted you to know I'm still here thinking of all of you and keeping you in my prayers. Even though I don't write daily you're in my thoughts. Good luck at Kessler I sure hope they're ready for your spirit!!! If not it won't be long before they know that have a serious goal oriented person among them. Thanks for always updating the Journal. It means alot to those of us who don't see you in person and whose lives you were just beginning to touch. :)
Mrs. H.
- Saturday, September 13, 2003 1:25 PM CDT

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Hi Susie,

How nice that all of you can be at the wedding together today! Your parents' music has brought joy to so many weddings....it's great that this time they can bring the whole family, too.....which will mean they're bringing even more joy!!

Those "normal" families your father wrote about most likely don't exist anyway, but how boring it would be to be part of one if they did! TV has done all of us a big disservice (sp?) by making it seem as though families like that really are out there, and we just don't measure up to them somehow. Most of us are just "functioning differently" rather than "dysfunctional"!!!!

So, enjoy this special weekend with your family, and know that all of us continue to hold all of you in our thoughts and prayers....

love
Linda E.
Mandana, NY - Saturday, September 13, 2003 12:30 AM CDT

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Susie: I do not know you personally, but almost feel now as if I do, reading all the journal entries from your family.
I've known your Dad for years (Cazenovia College). Though I
am now retired, I did visit campus the other day and ran into him; I'm so glad he gave me your website. The entries and accounts reveal you to be a most courageous and determined person; I am confident that full healing will be in your future. From time to time I will check the site to get updates. You and your wonderful family continue to occupy a special place in my daily prayers.
Sincerely---LEE M.
Lee McCoy <McCoyDaud@aol.com>
Manlius, NY USA - Saturday, September 13, 2003 10:33 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Sue,

Of course T&J used that quote, “How high’s the water, Mamma?” because of Johnny Cash’s death. Using “Sue” might have been a weird fit for a post here but the other is a song Don agonizingly slaughters every time it rains because we live a football field away from the Tioughnioga River and I think he would at least come in third to the world’s worst singer.

We have a great birthday memory, Don’s birthday, having to do with Johnny. I noticed he was coming to the Landmark Theater in Syracuse, (years ago) ordered ticket months in advance and without telling Don where we were going, drove him to Syracuse. When he saw the marquee he said, “Oh look! Johnny Cash is playing!” Says I, “I know, that’s where we’re going.” There after ensued one enjoyable evening with one grossly over excited, wide eyed child. He still talks about it… huh—guess I do to.

There was a fellow named Johnnie in the New Testament who wrote four books with his name on it and one to tell us about what’s to come. He loved Our Savior so and was dubbed the Beloved Disciple. Susie, may you love Our Savior as much for you are already beloved.

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

JJ
- Saturday, September 13, 2003 5:14 AM CDT

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Hi Susie, sweetie,
Sounds like you are continuing to make amazing strides. I'm so glad.
You are continually in my thoughts and prayers.
I love you Sus.
xxxxxxxxxxxxxxoooooooooooooooooo
Mommy Trahan
Janet Trahan <Artjmt5285@aol.com>
Sayville, NY - Friday, September 12, 2003 9:28 PM CDT

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Suzzz...
So-soon-Suz's-Angel Garden (named by our one-and-only Jill) will be planted around the foundation of your home! Lots of folks want to join the digging!! Explosion of dirt and peat moss and mulch and who knows WHAT coming up Saturday afternoon!!!! (as Jill says, as long as it's not thundering and lightning we're there on Saturday!-otherwise we'll do Sunday afternoon)SO soon-Suz you'll be a Kesslerberry-BUT-if you're here on Saturday you can supervise/comment on the production!! Sleep tight!
Mrs. G
- Friday, September 12, 2003 6:54 PM CDT

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Dear Susie,
You're in our thoughts, always on our minds.
Love you!
Aunt Kathy, Uncle Jim, Gina and Joseph
Yardville, NJ USA - Friday, September 12, 2003 9:14 AM CDT

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Interesting quote, T&J. Did you use it knowing Johnny died today. I meet him at a booksellers convention years ago and was amazed at how raspy his voice was and how nice he was. He is Don's favorite musical artist, signed a book for him. He will be missed and Heaven will improve. JJ
JJ
- Friday, September 12, 2003 7:42 AM CDT

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My mama always taught me that good things come from adversity if we put our faith in the Lord.
We couldn't see much good in the flood waters when they were causing us to have to leave home.
But when the water went down, we found that it had washed a load of rich black bottom dirt across our land.
The following year we had the best cotton crop we'd ever had.

I remember hearing:

How high's the water, mama?
Two feet high and risin'
How high's the water, papa?
Two feet high and risin'

We can make it to the road in a homemade boat
That's the only thing we got left that'll float
It's already over all the wheat and the oats,
Two feet high and risin'

How high's the water, mama?
Three feet high and risin'
How high's the water, papa?
Three feet high and risin'

Well, the hives are gone,
I've lost my bees
The chickens are sleepin'
In the willow trees
Cow's in water up past her knees,
Three feet high and risin'

How high's the water, mama?
Four feet high and risin'
How high's the water, papa?
Four feet high and risin'

Hey, come look through the window pane,
The bus is comin', gonna take us to the train
Looks like we'll be blessed with a little more rain,
4 feet high and risin'

How high's the water, mama?
Five feet high and risin'
How high's the water, papa?
Five feet high and risin'

Well, the rails are washed out north of town
We gotta head for higher ground
We can't come back till the water comes down,
Five feet high and risin'

Well, it's five feet high and risin'

Five Feet High and Risin'
written by Johnny Cash
Recorded 3/12/59
Number 14 - Country Chart; Number 76 - Pop Chart



Trish & Jesyca
- Friday, September 12, 2003 7:11 AM CDT

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Good Morning Susie!

Wiring, insulation and pumpkin bread… nice day!!! Don bought some ripe bananas last week in hopes of some bread but they all got eaten before I could get to it. I was thinking maybe zucchini bread today. Joshua and I have a grand time baking… especially chocolate chip cookies. For some unexplained reason about eight or nine chips always seem to get dropped on the counter and don’t make it to the mixing bowl. I’m always extremely surprised and horrified that it happened and totally confused as to what to do with them. Susie, if you could just see the look on Joshua’s face you’d know why. He carefully uses his little, almost three years old, hand to round them up and push them into a pile in front of him then he lines the chips up in a the neatest little row. He then eats them very slowly and silently one by one in profound appreciation. It interrupts the cooking making by several minutes but that doesn’t seem to bother either one of us much at all.

As you enjoy your pumpkin bread, remember The Bread of Life and look for those little chocolate chip blessings He drops on the counter of your life. Do you see the joy on His face? He loves to give good things to His children. Matt 7:11

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Friday, September 12, 2003 3:51 AM CDT

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hello....i just wanted to say hi...im a faithful "susie" follower...have to get my daily fix to see on how you all are doing...so happy that you finally heard from kessler and will be going soon...keep your heads up....you are in my thoughts :0) KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK SUSIE!!!!
Jessica Cruz <jcruz5@twcny.rr.com>
Cortland , NY USA - Thursday, September 11, 2003 9:58 PM CDT

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Wow. I can't wait to see what happens when the Kessler Institute meets the Carrs. I have a vision of a red hot active volcano spitting out molten energy and redoing everything in its path. You are going to invigorate the Kessler staff and this is good news for all its patients, not just you. Go and show them your determination, courage, and spirit and let everyone bask in your family's good will.
Eileen Mauskopf
Chevy Chase, MD - Thursday, September 11, 2003 2:45 PM CDT

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Wow. I can't imagine what will happen when the Kessler Institute meets the Carrs. Wish I could be there to see this. I am envisioning a molten flow of energy surrounding the buildings, like the flow from a red hot active volcano. I believe that your presence there will invigorate the staff which means that not just you, but other patients, are going to really benefit from your visit. This could be the start of something big. Go and teach them about determination and courage and miracles.

Eileen Mauskopf
Chevy Chase, Md - Thursday, September 11, 2003 2:32 PM CDT

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The encouraging thing is that every time you meet a situation, though you may think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it you find that forever after you are freer than you ever were before. If you can live through that you can live through anything. You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you stop to look fear in the face. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along. The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line, it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do. Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes overnight. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down. Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, `It can't be done.'
~Eleanor Roosevelt

Trish & Jesyca
Always Remember...Never Forget, 9/11/01 - Thursday, September 11, 2003 9:52 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Susie,

How’d you sleep last night? What is different about this mattress that it doesn’t cause sores? Do you know I seldom hit my bed but what a prayer of gratitude escapes my lips? I attended a conference in Philadelphia years ago and from the fifth floor we could see a lady sleeping on the subway air vent grate. I have seen photos and film on the homeless and those who call cardboard boxes home and when I’m so extremely tired at night and there’s this wonderful pillow, clean sheets and comfy blankets to greet me, I always think how very blessed and spoiled I am and that there are those who sleep that night in garbage, on streets, in fear, cold, rain …. I am often embarrassed because of all the blessings I have when much of the world has so little.

Susie, I wonder if it has ever struck you how very blessed you are. Sometimes when tragedy strikes it takes a while to see the blessings. I wonder how many have gone through what you have and have had to deal with total paralysis, had no family support and few friends, became engulfed in depression or anger, had no way to get on going therapy, lived lives of solitude afterwards or never left their room or never knew Hope Himself. From your smile and the sweetness that surrounds you I know you do know how blessed you are.

I’ve said before and think often, “God’s ways aren’t ours.” He says someone is blessed if they are poor, mourn, are meek, hungry, persecuted or insulted…. (Matt 5) I tell you, Susie, it’s so presumptuous of me to sit here and say, “You are blessed,” when I know full well if someone even just insulted me, I’d have a duce of a time getting to the point where I could say, “Thanks for the blessing.”

May all the Carrs and all of us have God’s vision and see the real blessings in our lives no matter how disguised they are.

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Thursday, September 11, 2003 5:27 AM CDT

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Good Morning, Susie! You are indeed a very busy girl living in a very busy household!!!! Hope you enjoyed your peanut butter cookies and the visit from your grandparents. I'm also thinking that your nails must be looking a whole lot better than mine do at the moment!:) And a trip to Friendly's too??? Oh, I can almost taste their glorious hot fudge sundae! Love, thoughts and prayers are sent to you today. "This is the day that the Lord has made....Let us rejoice and be glad in it!"
As you prepare for Kessler and the next phase of your journey....
****This note is not just to affirm my belief in you.
It is to let you know that I will be cheering you on.
You are a champion.
You always have been, and you always will be.
And when you scale "this mountain",
I will be there....looking into the eyes of a champion.
See you at the top!!!!
Have a GLORIOUS day all you Carrs!
Love, Mrs. Griffin

Janet Griffin
Cortland, NY - Thursday, September 11, 2003 5:19 AM CDT

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Congratulations to all of you! The whole Kessler thing sounds really exciting. I am really pleased for you all. I know you haven't heard a great deal from me, but I do really look forward to checking this site as I arrive at work every Monday and Thursday, as I have easy internet access on these days (my connection at home is problematical). Reading your news makes my whole day worthwile. Susie's progress and all of your positive attitudes are a real inspiration as I get on with my day. Please know that even though it has been years since I have seen you all, you are in my thoughts and prayers every single day! It's taken me a while, but I have finally managed to get a little package together for you all just when you are all off to Kessler! So I will save it for your home coming. I hope that pinky is behaving itself!
All my love and best wishes, Melissa Dineen
Melissa Dineen <lissdineen@yahoo.com.au>
Brisbane, Qld Australia - Wednesday, September 10, 2003 11:03 PM CDT

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Congratulations, Susie, on Kessler. The journal entries have been describing miracles, wondrous love. The part about when you stood and felt tall just clicked in my mind and reminded me of how powerful perspective is. I am overjoyed with all the good things happening for you and your family. Jack and Julie, thank you for sharing. My best wishes are with you, Susie, as you prepare for your stay at Kessler, my heartstrings stretching. And I hear in the background the old Spiritual "One more river to cross". Which is also a great song to dance to.
Denise Banner-Haley
You know, - Wednesday, September 10, 2003 7:25 PM CDT

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Trish & Jesyca
- Wednesday, September 10, 2003 7:42 AM CDT

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Good Morning Susie,

Thursday! Using the remote. Standing and getting a good night’s sleep!!! Um, Um, Um what a nice day!

I can just see you, the look on your face, your dad and Tom holding you up. It must have been wonderful, kind of a symbolic, physical commitment before Kessler. Reminds me of Aaron and Hur holding Moses’ arms up when they were battling the Amalekites in Ex 17, ‘cept they pulled up a rock for him to sit on because he’s been standing all day. You remember, when Moses’s arms got tired and he lowered the staff the Israelites started to loose the battle but if he kept his arm and staff raised they were winning.

Susie, may Our Heavenly Father put it on our prayer hearts and let us know when your spirit gets tired and starts to lower and you feel like you’re losing the battle. May He give us a Holy Spirit signal to begin to hold you up in prayer. Step one is always, sit on The Rock! Crawl, spiritually, right up on Our Savior’s lap and sit on The Rock. Let Him enfold you in His arms and draw you close to His heart… and we Aarons and Hurs will pray: holding up your arms and legs on all sides.

God bless the Carrs today.

XXXX OOOO Mrs J

Judith Johnson
- Wednesday, September 10, 2003 5:16 AM CDT

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So happy to hear about "tall susie".
Sleep well, Julie. Sweet dreams to all the Carrs
Janet T <Artjmt5285@aol.com>
Sayville, NY US - Tuesday, September 9, 2003 11:38 PM CDT

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I am so excited about all the great news. I knew you would get in-how could they resist someone like you. Oh boy just wait till they get to know you and they will be loving you as much as all of us do.

You know you and your family will always be in our prayers. God Bless each of you!!
Ann <Godmomfor2@yahoo.com>
- Tuesday, September 9, 2003 9:24 PM CDT

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Pack your bags Susie! So wonderful for you. I do hope there's no toads down there - just lots of magic!
Jill, Michaela, William and Mick
- Tuesday, September 9, 2003 8:42 PM CDT

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Go-get-'em, Suzzzz! Since Kessler had the good sense to work with you, it must be a TOP OF THE LINE place. You continue to be in my thoughts and prayers. Make some friends down there (I hope they don't have those Nu Yoork accents!!)
Mrs. G.
- Tuesday, September 9, 2003 7:37 PM CDT

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YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!YOUR IN KESSLER.....yes !!!!!!!!!!!!!1
SO HAPPY.....please let me know when I will definitely come see you.....
Janet Trahan <Artjmt5285@aol.com>
Sayville, NY US - Tuesday, September 9, 2003 1:25 PM CDT

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Yippee!!! I'm so glad about Kessler!! I hope you can go there very soon and start on the next portion of your journey...know that you'll be bringing all of us with you. The people at Kessler just don't know what's about to hit them, do they? :o)

Mary Ellen (Esposito) Ensign
Homer, NY - Tuesday, September 9, 2003 11:46 AM CDT

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Hi Susie!
So glad you'll be going to Kessler. It's simply the BEST of the BEST--like you! We just KNEW you'd end up in NJ with us after all!
Aunt Kathy, Uncle Jim, Gina and Joseph
Yardville, NJ USA - Tuesday, September 9, 2003 9:07 AM CDT

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Wonderful news about Kessler !!!
Hopefully it will be this week !!!
God Bless You All !!!

The Wells Family
Amy Wells <awells01@twcny.rr.com>
Cortland, NY 13045 - Tuesday, September 9, 2003 7:30 AM CDT

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"Wonerful, Wonerful" (To quote Lawrence Welk)!!!!!!!!!!!
You probably have only heard of Lawrence Welk, Susie - what a treasure he was! I remember he used to go into the audience and dance with one of the women during each of his shows - how nice.
Hopefully we will see your pinky AND MORE dance!!!
You are in my prayers always - keep in touch while at Kessler!
Love You, Suz!
Kim
Kim Christie <dance61@odyssey.net>
Cortland, NY USA - Tuesday, September 9, 2003 7:06 AM CDT

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WOO HOO!!!!!
Good news for ALL the Carrs! Susie, I know it will be a bit scary at first as you head off the Kessler. Remember how you knew no one when you headed off to college? Well, I understand from all these posts that it didn't take you long to make new friends. I am counting on that happening again! You will make countless new friends with your bubbly smile and positive attitude. But somehow we've got to get you a laptop....so we can all share in your journey.
"All good things in Your time"
Love, Mrs. Griffin
Janet Griffin
Cortland, NY - Tuesday, September 9, 2003 5:28 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Susie!

This is the old lady with the tissue box, tears again. The minute my eyes opened this morning I way whining to God about PLEASE, let them know about Kessler. It just seemed overdue and I had been at such peace believing you were going to be accepted… but I wanted to see and hear it was so. Do you have a lap-top computer? Can we go too? Now I don’t have to worry about you being cover with plaster when they break through the wall, or maybe they already did. God must love Kessler to bless them with Susie and her family! I was thinking, “Ha! Susie’s going to college too! Look out “lightbulb city! Here comes a 1000 watt gal!”

I’m just so pleased this morning I’m gunna’ go on my way just saying, “Thank you, Lord, thank you, thank you , thank you! Protect them as they travel, give the doctors your wisdom as they work with Susie. Oh Lord, like that guy who ran the fastest mile, let Susie dance the fastest dance. Oh, thank you, thank you… and Lord, keep your angels on guard round about her and … and… and……….. thank you… and….”

1Chr 5:20 “19 They waged war against the Hagrites, Jetur, Naphish and Nodab. 20 They were helped in fighting them, and God handed the Hagrites and all their allies over to them, because they cried out to him during the battle. He answered their prayers, because they trusted in him. 21 They seized the livestock of the Hagrites-fifty thousand camels, two hundred fifty thousand sheep and two thousand donkeys. They also took one hundred thousand people captive, 22 and many others fell slain, because the battle was God's. And they occupied the land until the exile.”

OR----

“We waged war against the Head-not- right, Joints not moving, Neck injured and Knees-weakish. We were helped fighting them, and God handed us a Healed head, joints, neck, knees and all other injured parts because we cried out to Him during the battle. He answered our prayers, because we trusted in Him. We received a new life of healing-fifty thousand steps, two hundred fifty swirls and two thousand dips and jumps. They also took one hundred thousand people captive, and many others fell to their knees in gratitude, because the battle was God’s. And Susie danced till the Rapture.” 1 mrs. J 5:19-22

Aw- I know it's a bit much but by golly this is good news, Susie!

;o)…. :o)….:o)… :o) Mrs J

Judith Johnson
- Tuesday, September 9, 2003 4:17 AM CDT

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Great news about Kessler! Our thoughts and prayers continue for you and your family.
Robin Ptak
- Tuesday, September 9, 2003 3:44 AM CDT

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Terrific news about Kessler! they'll help you whip that pinky into shape! (along with the rest of it!!)

much love to all of you!!
Ani Ross
Huntington Beach, CA - Monday, September 8, 2003 11:21 PM CDT

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Hi Susie,

What wonderful, wonderful news about Kessler!!!!
We are so excited for you as you get ready to begin this new and important chapter.... :)

love you,


Linda E.
Mandana, NY - Monday, September 8, 2003 11:13 PM CDT

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Susie,

Im soooooo happy for you that you will be off to Kessler soon. I know that you will give it all you've got and that you will make a complete recovery- you just need this extra help and time.
Remember while you are away that as a child of God, prayer is kind of like calling home everyday!!!

Carol Patriarco
Cortland, NY USA - Monday, September 8, 2003 10:28 PM CDT

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Susie Carr,
I am so proud of you for everything you do, even if you do not know it. I wish only good things for you and your family! I will be thinking of you this week, its so exciting. There is a song I love, and there is the words it int "Stand still and look up. God is going to show up, He is standing by. " I believe God is standing by all the time, but sometimes when you look up and the world is still, that is when you feel it the most. I can't remember the rest, but I will look it up for you. Take care,
Allison
Allison <acapano@cortlandschools.org>
North Syracuse, NY USA - Monday, September 8, 2003 10:11 PM CDT

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This is SUCH amazing news. I'm glad I thought to come and check for an update before I went to bed. I'm simply smiling so hard it hurts!!!!
Sending all my good thoughts your way!
Kate M
NU, - Monday, September 8, 2003 10:05 PM CDT

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Hello Susie! :->
How wonderful!!!!!!! Kate called me to tell me..........Your pinky moved. So happy.....
Such joyful news! God is great and you are a wonderful child of his, who is teaching us all so much...
You are golden.
Love you Susie.
Hugs Squeezes
Mommy Trahan
You must have had quite an interesting weekend with the football players working at your home....
They are not only the construction crew...but entertaining for you as well. Teasing aside you, your family, your town, your community is an inspiration to me.

Janet Trahan <Artjmt5285@aol.com>
Sayville, NY US - Monday, September 8, 2003 9:34 PM CDT

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THAT IS AWESOME NEWS DOOZER!!!! i love you so much angel
Jennifer Brie
- Monday, September 8, 2003 9:28 PM CDT

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Hurray Susie!!

We love you and will keep you in our prayers as well as the people at Kessler!

All good things in God's time. He's with you every minute - can you sense His nearness?

Love,
Helen Bell <aloha @twcny.rr.com>
Cortland, NY USA - Monday, September 8, 2003 9:18 PM CDT

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Jesyca & I very much appreciate the opportunity you've afforded us to start (or sometimes end) our day by finding some word of wisdom that touches our hearts in such a way that it seems worth sharing. We realized today that we have yet to share the quotes that we love so much we use them as our signature lines. From Jesyca:

We are frail, we are fearfully and wonderfully made, forged in the fires of human passion, choking on the sins of selfish rage, and with these our hells and our heavens, so few inches apart, we must be awfully small, and not as strong as we think we are.
~Rich Mullins

Jack and many visitors here are already familar with mine since they see it on an almost daily basis at CH, but I (of course) don't mind sharing it one more time:

You were born an original...don't die a copy.
~John Mason

YOUR FRIENDS IN VA
- Monday, September 8, 2003 6:10 PM CDT

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14 football players who do landscaping and a construction crew that works weekends, nights, and in the rain? Do the Carrs live on the same planet as the rest of us? I think the miracles are not only in Susie's recovery to date but in the experiences like these that the family has described. I love reading about your progress and the efforts of everyone on your behalf. I look forward everyday to the good things happening to you.
Eileen Mauskopf
Chevy Chase, MD - Monday, September 8, 2003 3:55 PM CDT

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It's hard to imagine coming to read here and not smiling at whatever has gone on. You guys are wonderful. Keep up the good work.
ps- 14 football players eh? heehee. Way to go Susie.
Kate M
NU, - Monday, September 8, 2003 12:32 AM CDT

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Susie and family,
I have to agree with Mrs. J's post (as usual)!!!!
You are all so daring!!!
I believe always taking that "extra step", with Gods help of course will get all of us the miracle we are all praying for.
We are as weak as our fear and as strong as our faith.
Carol Patriarco
Cortland, NY USA - Monday, September 8, 2003 9:00 AM CDT

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Keep up the good work, Susie. We are all praying for you.
Georgia Lane <glane@cortlandschools.org>
Cortland, NY 13045 - Monday, September 8, 2003 8:53 AM CDT

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Well, Carrs. The football team worked well for you this weekend after a nice win on Saturday. The concession stamd folks thought of y'all while the team was racking up points. One member in particular had many first downs on Saturday afternoon. She was the first down to her elbows in the each garbage can, with platic gloves on, reaching for those empty cans and bottles to take to her favorite grocery store (where she has a strong alliance)! Among her varied comments at the time were "We're putting bags out before the game starts next time" and "Hold the bag". We had a lot of fun, really :). CHS football fans---Think about putting those empty cans in the separate bags on the outside of the garbage cans on Friday night. It does all prove that it CAN be done though....As if Susie isn't making that quite clear already!
Always in our thoughts and prayers, Carrs.

The Kelemens
Cortland, NY - Monday, September 8, 2003 5:48 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Susie,

14- football players!!!! Aren’t there eleven on a field at a time? Susie, sounds like you had a goodly “hunk” of the whole team and peach pie besides. What a day! Whenever I call my sister (peach pie is her favorite) and after she knows it’s me she always says, “Haouw-deeeee!!” We are both Minnie Pearl fans. God bless Mrs. G, her hats and heart. The trip to the P and C is a healthy hike but what a wonderfully gorgeous day it was to take a hike. I keep thinking I must get outside as much as I can, winter will soon be upon us.

As you’ve opened the door to your lives and allowed all of us to share your days, one thing has brought enjoyment and impressed me. Your whole family “dares” to do many things I’d be slow to try with one recently confined to a wheel chair with spinal injuries. I’d be the concerned, fussin’ mother hen – way too cautious and slow to move on to new things. I marvel at the walks to the P&C, a restaurant, or visit to a festival . I like your style. I don’t dare enough in many ways.

I’m reminded of Moses daring to visit God up on top of mount Sinai, while the people at the bottom didn’t even dare get close to the mountain for fear of getting zapped like a bug in an electric bug killer. I certainly don’t believe God was such a mean, nasty, inhospitable fellow that he just plain didn’t want any other company. I think the bug zapper is more to the point. God is just so pure, bright, holy, and powerful, sinners would just vaporize in His presence. I find it absolutely incredible that He now lives within us. If we could only grasp or fathom what that really means we would all “dare” anything; no dream would be too big, no goal unreachable and no calling too fearful.

Susie, Jack, Julie and Sarah, keep daring!

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Monday, September 8, 2003 4:31 AM CDT

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Susie and Family,
We just returned from a weekend conference at the Turning Stone Casino. The girls liked the Kelley Coffee show, Vince liked the gambling, and I loved the hot tub!!!! A good time was had by all and we "as always" are glad to be back home. Peach Pie!!! YUM! My personal favorite- especially at this time of year- Can we have a raincheck????
Carol Patriarco and Family
Cortland, NY USA - Sunday, September 7, 2003 9:28 PM CDT

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Hi, Susie!

We're WAY out of the loop! We JUST heard about your accident and I've spent time tonight reading all the journal entries to catch up. Super to hear that your pinky is moving! You are an amazing young lady, which we always knew........We love you all and promise to come see you!

Much love and our prayers for everyone,
MJ, Brian, Stephanie, and Alana Burke
Mary Jane, Brian, and Alana Burke (plus Steph from NYC!) <songbird@twcny.rr.com>
Pulaski, NY USA - Sunday, September 7, 2003 8:35 PM CDT

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Hi Susie! You don't know me (at least I don't think you do) - I'm a student and friend of your dad at Caz. I just wanted to wish you the best of luck and let you know that my family and I have been praying for you! WORK THAT PINKY!

:o) :o) :o)
Ben Wakefield <bwakefield@cazenovia.edu>
Cazenovia, NY USA - Sunday, September 7, 2003 7:38 PM CDT

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I MISS YOU SUSIE.....see you sometime this week, keep working that pinky. LOVE YOU XOXOXOXOXOXOXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
Jenn Dailey
- Sunday, September 7, 2003 4:05 PM CDT

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[from offstage aud. hears disco beat]
enter dancing pinky
cue lights
Singers: move that pin-ky, move that pin-ky
Awwww,shake,shake,shake,
Shake,shake,shake

Yea! That's wonderful, Susie.

Denise Banner-Haley
Cortland, , NY USA - Sunday, September 7, 2003 11:42 AM CDT

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The little country schoolhouse was heated by an old-fashioned, pot-bellied stove. A little boy had the job of coming to school early each day to start the fire and warm the room before his teacher and his classmates arrived. One morning they arrived to find the schoolhouse engulfed in flames. They dragged the unconscious little boy out of the flaming building more dead than alive. He had major burns over the lower half of his body and was taken to the nearby county hospital. From his bed the dreadfully burned, semi-conscious little boy faintly heart the doctor talking to his mother. The doctor told his mother that her son would surely die - which was for the best, really - for the terrible fire had devastated the lower half of his body. But the brave boy didn't want to die. He made up his mind that he would survive. Somehow, to the amazement of the physician, he did survive. When the mortal danger was past, he again heard the doctor and his mother speaking quietly. The mother was told that since the fire had destroyed so much flesh in the lower part of his body, it would almost be better if he had died, since he was doomed to be a lifetime cripple with no use at all of his lower limbs. Once more the brave boy made up his mind. He would not be a cripple. He would walk. But unfortunately from the waist down, he had no motor ability. His thin legs just dangled there, all but lifeless. Ultimately he was released from the hospital. Every day his mother would massage his little legs, but there was no feeling, no control, nothing. Yet his determination that they would walk was as strong as ever. When he wasn't in bed, he was confined to a wheelchair. One sunny day his mother wheeled him out into the yard to get some fresh air. This day, instead of sitting there, he threw himself from the chair. He pulled himself across the grass, dragging his legs behind him. He worked his way to the white picket fence bordering their lot. With great effort, he raised himself up on the fence. Then, stake by stake, he began dragging himself along the fence, resolved that he would walk. He started to do this every day until he wore a smooth path all around the yard beside the fence. There was nothing he wanted more than to develop life in those legs. Ultimately through his daily massages, his iron persistence and his resolute determination, he did develop the ability to stand up, then to walk haltingly, then to walk by himself - and then - to run. He began to walk to school, then to run to school, to run for the sheer joy of running. Later in college he made the track team. Still later in Madison Square Garden this young man who was not expected to survive, he would surely never walk, who could never hope to run - this determined young man, Dr. Glenn Cunningham, ran the world's fastest mile!

Trish & Jesyca
- Sunday, September 7, 2003 11:39 AM CDT

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Susie,
Allison Stafford and I Jennifer O'Donnell are from the class of 2003 and we just wanted to let you know that we are praying and thinking about every day. We are glad to see that you are doing great and to wish you the best of luck.
Jennifer O'Donnell <Jen_princess3021@yahoo.com>
Cortland, NY Cortland - Sunday, September 7, 2003 10:44 AM CDT

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Susie - I heard this the other day and thought of you: YOU ARE A MAGNET FOR MIRACLES. So true! God bless and have a wonderful sabbath day. With Love,
April Cline <AprilCline@comcast.net or www.AprilsGarden.biz >
Germantown, MD - Sunday, September 7, 2003 9:40 AM CDT

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Hi Susie,

Hope today is just as much fun for you as yesterday was! Take care. :)

love,
Linda Esposito
Mandana, NY - Sunday, September 7, 2003 9:16 AM CDT

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Good Morning Susie!!
As I think and pray for you this morning I am reminded of two things. The first - putting on the Armour of Christ - Eph. 6: 10-17, as your foundation, protection, and strength.
Second - Take your rest in the everlasting arms of God - and remember your name is written on the palm of His hands -He will never forsake you! Is. 49: 13-16.

Have a wonderful day!
Love You!
Kim
Kim Christie <dance61@odyssey.net>
Cortland, NY USA - Sunday, September 7, 2003 6:57 AM CDT

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Good Morning, Susie!

OOOh--- weekends go by way too fast, don’t ya’ think, Susie? Sounds like you had a full day yesterday. No mention of a birthday celebration though.’’

This sentence is three hours later than the first. My brain wouldn’t function so I dragged it back to bed. You see our neighbors had a celebration last night, right outside our bedroom window. They had a mic-speaker-player thing and different people got up to sing to tapped background music. It carried quite well. It sounded like a lot of fun ‘cept I didn’t know any of the songs and by the look of their yard they did have fun. Celebrations be they birthday or whatever are good for the soul.

The most memorable biblical celebration I recall is when David danced before the Lord with all his might as the ark was being brought back to Jerusalem. I figured that out once and always think about his dance when I go to Tully. That’s how far David danced, from here to Tully. It takes fifteen minutes to drive. I wonder how long it took David dancing. I’ll bet you anything he slept a little longer the next day. You know, some how I just can’t see Pres. Bush getting down to his underwear and dancing on a main road for fifteen miles, ark or no. David is a most unusual fellow. I’ve often wondered if God called him, “Beloved,” because of his complete love or because of Ps. 55. You’ll have to read it, Susie, if it’s not immediately familiar. It’s very heavy duty.

Susie, I’ve read that Psalm at least four or five times in my life when I ended up so broken hearted that it took a while before I could function. I can’t recall which caused the tears, sorrow for the trespass or joy for coming home like the ark. Now there’s a celebration, reconciliation with Our Father, a real reason for singing and dancing.

May today be another “wonderfilled” day of celebration for all the Carrs.

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Sunday, September 7, 2003 6:51 AM CDT

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Happy Birthday, Uncle Jack!!!!

Susie, Great news on the pinky movement!!!! Kris and I are praying for you. We're keeping our fingers crossed that you get into Kessler. There's a huge hug for you with this posting :-)
Love, Joi <JoiDenicola@hotmail.com>
Huntington Beach, CA 92646 - Saturday, September 6, 2003 11:49 PM CDT

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Susie,
What a wonderful surprise it was to see you at Harvestfest today!! Tell your Dad to take you out more often!! Maybe next time, he and Mike will be better with getting you up the stairs!
Love, Alison
Alison Ferris
Cortland, NY - Saturday, September 6, 2003 9:52 PM CDT

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Happy Birthday Jack!!!!

Susie, I'm glad you had a great day - keep that pinky moving!!

Much Love,
Kim
Kim Christie <dance61@odyssey.net>
Cortland, NY USA - Saturday, September 6, 2003 8:16 PM CDT

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JACK
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO JACK
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR, SWEET, ADORABLE, CUTE JACK
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!!

Hope you had a wonderful day!!
ANN <GODMOMFOR2@YAHOO.COM>
- Saturday, September 6, 2003 5:27 PM CDT

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HI Susie, This is your Aunt Sally . I want to tell you that we continue to pray for you and keep you in our thoughts...I only feel bad when I realize it took an accident to really get to know you.. And you haven't had the oppertunity to know us...Let me introduce us..Iam Sally,married to your Grandmas brother JOe....(Constable)We have 5 kids. Ann has 3 sons (Joey, at TCCC) Johnny (4 years) and TOny,2....Susie...A Professor at St John Fisher, Doug,Lives in NC and has 13 year old twin girls and a 10 year old son...Sarah, Laura and Seth...Tom is a Captain in the Army, presently a student at SU,at the expense of the Army,in a MBA Group and last but not least. Sarah, a flower girl in your mom and dads wedding. She has 5 boys ages,9,8,7,and twins ,5... Thats it f or now.. Jesus loves you and so do we.....
sallyjoo@aol.com
Owego, NY - Saturday, September 6, 2003 1:23 PM CDT

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A birthday is an occasion for prayer, a holy time. A journey began. God blessed someone with life. Nothing is more sacred than someone's life, and no words more precious than words that celebrate someone's life.
And so, we say to you:

Every time we think of you, we thank God,
and pray for you with prayers of joy.
For God began a good work in you,
and will complete that work in years to come.
Our prayer for you now is this:
that your love grow richer
in knowledge and insight of every kind,
that you learn by experience
what really matters,
that on the day you appear before God,
God welcome you as a flawless gift,
a rich harvest of praise,
through Jesus Christ. Amen.

May the Lord bless you and keep you;
May the Lord shed his light upon you,
May the Lord look upon you kindly
and give you peace.

Trish & Jesyca
- Saturday, September 6, 2003 12:21 AM CDT

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Happy Birthday Uncle Jack!
Go pinky go!
Your Godchild Gina and brother Joseph
Yardville, NJ USA - Saturday, September 6, 2003 9:53 AM CDT

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Hi Susie Q! I know that this is your guest book but I thought you might not mind if I wish your Dad a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!! Jack - you rule! You're the coolest guy I know. Have a wonderful day. And Susie...You keep bringing on those miracles! We love you!!!
April Cline <AprilCline@comcast.net and www.AprilsGarden.biz >
Germantown, MD - Saturday, September 6, 2003 9:12 AM CDT

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Mornnin’ Susie,

Hum? Julie, maybe you’d better make sure those football boys concentrate on manicuring the lawn and not that wonderful newly moving pinky finger. Did you know that the word pinky comes from the Dutch language? Pink actually means small? I’m not smart. I looked it up, wondered why the color pink was connected with a little finger.

The first or second year the studio was opened a five year old boy attended who possessed phenomenal art ability. He was very small and oddly, everything he did was in pink. He made a three foot long caterpillar- pink, and a pastel picture- pink, a watercolor-pink, everything was pink. I remember him for more than art ability and pink. He was small enough that a basketball made a perfect seat for him. Sometimes when the older students were on break and playing basketball, this little guy would manage to get the ball and just sit on it. I thought there’d be some protesting but there never was. Not one child tried to take it from him or said a word of reprimand. They just smiled and went to get another ball or do something else. After the second day I noticed he regularly managed to get that ball. The others made sure he had a seat. Sometimes children surprise and teach us about how to care for one another. Bless the football guys.

“… love one another, for he who loves his neighbor fulfills the law.” Rm. 13:3 A lot of “law” is being fullfilled around the Carr home.

Susie, it’s very difficult and humbling for us people of the “I can do it myself!” genre to accept help. I know it’s especially difficult when something major happens and sooooo many people lend a hand. Do you know you are blessing all of us by allowing us to give? You are taking a different position, you are getting a different basket ball and letting us sit on the “It is more blessed to give than receive” ball. There is quit often a problem though. The balls get all mixed up and it’s hard to tell who’s giving to whom. Just maybe, perhaps the one receiving is giving more by receiving then the one giving. Confusing world…’ain’t’ it? :o)

Enjoy the manicure!

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J



Judith Johnson
- Saturday, September 6, 2003 5:16 AM CDT

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Dear Susie, I don't know if you remember me. I was a French exchange student in Cortland '01-'02. My name is Séverine. Unfortunatley, I don't believe I am able to find the good words to say because we did not really get the chance to know each other but I wanted to tell you that I was thinking of you and that I will be following you on this web site. I am sure that you and your family will find the strength to go through all this. (From what I remember you are very strong! ) You are a very talentfull person, I will always remember on Graduation Day the song you sang on stage in front of everyone. Promise us you will Never give up on your dreams. My best regards to you and your family, Sév - France
Séverine Loyer <severineloyer@yahoo.fr>
Niort-La Rochelle, France - Saturday, September 6, 2003 5:04 AM CDT

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Yahoo for pinky! It news that brings tears to my eyes!
And Carol Patriarco - we're all tickled pinky!
Denise Mironti
Cortland, NY - Friday, September 5, 2003 10:07 PM CDT

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Good Evening and Congratulations!! I'm so glad you are moving that pinky!! Yea for Miss Susie!!

Love you bunches and bunches!! I'm so proud og you!!
Still waiting on new pictures. Hello to the whole family.
Ann <godmomfor2@yahoo.com>
- Friday, September 5, 2003 7:40 PM CDT

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awesome about your pinky!! keep up the good work, Susie!
Ani Ross
Huntington Beach, CA - Friday, September 5, 2003 1:00 PM CDT

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Susie,
You must be tickled "pink-y"- I know thats bad!!!
Isn't He awesome? He thinks you are too!!
Tonight watch the moon come up ( hopefully you have your skylight in), and try to count the stars and realize that the God who created them also created you. And you are truly special.
Carol Patriarco
Cortland, NY - Friday, September 5, 2003 11:13 AM CDT

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Dear Susie,
Hooray for the pinky!
Aunt Kathy, Uncle Jim, Gina & Joseph
Yardville, NJ USA - Friday, September 5, 2003 10:43 AM CDT

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Hi Susie,

Wonderful news about your finger...... and wonderful to hear it directly from you!!!!! :)

Hope today is another great day for you!

love,
Linda Esposito
Mandana, NY - Friday, September 5, 2003 10:31 AM CDT

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Susie - Thinking of you and so happy to hear of your continued Miracles! May a plethera of miracles continue to come your way!!!!!

April Cline
http://www.AprilsGarden.biz <AprilCline@comcast.net>
Germantown, MD - Friday, September 5, 2003 9:30 AM CDT

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Trish & Jesyca
THRILLED4UVILLE, - Friday, September 5, 2003 8:48 AM CDT

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And yet another small miracle! WAHOOOOOOO!!
My thought is, just don't blink! It's worth not blinking.
AWESOME AWESOME NEWS. This made my morning.
May many more small miracles come your way...
Kate M.
NU, - Friday, September 5, 2003 8:26 AM CDT

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GOOD Mornin’ Susie!

Maybe you don’t talk a lot, Susie, but my goodness, what you say is wonderful!!! I didn’t cry. The tears welled up but I didn’t cry. You can move your pinky!!! WONDERFUL!

I don’t know that it was His pinky but God just used one little finger to write all ten of the commandments and in stone no less. Just think what marvelous things fingers can do. Pinkies, when extended, balance tea cups, display pinky rings, play: piano, flute, piccolo, clarinet, guitar, saxophone, oboe, hold thread when knitting, get people wrapped around it, steadies your hand while drawing, completes a strong grip, type, sign to the deaf and are the best nose picker (so I understand, due to its small circumference, not that I use them for such activity.)

There’s this marvelous story in 2 Sam about this son of a giant who had six fingers and toes. I’ve often wondered if he had two pinkies or some other finger. He’d always know which glove was his wouldn’t he? Then a lovely reference is in Pr about binding God’s words on your fingers. Now there’s a whole line of jewelry I’ve not seen at a Christian Bookseller conference, scripture rings and it’s God’s suggestion. Someone could make quite a bit of money from that idea.

Jesus probably didn’t use His pinky when He put fingers in a deaf man’s ear or mixed spit to make a blind man see or wrote in the dirt nor do I think doubting Thomas was thinking of his pinky when he said he wouldn’t believe till he could put it in a nail hole.

Oh, Susie, as you move that little finger today, remember any finger will do when it comes to pointing skyward to The One Who Holds you in His Hand and holds His pinky up so you never fall from His grasp.

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Friday, September 5, 2003 6:50 AM CDT

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Hi Susie!
Great news yet again!!!!!

Progress

Progress is the Law of Heaven. Higher, ever higher, rise to Life and Beauty, Knowledge and Power. Higher and higher.
Tomorrow be stronger, braver, more loving than you have been today.
The Law of progress gives a meaning, a purpose to life.

Progress, sweet progress - isn't it great Susie?!!!!
I hope your day is filled with more progress and movement "higher and higher" toward your goal of recovery!

Love You!
Kim
Kim Christie <dance61@odyssey.net>
Cortland, NY USA - Friday, September 5, 2003 5:46 AM CDT

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WOO HOO! Great news Susie! They have always said: "Good things come slowly". May this be the first of many "good things" to come to you!:)
Have a GREAT day!
Mrs. Griffin
Janet Griffin
Cortland, NY - Friday, September 5, 2003 5:24 AM CDT

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Great News about the movement in your pinky.
Our thoughts and prayers are with you daily
The Ptak Family
Cortland, ny usa - Thursday, September 4, 2003 11:11 PM CDT

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Hi Susie,

Just wanted you to know that I had stopped by to see how everything is....

The stories about Taylor and Mrs. J's student are great! We adults tend to think that we have it all together sometimes, but in fact we should remember that if we want to hear the real truth we should ask a child....and if we need help with a computer we should ask a teenager! :)

Hope this has been a good day for all of you,

Love,
Linda Esposito
Mandana, NY - Thursday, September 4, 2003 4:08 PM CDT

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Susie,
Sounds like you and your mom had a fun time with your aunts and niece.
Sisters are great arent they ?

Sisterhood is a club with a lifetime membership.

Carol Patriarco
Cortland, NY USA - Thursday, September 4, 2003 12:56 AM CDT

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Ditto, Jack! I have often enjoyed and gleened much from Jesyca and Trish's entries and wanted to say, "Thanks." Mrs. J
Judith Johnson
- Thursday, September 4, 2003 12:16 AM CDT

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I don't believe that any of us Carrs have made comment yet on any of the posts here. But this might be a good time. Jesyca and Trish, the offerings you have shared here day after day after faithful day have become soul food to us all. Today's story in particular holds a rich resonance, and is so timely particularly today.

All of us broken souls are lugging our own personal burdens...and what I am trying to learn is that our own recovery is defined by the extent to which we are able to reach out to help others with their burdens. I hope this is not a revelation to any of you--but it surely is news that I can use.

Thank you and much love to you both. And to all the many lurkers, love to you, too. xo :) J
Jack
- Thursday, September 4, 2003 10:48 AM CDT

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Once upon a time, a monarch had twin sons. There was some confusion about which one was born first. As they grew to young manhood, the king sought a fair way to designate one of them as crown prince. All who knew the young men thought them equal in intelligence, wit, personal charm, health, and physical strength. Being a keenly observant king and father, he thought he detected a trait in one which was not shared by the other. Calling them to his council chamber one day, he said, "My sons, the day will come when one of you must succeed me as king. The burdens of sovereignty are very heavy. To find out which of you is better able to bear them cheerfully, I am sending you together to a far corner of the kingdom. One of my advisors there will place equal burdens on your shoulders. My crown will one day go to the one who first returns bearing his burden like a king should." In a spirit of friendly competition, the brothers set out together. Soon they overtook an aged woman struggling under a burden that seemed far too heavy for her frail body. One of the boys suggested that they stop to help her. The other protested: "We have a burden of our own to worry about. Let us be on our way." The objector hurried on while the other stayed behind to give aid to the aged woman. Along the road, from day to day, he found others who also needed help. A blind man took him miles out of his way, and a lame man slowed him to a cripple's walk. Eventually he did reach his father's advisor, where he secured his own burden and started home with it safely on his shoulders. When he arrived at the palace, his brother met him at the gate and greeted him with dismay. He said, "I don't understand. How did you carry your burden so far? I told our father the burden was too heavy to bring back. However did you do it?" The future king replied thoughtfully:

"When I helped others carry their burdens, I found the strength to carry my own."

Trish & Jesyca
- Thursday, September 4, 2003 9:40 AM CDT

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Out of the mouth of Babes! I love it and I believe you will do it just like this when He is ready for you to do it.

Miss Susie have a wonderful and blessed day!
Many Blessings, Cheryl Wehner =) <remngtn@hotmail.com>
Lawton, OK - Thursday, September 4, 2003 9:00 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Susie,

Little ones say the most unexpected things. Yesterday was the first day of school. The art room is festooned with balloons, streamers, wild fluorescent colors of pink, yellow and aqua, plus there’s a huge paper birthday cake loaded with candles on one bulletin board, all in celebration of our school 75th birthday. You know Mrs. Kline. She was asking the students what was different about the art room. The first child enthusiastically raised and waved his hand. When called on he excitedly said, “It’s clean!” HA!!! ‘Nuf said!

Taylor’s little instruction of, “Just go like this.” reminds me of Is 30:21 “… you will hear a voice behind you saying, “This is the way; walk in it.” Just go like this! That kind of walking you can do seated and don’t have to wait till you’re legs are walking.

Have a day full of unexpected child-like happenings and joy!

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

PS- Glad the windows are in. I like rain but the pleasure is wearing thin and yesterday was no exception. Also, glad your bed is moved, Susie. I must confess, when I saw where it was I had visions of sledgehammers coming through the wall right over your head and plaster raining down upon you. That kind of rain you don’t need. Ha- I knew Mom would move you. :o)

Judith Johnson
- Thursday, September 4, 2003 4:34 AM CDT

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Hi Susie!!!! It's Kate....Kate's friend Kate... the one who came with her to pick you up from the train in NYC.....I just wanted to say hi and wish you a speedy recovery!!!!! I hope I see you again soon..I think next time Kate comes to visit I'll be with her.....So keep on getting better for me until I see you!!! Bye Sweetheart!!!
Kate <Kash7298@aol.com>
West Sayville, NY USA - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 7:00 PM CDT

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Dear Susie

I am astounded to see the number of friends and businesses who have contributed to your recovery. It is certainly a tribute to you and your family who have undoubtedly enriched the lives of so many others. And it speaks volumes about the place where you live. It makes me feel good; I wish we all had hometowns like Cortland. Reading about your recovery is the nicest part of my day each day. Your determination is inspiring and it will lead you to a wonderful recovery.
eileen mauskopf
chevy chase, md - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 1:53 PM CDT

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Jack, Julie, Susie and Sarah,
I agree with you that Cortland is a great place to live and raise a family. The people who live here are what makes it such a special place. I was given a plaque from a special friend of mine who knows how much I love Cortland and I have it hanging in my home. This is what it says:

CORTLAND
I like living in our little town where the trees meet across each street. Good people live in our little town, the kind of folks you like to meet. For life is interwoven with friends we've come to know and we hear their joys and sorrows as we daily come and go. I love living in Cortland, I care no more to roam, for every house here in our little town is more than a house, its a home.
Carol Patriarco and Family
Cortland, NY USA - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 1:08 PM CDT

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"Shelter Me, O God"
Text based on Psalm 16, Psalm 61 and Luke 13:34.
Music by Bob Hurd
(c) 1984

Shelter me, O God;
hide me in the shadow of your wings.
You alone are my hope.

When my foes surround me,
set me high above their reach.
Hear me when I call your name.

As a mother gathers her young
beneath her care,
gather me into your arms.

Though I walk in darkness,
through the needle's eye of death,
you will never leave my side.

Love you, Dad xoxox :) J
- Wednesday, September 3, 2003 11:51 AM CDT

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Hi Susie,

Just checking in to see how things are. What a wonderful thank you letter from you and your family to everyone who has helped, and how wonderful to see how many individuals, businesses and organizations are on that list!

I guess Pollyanna would say that the best thing about this little weather pattern we're in is that you don't have to worry about getting a sunburn, but it will be good to see the sun out again soon, won't it? In the meantime, take care and know that we're all thinking of you.

with love,
Linda E.
Mandana, NY - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 11:02 AM CDT

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Once upon a time, there was a large mountainside, where an eagle's nest rested. The eagle's nest contained four large eagle eggs. One day an earthquake rocked the mountain causing one of the eggs to roll down the mountain, to a chicken farm, located in the valley bellow. The chickens knew that they must protect and care for the eagle's egg, so an old hen volunteered to nature and raise the large egg. One day, the egg hatched and a beautiful eagle was born. Sadly, however, the eagle was raised to be a chicken. Soon, the eagle believed he was nothing more than a chicken. The eagle loved his home and family, but his spirit cried out for more. While playing a game, on the farm one day, the eagle looked to the skies above and noticed a group of mighty eagles soaring in the skies. "Oh", the eagle cried, "I wish I could soar like those birds." The chickens roared with laughter, "You can not soar with those birds! You are a chicken and chickens do not soar." The eagle continued staring, at his real family up above, dreaming that he could be with them. Each time, the eagle would let his dreams be known, he was told it couldn't be done and that is what the eagle learned to believe. The eagle, after time, stopped dreaming and continued to live his life like a chicken. Finally, after a long life as a chicken, the eagle passed away.

You become what you believe you are so if you dream of becoming an eagle follow your heart not the words of a chicken.

Trish & Jesyca
- Wednesday, September 3, 2003 8:35 AM CDT

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Hi Susie!
This song, Shelter Me, O God, has been running through my brain this morning and it reminded me of you. Do you know it? Have someone find you a hymnal so you may take a look at the words. This song, to me, is a very sweet prayer to God for comfort and strength.
This song is based on Ps.16, Ps.81, and Lk.13:34
Have a great day resting in the arms of your Heavenly Daddy!
Love You!
Kim
Kim Christie <dance61@odyssey.net>
Cortland, NY USA - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 8:34 AM CDT

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I'm following suit and writing a quick note to let you know that even the somewhat "strangers" are still checking in to hear all the good news (and keeping our fingers crossed for the news that's still to come). My prayers are with you and your family, even though I'm not a regular on your message board. You're all amazing!
Emily Ruthig
- Wednesday, September 3, 2003 8:30 AM CDT

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Hi Susie and family. It has been a while since I last checked your website. I went back and read all of the history and I am amazed at your progress and so happy that you are home. Keep up the great work and may God Bless you always.
Toni (Patriarco) Seay <tonipat2@nexet.net>
Louisa, VA USA - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 8:29 AM CDT

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Good Morning Susie,

It was nice seing you on Saturday, stay warm.

Robin Ptak <rlp613045@yahoo.com>
Cortland, NY - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 5:54 AM CDT

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Good morning Susie!
I did sign last night but think I forgot that last little piece....you know, to add it to the guest book (DUH!) so it isn't here.
What I did say was that it was GREAT to see you Sunday and I hope more warm weather will be on our way soon, so you won't be so chilly.
Just keep remembering that favorite phrase..."I know I can....I know I can....I know I can!
Are you parents in "shell-shock" getting back to school. I know I am!!!!:):):)
Love you,
Mrs. Griffin
Janet Griffin
Cortland, NY - Wednesday, September 3, 2003 5:16 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Susie,

Do you mind if I tell you another rain story, Susie? I don’t hear ya’ sayin’, “No,” so guess I will.

My grandson and I were looking out the window when he was about one and a half. It was raining but the sun was beginning to shine too and we all know what that means. So I asked Joshua to come with Grandma and out the door we went with this atrociously large umbrella made like a rainbow wheel and there on the front steps sat Grandma and Joshua in the rain under a rainbow umbrella. Joshua was right up tight to his grandma. I’m not sure he thought this was an okay thing to be doing but Grandma kept talking about how beautiful the rain was and singing a silly made-up rainy- rainy- rain song. Soon Joshua started to enjoy himself and within a few moments he said, “Gramma, LOOK!” Yep… there it was right on cue, the most beautiful rainbow you ever saw, one of those with bright vivid colors. Time had stopped. Joshua and Gramma were seeing a rainbow for the first time, even if we’d seen dozens before. What a refreshingly beautiful memory. I just love taking it out and looking at it over and over.

One slightly negative out come though… for the next four or five months Joshua would come through the front door and the first thing out of his mouth was, “Brella, Gramma? Brella?” It got lost, some how???? after the umteen-zillionth request.

As you sit quietly enjoying the shower of God’s presence, I pray His Son sings silly songs to you to chase fear away, and shines brightly to reveal a rainbow bridge of promises, love and hope that will lead to the fullest life you ever imagined or could possible dream.

Have a vividly colorful day, Carrs!

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J Ez. 1:27

Judith Johnson
- Wednesday, September 3, 2003 3:34 AM CDT

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Sounds like things are really progressing. Keep up the good work. Keep thinking positively about Kessler and good things will come! God Bless you and your family.
Denise
Cortland, NY - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 10:31 PM CDT

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Love you-hope things are continuing to go well. You know you are so special to me as is your whole family.

Living down here in the deep south-I am wondering if ya'll are in the mood for a gift from the south. It's big and yellow and hot-THE SUN!! It's still miserably hot here and we are sick of it!! Gosh, it's September and summer is over. We are supposed to be getting a little cooler weather the end of the week-thank goodness!!

Take care of your sweet self and tell your family hi!

Ask your Dad where the new pictures are? We are ready to see new pictures of you without the Halo or neck brace and more of the house.

God Bless!!
ANN <GODMOMFOR2@YAHOO.COM>
- Tuesday, September 2, 2003 9:33 PM CDT

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Hi Susie. It's been awhile since I let you know that you are in my prayers, but please know I am still thinking of you often and catching up on your progress.
Keep your spirits up!
God Bless.
Courtney Jones Justice <courtneyjj@hotmail.com>
Lexington, KY 40504 - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 9:31 PM CDT

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Another big Yes for Linda Esposito, and another HI for Susie -- hope you are having a good evening!

Love,
Judy Cain
Judy Cain (TC3)
Cortland, NY USA - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 9:11 PM CDT

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Hi Susie,

A big YES for Linda Esposito - I agree - Just to sign in and say "I love you" is the best medicine in the world. Your progress is just so awesome that words aren't enough - but love, prayers and caring are!

We just returned from PA from visiting our granddaughter, Sarah. She's doing fine and we miss her but she has to fly with her own wings - just as you are doing and God is flying with you.

Love,


Helen Bell
Cortland, NY USA - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 5:34 PM CDT

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Hello Susie,

It seems as though so many of us who care about you and your family are in a waiting mode right now, just as you and your family are. You're waiting to hear from Kessler, waiting to see how your new schedule is going to work out with your Mom and Dad back in school, waiting patiently as your body continues its recovery and your house continues to expand....and we're all here just waiting along with you and keeping all of you in our prayers. We check in frequently to see how you are, but we often leave without leaving a note for you...and that means that you don't know that we've been here. Maybe, during this time when we're all waiting with you, we can at least just send you our love and sign our names whenever we check in. How would that be? :)

So, if you find a message which just says something like "Love you, Susie! Linda E." you'll know that I've been here, that I'm waiting with you, and that you remain in my thoughts and prayers....

Love,
Linda Esposito
Mandana, NY - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 12:55 AM CDT

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OK-Little Miss thing-now it would be very nice to here from you about your progress at home! I actually have today off and am going to go spoil myself- I have a tanning appointment and an appointment to get my nails done!! So please e-mail me- lets see how those skills have progressed!!
Yvonne <yfree11@aol.com>
Liverpool, NY - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 10:25 AM CDT

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To everyone reading this,
Please dont be shy about posting- I know that Susie looks forward to reading the posts each night- the more the merrier!!! To let you all know Im the older bossy sister in my family!!!Ha!! Thanks and lol!
Carol Patriarco
Cortland, NY USA - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 9:44 AM CDT

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Once upon a time there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work. One day he was walking along the shore. As he looked down the beach, he saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself to think of someone who would dance to the day. So he began to walk faster to catch up. As he got closer, he saw that it was a young man and the young man wasn't dancing, but instead he was reaching down to the shore, picking up something and very gently throwing it into the ocean. As he got closer he called out, "Good morning! What are you doing?" The young man paused, looked up and replied, "Throwing starfish in the ocean." "I guess I should have asked, why are you throwing starfish in the ocean?" "The sun is up, and the tide is going out. And if I don't throw them in they'll die." "But, young man, don't you realize that there are miles and miles of beach, and starfish all along it. You can't possibly make a difference!" The young man listened politely. Then bent down, picked another starfish and threw it into the sea, past the breaking waves and said, "It made a difference for that one."

There is something very special in each and every one of us. We have all been gifted with the ability to make a difference. And if we can become aware of that gift, we gain through the strength of our visions the power to shape the future. We must each find our starfish. And if we throw our stars wisely and well, the world will be blessed.

Trish & Jesyca
- Tuesday, September 2, 2003 8:26 AM CDT

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Dear Susie,
Keep your steam in to run your own engine.
-Marcia Moore & Mark Douglas
Aunt Kathy, Uncle Jim, Gina and Joseph
Yardville, NJ USA - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 8:16 AM CDT

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Hi Susie!

So glad to hear you're continuing to astound everyone. Keep up the good fight! Give your Dad a hug from me. He's been so sweet!
April Cline <www.AprilsGarden.biz AprilCline@comcast.net>
Germantown, MD - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 5:49 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Susannah,

Don’t know exactly why but I like rainy days, always have. They’re so peaceful and it’s so good to be inside when it’s raining outside. It’s getting to be fire in the fireplace time which make rainy days even better. I like the sound and sight of rain. It has been a summer blessed with good rains and the fall harvests around here are good perhaps even abundant.

There are many references to rain in scripture and many are really referring to God’s presence, blessing, Word, Holy Spirit or Son. There is one in Hosea (6:3) I like about us getting to know God and Him coming to us like rain… gentle, sweet, renewing and bring a rich harvest.

Susie, sometimes I think we get way too complicated in our approach to God. I’ll bet if we did more just plain silent, sitting in His presence and letting Him rain on us we would have an abundant harvest of love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness and faithfulness. (Ga. 5:22 – fruit of the Spirit)

Susie, let Him rain on you today and be refreshed... rain...rain...rain...reign...reign...

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

j johnson
- Tuesday, September 2, 2003 2:44 AM CDT

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Hi Susie Q,
Wow!!
So much is happening at your abode. What a great addition to the house, Sorry i haven't written for a while but be assured you and your family are in my prayers every day! Its too bad so few people write to you (yeah, right!). So glad to read of your continuing progress. I'm confident the best is yet to come. Keep on "keepin on" as you are doing.

I had the great pleasure of seeing your sister Sarah recently. She's a real sweetheart!

Your steadfast friend, Mrs J, not long ago comented on the burdens of aging. You may tell that CHILD! for me that this old geezer really knows what its about cause I'm a lot older than she is!! (we are friends of many many years) With best wishes.
Dick Welch

Dick Welch <rwelch02@twcny.rr.com>
Cortland , NY USA - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 0:06 AM CDT

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Hi Susie Q,
Wow!!
So much is happening at your abode. What a great addition to the house, Sorry i haven't written for a while but be assured you and your family are in my prayers every day! Its too bad so few people write to you (yeah, right!). So glad to read of your continuing progress. I'm confident the best is yet to come. Keep on "keepin on" as you are doing.

I had the great pleasure of seeing your sister Sarah recently. She's a real sweetheart!

Your steadfast friend, Mrs J, not long ago comented on the burdens of aging. You may tell that CHILD! for me that this old geezer really knows what its about cause I'm a lot older than she is!! (we are friends of many many years) With best wishes.
Dick Welch

Dick Welch <rwelch02@twcny.rr.com>
Cortland , NY USA - Tuesday, September 2, 2003 0:03 AM CDT

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Snuggles!

Just wanted to say hello again...I miss you tonz! CALL YOUR SISTER!!! I know you are busy and all but geez!
xoxooxoxxoooxoxoxox

Sarah
- Monday, September 1, 2003 9:35 PM CDT

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Trish & Jesyca
- Monday, September 1, 2003 12:09 AM CDT

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Hey, Suzzz
Do you know the plant Rudbeckia? (not spelled correctly, I'm sure!) a.k.a. black-eyed-Susan? Well, visualize a melon-colored daisy with a black center + tons of bros and sis's...big clump-like 2 1/2 feet high. Anyway last year two beautiful clumps of these plants were put in front of my house-I had High hopes of High clumps of the things-but-the gozillion rabbits that also live here had other ideas-like chewing them practically to the ground. So-the dilemma in May: dig or wait. I decided to wait-and-see. So guess what?? There are two very small blooming clumps in the front of the house-they certainly didn't "give up" and have decided to honor patience (and lots of t.l.c. with water, plant food) with a display. I'm already understanding that with rabbit fencing they'll be terrific next spring. So, brown-eyed-Susie, I've seen you begin to bounce back with lots of "inner" drive and t.l.c. You remind me of my daisies-I'm confident that you will also accomplish a lot in the days to come. Am anxious to see you with Tall Tales of Junior High! Love to all...
Mrs. G. <ngovern1@twcny.rr.com>
- Monday, September 1, 2003 12:05 AM CDT

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Good Mornin’ Susie,

Happy Labor Day! I was reading up on Labor Day. I’ve always seen it as the last hoorah of summer, a very nice gesture towards the labor force who keep our country afloat, but wouldn’t ya’ know it has a sordid past. Seems the first time such a thing was celebrated was in 1882 and started by a Peter McGuire, a carpenter--- "No," say others t’was a Matthew Maguire, a machinist. My money’s on the carpenter. They were both leaders in labor federations. Anyway the custom spread. It was nationally signed into law in 1894 by Grover Cleveland to appease workers after he sent 12,000 troops into Ill. to quell a riot by Pullman employees. Two ended up dead. Politics and killing…. Wonderful.

I prefer to think of another carpenter who started another Labor Day for all eternity. He said, “Come to me all you who labor and are heavy-laden and I will give you rest.” Matt 11:28-30 It’s some kind of passage in the Amplified version:

"28Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavy-laden and overburdened, and I will cause you to rest. [I will ease and relieve and refresh your souls.] 29Take My yoke upon you and learn of Me, for I am gentle (meek) and humble (lowly) in heart, and you will find rest ( relief and ease and refreshment and recreation and blessed quiet) for your souls. 30For My yoke is wholesome (useful, good--not harsh, hard, sharp, or pressing, but comfortable, gracious, and pleasant), and My burden is light and easy to be borne.” ----ummmmm- nice--for a weary lady who must go back to teaching that sounds like I can celebrate that kind of Labor Day any time I choose. So can you , Susie, Julie, Jack and Sarah!

My money is still on The Carpenter as the one who started Labor Day.
Rest filled Labor Day to all the Carrs.

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Monday, September 1, 2003 5:28 AM CDT

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Susie,
I came across this Bible verse and immediatly thought of you.
"For I will restore health to you And heal you of your wounds," says the Lord. Jeremiah 30:17

God Bless you and your family.
Carol Patriarco
Cortland, NY USA - Sunday, August 31, 2003 10:35 PM CDT

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Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you.
Never excuse yourself.
~Henry Ward Beecher

Trish & Jesyca
- Sunday, August 31, 2003 9:52 PM CDT

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Hi to all you very special Carrs, especially Susie,
Happy Labor Day Weekend!
So thrilled to hear no more neck brace. YEAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love seeing the chapters on heros. Of course you know the biggest hero is you Susie.
I have one of the Susie tree ribbons hanging on the rearview mirror of my car so I think of you lots during the day(including your wonderful friends and family)
Keep inspiring us and pushing forward.
Love you all.

Janet Trahan <Artjmt5285@aol.com>
Sayville, NY US - Sunday, August 31, 2003 7:21 PM CDT

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Have patience with all things, but first of all with yourself.

- St. Francis de Sales


Susie it's great to read that you are finally off your neck brace. Keep up the great work and check your mail later this week.

Love to all!!!! =)
Cheryl Wehner =) <remngtn@msn.com>
Lawton, OK USA - Sunday, August 31, 2003 6:09 PM CDT

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Good Morning Susie,
I have put off writing because I didn't know if you would remember me. Today I decided that since you have been on my mind daily since the accident it was about time to write. I want to take the opportunity to thank you for being so kind to my children while you were at Cortland High. Your kindness helped both Cassie and Britt to feel welcome and not so out of place when they were trying to find their connection in the "big" school.Briit still has your senior picture on his dresser! I truely believe that your kind, caring, thoughtful and determined personality will get you through this challenge. Keep working hard and don't ever give up!
Love and prayers
Corena Morse
Corena Morse <cmorse@cnyconnect.net>
Cortland, NY United States - Sunday, August 31, 2003 8:52 AM CDT

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Good Morning Susie,

Thought about you first thing this morning. I came out of the bedroom and could just make out my husband standing by the wall in the kitchen in the dark. I asked, “Why are you standing in the dark?” His answer, “I’m eating a banana.” After shaking my head, trying to clear it from the fact his answer made absolutely no sense unless eating bananas was illegal and he feared government commandos with Oozies busting in and brutalizing him, I thought, “Bananas are white. Susie would like them.” Susie, I know better than to try having a sane conversation with Don before ten AM.

After finding out yesterday that you prefer many white foods, I’ve been thinking about white food. I’m afraid I’m a believer in color. I think a plate should look like a work of art and be like a seductress with her arms out saying, “Come eat me.” I must admit, when Don often fixes supper it’s a wild celebration of white chicken, potatoes and cauliflower. I just have to get up and put some color on it some where even if it’s just a leaf of green lettuce. But, Susie, do I ever have a great scriptural argument to support your love of white food.

“The house of Israel named it manna, and it was like coriander seed, white, and its taste was like wafers with honey” (Ex 16:31)… and, Susie, they ate only manna for forty years, morning, noon and night: manna-burger, ba-manna bread, ba-manna pudding, manna-coti, manna pancakes, fillet of manna, BBQ-manna…… (Manna menu taken mainly from a Keith Green song, So You Wanna Go Back To Egypt… you can down load it on the internet) That white food kept 20,000 Israeli military men and their families going strong for a long time. (Some say 600,000 and that’s just counting the men but that’s another major archeological battle)

Of course there can never be a discussion of manna without remembering The One Like lightening, robed whiter than snow, The Living Manna from Heaven, White Bread For All – Jesus. Now there’s a white diet your folks won’t argue with, Susie. Feast away. Jhn 6

Fill my cup, Lord.
I lift it up, Lord.
Come and quench this
thirsting in my soul. Bread
from heaven, feed me till I
want no more. Fill my cup,
fill it up and make me whole.

Very pretty song, Susie. Do you know it? Bet it’d be lovely coming from your lips. Enjoy your white food today!

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Sunday, August 31, 2003 7:18 AM CDT

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Hi Suz, great picture. Sorry that I haven't been by, but I check out your progress everyday via the site. We're so happy that friends are coming forth and helping in many different ways, and of course, we're so proud of the progress that you are making....keep it up. You all are in our prayers, and I've got Jason plugging away for you. I'm up to my eyeballs, teaching (started this past week),and am the host chair for the Southern Zone Retired Teachers Annual Meeting 9/10 at the Country Club. However, I've had some great help, and we have next week to clean up the final details. Don't know if I told you, but I'm also initiating a new Rotary Project called "Hope-Elepsy", a project that will involve our club, our district, the 3 rotary clubs in Yaounde, Cameroon, West Africa, and also the Sisters of Mercy, who run a mental health clinic and work with epileptics. So far, our club has bought into it, and there is a great deal of interest in Yaounde. Unfortunately, my French is atrocious, and Claytie Alcorn will be my saving grace. As soon as things simmer down a little, I'll look forward to helping somehow in your new room. Keep the faith, I just feel it in my bones that you're going to come out of this ok. Thank God for a wonderful family, and scores of great friends. God love you, and bless you.

Love ya,

Linda and Manny
Manny Medeiros <mvmed@odyssey.net>
Cortland, NY - Saturday, August 30, 2003 10:14 PM CDT

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Hi Susie. I just wanted to let you know that i'm really proud of you and i wish i was there to visit you. I really miss visiting you and i love you. Ill see you on thanksgiving break.
Danielle Krol <daniellekny@hotmail.com>
Conway, SC USA - Saturday, August 30, 2003 5:02 PM CDT

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Susie and Family,

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart.
See you all tomorrow. Love to you all.
Carol Patriarco
Cortland, NY USA - Saturday, August 30, 2003 3:32 PM CDT

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Did ya miss us?
We missed y'all!
Lost 2 days here because our internet server's router box was damaged in a storm.
All is well now though - so our sappy food-for-thought shall continue onandonandonandon.....
Trish & Jesyca
- Saturday, August 30, 2003 11:10 AM CDT

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Hey Susie,

I just wanted to say hello because I miss the dickens out of ya. I heard that you are not wearing your neck brace anymore, that is excellent. Tell the rest of the family I said hello and I miss them tons to. Have a good day sunshine.

Love Dustin
Dustin Cutler <dustin111181@hotmail.com>
Cortland , NY United States - Saturday, August 30, 2003 11:10 AM CDT

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Guilty! Of lurking. That sounds so disssspicable(Daffy Duck)I often feel I cannot write any new or better messages than are already posted; know, Carrs, please, that I am constantly thinking of you. Guilty! Of not being grateful enough or often enough, (thank you Mrs. J, and You Are Not Alone, me, too, "No one is alone, truely...") Guilty! of bad, bad grammar with too many commas. Dear Susie, Every day is a new day. It may be hard to see the wonderful things you are accomplishing, and some times it may be difficult to feel like an accomplished person, but trust us old folks who have seen and heard many many stories. You are truely making wonderful progress. I am so proud of you, and feel honored to know just a little of what you are doing. Keep it up. Right on Right on. You go, girl. Love to you and your awesome family.
D. Banner-Haley <dbanner@cortlandschools.org>
- Saturday, August 30, 2003 11:03 AM CDT

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Hi Susie i dont know you personaly but i know your dad he was my professor at cazenovia college and a very good friend. He always tells me how proud he is of both of you and sarah.We have kept in touch since i no longer go to school there.He is a good man and i know a good father-wished i could have had a good father like him. He usually updates me on you and sarah and all the activities that you both are involved in. I had a chance to meet Sarah because she went to cazenovia as well. I wish you the best and remember you have many people that care about you. Get well-take care!!!
Stacey Leo <Pr8882@aol.com>
Buffalo, Ny United States - Saturday, August 30, 2003 8:58 AM CDT

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Good morning, Susie! It is soooo great to read about your continued progress!:) I never doubted that you would always give it your all!
Good news from the P&C (Homer Ave.) bottle and can drive. T.J. is leaving for college today and he totaled all the receipts he has been collecting last night. He sent a check to Mrs. Van Dusen for $168.35! THANK YOU TO ALL OF YOU OUT THERE WHO DONATED YOUR BOTTLES AND CANS! But don't stop!!!! Chrissy is now taking over for her brother and she will tally the receipts. Remember how I told you that 60% of my family works there....I wasn't kidding!:)

A note to Mrs. Johnson...have you ever thought of joining the ministry? You inspire ME and I'm sure others as well.

Susie, I will be over soon. Can't wait to see you all.
Love, Mrs. Griffin
Janet Griffin
Cortland, NY - Saturday, August 30, 2003 7:21 AM CDT

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Good Morning Susie,

Well, I’ve sat here fifteen minutes this morning not knowing what to say. I think about you so often, send prayers up for you and try to encourage you or maybe divert you mind for a moment and give you some help with believing and trusting but sometimes I feel very inadequate. What do I really know about what you go through every day? I guess I’m just so grateful that others who are in the same situation you are have hearts full of compassion and take the time to visit and really give a knowing helping hand. Guess I’m struck with how many others are in the midst of unwelcome circumstances and how very ungrateful I am for what I have.

You see, Susie, I fear age sometimes brings on an ungrateful heart. We begin to have annoying little things happen like lower back pain, pain in the shoulders, fingers, feet, knees, our hair gets thin, teeth fall out and vision blurs. Food doesn’t agree with us like it used to and hearing becomes more difficult. Complaining and enumerating all the changes becomes like a contest to be won when talking to other seniors. I’m ashamed. I am so blessed and so ungrateful.

Susie, I’ve made a decision. I’m shuttin’ up with the complaints and looking of blessings. What an enormous drag complaining can be anyway. Instead of a “Susie Snowflake” tumbling down I’m going to aim for “Susie Sunshine” or “Sonshine” which ever brings the greatest warmth and comport to others, like you do.

“And now, dear brothers and sisters, let me say one more thing as I close this letter. Fix your thoughts on what is true and honorable and right. Think about things that are pure and lovely and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.” Phil 4:8

Ho-k--- got my day planned…. nope week….nope …..life. A day doesn’t seem long enough to develop a grateful heart.

XXXX OOOO Mrs J

Judith Johnson
- Saturday, August 30, 2003 6:06 AM CDT

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Susie, It's awesome to hear that you have been able to keep your neck brace off for so long and without any pain. I smile each time I read the journal entries on your site because you are making so much progress each day and to see how how supportive everyone has been. You're such a strong person, I admire you so much for your upbeat attitude and motivation to make a full recovery. You are an inspiration.

Work has been abolutely crazy these past couple of months, there's too much to be done and not enough people or hours in a day to get it all done. I'm looking forward to the long weekend, the weather is beautiful and I don't have to go into work. (They have very graciously supplied me with a laptop so that I can work from home - isn't that nice?)

Emily just started school and had her first dose of how hard college classes are in comparison to high school...I'm sure you can relate :-)

I'm sending you a great, big hug with this posting. Kris and I are praying for you.
Joi <JoiDenicola@hotmail.com>
Huntington Beach, CA 92646 - Saturday, August 30, 2003 0:31 AM CDT

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A little addition to Julie's journal tonight. The PT who has been so encouraging about Susie's progess happens to be a friend of one of our neighbors. (No names, to protect the innocent.) Our neighbor told me just this morning during our exercise walk that the PT had said that she loves coming to Susie's house because Susie is so upbeat and because there is such a good vibe in the house. I have to believe that good vibrations are part of the therapy. Also Julie neglected to say--the PT brought Cherry Garcia ice cream pops for all three of us! Hey kewl. How long do you think those bad boys lasted in OUR house??? Factor in a visit from Grandma and Grandpa Along, a gift of homemade feta cheese from one of Julie's starriest students (and her mom), visits from four of Susie's best friends (photos posted soon), a tour of the construction site with Dustin's mother, and Gary the cat coming over to be petted--and it was a pretty great day, don'tcha think?

Discouraged? Oh, yes, for brief moments. Frustrated? Ditto. Overwhelmed? Almost always. But if you look at the big picture, everything is happening right on time and Susie is doing just fine.

Now--let me say. Some of you are still lurking.

Please don't be afraid to post here, and please don't be afraid to call us, or write to us, or IM us, or email us, or (best) stop by. You don't know what a tonic you are.
Jack
- Friday, August 29, 2003 10:12 PM CDT

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I smile more every time I come here and read. It's so wonderful to hear about all the progress in PT. I must say, though, that Susie's therapist is just stating the obvious when he says good things to her to make her feel special. I haven't even met you yet Susie, but I could tell from the first time I read this site that you were a very special person... and I feel lucky to know you through this site.
Keep it up! My thoughts and prayers are with you... :)
Kate M.
Niagara U., - Friday, August 29, 2003 9:58 PM CDT

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Whoop de doo!! Whoop de doo!! Miss Susie is just rocking along. I'll be there with the roller skates before you know it. Love you Miss Susie!!

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!! It's time for another new picture or two, like Susie without a neck brace. New pictures of the addition, etc.

Love to all!
ANN <GODMOMFOR2@YAHOO.COM>
- Friday, August 29, 2003 9:29 PM CDT

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Hi Susie,
:->
So happy, for you. Now the neck brace is coming off.
I was truly a blessing to be able to spend the weekend with wonderful you and your incredibly warm and generous family and friends.
Having you and your family in our lives is one of best things to have happened to us.
You know how special you are to us.
Love,
Mommy Trahan


Janet Trahan <Artjmt5285@aol.com>
Sayville, NY USA - Friday, August 29, 2003 10:03 AM CDT

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Morning Susie!
I know you must be fearful, frustrated, and want to give up sometimes - maybe today's post from my devotional will help you.

Breathe My Name

Just breathe My Name.
It is like the pressure of a child's hand that calls forth an answering pressure, strengthens the child's confidence and banishes fear.

Hold on to your Daddy's hand, Susie, and He will soothe your sorrow, pain, fear and guide you to the way of His peace and Love. God's gifts are beyond comprehension and unsurpassable! Phillippians 4:4-7
Much Love to you Carrs!
Kim
Kim Christie <dance61@odyssey.net>
Cortland, NY USA - Friday, August 29, 2003 7:29 AM CDT

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Hi Susie,
I'm so glad to hear of the little things that are happening each and every day for you! I know you're making your mom nervous with talk of taking the top strap off your wheelchair - just don't let her start throwing erasers at you like she used to do to us in orchestra - she's got darn good aim!!
I'm busy cleaning out and packing up my apartment right now, because I've moved into my husband's apartment. The other day I found a case of beer that I've had AT LEAST 3 years, which I'm quite obviously never going to drink since I don't even like beer! So, I emptied out all of the bottles and today I will be taking them down to the Susie bottle & can barrel at P&C. So, even though all of the beer ended up extra-fermented and rinsed down my sink, at least the bottles will be doing something worthwhile! :o) Also, I'm supposed to be all packed up and ready to move the rest of the stuff out of my apartment tomorrow, and of course I'm way behind where I should be, so if you want some REALLY FUN OT today, you can come practice packing and cleaning in my apartment!! Hee hee.
Have a great weekend and always remember that there are hundreds (or more!) of people praying for you!!

Mary Ellen (Esposito) Ensign <mee224@yahoo.com>
Homer, NY - Friday, August 29, 2003 7:29 AM CDT

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Good Morning Susie,

It put a smile on my face and an ache in my heart to read your sister’s post. I’m in close touch with a couple of girls who have entered college for the first time. One goes to Caz. Ever heard of the place? :o) We emailed each other twice yesterday, her first day.

I remember too vividly how I felt when my family dropped me off at Buffalo State in Sept. of ’61. My folks were unaware that I was waiting on the sidewalk in front of my dorm for them to drive by and wave just one last time. They went the opposite direction and never passed me. It felt as if some gigantic camera was filming me as it backed away showing me alone on the sidewalk, further- alone on campus, further- alone in Buffalo, further- alone in NY state, further, alone in the USA, further- alone in the world. Isn’t it awful that an emotion can be so strong one can recall it 42 years later?

A lady named Hannah in 1 Sam 2 &3 dropped her son off at school forever. I often thought Samuel must have felt awful homesickness, especially knowing he’d never have winter or summer vacation to go home. You know why I think he felt such an emotion? He choose to sleep next to the ark of the covenant in the temple. He could have slept anywhere yet he was as close to God as he could get because there – the pain stopped… and it was there he first heard God call his name. Did you know, Susie, that in his life time Samuel set up many colleges to train prophets?

Susie and Sarah, in the end it doesn’t really matter if your in college, at home, at work, or anywhere. It matters if you’re resting as close to “The Ark” as you can and He will chase away the pain and fear and call forth the joy and healing. You will hear Him call your name too if you listen closely and have allowed your heart to grow ears.

When you hear, “Susannah or Sarah or Julie or Jack…” just say, “Yes, Lord, your servant is waiting.” You could change the world as Samuel did. You may even hear His voice today.

Enjoy a day of listening.

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Friday, August 29, 2003 4:42 AM CDT

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oh yeah I forgot to tell ya to tell mom to put some new pictures on the sight.....those ones are old news!
Sarah
- Friday, August 29, 2003 2:13 AM CDT

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Hey snuggle bear!!!!

Sorry it has been so long....school starting is kicking my butt. I miss you more everyday and I wish you were here sooo bad ( or that I was there) I am so proud to hear of all the awsome things that you are doing at home and I know that I as soon as I get a chance to escape the crazy college stuff and come home I will be floored with all the new things you are doing!! And no neck brace?? You know me that makes me soooo nervous I could puke but then again what doesnt when it comes to you....you are the only one I have I have no choice but to be protective...and hey even if you werent i just know you would still be my favorite anyway.

Story time....I got asked today in my Ethics class who my Hero and someone that I admired was ...everyone sat there for a while trying to figure it out and it didnt take me a second to raise my hand and tell them that my sister was, when my teacher asked me why I just said "because she kicks butt" I am sure I failed the assignement for lack of detail and that everyone thought I was nuts but they dont know you because if they did the whole room would have had their hands up as fast as I did calling out your name...

well as you can see it is late and I need to sleep so I am sending lots of hugs and kisses and I will call you this weekend so we can chat about everything or nothing at all...I miss you soooo much!
xoxooxoxoxoxoxo
Sarah
Sarah <misscapitalregion02@yahoo.com>
Niagara, - Friday, August 29, 2003 2:12 AM CDT

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Hi Susie,
I know it's been a while since I've written, but I do check in on you every day. I was thrilled to read about the neck brace coming off. I bet you are even more excited. I checked out the pictures of the addition. Looks like it will fit in beautifully. I hope the fact that Josh hasn't been down hasn't discouraged you. He's working hard for a change and comes home pretty tired. There is a little boy on the street-Dennis- who seems to have adopted Josh as his big brother. We don't know how but the second Josh gets home he's ring the ding bell as Dennis calls it. With just a simple question: Can Josh take me on a bike ride? What he really means is can Josh get his 10 speed out and ride all over the neighborhood with him. Some days josh turns him down, but other days they take off for about 45 min. Josh says he talks non-stop. All I can say is I think some of the other neighbors are glad Dennis found Josh cuz now he's not at their house!!! He is a cute kid though- Happens to be the only boy that age on this end of the street and he has 3 sisters who just like to do "girlie" things. Well I never have any good quotes for you but at least maybe this little note about the life at our house will amuse you. Keep up all the smiles - alot of us are rooting for you. It's ok to feel sad sometimes, we all do. Just keep voicing those frustrations and then get your second wind and your spirits will soar. Think of you daily. Keeping all of you in our prayers :)
Mrs. H.
- Thursday, August 28, 2003 6:47 PM CDT

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Afternoon Miss Susie!!!

Continuous Service

Service is the Law of Heaven. My angels do always obey. "They serve Him continually" can be said of all who love Me.
With Love there is continuous service in every action, and also even in rest.
Take this not as the end but as the beginning of a New Life consecrated to My Service.
A Life of Power and Joy.

Susie, I believe you have been doing your "angel work" in His continuous service every day since your accident. As the reading above says, yours is a life of power and joy only God can provide!! Enjoy all those "little milestones" each moment they happen for with perseverance, and a foundation in Him nothing is impossible - EVERY THING you do is a miracle!
Love you much!! XXXXOOOOOO
Kim
Kim Christie <dance61@odyssey.net>
Cortland, NY USA - Thursday, August 28, 2003 1:12 PM CDT

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Susie Carr, I've got a litte bit of a break, so I wanted to write and say goodmorning. I've been keeping up on you. Congrats on the neck brace GREAT things come to those who continue to smile and never stop fighting for what they want. If you think you are ready to start taking off that belt you go for it. Do what you think you can handle, cause I know you will push your self to do what you really can do. One day at a time, smile and know that hundreds of people are thinking of you daily. Miss you lots, and I'll be home this weekend, so hopefully I'll stop by and see this girl I heard about thats runnin round Cortland with out a neck brace. Luv ya lots
Thomas Pirko <tpirko@mail.keuka.edu>
Keuka Park, NY - Thursday, August 28, 2003 9:46 AM CDT

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Hello Susie,
Keep working hard and keep that beautiful smile going. Have a great day.......... :-)
Wayne & Debbie Sevin <bdesfive@metrocast.net>
Laconia, NH United States - Thursday, August 28, 2003 7:33 AM CDT

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Good Morning Susannah,

A moment of awed, humble, quiet thanksgiving for Jacob Stith’s return …I can’t imagine the joy his family must be experiencing.

Sometimes a thing is so totally wonderful, words seem only to besmirch. Such a time will also be your first step, Susie. I think I’ll just quietly go my way with that image in my head. How lovely….

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Thursday, August 28, 2003 2:03 AM CDT

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Did is a word of achievement
Won't is a word of defeat
Might is a word of bereavement
Can't is a word of defeat
Ought is a word of duty
Try is a word each hour
Will is a word of beauty
Can is a word of power.
~Gerard Hargraves

Jesyca & Trish
- Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:34 PM CDT

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Hey Susie,
you probably don't remember me either but i remember you. i remember when kate brought you back from college to long island. i was at her house with my girlfriend erin. you might remember me because i was the only guy there and i am an awfully big guy.(hard to forget) anyways you were so funny and so cute and i hope to see you soon just to tell you to your face how sorry i am about your accident and i hope you get better soon so that we can hang out at kate's house again. even though i wasnt having that good of a time when i was there last time, but you made me laugh. also i didnt feel like the only one who didn't know who and what they were talking about with their high school memories. anyways get better soon and hopefully i will see you sooner than later
Richard Martinez Jr. <vegadreams420@aol.com>
ronkonkoma , ny usa - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 5:25 PM CDT

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Such exciting news about the neck brace!
I think, though, that every day has been a little miracle. So much progress in such a short time. I have faith that all these little miracles will all add up one day to a really big one. I hope to read more good news about Kessler soon... and also have complete faith on that!
My thoughts and prayers are with you all!
Kate M
NU, - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 5:06 PM CDT

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Susie,

I don't know if you remember me, as we didn't really talk while you were at school last year, but we were in the Children's Show "The Ransom of Red Chief" together. I recently received the news about your accident, and with it a link to this site, from Ashley Bucknam, and I just sat here for over an hour and read the entire site. I know you're taking things like a champ, and I seriously applaude you for that one, and I just wanted to let you know that I'm thinking about you. I'm not gonna burden you with a visit, even if you do end up in Jersey (my home state) at Kessler, since I probably wouldn't have much to discuss with you OTHER than your accident. But please know that you're in my thoughts and my prayers, and I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that everything is going to be just fine. Much love to you, and your family, and here's hoping for your return to school!! I'll see you when you get here ;-).

<3,
Kiki
Kiki Davis <cdavi2@su.edu>
Hammonton, NJ USA - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 3:54 PM CDT

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Good Afternoon Susie, Carrs, Lurkers!
I've entered this once already, but lost it somehow - here goes again!
This is lengthy, but wonderful! If Mrs. J. can post long messages, then I suppopse I can also.(HA!)

In August of 2000 a group of Catholic youth and adults from Cortland County went on a pilgrimage to Israel and Rome - including myself, Susieand her family, and a young man named Jacob Stith. We met another group of pilgrims at JFK in NYC and proceeded on our journey. Many lives were touched and changed to say the least! You are probably wondering who Jacob Stith is - Right? Jake was the only one from his area of Cincinnatus, NY that came - so he came by himself and made quick friends with us all. When we went swimming (floating) in the Dead Sea my camera accidentally fell in and could no longer be used. Jake proceeded to give me one of his disposable cameras and bought me a couple more. I tell you this in order to show you what a caring and kind-hearted person Jake is.
In June of 2003 (6 days before Susie's accident) Jacob was driving home from work in Cincinnatus and fell asleep at the wheel. He hit head on into another vehicle and went into a coma. Jake was air-lifted to Wilson Mem. Hosp. in Johnson City where he had surgery for his left broken femer, and the Dr.'s told his parents that he probably wouldn't make it. Even if Jake did live he would probably have severe brain damage. Until recently, there has not been much progress.
Jake has bee moved to Northwoods in Cortland, NY recently. I received a call this morning from his dad, Mike. Mind you, all friends, and family have been praying for a miracle for Jake! Jake has come out of the coma, has no feeding tube, and has a good appetite. He has been taken off all meds. except one, and has spoken such words as: yes, no, and ok! Jake can work his tv remote by himself and flollows simple commands such as: put the round peg in the round hole! His dad and other relatives take turns helping Jake "walk" a few steps each morning!! Jake gets up in his wheel chair each day, but I don't know if he operates it yet.
Mike told Jake one day that if he didn't like his nurse to pinch her (jokingly). A couple days later a nurse came in to Jake's room and asked Mike if he told Jake to pinch her - to which Mike replies "yes, why?" - and the nurse stated that Jake had pinched her several times! Mike has since been careful about what he tells his son to do - he just might do it!!!
Pleas keep Jacob and his family in your thoughts and prayers. The Stith family sends their appreciation for continued support in any form.
If you'd like to visit or send mail to Jake, here's the address:

Northwoods Rehabilitation and Long Care Facility at Cortland
28 Kellogg Rd. Room #104
Cortland, NY 13045


Kim
Kim Christie <dance61@odyssey.net>
Cortland, NY USA - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:49 AM CDT

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Susie and family,
Its happening- the miracle that everyone has been praying for. Not in our time but in Gods time- as it should be! Without faith nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible. This we are seeing!


Carol Patriarco
Cortland, NY USA - Wednesday, August 27, 2003 9:55 AM CDT

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Angels all around us. Here is a songlist of the current Cortland Repertory Theatre production, HONKY TONK ANGELS. For any of you in striking distance, I have a feeling you would love this show:

"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels"
"Stand By Your Man"
"Coal Miner's Daughter"
"9 to 5"
"Ode to Billy Joe"
"Don't Come Home A Drinkin'"
"Mr. Walker, It's All Over"
"These Boots Were Made For Walkin'"
"I Will Always Love You" (my favorite)
"I Believe in Music"
"Paradise Road"
"Calling All Angels"
"Time for Me to Fly"
"I'll Fly Away"
"Trashy Women"
"Your Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad"
"Night Life"
"Delta Dawn"
"Cleopatra, Queen of Denial"
"Harper Valley, PTA"
"Fancy"
"Rockky Top"
"Barroom Habits"
"Cornell Crawford"
"Almost Persuaded"
"Sittin' On the Front Porch Swing"
"Angels Among Us"

Wow. And wow. We're all hanging in. You hang in, too. Don't forget to keep praying. The road is long, we know that. We're ready for that. Come along with us, wouldja? Love, :) Jack for the fam


Jack
- Wednesday, August 27, 2003 8:05 AM CDT

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SPECIAL MEMO TO B.M.S.--
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Not a wisecrack. You are one of the tallest people I know. You wanna argue smart? You wanna argue mature?
I say you are tall. You are tall. Love to you. xo :) J

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Jack
- Wednesday, August 27, 2003 5:44 AM CDT

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Good Morning Susie,

So much!! I only knew four or five of the “Friend” songs… afraid I’m an old fogie out of touch. When your dad spoke of Spongebob, I was clueless and had to go on line to find out who or what it was. Now skylights I know.. have four in the studio and know you’ll really like them. Olive Garden I know. Last we were there was my youngest daughter’s Cum Laude, master’s celebration, the bread sticks are too tasty. Couldn’t quite register that you were allowed such long periods so quickly without a neck brace. Almost wept at that one for I’m sure that is not the norm. I’d forgotten the exact day of the accident. It’s almost two months. You have come so far.

Now as to “impatience and impertinence” with God… that I’m no stranger to at all. I can really help you in this area be even more “impatient and impertinent.” How about yelling His own words at Him and letting Him know He promises to keep His word and that He doesn’t lie. Don’t tell anybody but I suspect Our God rather enjoys a live wire with which or whom He can connect.

Here’s some ammunition, only watch out. You start throwing God’s Word at God and He will react…just don’t claim patience, humility, strength or the like because He will give you ample opportunity to develop any of them through practice… :o( … ouch.,, stick with healing for a while! Ok, Susie, load up and fire away:

1-"He sent His word and healed them, And delivered them from their destructions." (Psalm 107:20)
2-"I am the Lord that heals thee" (Ex. 15:26)
3-"God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: has he said, and shall he not do it? or has he spoken, and shall he not make it good?" (Num. 23:19)
4-"There has not failed one word of all His good promise." (1st Kings 8:56)
5-"For ever O, Lord, thy word is settled in heaven." (Psalm 119:89)
6- "I will HASTEN my word to perform it." (Jer. 1:12)
7- “He (Jesus) welcomed them (the crowds) and spoke to them about the kingdom of God, and healed those who needed healing." (Luke 9:11b)
8-"Great multitudes followed him (Jesus), and he healed them ALL." (Matthew 12:15)
9-"As many as touched (HIM) were made perfectly whole." (Matthew 14:36)
10-The whole multitude sought to touch him; (and He) healed them ALL." (Luke 6:19)
11-"...and He...healed ALL that were sick: that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, Himself took OUR infirmities, and bare our sicknesses." (Matthew 8:16-17)
12-"Jesus Christ the same yesterday, and to day, and for ever." (Hebrews 13:8)
13-"Heal me, O Lord, and I will be healed; save me and I will be saved, for you are the one I praise." Jeremiah 17:14
14-"Surely he (Jesus) took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows,...by his wounds we ARE healed." (Isaiah 53:4-5)
15-"Whatsoever you shall ask the Father in my name, he will give it you." (John 16:23)
16-"What things soever you desire, when you pray, believe that you receive them, and you shall have them." (Mark 11:24) Healing is a thing, isn't it?
17-IF TWO OF YOU SHALL AGREE on earth as touching any thing that they shall ask, it shall be done for them of my Father which is in heaven." (Matt. 18:19)----and Susie, I agree with you on every one of these and there are many, many more verses and I suspect many, many more people who are agreeing with us…. So ride on, Susie! Keep reminding Our Loving Father of Teenagers and Old Fogies what He said and heal, Girl, heal!!! … remembering always the Thanksgiving and praise.

The truth, Susie, is He wants your healing more than you do but just maybe His healing is slightly more complete and deeper… “His ways are not our ways.” … Trust and believe.

Let me know when you need a new bunch of ammo!

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:53 AM CDT

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Hiiiii Susie! I was so excited to read all about you today! You are doing so well girl. You are an amazing person. I got my pictures developed and I have the cutest picture of all us on your porch. I'll bring it over this week when I come...it will be so fun! Keep fighting, you're in my thoughts always. Love you lots!!!

oh and tell your Dad thanx for the compliments in his journal entry...though the wisecrack about my height wasn't all that funny i definately am quite mature :)
Beth
Cortland, NY - Tuesday, August 26, 2003 10:58 PM CDT

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Hey Susie,
Thanks for the hug today!! And you look GREAT without that brace on!!!
Love, Alison
Alison Ferris
Cortland, NY - Tuesday, August 26, 2003 9:22 PM CDT

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Good Evening Miss Susie! Thank of you all the time and hope each day is great!!

Somebody please fill me in on the new info about Susie and the Neck Brace. I am so excited about what I am reading but want to know more details. I haven't heard from Jack but I know he is busy with his Grandmother and everything else.

So SOMEBODY FILL ME IN!!
ANN <GODMOMFOR2@YAHOO.COM>
- Tuesday, August 26, 2003 8:52 PM CDT

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Where you end up isn't the most important thing.
It's the road you take to get you there.
The road you take is what you'll look back on and call your life.
Not reaching success isn't the end of the world.
Not trying to reach it is.
~Tim Wiley

Jesyca & Trish
- Tuesday, August 26, 2003 7:53 PM CDT

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So much to say! My internet has once again been shut off in my room due to some sort of problem (not sure what yet... I keep getting the run-around), so I've fallen behind in my reading here! It sounds as if things are just moving right along.
I have a story for you Carrs though... one that I feel very important to share. I was having a perfectly wretched day yesterday (no internet, re-taking a class i've already passed in undergrad)... just silly things that in the grand scheme aren't so important. I walked into my residence hall and my RA who was sitting the desk handed me a plant. She said, "Someone dropped this off for you." I went up to my room and set the plant down and opened the card. Inside it said, "Welcome to Niagara, Love the Susie Carr Family." :) I knew that Sarah went to school here, and I was hoping I'd run into her at some point. I just wanted to say to all of you that getting that glorious plant made my day so much better. *hopefully Sarah will get this message too, as I don't know when I'll have the opportunity to run into her!* Just wanted to say thank you to Sarah and to the rest of the Carrs for such a wonderful welcome!
Love to all of you
Kate M
Niagara University, - Tuesday, August 26, 2003 12:10 AM CDT

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“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”
· Frank A Clark


Susie,

It's good to see things are shaping up in your world. Prayers still continue as you work to regain.

Have a wonderful and blessed week!
Many Blessings, Cheryl Wehner =) <remngtn@msn.com>
Lawton, OK - Tuesday, August 26, 2003 9:48 AM CDT

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Hey Susie! Glad to hear you are able to go without your neck brace at times - sweet progress!

Todays daily devotional reading:

Trials and troubles may seem to overwhelm you. They cannot do more than work My Will, and that Will you have said is your Will.
Do you not see that you cannot be destroyed? From now a new Life is opening out before you. Yours to enter into the Kingdom I have prepared for you.
The sunlight of My presence is on your paths. Trust and go forward unafraid. My Grace is sufficient for all your needs.

Susie, bask in the Sonlight of His Kingdom every day - you can't go wrong with that.
May the Carr family indeed know that "My Grace is sufficient for all your needs."
Much Love and prayers to you!
Kim
Kim Christie <dance61@odyssey.net>
Cortland, NY USA - Tuesday, August 26, 2003 7:15 AM CDT

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Hi, Susie,
Still praying for you every day.
We love you!!
Aunt Kathy, Uncle Jim, Gina and Joseph
Yardville, NJ USA - Tuesday, August 26, 2003 6:44 AM CDT

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Mornnin’ Susie,

You must be so glad to be able to have that neck brace off if only for so long each day. It must have been a comfort and feel odd not having it on.

I was putting a border on the top of a bulletin board yesterday. My head was angled up for a long time when my neck started to really hurt. I started to sweat and get slightly dizzy so an immediate decision was made to quit for a while. I think I need a new pillow. It’s caused neck pains for a while. Necks are odd things. I swear my youngest grandson doesn’t have one, and just yesterday I received a clothing catalog and was struck by the long slender necks and wished I looked like that. The Song of Songs, over and over speaks of how lovely the neck is and do we not decorate it with all manner of material ?

Your neck will probably be stiff for a while and that’s one of the major biblical reference to the neck, “stiff necked,” which refers to people who don’t want to do God’s will but their own. Ouch! That smarts for there go I. My recent bout of neck pain is probably God’s little way of whistling at me and saying, “Hey! I’m over here! What are you looking at?

…but, Susie, I have the perfect scripture for you today, 2 Sa 22:19 – “They confronted me in the day of my calamity, But the LORD was my support.” That whole chapter reminds me of what you have been going through but brace or no there is a spirit brace which will remain with you forever supplying comfort, strength, wisdom and guidance.

Have a good day moving that neck of yours, Susie, and Oh… a bit more advice…. You might want to wait a few days before any serious necking…. Oooo… who said that? Not me! :o)

People were falling on each others necks weeping for joy all through scripture… may joy be so abundant in the Carr home that it causes neck weeping.

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Tuesday, August 26, 2003 3:44 AM CDT

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Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life - facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potentional.
~John Amatt

Trish & Jesyca
- Monday, August 25, 2003 9:49 PM CDT

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Hey you beautiful princess, I hope all is well. I will be home soon to see you, but i miss you sweetie. Keep fighting hun. I love you
Jenn Dailey
- Monday, August 25, 2003 10:58 AM CDT

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Hi again, just a quick note,
the prophet Jeremiah records: Call unto Me and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things thou knowest not.
And one of the New Testament writers reminds us: Casting all your cares upon Him, for He careth for you.
Bill (& Cathy) Tei <browntei@cnyconnect.net>
Cincinnatus, NY Cortland - Monday, August 25, 2003 9:58 AM CDT

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Good Morning Susie,

I copied off Bodee Bauer’s quote. It’s no wonder it became meaningful to you... very powerful! Once again the object of consolation has become the consoler. Thanks!

The majority of yesterday was spent celebrating my mother’s birthday. Eight of us went out for lunch. My son, Tim, asked if all us “old” people would mind him tagging along. Hunger will make a boy do most anything. I fear he had a good time. The shadows were very long as I rounded the curve on North Main Street and saw two heads sticking up over the porch rail at the Carr house. It was such a cinema perfect evening I hated to ruffle the water and the image, plus because my morning comes so early I was aching for ablutions and bed. I wanted to turn and say, “Hi!” but selfishly kept heading for my pillow. Today I’m off to school and bulletin boards. I’ll stop in one of these days and say. “Hey!”

God stopped in to say, “Hey,” to a friend once. Old Abraham jumped up, offered to wash His feet, bring bread and water, curds, milk and veal. Then God told him eighty year old Sarah was going to have a baby… and she laughed.

Every time I read stories like that in scripture, I’m caught up in the visual reality of such an event. It says it was in the heat of the day. How did Abe know it was God? Did God just come from some convention and still had on one of those sticker name-tags that says, “Hello, my name is GOD?” Was it just the heat getting to Abraham? If it was God why did He need to be refreshed?

“In as much as you do it to the least of these, my brethren, you do it outo me.” Matt 25:24 I greatly fear God has visited us all more than we care to know… plus, horrors of horrors, we are married to Him and have birthed him. I have come to realize that God comes to visit me in some of the strangest, yet familiar, often unwelcome disguises and I have not “run from my tent’s door” to refresh Him. I headed for my pillow and comfort. How weary God must be from our constant blindness and lack of refreshing those nearest to us.

Carrs, may God allow us to see His name tag on all we meet today starting with the one next to us as we open our eyes from a night on a pillow.

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J.. Gen 18

Judith Johnson
- Monday, August 25, 2003 5:11 AM CDT

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Try and fail, but don't fail to try.
~Stephen Kaggwa

Jesyca & Trish
- Sunday, August 24, 2003 10:41 PM CDT

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Well hello there friend! So I just saw all of the pictures from the weekend and I am very jealous. I wish I was there! You look beautiful!!! I can't wait to come see you. Digger, Trey and I are trying to get a weekend together. I have a little puppy now, so it's hard to find someone to watch him. (he is sooo cute). But anyway, I read that you may be going to Kessler.. That's awesome because I can come visit you all the time! It's like really close to my house! I miss you sooo much and the house isn't the same without you. I can't wait to come see you and I love you girl!
Kristyn Ciarlariello <kciarlar@su.edu>
Winchester, va usa - Sunday, August 24, 2003 9:25 PM CDT

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Hi Susie,

I haven't forgotten you - I check your progress every day and am so overwhelmed, I sometimes don't know what to say other than God is truly working miracles for you and with you. Am amazed at your progress and your strength (inner and outer). I know it is the Lord's way of saying that He is with you every step of the way - every minute of every day!!!

I wish you the best with your new rehab;you are always in my prayers.

God is Blessing you always.

Love,

Helen Bell <aloha@twcny.rr.com>
Cortland, NY USA - Sunday, August 24, 2003 6:58 PM CDT

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Hi!
It's been a couple of days since I posted but wanted you to know I havent' forgotten about you.

When I was praying for you in Sunday School this morning I shared that prayer with prayers for our dear Suzanne who we lost yesterday.(For those who don't know about Suzaanne-she was Miss Texas in 1990 and passed away yesterday from colon cancer. She left behind a husband, 2 children-5 and 7, her mother and father-in-law and many friends, fans and supporters.) Please add the Forsberg family to your prayer list.

I am so glad that you had such a great visit with all of your buddies from Va. I laughed out loud when I read the part about you riding down the streets on the way to the resturant. I know all of you must have had a great time
and I am sure that your sweet Mom and Dad were right in
the middle of all of it.

I know you miss Sarah but remember she loves you dearly
and misses you also. I'll bet the two of you together are so funny.

God Bless you and bring you everything you want.
Ann <godmomfor2@yahoo.com>
- Sunday, August 24, 2003 6:08 PM CDT

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Hi Carr Family. I'm here at Connie's to help her with the Cut-a-thon to benefit Susie. I have thought about you all constantly in the last few weeks. We are all in awe of your strength and faith. The prayers are working and will continue to. Love and heartfelt wishes to you all.
Nancy and Ali Mann (your former bass player)
- Sunday, August 24, 2003 2:10 PM CDT

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Good Morning, Susie!
It's been a while since I've written you, but I check your web site each day and check your progress and adventures. Sure sounds like you had a GREAT couple of days with your Virginia friends!!!:)
The bottle fund at the P&C continues to grow...T.J. has receipts for over $100.00 now. Thanks to the many people of Cortland and surrounding areas who have dropped their bottles in the "Susie Bucket"! The yellow bucket is still there for people to contribute.
Thinking good thoughts about you and praying daily for your continued recovery.
****I know whatever road you choose you will find it rewarding,
Because you always give one hundred percent to your endeavors.
I also know that whoever you encounter on that road will benefit from knowing you,
Because of the special and caring person that you are.
You have wonderful experiences ahead of you.
Live each day to the fullest, and never lose appreciation for your blessings.

Love to you and all the Carrs!
Mrs. Griffin
Janet Griffin
Cortland, NY - Sunday, August 24, 2003 9:55 AM CDT

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Oh! Good Morning Susie,

What a wonderful day you must have had! I can just see all of you going out for lunch and hear the laughter. That lunch outing will sustain you for a long time. The memory alone will bring many moments of refreshment. It must have made for a full busy afternoon.

My grandson had a full, busy afternoon too. We didn’t even get to make chocolate chip cookies. Several months ago I bought a riding John Deere tractor for all my grandbabies (now and to come), especially this one who has been tractor crazy since he could stand and look out the window. He must have put well over twenty miles on that tractor yesterday plus he took a walk over to the store with his Uncle Tim, seeing several ducks in the river, did two marvelous huge paintings in the studio, played in the sandbox, watched a video, read a story book and just plain ran a lot, what energy!

I was thinking about your lunch and his energy and it brought to mind a fellow in the Old Testament who ran out of energy and a friendly angel served him lunch, actually a small snack.

Elijah (1Kings 18&19) had just gotten through watching 450 priest of Baal dance, shout and cut themselves all day, building an altar, putting a huge animal on top of it, putting water all over it, watching God send a flame from heaven and leave a crater where the altar used to be, killing all 450 priests of Ball, praying rain into existence after years of drought, and out running a horse in a twelve mile race. Now I’d say he had a busy day too like you and my grandson… well maybe a bit more busy. Then one woman said she’d get him and kill him, he got scared and ran for his life. He ended up exhausted under a broom tree. An angel twice, tapped him on the shoulder, told him to have a couple of pieces of cake and some water and away he went for forty-day and nights on that little snack. Wouldn’t you like to have that recipe?

Jesus is the Living water and his words are sweeter than any honey used in any cake. He refreshes our soul like no other. Lunch with Him can last a lifetime.

Julie, Jack, Sarah and Susie, let the Lord be your luncheon host, He will give you rest upon a cool green lawn, take you on walks by quiet pools, and refresh your souls. He will spread the lunch out before you and you will be the dwelling house of The Lord forever. Recognize Ps 23? A sweet honey cake for the soul if ever there was one.

I pray refreshment for your deepest inner beings.

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J



Judith Johnson
- Sunday, August 24, 2003 5:18 AM CDT

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Sometimes on the way to our dreams
we get lost and find an even better one!
~someone somewhere

Jesyca & Trish
- Saturday, August 23, 2003 10:16 PM CDT

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Hi Susie!!! It's good to hear that you've found a great rehab center. The addition to the house is coming along so quickly, you'll be living in there in no time. My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Joi Denicola <JoiDenicola@hotmail.com>
Huntington Beach, CA 92646 - Saturday, August 23, 2003 6:32 PM CDT

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Morning Susie,

Don’t you just love having someone stay over, Susie? I always enjoyed it when one of my kids had overnight visitors and how they looked forward to an overnight at a friend’s home. A house just feels different, there’s a holiday atmosphere with extra people in it, even if it’s just one person.

I’m excited and nervous because my grandson is spending his first overnight here tonight. He’s three and a half years old. He lived with us for six months while his new home was being built but Mamma and Pappa were with us too. He’s never been alone on an overnight anywhere without his family around him… so Grandma is a little, tiny bit nervous.

Grandchildren are wonderful. My father used to say, “If I’d known how much fun having grandchildren was, I’d have done it first.” Hum?? I have two boys and one is a red head, very light. We make a lot of chocolate chip cookies together and he and his grandpa love looking at these two great big books full of pictures of tractors. The other is five months old with sandy hair and the biggest smile this side of Heaven. What I like the best about grandchildren is, you get to see the world for the first time all over again.

Susie you might be interested to know Jesus’ grandpas present one of the biggest mysteries of the New Testament. In Matt. 1:16 it states Jacob begot Joseph. In Lk 3:23 it says, “Joseph, the son of Heli.” Excuse me? … and Bible scholars have been saying, “Excuse me?” for centuries. I’ve read so many explanations it makes my head swim. The most recent, which is simplest and to me most likely is that the Lk passage uses an original phrase different from the Matt. account. One means, “son-in-law of” the other “son.”

Ha! I could have saved ‘em all a lot of trouble. Jesus has no grandpa! … unless God has a Daddy and I “dun’thing’so!”

Susie, enjoy your company, especially the one with no grandpa who will stay overnight with you forever. He’s such good company.

Blessings, Carrs!

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J -- Rm 15:30-33

Judith Johnson
- Saturday, August 23, 2003 6:26 AM CDT

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Hi Susie,
I am a quadriplegic living in Florida who heard about you and thought I would offer you my support and prayers. When you need answers to your questions, I will be here for you. I have walked in your shoes and know first hand what you are going through and feeling. I broke my neck at the C-6/7 level when I was 26 years old.....many years ago. Hard work, prayer and continued optimism definetely pays off - keep up your wonderful attitude and spirit. I am married, happy and enjoying my life to the fullest. I am open to discuss anything that might help you or give you peace of mind. Good luck to you and your family. Feel free to contact me if you think I can offer help or just to chat. God Bless.
Chris Thompson <krisko22@bellsouth.net>
Lake Placid, FL USA - Friday, August 22, 2003 10:40 PM CDT

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Ann sorry about that, I just copied the captions from the email the Carrs sent me with the pictures and unfortunatly the way I made the website it is impossible to enlarge the photos.

Susie missin ya
Thomas Pirko <firepirko567@yahoo.com>
- Friday, August 22, 2003 10:13 PM CDT

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Susie, I love the pictures of your new room. They are great-I know you are excited about it. I have a question about the photo with your Dad in it-is he the cute sexy one on the ladder with the baseball cap?(LOL)

I love your house-I'm so glad to finally see a picture of it from the front. I love Victorian!! One of the pictures said to click on it to enlarge-I couldn't get it to enlarge.

God Bless You!!
Ann <godmomfor2@yahoo.com>
- Friday, August 22, 2003 9:04 PM CDT

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The real winners in life
are the people who look at every situation
with an expectation that they can make it work
or make it better.
~Barbara Pletcher

Jesyca & Trish
- Friday, August 22, 2003 8:17 PM CDT

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Hey Susie! Would love to have you in NJ!
Aunt Kathy, Uncle Jim, Gina and Joseph
Yardville, NJ USA - Friday, August 22, 2003 7:52 AM CDT

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It was great to hear the good news about the rehab center! We're hoping that it's the BEST place that can offer you everything. Mom, are you going with her?
STILL (and always) thinking of you daily and hoping everything is going well. It sounds like it is for the whole family. Keep your spirits high and never, never, never give up!!!! There's always something positive around every corner - we just have to recognize it.
Mary Lee <mlwillia@stny.rr.com>
Horseheads, NY - Friday, August 22, 2003 7:02 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Susannah,

The building photos are interesting, thanks! I can smell the wood, hear the noise and feel the excitement.

The State Fair is on, ya’ goin’? Not me…don’t like feeling like a sardine. They have a State Fair site with photos of various events and people. The photos are excellent in sharpness, color, quality and design. Check it out. They even had the butter sculpture, a highlight for us farmers.

The only Fair I’m gong to attend to during the State Fair is the one referred to in James 2:7 and I can do that quietly, alone and peacefully right here and not bump into anyone.

Fairest Lord Jesus
Ruler of all nature
O Thou of God and man the Son
Thee will I cherish, Thee will I honor
Thou my soul's glory, joy and crown

Fair are the meadows
Fairer still the woodlands
Robed in the blooming garb of spring
Jesus, Jesus is fairer
Jesus is purer
Who makes the woeful heart to sing

Fair is the sunshine
Fairer still the moonlight
And all the twinkling starry host
Jesus shines brighter
Oh my Jesus shines brighter
Oh my Jesus shines purer
Than all the angels heaven can boast (what a love song)

Susie, during this great, exciting State Fair season, think on The Fair One!… Ha! … fool I am… do it any time.. :o) … it always improves ones attitude, disposition, outlook, vision, understanding,…

XXXX OOOO Mrs.

Judith Johnson
- Friday, August 22, 2003 6:32 AM CDT

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Hey Susie, saying hi, miss ya lots, love hearing good news.
ALSO letting people know there are now 2 pages with photos of susie the second is the same address on with a 2 after susie. Both pages have 8 new pictures.
Thomas Pirko
KEUKA COLLEGE, - Thursday, August 21, 2003 10:47 PM CDT

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I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.
To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,
but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes from his book:The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

Jesyca & Trish
- Thursday, August 21, 2003 7:56 PM CDT

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FORGOT TO SAY-------WHEN DO WE GET UPDATED CONSTRUCTION PICTURES AND MORE PICTURES OF MISS SUSIE???????

HINT,HINT,HINT,HINT,HINT!!!!
ANN <GODMOMFOR2@YAHOO.COM>
- Thursday, August 21, 2003 5:35 PM CDT

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What wonderful news!! I am so glad you have found such a great place. Now in addition to praying for your recovery, we will pray that they accept you.

Way to go my dear friend. God Bless!!
ANN <GODMOMFOR2@YAHOO.COM>
- Thursday, August 21, 2003 5:33 PM CDT

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This is good news about the progress on the rehabilitation center, especially considering that they focus on spinal cord patients. Every day I come and read I find myself smiling, and praying for you. Susie, keep it up! Carr clan as a whole, my thoughts are with you all!
Kate M.
- Thursday, August 21, 2003 5:26 PM CDT

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It was so nice to see you Susie when you came back to visit at 2 north. Thanks for saying Hi to Kim Schute. May God continue to keep you close. I pray you will be able to get into that rehab program. Love Sally Hafner
Sally J Hafner <Sallyjhafner@yahoo.com >
Baldwinsville, NY USA - Thursday, August 21, 2003 2:33 PM CDT

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Morning Susie!
I pray that all works out for you to go to this rehab center - you are in God's Hands!
Reading from my daily devotional was particularly touching and I thought it might touch you as well.

Broken Voices

Behold, I make all things new. It is only the earth-bound spirit that cannot soar. Every blessing I send you, every joy, every freedom achieved from poverty and worry will loosen a strand that ties you to earth.
It is only those strands that bind you. Therefore your freedom will mean your rising into the realm of Joy and Appreciation.
Clipped wings can grow again. Broken voices regain a strength and beauty unknown before. Your power to help other lives will soon bring its delight, even when, at first, the help to yourselves may seem too late to bring you Joy.
Worn-out and tired as you may seem, and pain-weary, I say unto you "Behold, I make all things new."
That promise shall be fulfilled. Tenderly across the years, yet tenderly close and near to your tired noise-weary ears, I speak to you, My loved ones, to-day.
"Come unto Me all ye that labour and are heavy-laden and I will give you rest."

Love you, Susie!
Kim
Kim Christie <dance61@odyssey.net>
Cortland, NY USA - Thursday, August 21, 2003 8:51 AM CDT

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Morning Susie,

The rehab center is exciting. I had to go on line and find out more about Kessler and West Orange. One thing caught my fancy right away. The light bulb guy is it’s most famous person, Thomas Edison. How odd. I called you Susie Lightbulb in an earlier post and told how a light bulb was the first item of thanks in a notebook of Thanksgiving, remember? The West Orange site said Edison was voted the man of the millennium by Life Magazine. Ha! I like light bulbs but Edison isn’t my Man of the Millenniums.

It also said they had a park called Eagle Rock Reservation that had a lookout from which, on a clear day, you could see The Statue of Liberty, George Washington and Verazzano Bridges. It made me think of the song;


On a clear day
Rise and look around you
And you'll see who you are
On a clear day
How it will astound you
That the glow of your being
Outshines every star
You'll feel part of every mountain, sea and shore
You can hear
From far and near
A word you've never, never heard before...
And on a clear day...On a clear day...
You can see forever...
And ever...
And ever...
And ever more...

Susie, it’s always a clear day if your eyes are clear "The eye is the lamp of the body; so then if your eye is clear, your whole body will be full of light. “ Mat 6:22 Susie, and Julie, Jack and Sarah, keep lookin’ around you to find out who you are in Him and be astounded. Continue to outshine every star and hear things you’ve never dreamed of hearing before. For some reason I’m just full of joy for all of you today.

Sarah, remember a fan and the fact our wishes for many blessing and peace go with you as you head out to college. You will do well in all ways. XO

XXXX OOOO .. Mrs. J.. Rm 8:11



Judith Johnson
- Thursday, August 21, 2003 5:31 AM CDT

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Hey Miss Susie-just wanted you to know I HAVE NOT forgotten about you. You are so special and I look forward to meeting you one day. I am so proud of you and believe in you and your family. I know you are going to do great.

I went back to work yesterday and have been sort of busy. I retired from teaching two years ago from the County system. Now I am a 5 day a week(go every day and do something) Regular Sub for a smaller system which just happens to be the top system in the state.

God Bless You and Love you Bunches!!

I've got a surprise I'm working on and will try to get it off to you in the next week.
Ann Sullivan <godmomfor2@yahoo.com>
- Wednesday, August 20, 2003 8:59 PM CDT

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If you think you are beaten, you are.
If you think you dare not, you don't.
If you like to win but think you can't,
It's almost a cinch you won't.
If you think you'll lose, you're lost.
For out in the world we find
Success begins with a fellow's will.
It's all in the state of mind.
If you think you are out classed, you are.
You've got to think high to rise.
You've got to be sure of yourself before
You can ever win the prize.
Life's battles don't always go
To the stronger or faster man.
But sooner or later, the man who wins
Is the man who thinks he can.
~C. W. Longenecker

Jesyca & Trish
- Wednesday, August 20, 2003 6:47 PM CDT

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Good evening, Susie!

After a week of trying to get to this page, I was finally successful. Your grandfather (my beloved and very aged brother) kept assuring me that if I kept trying, I would get through. And we finally did!

Aunt Elinor and I send our love and best wishes. Needless to say, you are always in our prayers. With your spirit we know that you will make progress every day - no matter how little it is.

We are especially glad that Daniel was able to stop in between conferences in Syracuse when you were still in early stages of recovery.

We'll keep the prayers and messages coming!

Much love,
Uncle Bill & Aunt Elinor
William Along <waalong@capecod.net>
Yarmouthport, MA USA - Wednesday, August 20, 2003 5:27 PM CDT

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Good morning, Carr clan. It's a beautiful day here in central New York--perfect construction weather. It was good to see Jack at the post office last week. You are all in my heart each and every day.
Carol Foster
- Wednesday, August 20, 2003 9:46 AM CDT

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Hi Susie,
Can you believe when Uncle Jim and I saw Chicago in NYC with Bebe herself, he fell asleep? You probably can!
Uncle Jim, Aunt Kathy, Gina and Joseph
Yardville, NJ USA - Wednesday, August 20, 2003 7:51 AM CDT

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Good Morning Susie,

Bumping down the stairs, doctors, shopping, friends visiting,,, what a good day.

I was thinking about friends this morning. Two of my dearest friends, one of whom introduced me to my husband, the other who shared many times of growth in The Lord are both gone, one to cancer the other to a car accident. The latter’s daughter and husband have posted here to wish you well. I ache a little when I think of them now and then but I remember some really good times too. Don and I have been married 34 years, so that’s a long time to be friends with someone.

I have friends from high school I still keep in touch with, young friends, older friends, friends of my children who have become my friends, church friends, school friends, neighbor friends, far away friends, friends of my parents who are especially dear, furry friends, lost friends, friends yet to be met, and… so many more, but the best Friend is the One who never leaves me, knows the worst about me, believes the best about me, supports me, challenges me, waits in silence when I don’t want to be bothered by Him or anyone else and grants me wisdom, peace, healing, hope and love when needed.

Enjoy all your friends today, Susie and especially The One Who Is Closer Than A Brother.

XXXX OOOO .. Mrs. J .. Pr 7:4 & 1 Co 1:24

Judith Johnson
- Wednesday, August 20, 2003 4:28 AM CDT

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It sounds like things are going very well. I'm jealous of your eventful day! Keep it up!
Kate M
- Tuesday, August 19, 2003 8:37 PM CDT

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I might just come over and have Susie share her Chicago DVD :) I am thinking of the four of you and please call if you need any assistance.
Anthony
Cortland, - Tuesday, August 19, 2003 8:06 PM CDT

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You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should.
Therefore be at peace with God, whatever you conceive Him to be.
And whatever your labors and aspirations in the noisy confusion of life, keep peace with your soul.
With all its sham, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.
~Max Ehrmann

Jesyca & Trish
- Tuesday, August 19, 2003 7:56 PM CDT

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Hey there, Susie, Big Happy Hello, sending you all my best wishes. Not many words, but lots of love and care.
Denise Banner-Haley
Cortland, , NY USA - Tuesday, August 19, 2003 7:43 PM CDT

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Susie,
Hope you got a good report from the doctor and you enjoyed the day out of the house. Keep smiling. Our thoughts and prayers are with you and your family daily. Looks like the construction is moving right along
The Ptak Family <rlp613045@yahoo.com>
Cortland, NY USA - Tuesday, August 19, 2003 12:28 AM CDT

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Morning Susie!
I know you've been busy with construction going on around you, pt/ot, and LOTS of visitors - hope you're not too tired out.
Fr. John gave a wonderful homily this weekend on The Bread of Life. Susie, remember that your Daddy gives spiritual food to keep you strong - munch on that for awhile!
Excerpt from my daily devotional -

Remember there are no limits to My giving - there may be to your accepting.
Oh! rejoice at the wonders to which you are called and, seeing them in prayer, rise in My Strength, filled with the longing to attain them.

Susie and family - may God give you His Food To Overflowing!!
Much Love!
Kim
Kim Christie <dance61@odyssey.net>
Cortland, NY USA - Tuesday, August 19, 2003 7:40 AM CDT

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Meownin’ Susannah and Gary!

My mother used to have an all white cat when I was around your age, Susie. Her name was Blossom. Mom had decorated with tole designs(originated in the 1800’s, is usually a lacquer on metal media but is now done on many surfaces and very popular with the Pennsylvania Dutch crafters)and turned into a lamp an old, oval, metal watering can. It had an opening about five to six inches wide. We never understood how, but Blossom used to wiggle down inside that lamp and stick her paw out the end of the spout. She loved being in that thing.

Recently we saw an article in the paper about the creator of John Paul hair products opening a new line of products for cats and dogs. The photo in the paper showed his cat, a Maine coon tabby named Knucklehead. We saved he photo. You see, we have a Maine coon tabby named Knucklehead.

As far as I know the Bible doesn’t mention any cats unless you include lions and we both know who The Lion of Judah is! (Re 5:5) So…. :o)…if ‘me is ow’ing’ and in pain or distress just remember The Great Cat who heals, allows you to cuddle down in His fur for comfort, will claw your spiritual enemies to pieces then whiskers you off to a place of peace and is the all around purrfect companion anytime…. I will paws for a moment to say, “I think I’ve milked this for all it’s worth and you probably don’t want to ear from me for awhile.” And that’s the end of that tail and me.

Oooof---sorry. I have absolutely no control sometimes. I’ve only scratched the surface of what The Lion of Heaven can do. May all the Carrs curl up today with the whitest, most radiant, majestic cat of the ages.

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Tuesday, August 19, 2003 5:55 AM CDT

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Susie,
Ive always said- Cold hands- warm heart!!
That you have!
Looks like a comforter night tonight- yes- blanket and HIM- Let HIM comfort you - He wants to!!
Carol Patriarco
Cortland, NY USA - Monday, August 18, 2003 9:55 PM CDT

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Nurture strength of spirit to shield you in sudden misfortune.
But do not distress yourself with imaginings.
Many fears are born of fatigue and loneliness.
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself.
~Max Ehrmann

Jesyca & Trish
- Monday, August 18, 2003 8:57 PM CDT

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hi Susie,
Just want you to know you are not the only one that thinks it's a little chilly around here. Temp. drops just a few degrees and I'm looking for the afghan. Hope you have a good day!
Mrs. H :)
- Monday, August 18, 2003 7:00 PM CDT

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EVENING--WHAT ARE THE RED TAPPERS??

LOVE YA'LL!!
ANN <GODMOMFOR2@YAHOO.COM>
- Monday, August 18, 2003 6:29 PM CDT

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Susie, It seems as though you are doing a wonderful job. Keep up the great work.
Bethany Cutler
Cortland, NY - Monday, August 18, 2003 10:45 AM CDT

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I just got internet in my room here at my new university. I came to visit here first just so I could see how things have been going. :) Keep up the awesome work Susie. My thoughts are with you all!!!
Kate M
- Monday, August 18, 2003 8:14 AM CDT

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I apologize for sticking my head in again but two things… one I used the wrong Their in the last paragraph for “they’re holding on” and the other; I just reread the Eph 3: in the Amplified Bible and it’s as delicious as a sweet ripe, juicy, peach. Just in case you haven’t time to look it up… you gotta read this one;

“Now to Him Who, by (in consequence of) the [action of His] power that is at work within us, is able to [carry out His purpose and] do super-abundantly, far over and above all that we [dare] ask or think [infinitely beyond our highest prayers, desires, thoughts, hopes or dreams} –“

Boy, that beats anything about King Ahasuerus by a gazillon light years!

OK-I’m gone! .. again.
XXXX OOOO….Mrs. J

JJ
- Monday, August 18, 2003 5:14 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Susie!

I gotta tell you about something that really impressed me yesterday.

We have four peach trees in front of a six-foot high, red, stockade fence on the north side of our lawn. Two of them must be around twenty-five years old. For fruit trees 10 to 15 years is old. One of them had a split large limb we removed last year and I saw a very busy profitable ant restaurant in it. I figured this year the leaves wouldn’t even come out on it… they did and blossoms too. I hadn’t paid much attention to it after that until one evening when I was sitting in the glider (the one I fell asleep in, in the middle of an electrical storm) and thought something looked odd about it. I went over to investigate and the remaining limb had broken and the whole thing was resting on the red fence. I told Don and figured he'd cart it away.

Well, it’s been a very busy summer for both of us and he never got to it and I forgot about it after I asked two weeks later if he was going to drag it away.

Susie, today one of my daughters was here and she was picking some peaches from the other old tree when I noticed what looked like a ripe peach on the one with the fallen limb. For some reason the leaves were kinda wilty but still green after all this time. “I wonder???” and walked around on the neighbor’s side where nettles, burdocks and goldenrod grow and the bulk of the limb was hanging. Susie we picked a large peck basket full of the largest, cleanest, nicest shaped peaches we have had in many years plus there are still more to ripen up. I’ll wager we get close to a bushel from that “dead,” fallen limb.

There must have been the barest bit of sap going through the few fibers still connecting that limb. Oh Susie! Do I have to tell you the hope that spells out for you, your limbs, for me and for anyone who may feel like their holding on by a thread. Even the barest amount of juice flowing between us and God can produce wonders. Susie, look on the other side of the fence! Forget the nettles and burdocks and the blooming goldenrod that spell winter--- plow through the weeds and pick a harvest like you never even dreamed of!!! Eph 3:20

To all the Carrs, here’s to others’ peaches in our life, the peach cobblers, pies, jam, people, Gary cats, PT/OT, 4-women hair washes, movies, visits, smiles, and ……………… peachy-keen, huh?


XXXX OOOO .. Mrs. J … Jhn 15:5

Judith Johnson
- Monday, August 18, 2003 4:46 AM CDT

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I can't believe I'm the 19,992 person to read this board.

I would love to be the 20,000 but that will probably be Mrs. J, knowing my luck. LOL

Love you Miss Susie!!
Ann <godmomfor2@yahoo.com>
- Monday, August 18, 2003 0:36 AM CDT

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Be yourself.
Especially, do not feign affection.
Neither be cynical about love;
for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment
it is perennial as the grass.
~Max Ehrmann

Jesyca & Trish
- Sunday, August 17, 2003 7:34 PM CDT

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Hi Susie,
It's been ages since I've written, but then you know that already. Had the computor in the shop to find out why it keeps freezing up. Alas...no reason. Naturally it ran beautifully for the comp. tech. So it's home again waiting to do it's thing for me! Took me a while to catch up on the Carr family. Sounds like you all have been very happy and busy. Has the Virginia crew stopped in yet? I bet you can't wait to see them. Josh is doing fine. Being Josh, but at least staying out of trouble :) I have been off from work -my usual summer break- and had hope to do all kinds of things. So far I've done all sorts of stuff but not many items on the original list. Guess I need to set some new goals and really work towards them. Considering I have to get back to work in the office tomorrow I will really have to be much more disciplined.
I hope thing are going well for you and that the goals you set for yourself don't take to long to reach. One step and one day at a time and we will all get where we want to be eventually. Take care and say hi to the folks for me.
Mrs. H. :)
- Sunday, August 17, 2003 5:51 PM CDT

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Hey Susie and Family,
Yahoo! It sounds like you're doing great...we're all praying for you down in Fishkill and it's so fantastic to hear that things are going well. You're constantly in my thoughts and prayers and I know God is going to continue the miracle He has begun in your life!
Bryanne <AeroDemon5@aol.com>
Fishkill, NY - Sunday, August 17, 2003 5:00 PM CDT

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Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.

- Pablo Picasso

Susie you are an inspiration and I know someone can always find you working hard to be back to the old Susie.

Keep up the great work and I'm glad to read that your new room is coming along!

Hugs,
Cheryl Wehner =)
Lawton, OK - Sunday, August 17, 2003 4:37 PM CDT

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Birthday? What birthday? No fair telling!!!!!
:) J
- Sunday, August 17, 2003 3:56 PM CDT

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Okay-somebody up there in the area-spill the beans-whose BIRTHDAY is coming up?? INQUIRING MINDS WANT TO KNOW-NOW!!

GOD BLESS YOU SUSIE AND ALL THE FAMILY.
I LOVE YOU!!
ANN <GODMOMFOR2@YAHOO.COM>
- Sunday, August 17, 2003 3:55 PM CDT

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Mornin’ Susie,

Thank you, Lord, for the gift of special “us time” for Mom and Dad Carr.

Congratulations to Sarah! Susie, did you know there was a beauty contest in scripture? Sure enough! The winner got to be queen of the Persian Empire. Sounds like a glorious story book tale doesn’t it? Tell ya’, Susie, I don’t think my head is screwed on right sometimes because there are so many things about that story that make my blood boil.

First is that foolish King Ahasuerus showed off for half a year then had a party with all the drinks you wanted for seven days. When he was totally soused he decided to show off his queen for all his drunken male friends to ogle at and back then it was a real no-no for any woman to appear before other men after marriage no less a queen. Boy that really makes me steam. If Don ever had a seven day drinking party with friends and ask me to parade before them there’d be a new addition to the police beat and obituary columns in the Cortland Standard.

After this sterling character of a man had dethroned and banished his queen he eventually sobered up and started pouting about how sad he was without her. Her name was Vashti, which means beautiful and beautiful she was. I think they were deeply in love with each other. She was truly a helpmate to him but he listened to all the drunken male advisors who wanted to keep their wives under control and once he decreed a thing, it’s done – ain’t no goin’ back drunken decision or not. What a …..!!!

Enter beauty contest and Esther: Another event that causes steam to emanate out of my nostrils. If they saw a pretty girl, they just took her. How would you feel, Susie, if any beauty contest you were in they just came, grabbed your arm and dragged you off. Then imprisoned you forever in some gigantic beehive of women never to leave or marry and most likely never even see the king.?

Did you know all those girls had to go through a year of beauty treatments before they could even think of entering the Miss Marry Me Pageant? Yep.. “six months with oil of myrrh and six months with sweet spices and perfumes and the things for the purifying of the women” Es 2:12 Where have you heard about myrrh before? You’re right! A baby gift for Jesus and in a refused, offered glass of water on the cross.

I’m not going into all the parallels between this story of Esther, Jesus the Soon Coming Bridegroom and our preparation… but there are many. One is, myrrh must be crushed before the oil and aroma are released. I think we too must be “crushed” at times to bring out the true essence of our bring and become a sweet smelling savor for others.

Susie, may you rest in His peace as you continue to “smell” sweeter and sweeter and may we all look beyond the crushing to that Great Wedding Feast in the air.

XXXX OOOO Mrs. J …. Rev19:7

PS I’ve gotta learn not to get so miffed at ole King Ahasuerus. God was behind the whole thing and ended up using it to save His people from annihilation. Wonder who is gong to be saved through you, Susie. Ya’ never know till that final curtain. May God help us all with our “miffed times.”

Judith Johnson
- Sunday, August 17, 2003 8:13 AM CDT

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Hi Susie. I check on you every day . We both have come a long way since we shared our "room of flowers" over the 4th of July. We continue to pray for you and have many of our friends and relatives saying extra prayers. You certainly are an inspiration to all.
Mary Ann Dine <cdine75@Juno.com>
Syracuse, NY USA - Sunday, August 17, 2003 8:06 AM CDT

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Hey everyone! Susie, I was just thinking of you and realized that I haven't said "hi" in a while. Sending you a cyber-hug and good thoughts!
Anthony <afemino@cortlandschools.org>
Cortland, - Saturday, August 16, 2003 8:27 PM CDT

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Keep interested in your own career, however humble;
it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time.
Exercise caution in your business affairs, for the world is
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is;
many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
~Max Ehrmann

Jesyca & Trish
- Saturday, August 16, 2003 6:06 PM CDT

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UPDATE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!
WE NEED AN UPDATE!!!!!!!!!!

REMEMBER I'M WAY DOWN SOUTH AND DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING!
LOVE TO ALL!
ANN <godmomfor2@yahoo.com>
- Saturday, August 16, 2003 4:08 PM CDT

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Susie and Carr clan~
We can't wait to see you all and dispense many hugs! Keep up the faith and good luck getting those muscles worked :)
Hugs~
Lulu & Matt <batweas@yahoo.com>
Homer, NY USA - Saturday, August 16, 2003 2:42 PM CDT

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I just rolled out of bed Susie & wanted to send you a little love today since it's not that great of a day outside today. It was great seeing you home the other day and seeing your smile and hearing you laugh. You've come a long way girlie. Keep fighting & remember I'm always here if you need something. I love you lots!!
Beth
Cortland, NY - Saturday, August 16, 2003 12:50 AM CDT

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Love you, Susie! Praying for you and your family every day.
Aunt Kathy, Uncle Jim, Gina and Joseph
Yardville, NJ USA - Saturday, August 16, 2003 10:39 AM CDT

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Susie-
It's so good to hear that you are home again and doing well! The next time I am in New York I would be happy to stop by and help with the construction. Take Care and God Bless you and your family. My family and I are rooting for you.
Martha Bravo-Cullen
Martha Bravo-Cullen <CChipmonk3@aol.com>
Wilkes-Barre, PA USA - Saturday, August 16, 2003 10:33 AM CDT

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Morning Susie!
I remember bringing up the journal update page a few days ago and it was VERY BRIGHT YELLOW!!!!! This reminded me of how bright The Light of the World must be - Our Dad! Then the journal page was changed to smiley faces, and I thought that this was so appropriate for all of us - especially for you though - to know that God's smiling face is always upon us, because He loves us so much!!!
Such Love, Peace, and Healing His light and smile bring, Susie - soak it in!
"Rest. Remember I am your Physician, Healer of mind and body.
Look to Me for cure, for rest, for Peace."

May the whole Carr Clan have bright, light-filled days!
Much Love!
Kim
Kim Christie <dance61@odyssey.net>
Cortland, NY USA - Saturday, August 16, 2003 6:36 AM CDT

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Good Morning Susie,

I’ve been talking to Our Daddy about your desire for more P&OT time. Two things came to mind. Get a small white message board, one that erases and uses markers, and hang it by your front door. Put your times of shower, therapy or ? on it and when you would be free for visitors. I’d want to know if my visit were convenient or not as I’m sure we all would. We’re rooting for recovery and don’t wish to impede it in any way.

The other thing that came to mind was a scripture that has always baffled me from the first time I read it. I know the words it uses. I understand the meaning but I honestly don’t get it. It talks about Jesus being made perfect through suffering (Heb 2:10.) What? He wasn’t perfect before? I do not understand all this suffering business at all, this dying to yourself and rejoicing in the midst of pain. I want to see some printed, celestial grid that says, “Two slaps in the face + one loss of an arm = #2 position in love.” Then maybe I can comprehend this mystical suffering = perfection. I doubt it though, with some things you just have to hang up your understanding and let the moths have it, crawl into our Faith Comforter and wrap it tight.

Susie, Our Big Brother, who suffered much, knows what it’s like not to be able to move arms and legs. He also made people walk and jump and leap… with you, Susie, another case of gi’mme my blankie.. where’s My Comforter… I don’t understand.

Susie, I do believe there will come a day when some great curtain will be drawn aside by a nail pierce hand and we will see and understand for standing before us will be all the people we have touched in some way for Him. A long and soft, “Oh……” will escape our lips just before we fall on our face in adoration, repentance, worship and complete thanksgiving for the privilege He allowed us to go through.

I had a young , used to be neighbor, stop in this week. He said I probably had no idea how much I’d influenced him when growing up. I was really surprised thinking I don’t remember having any great spiritual times with this fellow. Then he said, “Your family went to church every Sunday, I saw that and you probably don’t even remember singing, ‘My dogs better than your dog’ when we kids were fighting about who was better at some game. That lesson really stuck with me.”

Susie, Susie, I don’t remember singing that song. I had no idea that boy was watching and listening to anything and neither do you…. only when that curtain is pulled back will any of us see what we have wrought for God. So until such time, wrap that Wonderful Gospel Quilt around your aching spirit and be a sung, little bug wrapped in God’s love. Same love to Mamma, Pappa and Big Sister too!

XXXX OOOO …. Mrs. J..Eph 1:17-19

Judith Johnson
- Saturday, August 16, 2003 6:12 AM CDT

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Susie,
A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you have forgotten the words.

One things for sure Susie, you have many good friends and we are all praying for you.


Carol Patriarco and Family
Cortland, NY USA - Friday, August 15, 2003 10:50 PM CDT

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Avoid loud and aggressive persons, they are vexatious to the spirit.
If you compare yourself with others, you may become bitter or vain,
for always there will be greater and lesser persons than yourself.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans.
~Max Ehrmann

Jesyca & Trish
- Friday, August 15, 2003 9:56 PM CDT

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Hey Susie!! Its Carey Stipe. I just was told about this site today from Jesse Smith and spent an over an hour reading everything about your recovery process and I'm so excited that you are home now. Since I heard about your accident from Justin Yllanes (we worked together at the lost colony this summer) I've been praying for you. I saw Kate Tron when I was up visiting SSMT and she said you were getting better. I've been updating Mike Crea about what I've heard and he is thinking about you also. Know that so many people at SU and so many others love you and are praying about you and I can't wait till you are back at school. You are so talented and are such an asset to what we do. Stay strong and keep your faith up. God doesn't give us things that we can't handle. Lean in the Lords understanding and not your own and know that His plan will be shown to you and you will make it through this!
with Love and Prayers,
*Carey*
Carey Stipe <cstipe@su.edu>
Smithfield, RI USA - Friday, August 15, 2003 12:34 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Susie!

Golly Ollie!!! Some days are sure more jam-packed than others, are they not?

Scott Steve, the guy with the two first names, yes, know the fella and I’m not one tiny mite surprised to hear his name. He’s one of those rare birds who sees a need or problem and turns it into a “used to be” (problem or need)… a cowboy in a white hat par-excellence. I saw the new wall Thursday night at dusk, thought it was a mirage…. Guess not.

Whew…now the shell is up, new photos, Miss America pageant, schedule adjustments, nurses, rehab thoughts, a book, and a journal…. Goooooodness!!!!! Watch out! There may just be a massive power outage if you keep this up. Don’t worry, it wasn’t your fault. My son informed me it was my fault the power shut off in most of the Northeast because of running the kiln too much, sweet child.

You know, Susie, I have a sneaky suspicion that Our Daddy allows us freewill knowing full well we’d run all our inner appliances and gadgets full tilt till overload happens and then brown outs and finally no power. It reminds me of the man at the end of his rope on a high cliff yelling for help for all he’s worth when he hears , “”I’m here.” The rope guy yells, “Who are you?” The reply is, “God.” Rope guy, “Thank, God! What do I do?” God, “Let go.” Now, Susie, I can just see this guy’s eyes wide open and poppin’ out at that directive. He yells back, “Is there anyone else up there?”

Susie, the answer is, “ No… there isn’t anyone else there.” The problem since Adam and Eve has been us… we don’t want to let go of the me-rope. Me big boss of me. Like my two year old grandson, “I wanna do it!” … and do it my way… my power!

I don’t wish to berate your father in any way but Our Heavenly Daddy is light years stronger and smarter than your dad. God’s arm is not short and weak like mans. Scripture over and over refers to God’s mighty outstretched arm and in Jer. 32 ;17 it says that out stretched arm created the heavens and earth. We can let go of the rope. God’s not into letting His lambs smash on the rocks. He’s in to carrying them gently next to His heart. (Is 40:11) He CAN catch us just fine. He will catch us!! I think He’s been waiting to catch us forever.

So, Susie, Julie, Jack and Sarah, when you feel you’re at the end of your rope or brown out is causing your energies to flicker or the power just plain goes out, hit that power switch on your knees and flip on The Power Source Himself… and Susie, you don’t have on be on your knees, only your heart does.

Enjoy the free-fall…the landing is like one magnificent Hugggggg!

XXXX OOOO … Mrs. J- 1 Co 1:24

Judith Johnson
- Friday, August 15, 2003 4:40 AM CDT

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Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace
there may be in silence. As far as possible without surrender be on good
terms with all persons. Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and
listen to others, even the dull and ignorant; they too have their story.
~Max Ehrmann

Jesyca & Trish
- Thursday, August 14, 2003 10:48 PM CDT

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Susie,
I have been away from a computer for almost two weeks, but I just got home -in the dark nonetheless! I came home to a grumpy husband and two adorable brown puppies in the dark. I hope you made it through the dark spell OK. There is nothing scarier than the dark and the uncertainty of the dark and how long that will last. I have been thinking of you and your family while I was away. I found out so much has happened since I last checked! I am so relieved you are home and with your family. I am sure you know that family is so important in life- I have discovered this myself as I went far away to live and realized there is "no place like home" and nothing beats mom's cooking. I have been praying for you and so are my friends in West Virginia and Georgia. I know that you have been led to God through this huge ordeal. Thinking of you,Allison
Allison <acapano@cortlandschools.org>
North Syracuse, NY USA - Thursday, August 14, 2003 10:14 PM CDT

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All the flowers of all the tomorrows are in the seeds of today.
Carol Patriarco and Family
Cortland, NY USA - Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:26 PM CDT

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Julie,
I got a call from the Rehab Center that I told Jack about yesterday and they were mailing all of the info for you to look at today. It is a wonderful place and if you are interested in coming for an interview or meeting with them-you have a place to stay. The certified music therapist at this facility is a good friend of mine. Just a thought and wanted to be a little help.

You know I am praying for all of you. I have gotten all the pages copied off of the website as of 7:30 P.M. CST. I got the messages, the updates from ya'll and the pictures on the Barton Valley Webpage. I will keep it up for as long as necessary.

God Bless all of you!!
Ann <godmomfor2@yahoo.com>
- Thursday, August 14, 2003 9:08 PM CDT

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Dear Susie,
I am so glad you are home. I am praying and visualizing your body's electrical energies as flowing strongly, restoring, renewing and completing all circuits. God Bless you. (I taught for your Dad.).
Marti Ramsey <martha.ramsey@five95.net>
Syracuse, NY - Thursday, August 14, 2003 1:39 PM CDT

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Hi Susie - I'm glad to hear that Scott and crew have the first wall up. Way to go Scott! I hope to see a roof when I return.

On our first vacation night the family went to see Seabiscuit. Not to spoil the movie for anyone who wants to see it but.....there is a line in the film (I hope I get it right)...."It's better to break a man's leg than his heart" All I could think of (after the thunderous sound of 14 horses racing by) was how BIG and WONDERFUL your heart is Miss Susie! We are so proud of you.

P.S. to Jack - Thank you so much for taking care of Taimah last night after his mishap. If he is in tonight's paper rest assured to anyone reading this that he is FINE! Life is filled with so many twists and turns. Cherish each moment!

Love, Jeff, Gonda, Maya and Kaylee
Jeff Gebhardt
- Thursday, August 14, 2003 8:06 AM CDT

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Susie~I just wanted to say bye again before i leave and that i love you and im always thinkin of you :) ill talk to you in a couple days when i get down to school. I LOVE YOU!!!
Danielle Krol <daniellekny@hotmail.com>
Cortland, NY USA - Thursday, August 14, 2003 7:08 AM CDT

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Mornin’ Susie!

Hummmmm…. Hugggggg.huh? I’ll bet you’ve been getting a gazillion hugs, Susie. I still can see the picture in my head from your mom’s post about the first hug you were able to give her after the accident and your dad boosting of his shortly after.

Hug is a funny, rather blunt word for a lovely, gentle, caring embrace. It sounds so much like bug, one of which had a hefty evening meal on my upper left arm last night. If a mosquito decides to dine on you just put an ice cube on the bite and no more itch no more problem… but back to hug. Sometimes a word catches my interest and I go look up origins in this one good dictionary I have. It said “Scand origin; akin to ON hugga to comfort, soothe’ akin to OE hyegan to think, consider, understand, and OHG huggen to think and perh to Gk kyknos swan – more at cygnet (which is a young male swan)” I thought, “For heaven’s sake? How does swan relate?”

I believe when one thinks on swans it congers up an idyllic picture of serenity, grace, peace, elegance, quietness and beauty. They promote a deep sense of wellbeing. I can be so busy in the studio, mind frazzled with much ado and this silly guy can walk in with a bottle of ice water, give me a hug and by golly right in the middle of frazzle are swan feelings.

Years ago I had a friend call and share a spiritual experience she’d had the evening before. Seems she was dealing with something emotionally overwhelming and while in prayer she experienced a hug from Jesus. She said she kept thinking she’d had a hug like that before and had come to the conclusion it was my hug.
My immediate thought was, “I wonder if Jesus thinks the same thing I do when He hugs?” You see, Susie, many times when I hug someone I experience such a deep caring and love for the person my heart breaks with an overwhelming, deep desire to put my arms around them and draw them right into my heart and become one with them.

I was stunned to think, yes, that is exactly what The Son of Love desires, to put His arms around us and draw us right into His very heart and become one with us. Susie check out John 17: 21 –22, it says just that.

I’ve read that just to survive one should have at least 4 hugs a day, to maintain an even keel you need 8 and for growth you need 12 hugs a day. Susie, the world is malnourished…. Hugggggg away and get Mom, Dad, Sarah, Mrs. G. in the bumble bee hat, Pam, Aunt Marilyn, Jenn D and everyone you know in the act….

I try to sign off each time with a kiss and a hug for each Carr…
May you have a day full of swans… all of you!
XXXX OOOO.. Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Thursday, August 14, 2003 6:42 AM CDT

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Morning Susie!
I am reminded every day by thinking and praying for you that everything we have is a wonderful gift from God! God has shown me, yet again, that nothing should be taken for granted!
I know you must get discouraged Susie, but take heart - God has a purpose for you. You have already touched so many of us with your beautiful spirit and faith - God will use this in your life as part of a sure foundation in Him!
Love You!
Kim
Kim Christie <dance61@odyssey.net>
Cortland, NY USA - Thursday, August 14, 2003 6:41 AM CDT

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Susie,
Victories come with overcoming obstacles everyday.
Carol Patriarco
Cortland, NY USA - Wednesday, August 13, 2003 11:37 PM CDT

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Upstate Nurse "Eddie" found the pictures of the addition hopeful... and she'll pray the rain will 'hold' so you can get more work done. Smiles and prayers go with you.
Eddie
Syracuse, - Wednesday, August 13, 2003 10:05 PM CDT

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Do not free the camel of the burden of his hump; you may be freeing him from being a camel.
~ G.K.Chesterton

Jesyca & Trish
- Wednesday, August 13, 2003 9:29 PM CDT

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Hi Susie, I'm SO glad to know that you've gotten home and are getting settled in. I know you were a patient at the hospital and as such were the one to be cheered up. However, EVERY single time I saw you you had such a SMILE on your face that I couldn't help but smile myself! Keep smiling! May God Bless You Each Day.
Rev. Rayne Dabney (University Hospital Chaplain) <imhis_426@hotmail.com>
East Syracuse, NY U.S.A. - Wednesday, August 13, 2003 4:33 PM CDT

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Delighted to hear that you're laughing through all this, Susie! Laughter makes it go much better :-)


Judy Cain (TC3)
Cortland, NY USA - Wednesday, August 13, 2003 2:42 PM CDT

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Mornin’ Popular One!

My goodness what a lot of visitors and earrings! When I was looking at the new photos yesterday, I thought your folks picked up the wrong girl and brought her home. I’d totally forgotten about the blond hair.

I am usually at my desk early, sometimes as early as three or four thirty and I try to be quiet in deference to the sleeping but I laughed right out loud when I read of a one minute family agreement on color. Now there’s a miracle.

Did you know bisque is what they call clay that’s been fired but not glazed and it is oatmeal in color (at least white clay)? We do clay every week in the studio with students. Kids love clay. Adult helpers who have to help clean up…. that’s a different story. I think she wonders if God’s mother yelled at him to clean up after He made man. The ceramic wheel is the worst clean up, including the student. If the child forgets hands are covered in clay and they have an itch… that clay ends up in the most unusual places; tip of the nose is most popular, then hair, neck, forehead, cheek, ear and so on. I really have to watch my laughter then too.

One of the most important and most difficult things to do on the wheel is to center the clay. It takes patience and strength to get that lump of clay perfectly centered so it can be opened up into a dish. The least little bit off and the dish is lopsided and no good and has to be rethrown. It’d be a might startling if that clay rose up off the wheel head, put it’s fists on it’s hip and growled in displeasure about being reworked… but we do that all the time. In Is 45:9 it says, "Woe to {the one} who quarrels with his Maker-- An earthenware vessel among the vessels of earth! Will the clay say to the potter, 'Wha’da think yer doin’?”(Johnson translation)

Susie, it’s really tough when you’re the pot God’s reworking, it hurts. To be a useful vessel you also have to go through the fire sometimes three times and there’s a lot of sitting on the shelf time to dry out so you don’t blow up in the fire. If you can just remember to always stay Savior - centered you’ll come out lookin’ swell, earrings, blond hair and all.

If you want to do some reading Jer. 18 is about a visit to the pottery shop and Jesus used clay on the Sabbath and got in trouble for “working on Sunday”, John 9:6.

To all the Carrs, may you stay securely centered as you go round, and round, and round on your daily wheel.

XXXX OOOO…Mrs. J

Judith Johnson
- Wednesday, August 13, 2003 5:27 AM CDT

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Hello to my beautiful, cute bundle of adorableness:
You might not remember me, but I never got the chance to tell you how much fun we had when you came home with Kate T. but I did. She has been keeping me updated as to your progress, and just tonight gave me the website address. I am glad to see how you are improving...always remember and never forget there are those who love you even if they have only met you once. You have made and impact on everyone you have met. "Everything is ok in the end, if it is not ok then it is not the end". UNKNOWN I am wishing you and your family much love and support. I hope to see you soon. Keep on trucking.
Erin Schneemann <GoldeeBubbles@aol.com>
Sayville, NY - Wednesday, August 13, 2003 1:51 AM CDT

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