Mrs. Brass and Family

My name is Denise Brass.
I am a widow.
My husbands name was George Brass IV.
My Boys are Isaac 9, Isaiah 7, Benjamin 4 and Simeon 2
Fave Scripture: Psalm 143:7-8
I do not work outside the home.

MY STORY

In July of 09 my husband started have some diarrhea. Of course he had never been sick a day in his life so he just figured that’s all it was. It went on for about 2 months, and when it became pretty painful we went into the ER. It was there they told us he had a tumor in his rectum and they could also see from the cat scan some lesions on his liver. They admitted him on October 9, 09. They ran a world of tests, and on Oct. 13 we met with the team of Dr.s that had been assigned to him. Of course it was my absolute worse nightmare come true. And even as I write this I want to just scream at the top of my voice, and honestly I still cant believe that he is gone!

He was diagnosed with stage 4 colon cancer which had spread to his liver. He also had some blot clots in his legs and one of them had gone up into his lung. There was really nothing they could do. They couldn’t put him on blood thinners for the clot because that could have caused him to bleed to death. They had reluctantly considered doing a colostomy but were afraid more clots would released or his other one would travel, and the same with chemo- they were afraid of bleeding out from the tumor. I felt like every door was just slammed shut, and I spent a lot of my days on my face on the floor in the hospital bathrooms pretty much begging my Father for the life of my husband, the father of our boys.

We came home after about a week of being there and his pain was not being managed so we ended back in the ER a week later and when they did another cat scan they said the cancer had also spread to his stomach and lungs. UH!!! So he asked me what i wanted to do and I said I wanted him home with me- not in the hospital- until God either healed Him or took him home. So thats what we did; we left him in God’s hands. ( that was around Oct. 27) So i spent the next days just loving him. He was pretty medicated on morphine so he would sleep a lot. I would just wake him and tell him what a great man he is and have him tell me that he loved me. I would lay my head in his neck and just smell him and just try be as close to him as I could.

He woke a few days later and his eyes were yellow and I just knew it wouldn’t be long. But still I was hanging on to Jesus, fervently praying for my husband’s life. I can see now looking back how God wrapped his life up. Everyone in his family and all those who loved him had come to visit him, sing praises to the Lord with him, pray with him and tell him they loved him. Who gets that? He went home to heaven Nov. 6, 09 at 11:20 pm. He died in my arms with me loving on him until there wasn’t a breath left in his body. I miss him greatly- we all do. Sometimes he would have a really “awake” moment even though he was on so much morphine. One time i was losing it and he called me over to him because he said he wanted to help me.

He hugged me and told me “Honey, you have to remember Jesus. You need to include him in to the situation. He is here to help us, don’t forget to include Him.”

And that’s what I do every day now and He has been faithful to help!

Contribute to Denise Brass and Family

Please support Mrs. Brass and her little guys as much as you are able. Even a few dollars helps. Every dollar helps. You can read about her journey and life at Passing Through the Valley of Weeping and join the FaceBook page in support of her family at: Can we find 100,000 people to help a widow and her 4 boys save their home??

You can share the love and promote the Brass family on your blog or website by wearing their icon, linked to this site. Just copy the code and put it into a post or on your sidebar.

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GIVING TO THE FAMILIES

Support-donation widgets are located on the sidebars. Please give any amount you are able to. Even a few dollars are a big deal to the families. No amount is too small.

You can get your own ChipIn widget to support Mrs. Brass and her Boys by clicking on the COPY button on the widget. If you would like to use the widget – located in the sidebar, you may copy the code to use on your site. If you would like to design a different size or color of widget, then when it changes, you will click on the “More Options”. This will take you to a page you can customize your widget if you would like to.  You can customize the widget for your website or blog.

*please let us know if you experience problems using this ChipIn*

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Please Welcome Two New Families to GTH

We would like to welcome two new families to Gleaning the Harvest!!

Mrs. C and Family

Mrs.C is a home school mom of four children.
She has placed her trust for her provision in her heavenly father and knows he will provide all of her needs.

Kristi and Co.

Kristi is a home school mom of eight children.
She is blessed to be provided for by her loving heavenly father for all of her needs.

Please be sure to visit their family pages, read their stories and welcome them to Gleaning the Harvest. Grab their icon codes and ChipIn codes from their pages and share your support by placing them on your website.

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Are You Up to the Challenge?

Miss Jocelyn has issued a challenge to us on her blog, A Pondering Heart.  After putting a ChipIn in her sidebar to raise funds for a new computer “because “Fitzwilliam” is dying and shuts down while she is working and what should take five minutes takes half an hour because of how little memory he has in whole“, she instead decided to challenge each of us to give just $3 to the Gleaning the Harvest family ChipIns instead.

Are you up to the challenge?

Go to her post: Are You Up To The Challenge? and read the Challenge in its entirety and grab cute the icon to put on your blog!

blessings,

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How To Help A Single Mom Part 2

~Originally posted at A Dusty Frame~

Today at the store I was thinking of some other things I wanted to add to this post.

So here goes.

1. These are ideas. Sort of like brainstorming. Please don’t take them as gospel or think you must do them all. I was only trying to give you some ideas to show you how easy it is to bless someone’s heart.

2. Many of these do apply to single dads. I meant to mention it and forgot. (Since I don’t happen to be one.)

Some more ideas

*If she has a boy, invite her son to do things with your husband and your boys.

This summer my son played tee ball on the rec department’s league. My heart sunk when I realized all the other little boys knew how to catch a ball in their gloves and my little over achiever was working his heart out trying to catch his.

I just never thought to teach him that. That is a daddy thing. He did fine in tee ball. My point is there are simply things that moms don’t even think about. A man or even older teen age boy could tremendously bless a younger boy.

*If she owns any type of business that you can frequent, send your business there.

Tell your friends too. Many single moms that I am reading about on the blogosphere do computer work (graphics, internet sites, typing), some do child care, tutoring, private lessons, own a store.  So if you need something her business offers please support her.

*Don’t offer to do something unless you intend to follow through.

I have had people tell me they will do “xyz” or “I’m going to bring something over for you” and it never happens. Or when I thought their offer was something I was to count on, I found it it was only good intentions.

Now I promise you I am not whining or complaining. If you were in my living room I could look you in the eye and say that.  I didn’t ask for these things. They were offered.

Asking for help is really difficult for me. So when I went to take them up on the offer and found out they didn’t “really” mean it I felt completely stupid. I wonder if  offering made them feel better about themselves so they just said things without thinking?

I don’t know. I just know that I heavily counted on some of the offers BECAUSE they were offered to me unsolicited.  Dealing with the disappointment that came would have never occurred if only the good intentions had not been spoken. (There is however a blog post in that lesson when I get around to typing it up.)

Good intentions do not pay bills.

There are some really great ideas in the comments section of Part 1. Take a peek. Thanks to everyone for your input and ideas.

Lizzie Norris is a married mom of one little boy, living as a single mom while her husband is incarcerated. Through the difficulties, she is learning to trust God and His WORD. Lizie blogs encouragement, transparency and love at A Dusty Frame. You can support Lizzie through the ChipIn on her GTH page and also through her Etsy shop, A Dusty Attic.

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Press Release: Gleaning the Harvest

“For Immediate Release”
South Whitley, IN
December 31, 2008

Gleaning the Harvest encourages support of widows and fatherless

Contact: Jacque Dixon
Gleaning the Harvest
jacque.gth@gmail.com
contact@gleaningtheharvest.com
http://gleaningtheharvest.com
http://jacquedixon.com

Matt and Jacque Dixon, with their daughters, Miss Amanda, 19, and Miss Jocelyn, 17, created Gleaning the Harvest after seeing the need of support for widows and fatherless families in the home school community. Though the mission of Gleaning the Harvest is founded by Matt & Jacque Dixon, it is designed as a ministry of the Body of Christ. Through Gleaning the Harvest, you are given the opportunity to fulfill what James calls “pure religion”.

James 1:27
“Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.”

It is the belief at Gleaning the Harvest that it is the responsibility of the Body of Christ as much as they are able to help moms remain in the home being a Keeper at Home and home school mom. In searching Scripture, it is found that God’s people are to take up for the fatherless, the widow, and the stranger. As a family whose wife and mom is staying home teaching their children, following what they believe to be the LORD’s plan for women, the Dixons asked themselves why it should be different for a single mom and what they could do to lessen the burden.
To fulfill the blessing of Deuteronomy 24 to allow the strangers, widows and fatherless to glean in the fields after the harvest is the first part of their mission. Though this is not a real field or vineyard to glean in, at the Gleaning the Harvest site, you can open up your virtual harvest and offer gleanings to families in need through direct payment to the families.

The second part of the mission is to aid families in fulfilling Deuteronomy 6 within their families through home schooling. Being a homeschool family themselves, they understand the desire to keep children home to teach, lead and love in the nurture and admonition of the LORD, as we walk with them and talk with them.

You are invited to become a Partner with Gleaning the Harvest and support the families promoted on the website. Read more at Welcome To Gleaning the Harvest.

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