On top of everything else, I am now facing possible foreclosure on my home.  Just when I thought things couldn't possibly get any worse ...

Lost my job two months ago.  Been pounding the pavement, in the hopes of finding another one.  Nobody's hiring, especially people who are over forty (I am forty-five).  I keep getting turned down from one job to another and it's gotten me so discouraged ...

I am two months behind on my electricity and water; the utility and water company are threatening to shut it off.  I am sorry; I can't help it.  I didn't ask to get fired from my job (downsizing and sending my job overseas to India)!

I don't want to move in with my parents; they are not well health-wise and I don't want to add more stress to their lives.  I don't want to move in with my sisters; whom I don't get along with at all: they think that because they are successful they can rub it in my face and remind me why I am a failure time and time again.

Guess the next best option is to call some local churches to see if they can help me, but I doubt that even they can.  They have enough clientele to minister to; what's one more failure to society?  Or I can call organizations like the Salvation Army or Goodwill to see if they can help a woman who is down on her luck.

I call these hinderances my "stumbling blocks".  It seems that no matter how hard I try to get ahead, I'm knocked further back and don't see any light at the end of the tunnel.  If someone doesn't help me fast I am about to do something drastic and I have no control over my behvior!  I have had it with being knocked down repeatedly; life has got to be better than this! I mean, how much more can one person possibly take??

Just keep me in your prayers.  That's all I ask.  I need a miracle and fast!!

~To be continued.~