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Judy Bass

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What a journey!  In 2002 our family experienced several of those "life changing" episodes...in one year. WOW!! But instead of it being a time of completely falling apart....our entire family leaned on the Lord and each other. We immerged more closely woven than ever before. My hubby was a big reason that I did immerge ..at all! LOL He's so sweet to me.  He lost both parents, we had two beautiful granddaughters born  and I was immediately diagnosed with "parkinsonism", which is everything short of the illness itself. Yep, it was a definite WOW year for the both of us!!. To say I stumbled through would be an understatement! Found that instead of be me being my old athletic self.. (well, yea the "old" played some small part in it)..I had trouble with balance and a tremor that  effected  my right side, especially my hand. (Oh yes, I'm (was) right handed. At the time, that was a big deal as was my ability to fall on my face at any time in my upright position. But hey,,,this is where my great athletic experiences came into use.  Playing basketball, I really learned how to roll when I fell, thus not breaking my body into pieces! LOL ​

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For about a year all I did was pray for was total healing so "my" life would return to my normal. LOL  My hubby said he really didn't see much change from my normal but he was being "supportive". I can laugh now as I look back on all of this but at the time I really had a problem with it. There finally came a time when I decided that I was not going to spend all of my time "wanting normal" and making everyone else uncomfortable. That was my corner-turning moment, when I finally looked around, I knew that if this was it, then I would figure out what to do with "it".  ​

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​Both of my folks were deceased but I knew my mom was an accomplished painter in oils....heck...she was accomplished in everything she tried. Awesome lady! Now, I had not even tried to draw a straight line with my right hand but once or twice and that got me no where.  So, well, I'll gave it another try...left handed! Couldn't hurt since I had a lot of time on my "hands". I was teaching but that had gone out the window with the "athletic self". LOL I took some classes with a wonderful lady who encouraged me even when I knew my canvas was crape! She always found something small that I did ok or right. She, along with the group of girls showed me how to laugh and have fun again.... I so much look forward to what we called our "therapy"  group meeting! LOL

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Well, my journey has always been a work in progress but I hope you will enjoy browsing through my "open windows".  I am Lord Blessed. I literally am evidence that when life closes one window.....God will always have another one open. I just had to turn around with my chin up and see it.....right there....in the window itself!                                                           Philippians 4:13

For I can do all things through Christ My Lord who gives me strength.  Philippians 4:13

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