A new resource for home care

To the Editor:

November was Home Care and Hospice Month in Illinois and a time to honor and thank home health nurses, aides, therapists, social workers and other home care staff who are always there for us whenever we or our loved ones need home care and hospice. These services are delivered to recovering, disabled, chronically or terminally ill persons in need of treatment and/or support and assistance with the essential activities of daily living.

To help families and caregivers find home care and hospice when they need it, the Illinois HomeCare Council has recently launched a new Web site, www.homecareheadquarters.com. Not only does this free resource answer basic questions about these services, it allows consumers to search for home care and hospice by service, provider, county or city, and by payment options such as Medicare and Medicaid.

On behalf of the Illinois HomeCare Council, I encourage you to visit this important new Web site and to recognize those individuals in your community who are providing care and comfort to homebound individuals of all ages.

Jan Costello

Executive Director, Illinois HomeCare Council

Springfield

Faith will see us through

To the Editor:

The U.S. economy is crashing like a fast freight train out of control. Jesus showed me in a dream more than one year ago that the winter of 2008 was going to be a black Christmas for the American people.

In the dream I was burning railroad ties next to the railroad tracks that are two blocks in front of my church. It's going to be cruel, very cold and lots of snow for the winter of 2008. I look down the tracks. I see a fast freight train out of control coming at me that is the U.S. economy crashing in the winter of 2008. Then it blows up in a great ball of fire coming at me. I start running as fast as I can to get back to my church building. I don't believe I will make it and that I will get burned up. But by a miracle of God, I just get in the building by the skin of my teeth and the hair on my chinny chin chin! I close the door just in time and the fire doesn't come in!

I open the door back up then everything is black and destroyed all around me on the outside. My building is the only one left standing. Jesus told me in these troubled times to run to the House of the Lord and stand on the word of God, the Holy Bible. That is the only way that you will survive.

Man's ways will fail but the word of God will stand forever and ever. Keep your eyes on Jesus and obey whatever He tells you to do. Listen to His voice and you will make it to the end. This is an exciting time to be alive in seeing Bible prophecy being fulfilled for His glory. Amen! Shalom!

May the many blessings of the God of Israel and Jesus the Savior and Messiah of the world fall on you!

George Culley

Pinckneyville

'We the people' the problem

To the Editor:

Does anybody remember "Pogo," the cartoon possum who led his animal friends on a diligent quest to find the enemy - only to discover and report "we have met the enemy and he is us?"

So we awakening Americans can commend ourselves on the high turnout that exercised their precious right to vote recently. The result? A new president who appears humbled by the heavy burden he has assumed, and to help him "turn things around?" A ridiculously high percentage of the self-same congressmen who conceded their constitutional duty to debate and declare war to a president "chomping at the bit" to start a "preemptive" assault upon a sovereign nation located halfway around the globe; and who more recently have blithely voted trillions of debt dollars to "bailout" and "rescue" rich, greedy, and incompetent financial giants? The small, responsibly run banks are OK.

A republic cannot survive unless ruled by patriots, kept honest by constituents who bypass sports and personalities to learn how the Federal Reserve has bankrupted the U.S. Treasury.

Like Pogo, "we the people" of the United States must blame ourselves for electing a president and legislators and not taking an interest in what they do or don't do.

Mary J. Wasson

Equality