Girl Gab

Tonight was the first night for our new group 'Girl Gab'. I recently decided that I wasn't getting nearly enough friend time during the week so I sent out some letters.....as did mom, since we decided this would be a group for women of all ages.......and waited to see what kind of response I would get. And I must say that for the first night we had a great time! Plans were made for future Thursday nights, and I was able to reconnect with friends that I haven't seen in years! Literally!





I also enjoyed the time with my sister. Now, I know I see her quite a bit through the week, but ( as much as I love and adore my niece and nephews ) it was nice to sit and have some conversations with her without a little voice interrupting :-)





We read through Philippians tonight and had a great discussion afterwards. Melted chocolate squished between pretzels was on our menu for this evenings snack (since we all decided that chocolate is a MUST have for these gatherings) and we split into teams and played that game with raw spaghetti and gum drops. For those of you who have never played I think the picture below explains it all :-) Our team won by one inch, with a whopping 27 inch tower!


Looking forward to our next meeting!

The Champions

(L-R) Heidi Redmond, Mary Heath, and Me

A Hint of Laughter, a Dash of Fun, and 4 Wheels

I spent Tuesday evening in God's great out-doors, enjoying the fresh air after being stuck in the class room all day. The 4-wheeler is always a good way for me to forget about up coming exams and just relax :-]

Wray doing a wheelie on the 4-wheeler.....

Me laughing at myself after trying to do a wheelie......

....everybody sitting on the porch was laughing, so I figured I might as well too :-]

The Girl Who Cried 'Nurse'!

One of my dearest friends really made me think this week. Kalia's Facebook status read something like this:

"Want to make God laugh?

Tell Him your plans."

That took me back to many many years ago....let me explain....

When I was a little girl, I couldn't stand hospitals, doctor's offices, dentist offices...basically anything that had to do with doctors and nurses. I would literally start feeling sick if I knew we were going to visit a person at the hospital. The smell, the strange noises, ugh....I hated it all.

Therefore, since the time she could talk, Kristin Skidmore has made it know that "I will NEVER be a nurse!"

This proves you to be correct, Kalia! I told God my plans and he just laughed, "Yeah right Kristin! Too bad you're not in charge!"

I am thrilled about becoming a CNA. Actually, I haven't been this excited about something in a long time! I'm excited about all the opportunities that this will open up for me.

In other words, learn from my example.....NEVER, ever ever...say NEVER!

This is Next

I just discovered that Joshua Harris will be having a Next conference in Baltimore, MD later next month (May 23rd-26th.) This is similar to the New Attitude conferences he did several years ago, for anyone who is familiar with those. I've ordered some info packets, which I expect in the mail sometime next week. I'll hopefully be planning to get a group together, but I'll post more about that when I have more details. The conference is geared towards college students and young married couples, ages 18-29, but anyone is welcome to come. All the registration and cost info is on the website thisisnext.org Check it out and be thinking about it. Baltimore really isn't that far, and it sounds like its going to be an amazing 4 days!

Celebrate LIFE!

Where do I start? I've been an absent blogger of late and I'm not sure where to pick back up.

I originally started this blog with a specific purpose in mind.....that purpose has since 'died' for lack of a better term; although when I think about it, that is a pretty appropriate word for the situation.
With the 'death' of my reason for blogging, I simply stopped. I felt like there was no reason for it, and that it would only bring back memories lost.....
However, this week I have been reminded again how Christ came to give us LIFE, and that we are to have it more abundantly. Here I've been just sitting here, when I should be celebrating LIFE each and every day!
While I've been sitting around complaining about LIFE, I've forgotten how much celebrating there is to do everyday!

Everyday there is something to be Thankful for.

Everyday there is something to Rejoice about.

Everyday is an opportunity to spread some Cheer into someones LIFE,

even if it is through the use of a blog.

So look out blogging world! Kristin Skidmore is back and on FIRE! With God's help, I am celebrating LIFE and pushing the darkness back into Hell. I'm spreading the word to celebrate LIFE! Satan shall not have victory in any part of my LIFE! Where he tried to put darkness, God is spreading the LIGHT!

So here I am, giving a small testimony as a new start to my blogging. Seems a good way to end the old, and start the NEW!

Romans 8:37-39

"In all these things we are more than conquerors

through him who loved us. For I am convinced

that neither death nor life, neither angles nor demons,

neither the present nor the future,

nor any powers, neither height nor depth,

nor anything else in all creation,

will be able to separate us from the love of

God that is in Christ Jesus our Lord."

I'll be blogging again soon....for each day there is something to Celebrate.......

Hopes and Dreams

Yes, the title of this post says it all. I had the hopes and dreams of blogging many many times over Christmas break. And I did mean to.....but you know how the Christmas season goes; it was pretty crazy around here a few times :-)

So here I am two days into the new semester and finally posting some pictures from Christmas!

Cosette went to the Christmas program at my Grandparent's church

Grandma Carol with Mariah, my cousin's baby

Eli with his new bike from my parents

Wray in a Christmas program at my Grandparents church

My brother-in-law Joel opening his gift from me....

one of my favorite gifts I gave this year. haha

No need to buy Noah any gifts, he just enjoys eating the wrapping paper :-)

I love this little man so much!

Me and Jaime with her gift. As soon as I saw the picture frame

I knew I had to give it to her. It said "Having a sister

means having a best friend for life"

You're the greatest Jaime! I love you!

Christmas night playing "Would You Rather" in our rec room.

haha What an experience :-)

Well, that's all for now. I'm sure I will have some stories from this semester real soon :-)

Mood Music

Have you ever heard the statement, "The music you listen to will decide what kind of mood you're in"? I read an article in a magazine last month that said just that. It caught my curiosity so I decided to do an experiment.

I have a lot of time when I'm just riding in my car; 20 minutes to school 3 times a week ( an then again headed home), 15 minutes to the church several times a week, any other time I do stuff during the week usually involves at least a 15 minute ride down the mountain.


So, I separated my Christian Artist CDs from my Secular Artists CDs. For one week straight, I listened to only the secular artists during drive time. Artists such as

FM Static

Plain White T's

Linkin Park

Jordin Sparks

Hello, Goodbye

I must say that I had a very depressing, emotional week! As I listened to these songs all these emotions would start popping up. My heart was heavy with hurts, I was irritable with my family, I hated school, and my life centered around my hurts.

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So, the next week I listened to all Christian Artists. ( Too many to name them all, so I'll just mention a few that I listened to)

Casting Crowns

Brandon Heath

Newsboys

Fireflight

Jeff Johnson

Chris Tomlin

It was amazing how much of a change there was! I had such an encouraging week. My heart was light, I couldn't wait 'til my family got home in the evening, I looked forward to going to school, and God turned the hurts into JOY!

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The secular songs were all about heartbreaks, relationships failing, hurt, depression, and so on. But during that second week God reminded me how much HE loves me. I don't need to rely on the things of this earth to make me happy. People will fail, hurts will come, life will not go how I planned it, and yes...that anatomy homework will still be waiting for me when I get home.....but God never fails! He is my Constant.

So the next time you go to pop in that CD or turn on that ipod, think about the message of the songs. Will they bring you down, or will they remind you of the love of God and give you a Christ centered day........

God is Good!

Have you ever done something that took a lot of your time and energy and wondered later if it mattered to anybody? A year from now will anybody even remember anything from this event that took over my life for months?

I had been wondering that for a while after July 2007, when I hosted the Secret Keeper Girl conference. I had been praying all that summer that the conference would make a difference in someones life....their life on earth, and their eternal life in Heaven.

Summer 2008 came and I hadn't really heard any testimonies from that night.....after a while, I became a little discouraged. Over 100 people at the conference and I hadn't heard one word about it.
Then recently, a lady approached me and asked:

"Are you Kristin Skidmore? The one who did the Secret Keeper conference?"
"Yes I am, why?"
" My daughter and I attended that conference, and I wanted to tell you how much we loved it. My daughter learned so much from it! Now when we go shopping she's always looking for Secret Keeper clothes. Every where we go she finds a reason to bring up what she learned that night. My husband and I are so glad you did the conference."

Thanks God....I needed that!

Then, a little while later, I found out that two of my former SKG students started a bible study with some of their friends. They're studying the same subjects that you will find in the SKG book. And, the friends that they started the group with are two girls that had wanted to attend my SKG summer camp, but for one reason or another were unable to! How cool is that?

Galatians 6:9

Let us not become weary in doing good,

for at the proper time we will reap

a harvest if we do not give up.

Not a Failure, but a Huge Success

Its been a while, I know. I could try to blame the busy summer months, but the truth is that I've had a total lack of motivation to blog over the past few weeks. Once again, there is something that I need to post about but have had no idea where to start. Does that ever happen to anyone else? Anyway, I'll stop rambling and get to my point.....


In my last post I told everyone about this amazing guy I had met, completely fallen for, and had recently started courting. I can't really explain what happened next, because I'm still working it all out in my own head. All I can say is that we felt God saying that this was not what He wanted for us. So we decided to end the courtship.

At first, I was pretty upset. Not understanding why after only one month God would ask us to, for total lack of a different word, 'breakup'. I felt like the courtship had been a FAILURE. But then, after praying about it for a while, I had this 'conversation' with myself.
"What is the purpose of courtship?
It's to allow time to become someones friend, get to know them, and decide if you could spend the rest of your life with them.
How so?
You spend time talking to them and getting to know them, and avoid the physical side of a relationship.
Wait a minute, that's what we did! So really our courtship was a SUCCESS!"

I thank God everyday for bringing me and Adam together the way He did. I can come out of this with all the respect and dignity that I went into it with. How so? I never gave Adam anything.....and I don't mean material things, if you get my point. Adam never asked anything physical of me. He respected me as any man should respect a lady. I thank God for making Adam the man he is.

What am I saying? Through all of this I have gained a best friend! I can't tell you how many hours we spent just talking, getting to know each other. We know each other inside-out and will never look back with regrets on our 'physical side' of the relationship.

So even though we'll always have the memory of our courtship, we can look back with no regrets. We can move on in life, stay connected, and be friends with out any awkwardness.....since that is ultimately where our courtship lead us.

So Adam, if you're reading this, I want to say Thank You and let you to know that you really are and always will be my Best Friend. I type with tears in my eyes......I know you've been in Hampton less than 24 hours, but I already miss my best friend. I promise I'm not counting days, but I'm looking forward to Thanksgiving so I can cream you and Wray in Jenga :-)
And as I said at the beginning of this post, you are pretty amazing....even if you can't wink ;-P

I pray God's best for you this year; I know he has great things planned for you!

With all that said, here are some pictures of stuff that I should have been blogging about all summer :-) Enjoy.....

My summer started with attending Adam's graduation from MC.

Here I am at the graduation with one of the coolest guys ever, Adam's Pap.

This one may sound silly, but thats ok. I had to sell my first car :(

Here she is, just moments before she left my driveway for the last time.....

I also made sure Cosette had her 'summer dose' of sugar :-)

What are Aunts for, anyway?

Wray took me for a ride on his new motorcycle...of which

he is quite proud.....

......took advantage of some photo opportunities :-)

And last but not least, became the queen of Jenga :-P

November 2006 - Present :-)

Ok, ok....so I lied. Its been more than a few days. Before I started this post I checked sitemeter to make sure that people were still reading my blog......it appears as though I still have as many readers now as I did a month ago, so I'll continue with this post. ( I didn't want to post this up if no one was reading....) Get comfy....its gonna be a long one.

When I start reading someones blog I like to find out why they started blogging. Many people have shared these reasons with me: boredom, 'my new hobbie' journaling, venting :-), pleasure.....etc.

Me? Why did I join the crazy world of blogging? My reason just so happens to be 6 feet 2 inches tall :-)

But let me back up to, oh, lets say November 27th, 2006. I was invited to a friends birthday party, where I met a friend of my cousins. His name was Adam. I remember driving home that night thinking, "Wow, what a nice guy. Too bad I'll probably never see him again." ( If I had only know :-) )

So, the weeks go by, and Adam starts showing up at my church on Sunday mornings and Tuesday evenings. ( he attends a church down the road) I'm gonna be totally honest here.....by Christmas, I was hooked. Any time the church was planning an event or my friends were getting together, I'd pray that Adam would show up. :-)

Little by little, we started talking. When my Mom had open heart surgery in January of 2007, I was sitting in the waiting room and I received a text message on my phone. It was Adam, checking on Mom. Over the week that my family stayed in the townhouse near the hospital, we talked just about non-stop. If we weren't on the phone, we were texting. Yes, Jaime....I do remember conversations I had with other people that week :-P

Okay, now let me jump ahead. We spent basically the entire summer together.....until August 24th, 2007. Adam left for Master's Commission. For those of you who are not familiar with Master's, its a 9 month discipleship program. ( more info at masterscommission.com ) We were both excited about this opportunity for him....except for one little detail. As a first year at Master's, you are under a covenant.....no relationships. The 9 months is meant as a time to grow closer to God without the pressure of any outside relationships. It was bittersweet: We were both excited for the time to focus on God and search Him out, but at the same time we knew it wasn't going to be easy.

So, I said all that to say this: that is why I started my blog. It was a way to 'communicate' with Adam, without actually talking to him :-) I had no idea so many other people would find my blog!
He came home for Thanksgiving, at which time the closest I came to seeing him was seeing his car parked in his Church's parking lot. Thankfully though, we did at least get to spend some time together over Christmas....with lots of family and friends surrounding.

He graduated from his first year back in May. Which brings me to another point.....that is why I haven't been blogging near as much. I've been a little preoccupied catching up the past 9 months.

So where are we in our relationship now? As of a few days after his graduation, we have started courting. Courting?
One of the things that made me notice Adam to begin with was the way he treated girls, and the respect he showed towards them. We soon found out that we both agreed on the way a relationship should be handled. Avoid the physical side and concentrate on become strong friends.
Which would be the definition of courting.

We have been so encouraged by my sister and brother-in-law. They also courted, and now have an amazing relationship within their marriage.
I was also on another blog, (the link on my page: High Calling ) and read the story of Beverly's courtship. It is so encouraging to read about other people who have the same experiences.

My plea: I know Jaime, and occasionally Beverly, read my blog. If the two of you (or anyone else I may not know of) have suggestions or stories of any sort, they would be greatly appreciated. I love reading how it worked out for others.

Please pray for us, as we are still seeking God's direction in this. We don't know where any of it will lead, but are keeping God in the front row.

Ok, I'm done now :-)

( Sorry I don't have a current picture. The most current one I have on here is under my April 27th post, "Prayer Request." ok, ok, so he was more than a good friend :-) )

The Best

This is my family..........

Ok, so ithis is my family almost 19 years ago.

This post is dedicated to my Mom, in honor of Mothers Day. She has dedicated many years of her life to not only raising her children, but also giving them an education....which isn't always easy ;-)

When Wray and I were still just toddlers, she would be trying to explain fractions to Jaime while the two of us were pulling on her arms asking for play dough, cookies......

an-apple-peeled-cut-up-and-put-on-the-yellow-plate-with-salt......:-)

(just for you mom :-) )

While Mom was careful to make sure we all understood fractions, carbon, horizontal vs. vertical...etc....she was even more concerned that we all had a strong faith in our Lord, Jesus Christ.

Hours, Days, Weeks, Months she spent with us studying memory verses, going over practice questions, and loooong drives to quiz meets where she spent her entire day dedicated to us. With some friends from church, we put together a top notch quiz team (if I may say so myself) and she was always the first to encourage and support us. This picture shows Jaime with a quizzing trophy.

Mom always wanted her three children to have close relationships with each other. Her dream was for the three of us to stay close once we were grown. And I can honestly say that she did an excellent job. :-) We obviously had normal sibling squabbles when we were young, but we remain close to this day.

Even when Jaime went off to college, we were still a 3some......

So heres to you Mom! To the years of your life you dedicated to your family ( and the years to come ). We may not express this as often as we should, but we all appreciate every thing you've done for us! From putting extra salt on that apple :-) to late night talks when we needed it most. You definitely are the Best!

We Love You Mom!

Happy Mothers Day!

A Story In Pictures

Last year about this time, I went on my first plane ride...

...and traveled with this group of friends...

... to visit my brother, Wray...

...who was a student in Master's Commission in Florida.

On our way down, we tried to leave this one on the plane.....unsuccessfully.

And this one obviously wasn't having a good time.

We then tried to knock this one out by hitting his head

off a few door frames. Again, unsuccessfully.

Everything that was going on made this one go a little crazy...

...she then spent the rest of her time chasing little green frogs.

It can be said, however, that we

enjoyed beautiful weather on our trip...

...and were all a little sad to get on the plane again and travel home...

...especially when 2 days after we returned,

we were greeted with this....

The Night of the Zombie

Okay, embarrassing story, but its too funny not to post :-)

A few nights ago my family watched the movie "I am Legend". (a must see.....very good movie) In this story there are, for lack of a better word, zombies. They usually jump out from around a corner, and even at times from out of nowhere. They made us jump a few times and had me a little jittery.
When the movie was over we headed back upstairs to go to bed (it was about midnight). I remembered that I had forgotten to feed my cat before the movie, so I opened the front door to check on the status of her food dish. Empty. Leaving the front door open, I ventured out to the garage to get a cup of cat food. When I returned to the front door, it was shut. Not locked, just shut.

I thought I left the door open. Oh well, its late and I'm tired.....I must have forgot I shut it.

With that thought in my head I reached for the doorknob, turned, pulled, and came face to face with this thing that screamed in my face and sounded a lot like one of the 'zombies' from the movie. I screamed twice as loud and three times as long as this thing...... which, when finally stopped screaming, I realized was just my dad who had decided to give his youngest daughter a heart attack.

My screaming like an idiot is not an uncommon thing, unfortunately. When I'm startled my first instinct is to scream. Not gasp, jump, or even back up. But Scream. My poor youth pastors wife....We met around a corner tonight and I screamed in her face. You see, I scared her too but she didn't scream. She said quite calmly, "Oh, you scared me!"

I loved "I Am Legend" but for the sake of my families ears, I might wait a while until I watch it again......or any other thriller for that matter.

The case of the broken alarm clock

Do you ever just stop and think 'why'? I did that twice this week and I still can't figure out 'why'. Here's what happened.....

I set my alarm for 6:00 Wednesday morning. I had to leave the house by 8:00am and wouldn't be back until late evening, so I wanted plenty of time to get stuff done before I left for the day. My alarm clock thought it would be funny to not go off and it kindly let me sleep in....until 7:30am. Needless to say I was running a little late all day.

Second instance.....
I set my alarm for 7:30 Friday morning. I had lots of stuff to do before work at Noon. My wonderful alarm clock felt bad for making be late on Wednesday and decided to wake me up extra early..... 1:30am!

Why?............. I had set everything correctly each time........I guess its just time to buy a new alarm............

One of those days

When things are slow at the restaurant where I work, something strange often happens. Why? Simple, pure boredom. ....but tonight it got a little out of hand. It was extremely slow.....not just a little slow.....extremely slow. I work as a hostess so I get to see the expression on peoples face as they come out of the kitchen to tell me what happened. (The hostess then finds the manager :-) ) The person usually looks a little nervous. But I was sitting at the desk tonight and one of the cooks came out of the kitchen with an big grin on his face. Here is the conversation that followed,
(Keep in mind how slow it was. We were all pretty bored........)

Cook: Did you see the big mess in the kitchen?
Me: What big mess?
Cook: From the dishwasher!
Me: No, what happened? Did it break again? (our dishwasher has a knack for breaking :-) )
Cook: No, half a bottle of dish detergent got poured in!
Me: How did that happen?
Cook: Justin (the dish washer...the person, not the machine :-)) did it
Me: On accident?
Cook: No! He wanted to see what would happen
Me: And.....
Cook: Bubbles are everywhere! The dishwasher overflowed into the sink and bubbles where coming out of all the drains! Even the one in the back! And the floor is soaked.......hahahaha


I then walk to the back of the kitchen, and sure enough, piles of suds are being mopped up.

Needless to say, the floor around the dishwasher is sparkling, and the kitchen has a nice detergent smell to it :-)

True Love Waits

In the past few posts you have heard about my hand therapy, my niece and nephew, fun times with friends......but so far I haven't posted about who I really am. The main reason I have slacked on doing so is because I knew it was going to take some thought and I never have that much time to sit in front of the computer and think. However, I just finished closing up at work and have a few hours before my relief comes so now seems like a good time.

When I was around 14 years old I read a book called "I kissed dating good-bye" by Joshua Harris. http://www.joshharris.com/joshs_biography.php After that, there was no changing my mind. I made a commitment to God and myself that I was going to be different. I didn't want to date a guy just to say I had a boyfriend; I wasn't going to kiss a guy just because I liked him; I was rock solid.
I have only God to thank when I tell you that I still live that out to this day. Living out a commitment like that in this world isn't easy. There are all sorts of influences telling you that you're wrong, or that your weird for not having a relationship, or someone telling you that "you will never get married because you're not allowed to have a boyfriend"..........None of that mattered to me. Yes, it hurt. Yes, it was hard. But so totally worth it.

Around the age of 17 I felt God leading me towards a ministry for young girls ( jr. high ) I wanted to be that voice of encouragement. As soon as I graduated high school I held an 8 week purity camp for girls. We went through the book by Dannah Gresh called Secret Keeper Girl. http://purefreedom.org/
Whats the big Secret? Simple: Your purity. A secret is something that is kept between 2 people. In this case, you and your husband/wife. If you spread the 'secret' around to all your friends, whats so special about it now?

This is how I explain purity to the girls. (Remember I'm talking to 8-12 year olds)
"Your purity is like a box all wrapped up in shiny paper with a beautiful gold bow on top. Now, lets say you're in a relationship with a guy and you give him your first kiss. He just tore the bow off the top of your shiny package. The next time it goes a little furter and he rips off the ribbon. Eventually you give yourself away completely and he tears off the paper leaving you with an empty cardboard box. Time passes and you both move on, becoming only memories in the other persons mind. Well, in walks your prince charming! You fall in love and get married.......but all you have left to give him is an empty cardboard box. The gold bow is gone; Even the ribbon and shiny paper are gone. Now you wish you hadn't given away the best part of your gift."

I want to reach out
To girls before they tell the secret: Tell them of the love of Jesus Christ
To girls who have already told the secret: Tell them of the forgivness of Jesus Christ


You got the short version :-) I could go on for hours on this subject......but now that I finally did this post I will talk about this again later on.
I'm glad that my readers out in blog land now know some of Kristin's heart........not just hand therapy :-)

But for now remember that True Love Waits. First find the unfading love of Jesus Christ, and use that as your example.

"I am committed to Purity for my future mate because my Heavenly Father has lovingly instructed me to do so."
--Philippians 4:8

Friday....and very early saturday morning :-)

Several of the churches in my area hosted a 7th Day Slumber concert on Friday. The youth staff at my church was in charge of helping the bands to set up and tear down their equipment (which included clearing of the stage for the next band during the concert). :-D Lots of fun! The four bands were Sherif, Manic Drive, After Edmund, and 7DS.
We arrived at the church at 11:30am and didn't leave until after midnight......and then the six of us (Pastor Jim, Chris, Jeramy, both Elizabeths, and myself) decided we were in need of some early morning food at Denny's. :-) We didn't leave Denny's until 2:00am which meant that we had just spent a total of 15 hours together. We all had a lot of fun though and I'm thankful for the new friends I meant around March of last year.
Anyway......Our day was filled with lots of sound equipment, listening to sound checks for a few hours, eating dinner in the same room with one of the bands (After Edmund) and Elizabeth Taylor deciding that her dads hair was in great need a some 'Men's gray cover-up' :-D
So, here are some pictures of the bands and the youth staff dying Pastor Jim's hair in the Janitors closet.....
(I used some christmas money to buy a new camera because my old one went klapooie.....it seems to do pretty well at concerts. Elizabeth Walker was having fun trying out all the different settings.)

Elizabeth looking way too satisfied to be dying her dads hair





We had to close the door because we were getting a line of
people outside the Janitors closet watching the 'youth pastor
from Trinity getting his hair dyed'.

The finished product...

Jeremy, a 7DS band member



The lead singer for After Edmund. I had never heard this
band before but really liked them.

7DS bass player

Joseph Rojas, lead singer for 7DS

Hand Therapy

In my next few blogs I am going to be telling a little about myself---just so you know a little bit about who I am as you are reading.
I'm sure I will be mentioning hand therapy on here at some point so I will explain why I make such frequent trips to the hand therapist. A little over a year ago I was diagnosed with "Raynauds Syndrome". With Raynauds, when your brain tells your body that its cold the nerves in your hand react too severely....basically cutting off the blood supply to your hands. This results in sore hand/finger joints, dry skin, and redness. I had been trying special creams but gave up with those when they stopped working. I did some research and found out that there is no cure, and not many doctors have looked into it.
However, I found a therapist close to home who is very interested in Raynauds and was more then willing to see what he could do for my hands. Over the past few weeks I have been doing experimental therapy called 'anodyne light therapy'. We weren't sure if it was going to help but...well, you decide..............

This is my hand about 1 1/2 years ago. Its kinda hard

to tell in this picture but they were extremely red and dry.

This is my hand today, about 6 hours after therapy!
I had been praying for a long time that I would find
something to help my hands. I'm giving God the credit
for finding hand therapy! :-]