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12/14/2021

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In my current season of being “set aside” I have been listening and watching more. People seem frazzled, being pulled in multiple directions, feeling like there aren’t enough hours in the day to get everything done – much less go holiday shopping to find the perfect gift for your family, friends, co-worker, or colleague. So, I thought: “Let me help!”
 
          My second book has been recently released and I have been told by many that it would make a great holiday gift.  Don’t take my word = read the encouraging words of Christen Morrow (Young Life) and Tracie Peterson (Award winning author of over one hundred books, including a USA Today best-selling author:
 
          “You’ll laugh, you’ll cry, you’ll journey with Care as though you were sitting with a mug of hot cocoa in her Alaskan living room by the fire as she encourages your heart to press on through the battles of life…and you will believe you can as you hear how she has, through seemingly unsurmountable obstacles with hilarity, joy and transparency.”
Christen Morrow Ara
Southwestern Divisional Coordinator, Young Life/ Capernaum Ministry
 
 
“           Care Tuk is a warrior extraordinaire with a sense of humor that just won’t stop. She has a way of telling a story that will keep you smiling throughout the day as you recall some bit of it to mind. More important, she isn’t afraid to stand firm for the Lord and in Him. As a writer, she shares her good times and bad, but always that thread of her faith is there to encourage. With all she’s been through she gives the phrase, “the Lord isn’t through with you yet” new meaning. I’m privileged to call her friend and to recommend you pick up one of her books and a cup of something warm to drink, and enjoy the ride.
            Tracie Peterson, USA-Today best-selling and award winning author
 
For easy shopping and more information go to
            www.caretuk.com/store
       
Books ordered by December 20 ‘should’ arrive by/before December 25th! And thanks for letting me shop with/for you! Blessings! and s’more
s!                               

 
                                                                                                                        

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Don't Wimp Out Now Available!

10/20/2021

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I am pleased to let you know, that at LONG last, Don’t Wimp Out! Finding Faith, Courage and Victory in Life’s Daily Battles  is now available! 
 
To order go to www.caretuk.com and go to the Store page.
 
We are mailing in packages that accommodate 1-2 books (media mail), 3 books (Priority padded envelope), 12 books (Priority medium box) and 18 books (Priority large box.) Allow 2-4 weeks for delivery.
 
I hope you enjoy it as much as I did writing it, and that you will be blessed and learn a few things you didn’t know, too!
 
We have been excited that several doctors have bought for their patients and staff, insurance agents ordered as a “thank you” to their staff, as well as others. They say they make great
“No Trick/All Treat”, Thanks-for-Giving” and other people are  planning for holiday gifts.
 
An e book and an audible book are in the works, so stay tuned! 
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It's here!

9/29/2021

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Don’t Wimp Out! Finding Faith, Courage and Victory in Life’s Daily Battle
is in print!                   
I hope to have it available to you SOON!!  
  

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Seasons Change

6/28/2021

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IT’S SOLSTICE WEEK UP HERE IN THE ALL BUT 4 HOURS OF LIGHT. WE REVEL IN IN. WE OFTEN FORGET WHAT TIME IT IS, AS FOR A SHORT WHILE IT WILL BE HARD TO FIGURE OUT IF IT IS A SUNRISE OR A SUNSET.
 
SEASONS CHANGE. WHILE BY MOST STANDARDS WE HAD A MILD WINTER, THE GROUND WAS STILL FROZEN IN PLACES. WE JUST FINISHED PLANTING THIS LAST WEEK – AND EVERYTHING IS ALREADY UP AND GOING! WE LOVE BEING ABLE TO BE “FARM TO TABLE.”  EVENING CONVECTION SHOWERS HELP SO WE DON’T HAVE TO WATER, AND 65 DEGREE F WEATHER IS GREAT TO TAKE BREAKS AND SIT ON THE DECK ON.
 
WE CONTINUE TO LOVE BILL BEING RETIRED. ONLY TROUBLE IS, I FORGET WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK IT IS! WE ARE FINDING THAT LESS IS MORE, QUALITY OVER QUANTITY AND CHOICES STILL HAVE CONSEQUENCES.  SO, PAYING ATTENTION TO RISK VERSUS REWARD IS IMPORTANT – ESPECIALLY FOR CARE.
 
WE HAVE COME TO THE MEDICAL POINT WHERE THERE ARE NOT MANY OPTIONS LEFT TO DEAL WITH THE HAND I’VE BEEN DEALT, SO WE WILL DO WHAT WE ALWAYS DO: ONE DAY, ONE HOUR AT A TIME. WE WILL KEEP YOU POSTED.
 
DON’T WORRY IF YOU DON’T HEAR FROM US IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS – WE ARE (WE THINK!) COMING DOWN THE HOME STRETCH WITH DON’T WIMP OUT! (FINDING FAITH, COURAGE AND VICTORY IN LIFE’S DAILY BATTLES.) THERE IS A STRONG CHANCE IT IS GOING TO THE PRINTER IN THE NEXT 1-2 WEEKS. MANY EDITS, MANY CHANGES, AND DETOURING HOW WE ARE GETTING IT OUT WILL KEEP CARE OUT OF BILL’S WAY, AND OUT OF TEMPTATION TO GARDEN WITH HIM. (DO YOU THINK 123 HILLS OF POTATOES THAT ARE UP ARE ENOUGH?!) HE PLANTED ROWS SO HE CAN WEED BY RUNNING THE TILLER OR DISC BEHIND HIS 4-WHEELER. IF I MAY SAY SO, IT LOOKS AWESOME!
 
SORRY FOR EVERYONE DEALING WITH THE HEAT – BE SAFE, AND KNOW WE ARE SENDING OUR LOVE AND PRAYERS!

 
 
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Stubborn Faith

5/18/2021

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During one of my quiet times recently, I came across a phrase that made me stop in my tracks. I kept repeating the phrase, as somehow it resonated that it was actually a description of me. What might that phrase be?  Stubborn Faith. (Ok, don’t seem so surprised for those who know me!)

I have just walked through another battle where I had to draw upon every bit of the stubborn faith Thomas Champness describes as the faith that will keep moving ahead and let God fulfill His promise when HE sees fit.  As I have shared many times before, with my medical challenges, I never know ‘who’ or ‘what’ I will awaken to each morning. This last time wasn’t just a morning – it was weeks.

I wasn’t aware how serious the battle I was fighting was at the time. I just knew it went day, after day, after day. I was only out of bed for fifteen minutes at a time, but that’s when I did my daily devotional reading and thinking.

I already knew that God sometimes allows us to be on our backs so we will be on our backs, looking upward to Him. Yet, it was during these times I saw that God provides resting p laces as well as “working” places, and this time was a time to REST and to be THANKFUL as He brought me, tired, weary and worn to streams along the way. (No more snow! We can see the river again!)

And just as was beginning to get a bit of ‘oomph’ back, I was told it will take months to recover, as I lost all the buffer I had been building the last 3 years. At first I was discouraged. Then I looked back to the gazillions of miracles and blessings that had been poured over me. And the pressure of difficult times (Care-difficult=lay low/do little!) have brought so much value into my life.
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So – how about it: want to join me in having some “stubborn faith?
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CAN IT BE ?!

4/16/2021

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As many Alaskans, the last few winters (by record keeping standards) have been pretty mild. For the most part, so was this winter. Oh, we got 100+mph winds - nearby they had gusts to 170+ mph with 150 gusts all night. EEK!  Sure, we got snow. Actually, we received a relatively decent amount of snow – a couple of big dumps of 6” or more, but hey – it’s Alaska, right?  It just hasn’t gone anywhere or melted since October.  It just kept adding up, and stayed cold until this week.
 
This year, we broke records for having 3 consecutive months below the freezing mark – with a couple nights of minus 20 or more. We were delighted when we finally hit single digits: t-shirt weather! At last! Even last week we awoke to minus 6 degrees F. 
 
Bill made a comment yesterday that while we didn’t get record ‘amounts’ of snow, our snow plow berms are the highest they’ve been in the nineteen years we’ve lived here.  Alas, all good things must come to an end. We will be in the mid-fifties, possibly sixties by next week – our ‘summer’ type weather. I usually get my best tan in April and May, so I was getting a worried we would have a never-ending winter!
 
At the height of my frustration, watching more snowflakes fall last week, I was reminded of several verses:
              Run as in the way that you are running for the prize. : 1Corinthians 9:24 (NIV)   and      We had hoped. Luke 24:21 (NIV)
Run – with a purpose and perseverance, never giving up or in.
Hope – Everlasting and in all things.
 
Two days ago , temps still in the 30’s, I took a nap.  When I woke up, Bill said –“look outside your  Refuge (my office).”  He had lovingly shoveled FEET of snow off the small deck directly outside my office. The snow had been to the door handle high.  AND he had set out my favorite lounger and lawn chair. Love doesn’t get more tangible than that!
 
As I type from the deck, you are enjoying a photo of the last of winter and and we HOPE, spring.  All is well. Tim was accepted into a Construction Union program that will last 3-4 years, Bill, with a little help from me, has been getting next year’s wood supply in – we’re about 2/3 done. I am on the 1-3 monthly “on hold”/wait medical roller coaster, still fighting the 4 active cancers – I get a lull in the scans, tests, etc. YAY!!

The book, which we pulled from traditional publishing, is now waiting for local printing bids to come in. It certainly isn’t how I thought it would go, but I’m in no hurry (read Habakkuk 2:1-3) it fits me to a “T.” God’s in no hurry!

We had a delightful time with Scott and Samantha their first sleep-over at our place. Soon we will start some garden seeds inside, but with so much snow, it depends on ‘when’ we can actually put things outside. Can’t wait to see what Bill new culinary delight he will come up with this year – Jeff and the kids got him an awesome Ninja that does everything, and it is being daily loved!
 
Blessings and s’mores! Let us know how you are!


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Where is Your Mindset?

1/29/2021

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Lately, with economic, medical, political and spiritual upheaval, in my set-aside nightly time of being silent and listening, a thought floated through. None of this is upheaval is new – it is just new in a different way than we have experienced.
 
Our parents, grandparents, even back to Biblical times there were wars waged. Food, jobs and even clothing was scarce. Locusts and dust storms destroyed crops. People got sick from a variety of plagues and medical challenges, even pandemics.  Do we read or did we hear them complain?
 
Well, as a matter of fact we did. Think of the biblical passages telling of the grumbling of lack of food/manna and the grit and grime of sand. Maybe you read about the outcomes of the Spanish Flu of 1918 where 1/3 of the world’s population was infected.  I’ve heard stories from elders in my family who shared stories of people with the “grumpies.” during the 1929 stock market crash and Great Depression  into the 1930’s.  Just this week I have heard more than my share of people sporting ‘badattitudes’ complaining about how the world stands today.
 
Laying quietly, still listening, even with everything swirling about, I had a peace that filled every crevice of my being. PEACE. A peace no mortal person could ever give me. Then I drifted off to sleep. (Hey – I can only be silent and listen for so long! Being a geezer is tiring at times!)
 
The next morning, getting comfy with my coffee and settled in my recliner for my “well-filling-time,” I read Psalm 46:5a: “God is in the midst of her – she will not be moved.” The verse was followed by words that Hannah Whithall Smith penned: “Is it possible for us who are so easily moved by earthly things to come to a point where nothing can upset or disturb our peace? The answer is yes.” (Streams in the Desert)  
 
 Was the peace that I was encountering a result of intentionally choosing to believe God and His Word (not just “in” Him) and am standing firm in Who and what I believe? The answer is YES!
 
What about you?
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what's your 'tude gonna be?

1/19/2021

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​Never Give Up
 
For those of you who know me, you know that I can be tenacious at times – or is that “stubborn”?
 
Whichever way you choose to look at how I’ve the walk I’ve walked, faced the challenges we’ve faced, I want you to know that the ONLY way I can make it is by remembering:
 
  1. Each new day is a gift. A present. In the present.
  2. Each and every day we will face situations that we may not feel prepared for, nor remembering to ask for the task at hand.
  3. Each new day, we have a choice on what kind of “tude” we will sport – a bad-attude, a glad-atiude, a sad-attude. Whatever ‘”tude” you choose, will be what you show the world around you – your family, friends, colleagues, employers, but most importantly, God himself.
We may try to rationalize that our prayers aren’t heard, that God isn’t listening. For if God did hear, He would have answered.  
 
What I have learned is, I may not have answers to the many prayers I’ve prayed, but God holds the “timer” and answer, and it isn’t the time for that prayer to be answered. But is does not give us an excuse not to pray.
 
2021 looks to be an interesting one. No one person’s difficulties or prayers are more urgent or important than another’s. As we heard so many times in 2020: “We’re all in this together.” So join me, will you, as we pray our way, praise our way, and worship our way through the year – no matter what daily life battle we find ourselves in. Let’s celebrate our differences, agree to disagree if need be, but don’t let it rob you of the blessing of friends and friendships.
 
Look at the palm of your hand. What and where will your influence take you. And if you aren’t sure? God’s communication line is open 24/7, and you will never get a busy signal, nor put on hold. 
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Yes or no?

1/6/2021

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                     After the final NO,  there comes a YES.  
                   It is on that YES the future of this world depends.
                                                      So:
  • When you hear the final “NO”, will you be open and STILL enough to hear the “YES”?
  • Will you believe in yourself enough to KNOW that YOU are part of what today’s world depends upon?
  • Are you willing to block out all the naysayers, and boldly step out and do your part, willing to put yourself out there, confidently KNOWING your ‘assignment’ even if others are NOT confident in your calling/assignment?
  •  KNOW your YES, and DO it...No matter what the cost. 
  •  Because you have already counted the cost,  KNOW that because your YES ­is THE "YES", it will be provided for  – pressed down, over-flowing, above and beyond what your wildest imaginations  could ever think was possible?
  •  I believe, because of the incredible person I KNOW you to be, that your answers will be your YES. Why? Because the direction and the future of where this world is going depends on your YES, even if others say the final is NO. Why?
  • Because YOU are UNSTOPPABLE.


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Seven Letters

12/5/2020

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​For those who know me or have followed my blog, you may recall that for the last 50 years (yes, FIFTY!) that I have asked God, towards the end of the year, to give me a word/short phrase to focus on for the coming year.
 
Over the decades some words were clear. Other years the word seemed innocuous – only to discover by year’s end that God really WAS in control and the word(s) He had given me were the exact ones I needed to hang onto just to make it through.
 
Recent words have been were LEAN IN, Trust, Fear Not and Gratitude.  One year, God asked me to stay DAILY in Jeremiah 31 – boy was that an adventurous year! 2020’s year’s word was WARRIOR. If I know NOW what the word warrior would literally and figuratively come to mean I just may have (being honest here) I would have told the Lord: “No thanks!”  But I know that doesn’t work with God – it usually just gets me deeper in the muck when I say “no.” Just sayin’.
 
Recently, I had my morning mug of  VIA Italian Roast coffee with Vanilla Caramel and Peppermint Mocha creamer in one hand (lovingly made by my hubby who despises coffee – even the smell, ) my journal in my lap, and my Bible open on the recliner arm.  I was  snuggled in my blanket that has the pattern of shelves of books on it. A perfect calm had settled over me as I sat in my new “Refuge” – my remodeled office.  Only in the span of Eternity could the paint color I chose for the walls have the name “Refuge” – Godincidence right?
 
I continued to warm myself, basking in His Word. I occasionally looked outside at the snowy landscape. The sun was rising slowly. Remember it, is December in Alaska!)  The snow and ice encrusted tree branches shimmered like diamonds as the morning sunbeams ascended.
 
It was a fitting morning to “hear “what word(s) God had in store for me for 2021. But instead of words, he gave me seven letters.  I prayed and pondered what the seven letters meant throughout. It (finally) dawned on me the seven letters, rearranged, formed two different words…my words for 2021:  LISTEN and SILENT.   
 
So now you know how to be praying in 2021 for me! Silent is not typically a word that is used to describe me! Listen, I believe is a strong admonishment. So stay tuned. I will fill you in as the year progresses!  Blessings and s’mores!
 

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    Care Tuk is a nationally known speaker, educator, and retreat/workshop leader. She has been a school, hospital, and home health occupational therapist for more than 30 years. She has been named as a Top Business Woman in America and recognized for her work with youth, disability outreach and awareness, and the American Cancer Society. 

    Care lives in Alaska with her husband Bill. 
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