What a life…getting real.
It has been a crazy week. No… a crazy year! I feel like I’m at the end of myself… on the edge of tears most of the time.
We moved back here to PA in August. The plan was to buy my parent’s house, and they were putting a new double wide on the property. It wasn’t ready in August, so we moved in with them for what was to be a short time. There new house was ready at the end of January! Yes… 6 months of 8 people in a 2 bedroom house (thankfully it is not too tiny…they used the entryway/sitting room for their bedroom, and we turned the living room into ours).
Our son, who is 9, has had a very difficult transition to his new school… battling bullies and depression and anxiety, and since Christmas he has been having frequent bouts of vomiting. Poor kid! I’ve been running him to Erie (1 hr) and Buffalo (2 hrs) to specialists who cannot figure out what is wrong for tests and more tests. Our other 3 children have thankfully stayed pretty healthy with only normal childhood things, although our Ethiopian princess has been having some behavior problems. Then my mom had a cardiac scare and has been sick all winter with something or other, and my mother-in-law was diagnosed with breast cancer.. again! If I had the money, I’d pack up my son (my entire family) and we would go to Lakeland, Florida for prayer and time with the Lord.
I think I’m worn out. I’m crashing and burning. Can we stop the train for minute? I want to get off!
But then I talk with my kids, or with other people having problems, and I am reminded, even as I remind them…stuff happens. This is all temporary. None of this will go on forever. As a friend of mine used to say, “This too shall pass.”
God is still there, and He still loves us. He hasn’t left us nor forsaken us. He is holding us. Even when it piles up so deep that I cannot see past it… His view is never obstructed. He sees the end from the beginning.
Blessings today to you, on this crazy ride we call life.
Heidi
I’m so sorry it has been hard. I had a friend once who said her favorite verse in the Bible was, “And it came to pass.” Well part of a verse I guess. But it ment to her that all things come to pass (on).
Blessings to you and yours….And my our wonderful Father who is Healing touch your family.
That was ‘may’ our wonderful…..
((((hugs))))) for you. Our family has been “gathering” around the computer every single night watching the revival in Florida (and myself every morning). Not because I told them to, but the kids have been drawn to it, which is not a usual habit for them! LOL! I have watch faith just build and build in my 8 and 10 year old sons as they see God moving and healing people. Not to mention what this is doing to the atmosphere of my home when all of our attention is focused on worshipping Him and giving Him our time right along with all of those in Florida.
I too have a son, my 10 year old, who has spent a year battling bullies, dealing with depression, anxiety, and throwing up almost every morning before school. It was also his first year in this school, his first year not being homeschooled. And we have gone the rounds with the doctors. I did pinpoint many of these symptoms linked to him taking Zyrtec, which he is now off of and they have decreased significantly, but not completely.
I am determined to quit running all around the medical community who just seems to want to answer problems with pills. I am grabbing the full benefits of salvation…healing, deliverance, peace, prosperity….with force and settling for nothing less for my family!
Perhaps if you can’t go to the revival…you can bring the revival to you…I’m seeing such a difference in my family.
Father, I ask for refreshing rain for HW, refreshing wind, and rest. I thank You that Your peace that passes all understanding guards her heart and mind through Christ Jesus. I thank You Lord that though chaos may rage all around, peace is parking in her midst!
Barb, thank you! That is so encouraging today!
Kelly, thank you so much for the prayers. And I’m so sorry your son is going through this too. My son is also on Zyrtec, but they put him on it to try and stop the vomiting, thinking maybe it was allergies. And we do have the same God inside of us that is there!
Blessings!
HW
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