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I became excited last week; my back pain was letting up. I had finished the first 4 of the 8 weeks that I'd expected to be slowed down after getting a fracture in my spine. (The 4th one in my life!)
On Saturday, the 13th, I stooped to pick up something on the floor. A silent painful pop happened in my lower back. Just above my tailbone I've guessed.
This is a different pain. Mostly I only feel it when I bend over. I'm also hoping it will not take a full 8 weeks to recover because that part of the spine is mostly cartilage, right? If it does take as long - I will be sort'a out of commission until near the end of February.
I've managed to create a photo story of my garden of this past summer, but not the letter or a card, etc., so I feel very much interrupted in my regular plans and agenda, now held back from my extras for Christmas.
My patience is sorely tested these days. My car would not start Thursday to take me to my Chiropractor appointment, so I took a cab. (Expensive!)
A church friend came on Saturday to make sure my car would start to go to church Sunday morning. But the battery would not turn over on Sunday.
He came again yesterday and boosted the battery and I let it run for a whole hour before I went to check it.
The car was running, so I went to do some grocery shopping and banking. I came home utterly exhausted, but don't feel quite so house-bound now.
I work on the computer with the keyboard on my knees. The screen is 4 feet from my eyes, but miracle of miracles, I can read the smaller fonts!
See? When I look for them, I can find gems of joy in the midst of harder times.
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I imagine you are getting Christmas mail these days too. This reminds me of the many hours I've spent on creating my Christmas mail in the past.
My daily routines are greatly curtailed of late, but I'm still hoping to design a good Christmas card with something of a letter in it, and get all of those send out by the end of this week. But not at full strength or wound up with enthusiasm as usual, does hold me back some.
I won't give up yet. I MAY get it done after all. So I'm setting business goals and plans aside to do this first.
Feeling overwhelmed by the things You need to do yet before Christmas arrives - or your guests show up first...! Don't throw up your hands in despair.
Cast yourself upon our LORD, and ask Him to guide you to the smaller things you can do to encourage others and help them to sense your love and true compassion. He will help us to get these things done.
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Faith requires BOLDNESS. Gutsyness. Faith requires stretching beyond what you know that you can do on your own. And that's GOOD!
What BIG scary, God-sized dreams would you go after if fear wasn't in your way? What would you not hold back from doing? What prayers would you pray that used to scare you?
The God who parted the Red Sea, opens blind eyes, and raised His son from the dead is not scared by your big, faith-filled prayers…. But the enemy is.
I think it's time we send the enemy running and make our Heavenly father beam with our boldness.
Action item:
Create a simple prayer journal/record page in your
journal (or where you won't lose it). One small
column for the date, one wide column for the prayer.
Another for the answer and a final column for the
answer date.
It's SO powerful when we can look back and be reminded of the prayers that we've seen answered.
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