To say that my world is being "rocked" is an understatement. In fact, as I was driving home thinking about our conversation, I came to the realization that a better term to use regarding my health would be "perfect storm."
According to Wikipedia, the definition of a "perfect storm" is: "an event where a rare combination of circumstances will aggravate a situation drastically."
In addition to the fact that I regularly struggle with phantom pains in my groin ...
A virus in my gut is now keeping me from digesting the food I eat, so most of my days are spent with the kind of stomach cramps you get from food poisoning ...
An allergy to wheat has created an auto-immune disorder causing my body to attack itself in 8 or 9 different places, including my heart, my liver, my brain and my joints, so much of my day is also spent in the kind of pain that feels like a continuous muscle cramp ...
The elimination of wheat from my diet is now causing me to go through the kind of detox that most alcoholics or heroin addicts go through ...
I am constantly dizzy ...
A new allergy has just developed to the building materials used by my church which is now giving me breathing problems while I am in the building, causing me to become dizzy and to start hyperventilating within the first 20 minutes of our Sunday morning worship service ...
And that is only part of what is happening inside of my body!
I would like to say that I am content in this situation and in one sense I believe that I am. While my doctor wanted to give me something for "anxiety," the truth of the matter is that I am not anxious about the situation. Rather, I just don't feel well!
In fact, can I be honest with you? While my brain seems to work just fine (although I am sure there are those who would debate that fact!!!), most mornings I wake up feeling like I have been hit by a mack truck!
As I was reading my Bible this morning, I came across these two verses in Psalm 31:
You are my God ...
My times are in Your hands ...
~Psalm 31:14, 15
And, that is the truth I must speak to myself on a daily basis as I walk this road!
Even though God took me through the most intense trial of my life between 2009 and 2012, shaking my faith to its very foundation and causing me to question everything I believed about God and His sovereignty, He is once again choosing to allow me to go through another intense trial.
The first one was mental. This one is physical ... and I barely have enough strength to make it through each day.
Right now I only have enough energy to keep my spiritual life on track; work on my business (in order to have an income) and focus on taking care of my health. That's it. There is nothing left to give to anyone else.
As anyone who is single (or who lives alone somewhere without any kind of support system of family or close friends) knows, being sick is difficult when you're alone!
But the truth of the matter is this: even though I feel alone as I struggle through this, I cannot trust my feelings because God promises otherwise!
Do not fear, for I am with you;
Do not be afraid, for I am your God.
I will strengthen you;
I will help you;
I will hold on to you with My righteous right hand.
~ Isaiah 41:10
And, it is my job to take Him at His word!
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