Two years ago my life completely changed. I was married and on the way to adding a child to our family through international adoption. I thought my future was set and I thought it was bright. We had just moved into our dream home with extra rooms ready to fill with children. We both had settled into careers we felt called by God to do. Then it all seemed to change in an instant. I was diagnosed with RA, my husband left and filed for divorce, and that adoption was lost to another family. I was CRUSHED, I was devastated, I was deflated. I also went into survival mode as I started undergoing chemo. I could not process the pain, or the loss, or the grief I felt at that time...I had to walk away from it in a sense and just let God take care of me. That he did...I for one was miraculously healed 8 months ago from this dreaded disease ending the course of chemo and 13 meds total. He helped me to resolve the fact I have two children He has given me to parent and I have learned to have peace in that. I'm finding I'm more and more content in being single because I feel less and less alone. I have NO plan where I am to walk long term...I have NO IDEA as to what He is calling me to in my life's work...but what I can tell you is I have faith in His plan for my life...
I was on a tight wire and was suddenly and unexpectedly taken off balance...I'm learning to fall trusting Him to catch me. In fact I even sometimes get that expectant stomach flip right before the catch. I'm also learning to stay there in midair suspended by Him...and I'm learning to rest there until He sets me upright again...I use to fight the unbalance, the fall, the catch, and the suspension but you learn things in all those places you would never know about any other way, and they all have to do with the intimacy we can only share with Christ, one on one, face to face, heart to heart... it is a precious place...for those of you who know me and at times worry, do not...pray, but don't worry, for the Great I AM holds me even in the fall....
2 Corinthians 1:4 He comforts us whenever we suffer. That is why whenever other people suffer, we are able to comfort them by using the same comfort we have received from God.
A Legacy of Touch
8 years ago
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