All our lives we have heard people talking about health. Healthy relationships. Healthy appetites, healthy crops (Y’all’s beans sure look healthy!) healthy attitudes…healthy whatever you want to add. Many times we disregard sage advice. We know better, right? Or….we’re doing fine. Maybe later. There’s always time…
But, in truth? The whole concept might actually not sink in-truly sink in-until we experience an interruption of our own. Isn’t that how it always goes? We know all the right words, and read all the right books, and have all the right phrases down pat…for everyone else. What about when something actually happens to us? Do we respond with the same words to ourselves? Read the same books we’ve suggested? Play the same music we’ve sent to others? How is it, that when the tables are turned, nothing seems to work immediately- like we thought it would for them? I honestly get a nudge from my spirit to send, or recommend, or say- certain things…so I do. And, I am glad I have, because I know I was led. For that, I don’t apologize. BUT. If I ever sent you something that really just made things seem worse? For making you sad, I’m sorry. For ever thinking or acting like you should be better-faster-I’m sorry. I have a habit of saying “God’s timing is always perfect!” And I believe exactly that. His timing always is. How we react (better yet, respond) makes all the difference. I’m no saint, y’all. But I am still (slowly) wrapping my head around what’s happening there. In my head. An interruption. (We interrupt this broadcast-to bring you a word from our sponsor…..) Have you ever known an interruption was not a mistake? Not an accident? Not something to take lightly? Please pray that I’ll get whatever lesson He’s stopped me, to teach. I don’t want to repeat it. Thanks.
As a child, the adults warn that we need to watch our health. As an adult, we say the same, but don’t alway feel it applies to *now*….until something happens. Isn’t that what wisdom is all about? When we are made aware of something, we then know. Can then accept it’s truth. And lastly, can make the necessary adjustments. 🙂 There! Wasn’t that easy to type?? (rolls eyes….)
Here’s the hard truth: We can be aware, but not accepting. We can be accepting, and have zero desire to make even one adjustment. The three go hand-in-hand. “Therefore get wisdom, and with all thy getting, get understanding.” Proverbs is filled with wisdom, and how important it is, to us. We’d be wise to pay attention. Would you like to hear a song?…. smh. <3 (PS. Music is a powerful help. God can use the words to a song to speak louder than your own. And that’s important, because we all know our own voice is by far the loudest we hear.)
I’m so grateful for every comment, every phone call, every message, gift, fellowship….I’m grateful for it all! Thank you!! It means the world to me that you care. The prayers? For those I’m most grateful. And, I can tell you haven’t forgotten what’s up. Thank you, again. There are so many horrible things happening in the world, and all around. You may not know this, but we don’t even have a tv. There are too many other options if we really want to watch something, but realized we simply didn’t need a tv. That all started with the “Mental Fast”… have you ever done it? WOW. That can change everything! :)! Part of it is, no tv. Meaning no news. NO NEWS! It’s the most depressing, negative, non-positive way to start or end your day, y’all.
I am a person who likes to think about happy things. Positive things. Things that make people smile with joy. This is who I am. Encouraging others is what I’m called to do, and I absolutely love it when that happens!! Is it selfish to ask you to keep praying? I’d very much appreciate it. The enemy is waging war in my brain, and I’m fighting! I’ll occasionally hear “Heal quickly!” -and I’m reminded that this is not a surgery from which I’m recovering. (-and very grateful, by the way!) It’s not a broken bone. (-though I am tripping over things more often than I care to admit.) It’s not a cold, a virus, or even the flu. (-again, I’m very, very grateful!)
It is a crazy trick playing out in my brain. My own body attacking itself. Honestly…don’t we do that with the things we tell ourselves? We’ve got to truly think about what we think about. I’ve never been more aware of that very thing. MS. What is it? I wondered the same! This may help:
“What is MS? Multiple sclerosis (or MS) is a chronic, often disabling disease that attacks the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord). Symptoms may be mild, such as numbness in the limbs, or severe, such as paralysis or loss of vision. MS is thought to be an immune-mediated disease in which the body’s immune system attacks myelin, the fatty substance that surrounds and protects the nerve fibers of the central nervous system. The damaged myelin forms scar tissue (sclerosis). Often the nerve fiber is also damaged. When any part of the myelin sheath or nerve fiber is damaged or destroyed, nerve impulses traveling to and from the brain and spinal cord are distorted or interrupted…”MS Walk
I am definitely experiencing an interruption. I am also intentionally doing what I can, to help during this process. “Time isn’t wasted, if nothing is taken for granted.”
Like my mom’s old pressure cooker, in order to make something truly wonderful-it had to blow off a little steam every now and then, during the cooking process. Thanks for listening, y’all. I’m trusting something wonderful is happening. And now-you may resume your regular broadcast programming. <3
#Rich #TheRichWay #Health
Plus-sized faith today-
“Winning the MS-Mind Game”,
Donnarae
