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Tuesday Tips: Be Fully Satisfied

The nearness of God is our good...
not things that perish and gather dust.
It is the Lord holding our hand when we fall.
Carrying us when we cannot get up.
Securing us with His abiding presence.

He is our refuge and in Him we should boast.
Why should we go in our strength when we can go in His strength?
Crucify our flesh, Lord.
Cause our eyes to stay fixed upon the eternal.
Let us be fully satisfied in Christ no matter the affliction...
no matter the trial... no matter the comfort.

Let us continually strive to discover the richness and vastness of the person of Jesus. Though at times we may feel sifted like wheat and pressed on every side... this is all, in light of eternity and in light of the suffering of our Lord and Saviour, but a blip, a temporary light affliction.

Here is the requested update on how the MS injections are going:

I am on a 3 times a week MS injection schedule. On post-injection days I am a bit ill. I take the injections late at night, so thankfully I sleep through most of the sickness it causes, but I have to take pain meds to be able to get through the night which leaves me feeling like I have a bit of a hangover mixed with flu-like symptoms the next day. I always know I will be sick on Mondays because I consistently take the injection on Sunday nights. I have to skip a day in between each injection. I tend to have to take a look at my week and what is scheduled to choose the other 2 days to be sick... so those other days are not set in stone. I am told that these symptoms will begin to subside after awhile. Anywhere from within 6 months to 2 years.

I am typically a very active mother. I love to throw a football with my older boys, etc. All of my neighbors know that I have MS. They found out at a neighborhood picnic when I came walking up with a cane about 6 months after we moved here. We have lived here about a year now. They were all quite shocked because they are use to seeing me so active. It is not something I purposely announce nor purposely hide. It is just something that does not define who I am.

This last time that I was on a cane there was little hope that I would fully recover and be able to walk without a cane. However, I am walking without it and I can run a bit and I even managed to do back flips off the diving board this summer. To God be ALL the glory.

We are currently doing some rennovations to our home... keeping in mind that I may end up in a wheelchair. The children struggle with why I have to have the injections. No, the injections are not a cure. But they have shown to significantly slow the progress of MS. With the increase in the number of exacerbations and their severity, my husband and neurologist felt that we needed to be more aggressive in our treatment. My name-it-and-claim-it friends are still praying that I will have more faith. I am still praying that God will heal me fully or in whatever way He sees fit and of course adding to that prayer, "Not my will, O Lord, but Thine." All I desire is to bring Him glory no matter what.

I have found that the older I get, the more of a ducks in a row type person I become. So you will see on my calendar that I have marked my sick days. This past week I was sick on a day that I had planned to be well. (okay...please laugh with me... I know this is SO ridiculous)... And boy did I ever fail to rest in the Lord. As a matter of fact, I was a bit angry because being sick on that day was not on my schedule. ugh.

The Lord is so longsuffering with me. His mercies truly are new every morning.

Now go read why The Love of God is His Most Comforting and Most Misunderstood Attribute

Posted by Lisa on October 10, 2006

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4given-

When we spoke the other day, the song, "Carry Me," (by Campi, of course), came to mind, and this post has brought it to my mind again. (And I think I'll go and give it a quick listen when I finish this post). Here are a portion of the lyrics:

"Unto You, O Lord, I will lift up my soul,
Though the storms surround me
Your grace I know;
For the first time in my life,
Trials are sweet to me;
I learn to share in Your sufferings.....
Jesus, my Lord, my King

Carry me--through this world,
Lift me up when I fall,
I am weak, and You are strong
And I'll be standing on my knees;
For only You can carry me."
© 1991 Birdwing Music (ASCAP)/Carob Music (BMI)

Good, sound stuff, huh? :-)

--littlegal

Posted by: littlegal_66 | October 10, 2006 08:44 AM

Great stuff!!!!
Thank you for reminding me of this song.

Much love to you, my friend!!!
Lisa

Posted by: lisa4given | October 10, 2006 08:46 AM

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