Overcoming One Day At A Time

I wrote this in April but never got to post it. Hope it helps someone :) Thoughts  at treatment today, It's the cold, unending winter storm that strikes with unpredictability, but makes us appreciate the beautiful days so much more! Our faith is the same, I appreciate even the small blessings most people overlook. Just being able to be out of the hospital, when the sun starts poking through the clouds it gives hope and a peace that transcends all understanding.  Last year at this very time I was in the hospital for 5 days right up until Easter. I was discharged with catheters in enormous pain etc from yet another surgery and complications. That time and time again has left me to rely solely on God for his help and healing. We still made it just in time for egg hunt at church, even though I was in no condition to be there my kids needed it and Jesus is the reason for the holiday after all. He rose again and so will I! I had to be in wheelchair and ...

I was in the hospital yet again with another infection that stubbornly wouldn't go away. As I laid there alone, at times I wondered what is there to learn from this season that I haven't already learned? What insight can I gain to pass onto the people in my world that this is not for nothing? I thought about the selfless woman in my life and how they are so far and few between. I thought about how God uses the simple things in life to align us with people, with women who will change our destiny if we only say yes, yet too many times, say no. Friendship, fellowship should be a part of our every day life, that is how we give and receive love.  Fellowship is not just something that we try to fit into our Christian life after we get everything else together, it should be a part of our every day life.   1 John 3:16   By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.   Galatians 6:2 (NLT)  Share eac...