*My heart is just overflowing with gratitude for increased physical strength, emotional encouragement and decreased pain that only comes from my Great Physician! Yes, medicines, physicians, nurses, physical therapists have ALL aided in this, but ultimately my healing is from the Lord!
*I had enough energy to attend a couple hours of a ladies conference on Saturday- to be able to have the privilege of being able to sit back and be in awe with a room full of women from AROUND THE WORLD as we were reminded of the "worth of a woman" even in different cultures and backgrounds. We are all so uniquely created but intimately created by one incredible ROYAL KING. We are not commoners (okay, maybe more on that in another post!)!
*Our local Sunday fellowship prayed for not not only me but my family... what a blessed time of hope and encouragement!
*Our new "helper" has been such a blessing...providing wonderful meals and fitting in nicely with our family!
*HIS timing of my baby steps of improvement correlating with David having to return to states for his checkride...perfect!
*Completed my "Jonah" study on my own, but was able to attend the last session with my small group! (Doreen- remember my little angel from my first weeks of illness!?!?- came and picked me up for study, too!)
*Dinner provided on Sunday by our friends, Gregg and Matt....thank you!
*Dr. Nathalie remains a constant source of encouragement, wisdom and help to me! CPK number increased to 2006 this week (elevated from 1418 last week) but liver/kidney function numbers continue to decrease and overall I'm stable. Again, it seems I can't correlate this crazy number with how I'm feeling....so weird.
*Abigail and Audrey An have worked so hard on school the past two weeks!
*My heart/attitude toward school has just drastically changed the past two weeks....I've been actually able to enjoy it with my girls! I see such a sense of accomplishment in both of them. GREAT job, girls!
*Learning new exercises from physical therapist to improve slowly regain muscular strength!
*Continued to be blessed by expats who have been sensitive to my family's needs by providing tangible blessings and prayers!
*Skyped with my 94 year old grandmother....how cool is technology!
*Both girls were able to skype and be encouraged by friends/family back home this week!
*Most of all... I see a closeness in my family I've not ever seen before (and we've always been pretty tight!!!). I praise God the lessons He is teaching us about trust, dependance, love, patience and an understanding that "HIS ways are not our ways" at all times. One of my many prayers for my girls since before they were born has been "to love the Lord with all your heart, soul, mind and strength."
Like I said, my heart is just so full with thankfulness these past 9-10 days....I feel like I'm going to burst! I know I still have a lot of healing ahead of me and muscle mass/strength to regain, but when I look back to 3 months ago when my symptoms began (and even just two weeks ago when I felt such discouragement and despair) I can't help but do a happy dance! There were some days I looked into David's eyes with such fear and pain. I just didn't know how I was almost going to take my next breath or walk my next step...truly. Some days I kept that to myself because I didn't want to scare even my own husband. PTL...for HE is doing great and mighty things!
 | |||||
| Hard to believe this picture was taken when we first arrived! I can't ever get enough pics of smiles and kisses! Our girls sooooo have their daddy wrapped around their little fingers... |
 |
| ...and hard to imagine we had NO IDEA what was in store in the next few months as David received his "wings" at his special ceremony! (sometimes it's just best, ya know!). Still so grateful for the opportunity and privilege to be here! |
 |
| and....I can't wait to have the physical strength to do this again! |
No comments:
Post a Comment