How awesome a God do we serve! One who reveals Himself in the most mystical
ways!
June 04: CT Scan showed kidney/gall bladder stones. Ultrasound, October,
nothing! Yet a treatment indicated that there was something seriously wrong as
it worked "to give me the benefit of the doubt" by my urologist, to whom my
primary care doctor sent me. There is much to be learned from new treatments in
this field which are non-invasive.
I was extremely ill from Sep 17 to Nov 19, but couldn't be treated because
testing was being done of numerous kinds. Every test was negative. The
frustration and exhaustion was taking its toll, and I didn't have the energy to
do anything but what I absolutely had to, and offline, most of the time. Too ill
to sit and write as I am, now. I wasn't eating and lost almost 20 lbs - not a
fun way to do this! Last night was the first full night's sleep I've had since I
became ill. The pain was excruciating - abdominally, side ways and under my
right rib cage.
I lived off Tylenol and my allergy medication which wasn't working.
Then one day, I "FOUND a NOTE' which stated I'd been treated for a serious
intestinal condition called, "H-Pylori" twice within two to three years.
Recollecting the excruciating pain and nausea, sleeplessness, the symptoms
became real and identifiable with that of years past.
I was started on a regiment of medications, and sick as I was to take them
because they upset my system, within a week I began to see a difference.
God is one of mysticism and His ways are filled with mystery. How could I
possibly find a "note" from years past and recollect the same symptoms at a time
when tests were showing nothing?
I was having palpitations to as high as 107, and I didn't know how to take my
pulse but my heart was racing one evening after seeing the doctor. Not wanting
to upset my husband with his forthcoming carotid surgery, I called the doctor's
office. The assistant taught me how to take my pulse. It was nearing 107.
Medication was sent, and it controlled it. Heart tests of the most sophisticated
kinds were done from San Francisco. NOTHING was found, three weeks later!
I was gasping for air because I have allergies/asthma. A bottle of prescription
which I had neglected to check, drew my attention. I called the pharmacy and
learned it needed to be taken on an empty stomach. For the last two days I can
breathe normally.
The intestinal infection is being contained.
The doctor sees me in three months.
Some of these things could not have happened by accident or coincidence.
Providence definitely played a part in all of it.
And, as much suffering as I went through, I am willing to have my body broken
into tiny pieces so that He can restore my spirit and put me back together.
As we began to leave our doctor's office, I said: "You call us the miracle
couple. The miracle is the faith you keep in God as you carry Him in your
heart."
Remember St Paul when he said something like this:
"I ran a good race;I fought a good fight;I kept the faith."
Always tell yourselves when you hit the point I did, when frustration sets in
that God is walking the walk with you and entrust your cares totally onto Him,
for I know that these among many other incidents came directly from Him.
I finally seek Him to break my body into tiny little pieces so that my spirit
can be strengthened and put together by His Holy Spirit.
Every agonizing pain, discomfort, sleepless night I said: "Lord, I offer you my
sufferings in reparation for my sins and thank you for your Presence in my
Life."
Each time you face such challenges, pray for your doctors so that God will make
His Presence know, and ask Our Lord, "Make your presence known" in the name of
Jesus and see His miracles as you wait for His answer in His own time and see
what majesty a King we serve.
Entrusting our lives totally to Him is very hard to do in the flesh. But as we
learn to live in the Word, Prayer, Meditation, and Spirit, our world transcends
to a time and place we've never been taken before, and we can feel His loving
comfort and embracing of our hearts and struggles.
Fear, doubt anxiety, worry and even sickness doesn't come from God. Fear is
Satan's way of destroying our faith. And, during the most difficult of times, we
cannot give up our faith for that is where we connect with a Father who
constantly watches over us with His unconditional love, our Sacred Heart of
Jesus.
Thank you for your generous hearts in praying and understanding when I wasn't
able physically or emotionally to be online, yet you wrote me comforting words
and prayers. And, know that each one was responded to by my own in my dawn hours
as I shared with my God and yours seeking His Holy Spirit to come into my life
and give me the gifts of patience, endurance, perseverance, and discernment. I
prayed for Him to inspire our doctors, and as I went into their offices or to
labs, I invoked that same request: "Lord, make your Presence known."
I shall forever be grateful. I'm back on meds after three days, and know that I
will get better. But what amazes me is how I found that note which helped the
infection to be identifiable and contained just as I was in agony and pain
without looking for it!. Nothing is coincidental nor accidental but
Providential. I recognized the same symptoms, and back tracked to two times
through the years when I had been treated for the very same ones.
All thing are possible through God for those who believe in the name of Jesus
Christ, and this is but the tip of the iceberg.
Rose [email protected]
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