Thankful for an Amazing God
Last week I started walking again! Granted it is only a few steps, but I am so grateful for any amount. It makes everything easier and more bearable.
I have Secondary Progressive M.S. In my case, this means I have been limited to a wheelchair when out of the house since 2001, and in the house for the past three years or so.
Although I used to have a standing, walking quotient of about 5-8 minutes, that reduced over the years until walking ceased about 3 years ago. I could stand with help and a great amount of effort and pain, forcing myself to take a step or two to facilitate transfer.
How did this happen? I believe with a lot of prayer from friends, blog readers, and strangers who cared enough to pray. I had received massive doses of steroids often given to M.S. patients when they decline. You receive 1000 mg of solumedrol (steroid) by I.V. daily for a 3-5 day regimen. This helps put many back on their feet. All I ever received were horrendous side effects like migraine headaches, personality mood swings, acne, hunger/weight gain to name a few.
Recently I needed to take a dose pack of Predinsone for a different condition. Something I have done many times in my life, and several times since having M.S. I have also received daily injections of steroids for two weeks at a time due to acute asthma. No one was more surprised than I that 21 little 4 mg pills managed to get me up walking...except perhaps my neurologist! That is why I know it was much more than those little pills.
Praise the Lord! God is faithful to fulfill what he has promised. Sometimes we expect every miracle to be immediate. We live in a fast environment with drive through windows, microwave foods and instant everything. Sometimes God takes us THROUGH a situation, and sometimes he DELIVERS immediately from it. I have received both kinds. I am thankful for each.
If you reach out to him, whether you are in pain, lonely, desperate or just to commune with him...I promise you he will be there. Some of our most difficult times are when we cannot see God's work in our lives. That is because sometimes he is working in secret behind the scenes, and sometimes he is working publicly.
Either way, he will give you the peace that passes all understanding if you trust in him, and lean not unto your own ways of thinking. God's ways are different than ours. His thoughts are higher than ours. He can see our future, and is already there.
Remember, I am always here to pray for you as well. You can leave a comment or email me for a more confidential exchange.
Blessings upon you my friend,
~Bliss~


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