This week has been interesting. I got my hair done. Yay!! smile emoticon
I got a serious cold - which apparently clogged up my sinuses and made my eye hurt. Boo! frown emoticon
We are starting small groups this week, and I am SO excited for the opportunity to hang out with fun people! Yay! smile emoticon
In my continuing eye adventures - my vision is to the point in my “bad” eye that it’s really difficult to drive at night. So I’m not going to do that for awhile. Boo frown emoticon
This is not earth-shattering, world-ending trouble - but it is frustrating and a little unnerving.
I realized this afternoon that eye issues have lasted longer than the surgery/chemo experience. And they aren’t over yet. Our awesome eye doctor (who is also a friend and hasn’t blocked me from texting him with all my eye questions!!:) told me today, “stop analyzing this.” He’s right. Basically, it is what it is - we know that I will have cataract surgery in my “bad” eye when it gets to a certain point, and my formerly “good” eye will do what it’s going to do - get better, or develop a hole which leads to surgery/face down time. But there is no time frame. It’s up to God and my eyes - not me.
I want my eyes to be back to normal. Not being able to see very well, or to work on a computer (which I do a lot of), or to see details in faces is all unfamiliar to me. And makes me impatient. And un-joyful.
BUT GOD knows exactly what we need! I have read “My Utmost For His Highest” before - but words are jumping out to me and things that I am reading make sense in a different way than they have before. Like this - HOW AMAZING IS THIS???? smile emoticon
“Huge waves that would frighten an ordinary swimmer produce a tremendous thrill for the surfer who has ridden them. Let’s apply that to our own circumstances. The things we try to avoid and fight against— tribulation, suffering, and persecution— are the very things that produce abundant joy in us. “We are more than conquerors through Him” “in all these things”; not in spite of them, but in the midst of them. A saint doesn’t know the joy of the Lord in spite of tribulation, but because of it. Paul said, “I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation” (2 Corinthians 7:4). The undiminished radiance, which is the result of abundant joy, is not built on anyth
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