Oh where to begin, Friday night after an amazing community group meeting I came home and swam laps for 30 minutes. Then all of a sudden I got really sick, weak and just UGH feeling! I then spent the next 32 hours battling a weird headache, muscle and body aches, fever and much more! I laid around and slept a lot but just couldn't get comfortable and the thought of eating made me vomit...literally!!!!
Those hours felt like an eternity. I laid around, my mind so active thinking about all I wanted and had to do yet my body couldn't move at all! I laid paralized with pain. Then I realized how blessed I am!!! See for over 3 1/2 years I battle fibromyalgia, it was the hardest time in my life. Your mind works but there is this fog that doesn't connect with your body and when it does your body doesn't respond because of the pain. It feels like a prison! You see the world you want to be apart of but you can't reach it because of the pain.
I have been fibro pain free for 5 months and I praise God for it!!!! I have this new lease on life and one that I won't take for granted!
That was flashback part one, now flashback part two: today in church while the message focused on the path we are on they showed several videos on Ghazvini Learning Center. This school has touched my heart since I first walked through the doors to mentor there back in March 2009 (although I wasn't there long because the school year was ending and I got a job - it really had an impact on me). It felt like a spiritual war zone, yet I related to the students because my life was once that jacked up. I also related to the teachers because they are fighting to save their lives...I try to fight for those God puts in my path.
Today's message got me thinking about how Jesus came from Heaven to save the lost and broken...HE SAVED ME!!! My life flashed before my eyes today...all the junk that could have taken me out but God came for me even though at the time I didn't know Him and didn't know he cared or existed for me but HE SAVED ME! See by all accounts I was put in arms way so many time and made many bad decisions of my own that could have cost me my life but I get it...God saved my life for a reason, a purpose and I can't keep what he saved me from a secret between he and I...it shows his love, mercy, grace and glory. What if my story or even your story gave a stranger or someone in your life hope...wouldn't it be worth sharing?
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