The deposit has been MADE! This week I was feeling pretty down. Felt like I was pouring out every ounce of energy I had in everything I was doing. . . I just needed to be filled up again. While sitting at a traffic light, I realized I just don't know if I have enough to give today. The word came to me - DEPOSIT. I said Lord, that is it - that is what I need - can you deposit in me right now what I need. I felt an affirmation. I will never be overdrawn. Later that evening I found this verse. . . I love it when His whisper will line up with His word and promises. 2 Corinthians 1:21-22 New International Version (NIV) 21 Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, 22 set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. The first installment . . . the down payment o...
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"I'm Not Picking That Penny Up!" 2 Timothy 1:7 For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. FEAR - what is your fear? Living in fear will rob you of your greatest gift - the present. So what are you fearful of my friend? Failed treatment plan? Loss of effectiveness of treatment? New symptoms? Giving yourself shots, injections? Spiders? Clowns? LOL I will confess, the other day I had to laugh at myself. What us southern folk call a real belly roll laugh! It was God's way of giving me a sound mind. God has a unique way of getting our attention and can reshape our thought process if we let Him. So I experienced God delivering me from a spirit of fear and bring to me a sound mind. If for just a brief moment in time, all while laughing hysterically in the grocery store parking lot. So here is what happened, I spotted a penny on...
Your Prayer is Heard
Most of all this is a story about prayer. It is not any work of my own doing, but the work of our Heavenly Father. All the credit and glory goes to God. So, here we go - It was getting bad folks. The day I received the blood work results, Xrays, and consultation at my Arthritis Clinic . . .I had to make some quick decisions. I was told about treatment options and given the aggressiveness that Psoriatic Arthritis was showing, it seemed liked going straight to a biologic treatment was needed. Either by infusion or injection. So what in the world is a biologic? Before I could even ask I was told what it would cover with the disease and then that next lovely part - "let's talk about the risks and side effects". At that moment I had to believe that God had lead me to the right place to get the right diagnosis to get the right treatment. So many unanswered issues with my health may have just been resolved. The pro...
It really does clean! Immune system boost is an Additional PLUS!
Ok - I know, Essential Oils are all trendy now. I have known for years the benefits of a few. But when you have to find ways to boost your immune system and do some research - you will be directed down the essential oil, herbs, vitamin pathway for sure. I've been trying the herbs and vitamins. My friends in the Psoriatic Arthritis Community know all too well that you have to fight off infections because your immune system is compromised with many of the treatment plans. And if you get too sick, you cannot continue your treatments! So this is important to keep trying things that might help. So here is the latest thing I have tried and quite frankly, I was shocked at how well it works! Read up on all the news about THIEVES - yes just like a thief. There is a back story to this blend of oils and you can research for yourself, but legend has it that the blend protected grave robbers from getting sick while they were stealing item...
What good is a car that has run out of gas - a great place to take a nap!
What good is your car when it runs out of gas - Well - a nice place to take a nap! In doing some research tonight, specifically about rest - which we know is important - we often push ourselves to a melt down. But we feel guilty when we do not get it all done. I found this scripture - and inserted my translation! Don't judge me folks - I am keeping it real. Psalm 55:6 New International Version (NIV) I said, “Oh, that I had the wings of a dove! I would fly away and be at rest." My translation - Oh how nice it would be to fly away as peaceful and quietly as a dove (with no one noticing) swiftly (right now) and take a nap. How quickly can I get some! CAN I GET AN AMEN? But really friends - we push until we are out of gas sometimes and then we are worthless to ourselves and anyone else. I'm guilty as charged on the pushing through side and often feel even more guilt when I say - "I'm not cooking tonight" or "those chores can wait". ...
Meet Psoriatic Arthritis
April 15, 2018 “Meet Psoriatic Arthritis” Saying hello to Psoriatic Arthritis for the first time. Here is the first impression - sneaky, illusive, moody, temperamental, and the most destructive person you will ever know. That is how I would describe the disease if it were a person. My story, may be much like yours. Symptoms for years, confusing symptoms, would come and go. A rash here, a bad neck, lower back pain, irregular heartbeat, irritable bowel syndrome, eye inflammation, dry eyes and I could go on - but you get the picture. None of the symptoms ever consistent enough to be explained. There goes our elusive and sneaky friend. But then one day Mr. PSa took over for too long and for good. Just like an enemy wears you down until you are beaten. Your friend turns out to be your opponent - and has become your worst enemy. That is when you fight back. But how? For me it meant doing some research. It also meant some s...
My new "Community" . . . and it is Well WITH MY SOUL April 10, 2018 Recently I felt like God wanted me to read a book of the Bible again - Esther. Did I want to? Absolutely not. (Don’t judge me) I have not looked at the book of Esther since daily Bible class in high school. I thought Esther was boring. It’s Old Testament - and Jesus is not featured. I’m not even sure I have heard a pastor deliver a message around Esther in all my 54 years of attending church. But that thought was placed in me to read it and it would not go away. BUT WHY GOD? Esther - really? So I read it. It spoke to me. Confirming that those whispers from God really are intentional for the time and season in our life we may currently be walking. Esther was a game changer for her people! She was placed there to be the person that God needed her to be in that given moment in time. It spoke to me that in my current situation, I am placed there ...
April 3, 2018 This morning I was thinking about how it is not Thanksgiving – but I am so grateful and thankful to God for the benefit of medicine and the intelligence He gifted to physicians. I have seen great results in a treatment plan that is working for me. Thankful and blessed and rejoicing. Later, I went to search for a daily devotional. I was sort of getting out of that morning routine. I used to make sure that was something I did EVERY morning. But the last three years I have been working full time and then came the onset of Psoriatic Arthritis. Life got very busy y’all! I still found time to connect with Jesus, still attending church, but to be honest – my private devotion time has been pretty slack. So what did I do – I Googled. A few popped up, I had read those before. Saw what I thought was a new one by Rick Warren. Have not read many of his devotionals, so I clicked on that one. First paragraph read “Give th...