A follow up!

Hello ALL! Today's PROOF is a follow up from yesterday! I shared yesterday about the MS clinic and how my Doc says I am doing great! Well today I walked 3 miles in 93 degree heat and that is a miracle in and of itself! I prayed before I started the walk. I asked God to get me through the walk and back home happy healthy and safe! He did just that! I feel a little sore but the walk itself was just fine. In fact it gave me a lot of time to be with God and talk to him! This is what I meant yesterday! I get up each and everyday that I am blessed to wake up and I get with him and put my will and my life in his hands and he always gets me through whatever challenge I have before me! To some a three mile walk may seem not a big deal but coming from a man who could barely crawl to the front door that day in 2006, this is a huge deal! I encourage you to always get with God and stay in communication with God all day everyday and you will get through anything that is put in front of you! You are a worthwhile child of God and you are loved. He is the ultimate father that takes good care of all his kids! All he asks of us is that we seek to do his will and not our own. God only asks is that we do our best to trust him and walk with purpose toward his purpose for us. Then many miracles will come to pass! God Bless you ALL!

GREAT BILL

Hello All! Today's proof of God's work in my life comes from a medical office at the UT Southwestern Clinic for Multiple Sclerosis. Over 22 years ago strange things would happen to me physically. For instance, I would bend my neck and my lower back would actually vibrate. It eventually wore off and I chalked it up as a pinched nerve. Then three years later on a Sunday afternoon my lip went numb on the left side. Then my cheek the next day and the whole left side of my head on the third day. After months of terrible doctor's, I was unable to stand and my right eye pointed all the way right. I had double vision and was extremely fatigued. I finally found a new Neurologist and he diagnosed me with Multiple Sclerosis. This is an illness that attacks anywhere and everywhere it wants. I was put on medication the next day and six months later I was back to normal. Today, 22 years later, I was at my yearly meeting with my Neurologist and she told me my MRI had no changes and I was doing great! I believe this is because I have trusted God. I cried once right in the midst of crawling to the front door to let my dad in who drove 24 hrs straight to help me, as I was so scared. After the diagnosis I told myself, this is just another opportunity for God to shine and I never once complained about having the disease and the limitations that it presents daily! Instead I walk with it daily as an example of God's loving kindness and power in my life. This disease most often ends poorly but my Doctor told me if the disease was going to claim me it would have by now. That isn't to say that it wont, but I believe as long as I trust God and get up and do my very best every day to be the best example of his love and strength I can be, he will continue help me get up and do just that! Life has many challenges! The idea is to meet them head on with God and find gratitude in the fact that whatever we are dealing with has been allowed in our lives so we may get closer and closer with our creator whom loves us dearly! So, the next time you have a struggle and want to feel bad, stand up, thank God for the opportunity to grow closer in dependence on his loving grace, and he will put a smile on your face as you see yourself walk through it with grace and dignity. The key to smiling through it is sharing it with others so they too can feel like they can face anything and suddenly your weakness became a strength in someone's life and you realize you have been of service to God through your trial! Keep your head up! I do each and everyday because the alternative is to sit in the morass of morbid reflection. Seriously, who really wants to do that? NOT ME! God Bless You ALL!

Be TRUE!

Hello All! I was chatting with some folks about the statement, "To Thine Own Self be True" And it made me think about what God is asking of me in that statement! What I have learned is being true is not just be honest in my words, thought, actions and emotions; but true to the Spirit of God within. I must be true to his will for me which is shown to me everyday by my attention to his spirit within and the tasks he lies before me that need to be addressed. I just have to say to myself, "Self, what is the correct thing to do here."

Everyday, I wake up and tasks are put before me that I know I must attend to. I must let the dogs out and feed them. I MUST PRAY, I must nourish my body with food and water and nourish my spirit and mind with spiritual readings and teachings. These I do everyday but then there is all the time in the day that is between all those things. I ask myself first, do you feel strong enough to do some tasks in addition to those just mentioned. This is being true to my emotions and strength of body. When the answer is yes, I look at things that need to be done to further what God has led me to do. For instance, today I opened my first business checking account because I received my LLC in the mail. I then went to Walmart because food was needed in the house. Then I met with some folks about spiritual enrichment! Tomorrow I will Go to my Bi-Yearly MS Neurology appointment and then I will seek what is next as I drive home from that appointment. I will ask God what he needs me to do and wait on that still small voice or occasional loud yell! I will look to see how I can further this vision of the book and spreading God's love through the things I am doing like typing this. All of that is being true to the vision God gave me over 2 years ago regarding the book and selling just enough to open an sober living center that is affordable to all! In doing so, I am being true to his will for me as it pertains to this endeavor.

Being true is about honoring all the aspects of humanity God has given me. I must honor my heart, mind, body and spirit in a way that is pleasing to God and that is shown to me everyday as long as I stay focused on him and nothing else. When I am able to do that, he always drops what he wants me to do, smack dab in front of me! When I don't see it, I simply sit and rest in his arms and wait for the next direction. Sometimes being still is honoring God's will for me in a moment that I may need physical rest or to hear him as I rest in silence and block out all the worldly clamors.

Always be on the lookout with an open mind to God in each moment of your day and I promise your days will get easier and easier and better and better!

Thank You and God BLESS you ALL!