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!