The new drug is working
Hi There,
I pray you are having a good Tuesday. I had the 2nd day of this series of IVs today and I'm relieved to report that the 4th drug they've added for nausea and acid buildup in my body that was causing the pain in the spleen/pancreas area is much better. In fact, the pain is gone - I just feel yucky while getting the IVs and for the evening afterward.
I did have the worst night sweats I've ever had last night, having to change my PJs twice in the middle of the night. It's the strangest feeling to wake up all wet - not under the arms or anything like sweating - it's just wet all over and cold. I ended up staying up from about 3:00am and reading, doing facebook, and I watched an intriguing sermon about how Bethal and Hillsong have some very disturbing practices in their churches and how we need to be careful about our influences. The pastor had some interesting things to say about how we can be supporting non-biblical things so passively - by buying their music and how churches pay to use copywritten must. As a "go with the flow" person, I hate how everything seems to have a problem in it these days. On the other hand, I am feeling an urgency to decide what I believe and be ready to stand - regardless of the consequences.
I'm tapering down on the Prednisone, curious how I will feel in a few days. I just went for a walk, expressing my gratitude that I feel a little flu-ish and headache-ie, but nothing really hurts.
I'm reading a book by Elizabeth Sherrill. She is the writer of The Hiding Place with Corrie Ten Boom. This is her story, however, and I'm loving it. I love how she and her husband spent most of their lives learning about people of faith as writers for a Christian publication, but it wasn't until they truly believed, many years later, did their lives change. I can so relate to how they thought before they believed and I can relate to how it changed their lives too. (Coming to see that Jesus really is who he said he is and that the Bible really is his love letter to us if we read it personally - and asking him to come and be their savior and lord).
I look forward to reading next a book by Corrie Ten Boom about her father. The wisdom Corrie writes about in The Hiding Place, that her dad shares with her so beautifully, is something I want more of. It's like I am excited to meet him, not really having known any of my own grandparents. I cried like I had lost a dear grandmother when I read the end of The Five Silent Years by Corrie Ten Boom's caretaker. It was so good too. I normally find it hard to read but these books have me riveted and thankful for the inspiration and tutelage in how to live well.
This book is called All The Way to Heaven, the theme of which is that heaven is right here, right now. There is the eternal, perfect heaven as well - but the people that live triumphantly here, in the midst of all the good and the bad, are those that decide they are already here - because Jesus is Lord and, as Corrie Ten Boom would say, Jesus is Victor! Hallelujah!
I pray you are having a good Tuesday. I had the 2nd day of this series of IVs today and I'm relieved to report that the 4th drug they've added for nausea and acid buildup in my body that was causing the pain in the spleen/pancreas area is much better. In fact, the pain is gone - I just feel yucky while getting the IVs and for the evening afterward.
I did have the worst night sweats I've ever had last night, having to change my PJs twice in the middle of the night. It's the strangest feeling to wake up all wet - not under the arms or anything like sweating - it's just wet all over and cold. I ended up staying up from about 3:00am and reading, doing facebook, and I watched an intriguing sermon about how Bethal and Hillsong have some very disturbing practices in their churches and how we need to be careful about our influences. The pastor had some interesting things to say about how we can be supporting non-biblical things so passively - by buying their music and how churches pay to use copywritten must. As a "go with the flow" person, I hate how everything seems to have a problem in it these days. On the other hand, I am feeling an urgency to decide what I believe and be ready to stand - regardless of the consequences.
I'm tapering down on the Prednisone, curious how I will feel in a few days. I just went for a walk, expressing my gratitude that I feel a little flu-ish and headache-ie, but nothing really hurts.
I'm reading a book by Elizabeth Sherrill. She is the writer of The Hiding Place with Corrie Ten Boom. This is her story, however, and I'm loving it. I love how she and her husband spent most of their lives learning about people of faith as writers for a Christian publication, but it wasn't until they truly believed, many years later, did their lives change. I can so relate to how they thought before they believed and I can relate to how it changed their lives too. (Coming to see that Jesus really is who he said he is and that the Bible really is his love letter to us if we read it personally - and asking him to come and be their savior and lord).
I look forward to reading next a book by Corrie Ten Boom about her father. The wisdom Corrie writes about in The Hiding Place, that her dad shares with her so beautifully, is something I want more of. It's like I am excited to meet him, not really having known any of my own grandparents. I cried like I had lost a dear grandmother when I read the end of The Five Silent Years by Corrie Ten Boom's caretaker. It was so good too. I normally find it hard to read but these books have me riveted and thankful for the inspiration and tutelage in how to live well.
This book is called All The Way to Heaven, the theme of which is that heaven is right here, right now. There is the eternal, perfect heaven as well - but the people that live triumphantly here, in the midst of all the good and the bad, are those that decide they are already here - because Jesus is Lord and, as Corrie Ten Boom would say, Jesus is Victor! Hallelujah!
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