LIFE --1 Hour At A Time!

Yes, in due time we begin to understand and appreciate God's perfect plan for each one of us. We can never judge a child of God for the sufferings, pains and trials he or she is undergoing. If we do so, we become self righteous and puffed up. Some people are angry at another Christian for not responding the way they want her or him to respond. As if they have a magic wand in their hands that will solve other people's problems by invoking certain promises of God. If that were so, then there would not be that many problems in this world because people will just invoke a particular promise of God and voila, the problem or trial suddenly vanishes into thin air. But that's not how God works. God works in His own way and in His own time and cannot be pressured by any insolent human being who would demand instant solution to his/her problem by just invoking the promise of God just like the proverbial wishes from the genie of the lamp. God is sovereign and He will respond on the invocation of His promises in His own time and in His own circumstances. We can only trust in His unfailing mercy, grace and love for us. Thanks for the post. God bless you all always.

Mel, you worded that so well! I think I will quote part of this comment when explaining to those who criticize me, why I have not been healed yet. You're very wise!
Blessings, Sheila

Sheila, you are a blessing indeed! Thank you for putting all our problems in a world context--I had to stop and ponder when you wrote that your problems were less than most people's--but in comparison to the poorer and more ravaged countries, yes, you are right!

Many warm wishes out to you and your Mom--hope the doctors can find a treatment for your adrenal problems--can't they test for it?

Dear Vivian;
So happy to see you again! I hope you will see this. I was in the E.R. so many times, very close to death. I was in shock and had very low temperature and could barely breathe. They restarted my heart the first time it stopped there, but the second time it stopped, they didn't try to restart it, and that Dr. actually sent me home in an ambulance to deal with whatever it was myself. I was shocked and felt so abandoned, and then remembered the many times I was told the gov't would not spend more money on me because I was just a disability recipient. They were willing to let me die! The hospital did many tests. The only test they have for adrenal function is ACTH (cortisol). Cortisol is only 1 of 47 chemicals that make up adrenaline. The Holy Ghost told me to reach a naturopathic/holistic Dr. that helped me once online 5 years ago. I did, and she knew immediately what was wrong and what supplements I needed to heal my adrenal glands. I felt like a new woman within a week and thought that perhaps this was my major problem for the past 10 years, and maybe I would get feeling better than I had in 10 years. After I used up my first bottle of adrenal extract, I had to get a different brand because I was unable to find a place to buy it anymore. The second brand was not as good, so I have ordered a third brand, hoping that will work better. I also saw a youtube video that explained that people who have a cupboard/pantry full of remedies that worked at first and then quit working, was a hallmark sign of auto-immune disease. When your body gets used to a substance, our auto-immune system starts to attack that new substance, so we keep needing to change brands. Mom and I have always had to change our meds around because our bodies stop getting better with one brand. We never knew how. The natural treatment of Adrenal exhaustion treats all 47 chemicals of adrenaline by providing a bio-identical hormone from cows...just as people who take insulin used cow insulin for 40+ years until synthetics were made. I am so frustrated with the abuse and uselessness of the medical world here in Canada when it comes to chronic disease, that I am finding more answers in the natural medicine world. Modern medicine is very good at acute illnesses and traumas and babies and bleeding and broken bones and infections, but they get very impatient with chronic illness, and they don't have a lot of answers there. I am allergic to almost every prescription I take, so the modern medicine world doesn't have a lot to offer me anymore. I like the whole healing attitude and lack of blame and lack of abuse in the holistic healing community.
I know you are a health care professional, and you are the rare exception to the rule in modern medicine, but not everyone is like you.
Thanks so much for your compassionate heart and for your open mind to alternative treatments and for keeping me as your friend. You're an earth angel.
Hugs and blessings, Sheila

So sorry all...I deleted and changed typos in that last comment 4 times already. I'm a mess tonight. Obviously I meant "death" not "feath". I think (hope) I fixed the other mistakes.

Other people just don't have the capacity to understand how our emotional elasticity can be stretched and snapped like a rubber band. Especially when we are rallying against the 'big, bad corporate machine' or the very real challenges of our diseases ... keep up the faith and the fight.

Thanks for leaving a comment, because it allowed me to know another lupus blogger is out there. And thanks for the insigt that our emotions stretch and snap back like an elastic band, because lately it feels like it is stretched and might break, like a thread. Your comment was insightful and needed. See how the Lord helps us by sending others to say the right thing at the right time? Keep in touch,
Blessings, Sheila

FIREBIRD---WHY CAN'T ALL HEALTH CARE WORKERS BE AS KIND AND OPEN MINDED AS YOU??? I WISH YOU COULD WRITE A COURSE FOR ALL MEDICAL SCHOOLS ON HOW TO HAVE A GOOD BEDSIDE MANNER...HOW TO TREAT SUFFERING PEOPLE WITH SOME DEGREE OF COMPASSION! I'm worn out from the medical world. I just wish YOU were my health care provider.
HUGS, Sheila

Hello Sheila:)

Greetings and good wishes:)

This is an amazing post abounding in wisdom. Yes, we don't appreciate what we have.This is the main problem for all our mental and emotional problems.

A few years back I helped a man to marry the daughter of one of my relatives. Both these people are well educated. A few days back the man called me up and said that he is having immense problems with his wife and his life has become hell. He said his mother in law is calling up the daughter every day and telling her not to listen to her husband and do what he says. As a result the daughter screams at her husband for any small thing and the whole neighbourhood can hear it.This man is put to shame by the wife.

Recently the wife became pregnant and the mother in law got very upset and she told her daughter to do an abortion. The man and his parents are very upset.The man and his father are blaming me for giving a good report about the girl. I just don't know how to solve this problem. I just can't talk to the mother in law because I know her too well. She is very arrogant. Her husband is totally henpecked. He has no say in the family. He will agree with what ever the wife says.

The mother in law doesn't understand that she is ruining the life of her own daughter. It looks like it will end in divorce.

I am sure you will have something to say on this.

My prayers and best wishes:)
Joseph

Hi Sheila:)

Greetings and good wishes:)

Many thanks for your well thought out and wonderful advice. Lets hope and pray that I will be able to solve this problem.

It is the families that are creating the problem.They should keep away and let the couple decide what they want to do with their life.

As long as the in laws want to have a say in the married life of their children such problem will always arise.

I did a good deed in getting two lovely people together.

My best wishes and prayers to you Sheila and many thanks for your prompt response:)
Joseph

Sheila
So true -we have many blessing -I tend to forget that when I am in the midst of all my trials
You ar such a good and faithful friend