How does it feel like when you surrender your anxieties? Feels great, right? How about accepting that you cannot control what happens to you? That it is not your fault you got sick? Feels liberating! I have come to terms with my illness. I have accepted that this season I am now in is an opportunity for me to tell God's story. An opportunity to praise God in my lowest. If I can praise God in my ups, I can also praise God in my lows. When you accept your situation, faith enters into the equation. When faith enters, along with it comes hope. Today, I am comforted with this verse from Hebrews 11:1, "Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of things not seen." I know that I will be healed. How about you? Is there something I can pray for you?
Have you ever had an experience that you felt was unreal?An experience you never thought would happen to you? An experience that must only happen to other people and not to you? That was how I felt for two days now. I noticed my neck was bigger than what it was supposed to be. Okay, my mom noticed it a few months back and I brushed it off as having a muscly neck. Then the pictures taken last Sunday emphasized that big neck. It was as if I needed a push to have my neck examined. Being a doctor, you tend to look at the worst of things when you feel certain symptoms. I was in complete denial. A few years back, while in residency, one or our consultants noted the one of my eyes was getting "bigger". I also noticed it, but was hoping it wasn't something to be worried about. After learning my mom had hyperthyroidism, I had thyroid function tests done - which to my relief were normal. I thought my eyes needed to be seen by an ophthalmologist...