Well for the past week until today i was on a fast from internet and text messaging. My pastor, Khris Kennedy, had preached on it couple Sunday's ago and i had never really understood the whole idea of it and that its not just from food. It can be from things that consume your life daily. The internet[facebook] and texting is too often what i'm doing in my free time. So i decided that it'd be good for me to fast from it. It was hard, yes. But, entirely worth it! God opened my eyes to things in time spent with Him that i'd been praying for Him to for quite some time. It was a great week and experience! As well as i was able to complete reading 21 of the 27 books of the New Testament in their entirety[i've set a goal to read the Bible front to back by the end of the year]! i don't know how i did it considering i usually hate reading, but i couldn't put it down. One night i had sat down to read my bible and later looked at the clock and 2 hours had passed without me knowing it.
Praise God this weekend wasn't as difficult as i expected it to be. It being the three month marker of my close friend Michael's death i expected a difficult weekend after how i had dealt with all the other month markers of his death(for some reason it hits me hardest around the month markers.) God's answered my prayers and given me strength and comfort to cope with the loss of my friend and its such a blessing. I'm finally able to see other sides to the whole situation. Yes, i'm sad and i'll never forget Michael, but it was all part of God's perfect plan, and the mission God sent Michael to earth on was over. I can't live life dwelling on the past, i can't change it. Michael is in a better place, he's dancing on the streets of gold! And someday when my Savior takes me Home i'll see him again!
Oh and one last thing....i happen to be part of the 1% of the people who get a pneumonia shot who have a freak reaction to it that causes a red mark(now a beautiful bruise) the diameter of a softball(at least) and to swell above my shoulder and gives me a horrid cough for almost two weeks! its just wonderful!! haha my mother has never had to get my a prescription cough syrup in all of my ALMOST 18 years of living until now....and this was caused by an pneumonia shot for immune system testing that i won't get results on for three months they said! woohoo.
hopefully i'll get some sleep...been up coughing all night
and just took the rest of my prescription cough syrup in the bottle :/
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