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Hi Kayla,
Wow, I so feel for your friend. What a tragedy!!!
That's great news that her husband got saved. \o/ Praising the Lord that he's accepted the the truth of the Gospel!
I feel her agony. Sometimes you feel useless when you become disabled to some extend. For her it's so debilitating because her eyesight is gone.
When I first had fibromyalgia 38 years ago I would go to church and be prayed for. And for quite some time.
But after a while, I stopped asking for prayer. I felt like Paul when the Lord said His grace was sufficient.
I don't know if this is what she's going through, but what I have experienced in church is that well meaning folks keep asking about your sickness or disease and then it becomes your identity.
I loved them and loved them for their concern, but after a while you the person disappears and all they ask about is how your feeling. Maybe that doesn't bother others, but it did me.
Since you're her friend, maybe you could go and visit with her and let her talk about what ever is on her heart. Sometimes to just allow someone to talk and get things off of their chest is helpful. You could also ask in what way you could be of help. That might encourage her.
I wish I could give her a hug.
These have helped me during my struggles.
Lamentations 3:22-26
The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,
For His compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I have hope in Him.”
The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
To the person who seeks Him.
It is good that he waits silently
For the salvation of the Lord.
Psalm 121
I will lift up my eyes to the mountains;
From where shall my help come?
My help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.
He will not allow your foot to slip;
He who keeps you will not slumber.
Behold, He who keeps Israel
Will neither slumber nor sleep.
The Lord is your keeper;
The Lord is your shade on your right hand.
The sun will not smite you by day,
Nor the moon by night.
The Lord will protect you from all evil;
He will keep your soul.
The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in
From this time forth and forever.
Psalm 42
As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So my soul pants for You, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;
When shall I come and appear before God?
My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him
For the help of His presence.
O my God, my soul is in despair within me;
Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime;
And His song will be with me in the night,
A prayer to the God of my life.
I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.
Wow, I so feel for your friend. What a tragedy!!!
That's great news that her husband got saved. \o/ Praising the Lord that he's accepted the the truth of the Gospel!
I feel her agony. Sometimes you feel useless when you become disabled to some extend. For her it's so debilitating because her eyesight is gone.
When I first had fibromyalgia 38 years ago I would go to church and be prayed for. And for quite some time.
But after a while, I stopped asking for prayer. I felt like Paul when the Lord said His grace was sufficient.
I don't know if this is what she's going through, but what I have experienced in church is that well meaning folks keep asking about your sickness or disease and then it becomes your identity.
I loved them and loved them for their concern, but after a while you the person disappears and all they ask about is how your feeling. Maybe that doesn't bother others, but it did me.
Since you're her friend, maybe you could go and visit with her and let her talk about what ever is on her heart. Sometimes to just allow someone to talk and get things off of their chest is helpful. You could also ask in what way you could be of help. That might encourage her.
I wish I could give her a hug.
These have helped me during my struggles.
Lamentations 3:22-26
The Lord’s lovingkindnesses indeed never cease,
For His compassions never fail.
They are new every morning;
Great is Your faithfulness.
“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,
“Therefore I have hope in Him.”
The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,
To the person who seeks Him.
It is good that he waits silently
For the salvation of the Lord.
Psalm 121
I will lift up my eyes to the mountains;
From where shall my help come?
My help comes from the Lord,
Who made heaven and earth.
He will not allow your foot to slip;
He who keeps you will not slumber.
Behold, He who keeps Israel
Will neither slumber nor sleep.
The Lord is your keeper;
The Lord is your shade on your right hand.
The sun will not smite you by day,
Nor the moon by night.
The Lord will protect you from all evil;
He will keep your soul.
The Lord will guard your going out and your coming in
From this time forth and forever.
Psalm 42
As the deer pants for the water brooks,
So my soul pants for You, O God.
My soul thirsts for God, for the living God;
When shall I come and appear before God?
My tears have been my food day and night,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
These things I remember and I pour out my soul within me.
For I used to go along with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God,
With the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.
Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall again praise Him
For the help of His presence.
O my God, my soul is in despair within me;
Therefore I remember You from the land of the Jordan
And the peaks of Hermon, from Mount Mizar.
Deep calls to deep at the sound of Your waterfalls;
All Your breakers and Your waves have rolled over me.
The Lord will command His lovingkindness in the daytime;
And His song will be with me in the night,
A prayer to the God of my life.
I will say to God my rock, “Why have You forgotten me?
Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?”
As a shattering of my bones, my adversaries revile me,
While they say to me all day long, “Where is your God?”
Why are you in despair, O my soul?
And why have you become disturbed within me?
Hope in God, for I shall yet praise Him,
The help of my countenance and my God.
Yes,I think thats very much what she is feeling. Its becoming all that people ask her about. I hear people saying "is your eyesight better?" and the questions keep on along those lines.I know people want her to be healed,but its all in Gods timing. And I do think it makes her feel weary. Ive suffered a chronic illness since Ive been 16yrs old so I understand how she feels. But she has so many people around her I really dont feel to push in and be another voice in her ear. Im just concerned shes closing herself off and building a wall.
I know you understand because people who suffer understand better than anyone else. The best we can do is pray for one anothers healing and encourage each other in the Lord. Thank you for those verses sister, when I can find a quiet time I'll try and share these verses that you all have shared with her and thank you all for keeping her in prayer.
