Encouragement

Today I need some encouragement. It has been one of those times when it seems like nothing is working out the way I want it to work out. I don't usually feel so discouraged but this is one of those days. I can usually tell myself, "Bloom where you are planted" and go about my day with some sibilance of normalcy. Today, I need encouragement. I was supposed to have my IVIG treatment last Friday. When I got to the local clinic one of the nurses saw me waiting in the lobby. She came over to me with wide eyes and said, "Are you here for your treatment today?" UH OH! That was my clue that something was wrong. "Yes", I said. "I'll be right back", she said. In a few minutes she came back to tell me that they forgot to order my IVIG and so I would not be able to get it on Friday but it would for sure be here on Monday. But to be sure that I called on Monday before I came to the clinic to be sure it is there. Well, of course, you guessed it, on Monday no IVIG. So, I have to wait until Friday to get part of the IVIG and then go back next Monday for the other part. I am feeling out of control.That is a tough place to be for an independent woman who likes lists and schedules.

MG likes to be fed on a regular schedule. He throws a hissy when his feeding schedule is tampered with at all. In the past several months he has been having a big hissy fit. I am beginning to feel like he is behaving himself and now I worry that I will be thrown back into the eye of the fit. Even as I write this, I feel guilty in asking for encouragement. It seems so selfish when others have many more challenges to face than I will even know. So, today, I need encouragement. And for anyone else who needs encouragement today, we can all be assured that God is in control. He sits on the throne and nothing that happens in my life occurs without passing before the throne of my Lord. Now that is what I call encouraging! "So encourage each other and build each other up, just as you are already doing." 1 Thessalonians 5:11