Stress happens. You can be the calmest, coolest, most collected person on the planet, but moving, living in a construction zone with a frustrated and tired handyman DIYing it, starting a new job, and facing the start of a new school year will take its toll on your body. Or at least it will mine. And its a trap to fall for the comfort foods, fast foods and other stuff you can eat that makes you feel better for a little bit. Or at least its a trap for me. Everyday for the past two weeks my hands have been swelling and this week I've been getting sharp shooting pains in my hands/knuckles/fingers when I grip something. To the point I couldn't even pick up a half gallon of milk or my purse. It's better today. I can grip things normally, but my right hand throbs. My body does weird things with stress, sugar and flour.
There is a semblance of order in the house, this side of the staircase anyway. If you walk around the corner you'd think you were in a different house. So as long as I stay on this side, we're good.
I'm fighting the dark cloud that looms over me right now. It seems to come back when I'm sleep deprived, under a heavier than usual load of stress and eating an American-sized portion of sugar and flour. I'm fighting with good, godly sisters holding up my arms, {Being genuine with one another. I think in part that's at least some of what it means to, "...confess your sins one to another that you may be healed," and "... bear one another's burdens."} casting my cares upon Him because He cares for me, and recalling out loud the promise that He is working all things together for good for me, to conform me to the image of His Son.
All things. For good. To make me more like the Son.
Worth it. Totally worth it!
Quieted,
Sheila
