Monday, October 26, 2009

Shunt Revisions, The flu, and Small Specific goals

As most of you know my sister Bethany has spina bifida. This means she also has hydrocephalus, or spinal fluid on the brain which does not drain correctly. In order to pump this fluid out and allow the brain to function normally, a shunt is put into the brain. For some reason I have not researched and therefore do not understand, some shunts malfunction often. Bethany is having her shunt replaced today for the third time in 12 days. I am praying that this is the last one, at least for a while.

My sister Esther had the flu on friday and saturday. Now my poor Dad has it. I hope and pray I don' t get it. It really makes me nervous when my Dad gets sick, because he is so rarely sick that it is always really bad when he is.

Racquel and I were talking yesterday and she said that she has decided to make small specific goals for herself. We are so alike in the area of dreaming so big that it overwhelms us when we get down to making our dreams happen. So we have both resolved to make smaller specific goals in our lives changing one thing at a time. Progress not perfection as flylady says.

I am so happy to have good friends and an awesome pastor. We have been having very serious services lately as god has been warning us against the sin which has crept into our youth group. I am so thankful that my Pastor has heeded the will of God and carried the burden for our souls. I am also thankful that my close friends and family have heeded his voice. Friends in the church are so important to me. I take my friends very seriously and I know that these are the days when Godly friends make all the difference in my life. Over the last couple of years I have drawn closer to two girls in my church who are fast becoming close friends. These girls have become my encouragers. I am so thankful for this as often my relationships are more mentoring and encouraging on my part and sometimes i need encouragement from others as well. It is also good because these girls are closer in age and maturity level to me then some others I hang out with. There is only one other girl who I think is close in maturity to me, but unfortunately we have a bad habit of gripping out our problems. Sometiem sthalking about your problems in ok. But sometimes it is just a waste of time as there is nothing we can do but pray and talking about it just makes us depressed. We are working on not complaining so much but it will be a hard habit to break.
Ok well that is little bit about where I am at.

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