Welcome to week Eleven of Documented Faith and to the 11th week of 2016. I have to admit with the clearest mind I have had in 3 weeks that the past 11 weeks have been a do-zee. Thank you for all of your prayers, cards, gifts, flowers and messages. I appreciate each one of them and each one of you. All of this was not part of my plan for 2016...but really, it is not my plan.
#duh.
If you want to just continue on with Documented Faith and not read the rest of this blog post, I just ask that you finish reading this paragraph and then head over to Documented Faith. There is another NEW link to the content for 2016. Changes are happening, will continue to happen and they are all good. PLEASE do not get discouraged with change. The changes I am making are so that it is EASIER to navigate what I am doing, where I am teaching, what I am selling and weekly messages and verses for Documented Faith.
If you look up at the header right now, you will see a row of dotted circles with words in the middle. Each one of these are links to a different place. For instance, if you click on the dotted circle that reads ETSY, it will take you to the new ETSY shop where you can get the Documented Faith Kits.
If you click on the dotted circle that reads Documented Faith then it will take you to where all of the weekly messages are. You will be able to download the weekly verses, see what I am doing in my binder
and be reminded of what the monthly focus words are. This months focus word is DEVOTE.
Yay for simple...
Okay now I will continue on with this blog post.
I had no idea that when God plopped the word PREPARE into my lap last November as my word for 2016 that this would be what is was going to mean. All of the time I have spent in bed, on the couch, sleeping and cancelling events and workshops has prompted many things that I have needed to write down either on paper or in the "notes" part of my iphone. When something has popped into my mind whether I was asleep or awake, I had to take note of it.
My AMAZING WONDERFUL AWESOME Dr. that is taking care of me now was also my OB/GYN who delivered my boys 17 and 20 years ago and again, in addition to my family and friends, I am in the best care. It is CRAZY that a problem or two I had during pregnancy reared its ugly head on top of the problems that we were trying to solve and take care of and she was right there to not only dig deep, look close, listen to me, pay attention and diagnose but also find answers to issues from 17 years ago! The body is a fantastic and complicated thing and we must pay attention, take care and PREPARE ourselves for life.
With all of that aside, I wanted to also share something that was one of those things that popped into my head probably at about 2:30 am. This is something that I do not recall ever sharing online. Since a very young age, I have "arm-wrestled" with depression and have taken medication for a really long time.
Gulp. As I typed that last sentence, I just sat here and stared at it.
When I was younger, NOBODY knew. I was embarrassed, ashamed and never told anyone because the world had attached a tag to it of being weak (it sorta still has that tag but my hopes are that by sharing it and being vocal, it will help others.) In addition to that, I have also always arm wrestled with hormones so it was always a double whammy, dang it! An ongoing lifelong game of "Whack-A-Mole." Add in big events like marriages, births, divorce, training and running for a marathon and things like that, those things tend to be stress hormone suckers for me and I become, by all account, a whirling dervish (even though I have since learned on some random tv show that a Whirling Dervish is a type of dancer)
ANYWAYS...with all of that shared, I now have to go lay down and rest! Just know that it is going to be an ongoing topic of discussion both here on the blog and in Documented Faith. For now, just click on the dotted circles above and check things out.
Thank YOU for ALWAYS getting me and my blah, blah, blah.....