I Know The Plans I Have for You!

Well, it has been two weeks since I posted last, and truthfully I cannot even feel that much time has passed.  I have been focusing on living in a slow motion world.  Everything else around me is moving at normal speed, but I am not.
Within the week I will be starting the adrenal therapy.  Huge life modifications.  Eating low carb or gluten free can be difficult, but for me and my diabetes, coupled with the edrenal problems, I will have to do both.  I will be taking a wide range of supplements to compliment this strange new world of eatting.  And somehow I will try to introduce gentle, non-stressful exercise into my days.
Last Friday I heard back from the specialist and will be having a hysterectomy on the 23rd of May.  I go in on the 8th for my pre-op appointment and will be having blood work and an EKG.  They want to make sure I am up to this surgery.
I would love to say I am, and I hope that I am, or at least will be with the adrenal therapy.  But it has been a hard couple months since the last one.  I have ran the gamut from pushing through the pain and fatigue to sleeping all the time.  Now I have managed to figure out how to function slower and mostly skip naps, but definitely not be as "productive" as I felt I needed to be.  I am getting done what I need to be doing and the other stuff either doesn't get done or someone else does it.  Our house is always filled with family and so they have been pretty good about seeing something that needs to be done and just doing it.  Nothing is as I would have it, if I had a choice, but that is not to be.  My happy medium is I am able to do what is necessary for homeschooling, get some small chores done, lay down quite a bit, and when I feel the fatigue and light headedness coming on I stop what I am doing instead of pushing through.
Do I know what tomorrow or even next week or month holds?  I think I do, but going through the unknown valley I am in right now just reinforces the fact that I have no idea.  Who really does?  We plan and we try to figure out where we are going in life, but ultimately we do not know.  So what is a person to do? To not feel like giving up hope, or to keep from being overcome with depression. Trust in the Creator of the Universe.  The Savior of our Souls.  The one who gives meaning to our lives.  I would like to share scripture with you that reminds me of this and what I am here for.  One God was kind enough to give to the Women's Ministry team from last year, for this year.  Jeremiah 29:11.  No one last year would have known that I, or so many others, were going to need to remember this truth.  But we did!  I pray that these give you encouragement on your journey and in your plans.

Blessings,
Stephanie


Jeremiah 29:11
11 For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the LORD, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future.


Proverbs 16:9
In their hearts humans plan their course, but the LORD establishes their steps



Ephesians 1:11-12
 11 In him we were also chosen, having been predestined according to the plan of him who works out everything in conformity with the purpose of his will, 12 in order that we, who were the first to put our hope in Christ, might be for the praise of his glory.


Psalm 33:10-12
New International Version (NIV)
 10 The LORD foils the plans of the nations;
   he thwarts the purposes of the peoples.
11 But the plans of the LORD stand firm forever,
   the purposes of his heart through all generations.
 12 Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD,
   the people he chose for his inheritance.


Proverbs 16:3
Commit to the LORD whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.