Pain, Advil, and Surrender

So what's the point of the whole "save your back, lift with your knees" if you not only have a bad back but bad knees as well?

i have discovered that being on advil all the time is not necessarily a good thing, no matter the pain.

After a few pills are popped you begin to feel a bit whoozy and then you don't really feel much at all. I'd much rather have the pain and laugh through it than be dizzy, out of pain, and out to lunch!

A super encouraging bible verse that i read the other evening is from Psalm 73.

"Whom have I in heaven but you? And earth has nothing i desire besides you. My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever." (Psa 73.25-26)

How easily we forget the simple fact that we have a strength that comes from God alone! And how much less stress and worry we would have in this life if only we learned to place our trust in Him. Because we do falter and our flesh is weak, but God has promised that He will not put more on us than we can bear.

How precious is that promise!

I am learning, bit by bit, day by day, to place my struggles, pain, rejections, and sorrows before the One who is the only one who can fully understand our problems and give us the strength to carry on.  Through the achy joints and creeky bones and advil withdrawls, God is teaching me to surrender to His Will.  No-one said it would be easy!  But we have God's strength on our side!!

"Praise and glory and wisdom and thanks and honor and power and strength be to our God forever and ever. Amen!"  (Rev 7.12)

We're not in the Dark Ages anymore Jack...

I've finally taken a step into the world of technology and bought a MacBook.

it was a big step.

and expensive.

but altogether worth it. macs are great fun once you get the hang of them!

so for the more technological-minded folk, here are the specs on my new baby:

13-inch: White

2.1GHz

120GB Hard Drive

Combo Drive

nothing too fancy, but i don't really need something too high-tech. that would just be way too confusing...

as it is, it took me half a day to figure out how to set up the internet, WHICH I DID ALL BY MYSELF! and i'm still figuring out the just-beyond-the-basics.

s'ok, i have time on my hands every evening!

Oh, and my baby is named Jack, so if you want to refer to it in any way, use the name...otherwise it might get mad and go kibitz...;)

happy mac-ing and happy pc-ing folks!