All The Day Long

Several years ago, I took my teenage daughter to the doctor for something painful and annoying like an ingrown toenail.  The doctor walks into the exam room and says, "Hello! How are you today?"  She said, "Fine",  but she's thinking, Really, sir? obviously I'm not fine, or I wouldn't be here! To this day when I hear someone say they're fine I have to wonder, especially when it's my daughter!!  But I say it too.  I'm not sure if people are just being polite and making conversation, or if they genuinely want to know how I am doing.  I always want to give glory to God, and tell what great things He has done. I want everyone to know how blessed I am to be alive, how grateful I am that I'm not confined to a wheelchair.  But how many negative details do I include?  Do they want to know that the nerve pain is constantly crazy in my hands and feet? that I must walk very carefully bec...

January 12, 2013 The day my foot slipped on the first step of a pull down ladder while coming out of the attic, and I fell 17 feet, breaking my neck and damaging my spinal cord.  I spent 5 weeks recovering from surgery and going through rehab until they decided I was ready to come back home again.  My doctor called me the miracle woman, said it should have killed me, or at least paralyzed me. But it didn't, if for no other reason than to give Him glory!! I will say, it did change me ... in many ways!   A little over a year before the accident, I bought the book, "1000 Gifts".  It's all about giving thanks in and for all things. Pretty radical!! I had just started reading it when our oldest daughter, Brianna, and her husband, Peter, who were living in Virginia at the time, had their first baby.  They called to let us know that things didn't look good, Janae had inhaled meconium and her lungs were badly damaged....