Sometimes, living through the hardest thing sets you on the path to realize some blessings on the other side.
When the words started forming for this morning’s post, I started telling God that I didn’t want to particularly share this story. I wasn’t quite ready to talk about it.
Then, I looked over at a notebook my girlfriend gifted me many many years ago, for a milestone birthday, that I’m finally using.
The cover of it reads ‘Never give up on the things that make you smile’. And, I was reminded that sometimes what comes from the hard seasons, are reasons to smile.
So, here goes.
I’ve shared the last two weeks of my very frustrating season. The first week I was still dealing with it and asking for prayer. The second week, after a very expensive ordeal, getting it solved and being able to see how God protected and provided.
And now, I’m a little over a week behind it and my nervous system that had been high alert for all possible dangers is finally returning to normal.
I woke up a few days ago and noticed something. I had slept through the night. That has become rare and I’ve chalked it up to age and this bad allergy cough that I’ve had, which was especially worse at nights when I laid down.
It was awful and would even wake my daughter up in the next room. This had been going on for months.
I had tried allergy pills, hydrating, nasal spray. Nothing seemed to work.
When I woke up yesterday, my brain started asking a new question.
Is it possible my body was reacting to the heater long before I would know the heater was an issue? So, I started doing ‘research’..
Yup, my body knew.
The heater was giving off symptoms that I was not aware to even look for. I’ve mentioned before that I know that I’m allergic to dust, so I would simply try to mitigate but did not know to solve for the real issue.
Now that I’m breathing a lot better, I can see that sometimes on the back side of the hard things and hard seasons, blessings can emerge. And, I’m grateful.
This verse comes to mind: Galatians 6:9 ‘Let us not become weary in doing good, for at the proper time we will reap a harvest if we do not give up’
Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for allowing things to break so that you can fix them better than before. Thank you for providing for and solving for things that I did not even know to ask for. May I always trust you, even when the outlook looks bleak or frustrating. Thank you for always seeing the big picture and going before us.