Since I wrote last, I have had many opportunities to practise not being stuck in circumstances, but rather being free to work on who God wants me to be regardless of the situation I find myself in.
I was in Uganda a few years ago during the rainy season. Our vehicle got stuck in the miry clay - deep, red, thick clay. It took about 25 village men to pull it out with rope! Stuck in that kind of muck is how I have felt for many years and I haven't had 25 people who have been able to pull me out.
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| There were many more men up front pulling the rope! |
For me, it's hard not getting consumed by the "disability." But the last couple days I have been practising getting my focus off disability (whether mine or my daughters) and getting it on "who does God want me to be right now?"
This revelation - that I can still be the person God created me to be regardless of the circumstance of living in disability - has been incredibly freeing.
Living in disability is a huge part of what I do, where I go and don't go, when I do things and how long they take, why I do things, and how I do things. I can't escape living 24/7 engulfed by this. BUT, disability is irrelevant to the WHO. Who I am is separate! I am free to be the "who." The who I am can fly high above the circumstances of the rest of my life.
2 Thess 2:16-17
May our Lord Jesus Christ himself and God our Father, who loved us and by his grace gave us eternal encouragement and good hope, encourage your hearts and strengthen you in every good deed and word.
NIV
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