Today is being difficult.
I’m just small me.
And I’m finding today a struggle.
It’s not even lunch time and I just want to give up. I wake up tired and spend hours doing the things I have to do just to keep on living. It seems like a cruel irony that the life I gain by doing my treatments, taking my medications and eating well just gets spent again on those same things. Round and round. And for what?
I’ve read about joy in suffering and living with a bright sadness and it sounds so good. But often the people who write these things forget to tell you about the days when it’s just too hard. The days when you sit and wonder why this is a good idea. The days when the sadness seems darker than anything you’ve known before. The days when you’re living the middle of the Psalm and the praise of that beautiful last verse is so far from your lips. Those days are so real. Pain is part of the package.
One of my favourite film quotes (from The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) says, ‘Everything will be alright in the end…and if it is not alright, then it is not yet the end.’ It’s not meant to be Christian but it fits perfectly.
Today is not alright.
Today hurts.
But today is absolutely not the end.
There’s more to come. There’s better to come. There’s joy to come.
And that’s enough to keep me going.
Even today.
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Was feeling sorry for myself today… Now I've read your blog and realised I don't have any reason at all to be moaning. You are such an inspiration. Sending hugs. And yes, there are times when things are not alright. But there is much better waiting for us!!! Thank you for persevering and writing and living!! Gerda x
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WE don't know each other, I just happened to stumble across your blog a few months ago and have been following your journey through this life.
I also love that quote. and though I don't know your suffering, I know how much prayer helps and what it means to be prayed for. so I'm praying for you.
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I came home and cried into my pillow after school drop off today, in fact I'm still crying but as I read your blog today I am reminded that this is not the end and there is a much better life to come and I look forward to being with you there xx
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Thank you so much, Laura. Knowing that people are praying is one of the best things!
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Oh, Ruth! It's been awhile since I've had a chance to really read blogs, and reading this post this morning touched my heart so deeply. I have had so many of those days where it just feels like I cannot possibly go on and keep living through a trial any longer. Praying for you!
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Oh Debbie, I'm sorry. Praying. x
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Thank you Gerda. Kind words. š x
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Thank you, Cindy. Thank you for displaying your faith so beautifully in your own blogs and thank you for your prayers. Praying for you as well.
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Not sure how I stumbled across your blog initially, but I did and when I did, I found it encouraging and inspiring.
You've been in my thoughts these past few months and I have decided I am going to start praying for you regularly.
Liz
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