and onwards one goes

 

2025 already!

Sorry I can't blog much these days.

Blogger does not work on my phone,

I am often not on my chromebook, 

and just don't have time for everything...

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I wrote the following on social media.

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Well. I got a lot to be thankful for. I got to see my doctor today. I have always expereinced such understanding from her, she is very kind. I have a mild sinus infection. I was hoping it was just a cold but it's not bad enough to need antibiotics, which I really don't want unless it's super needed. I did not need a chest x-ray.

{back story on Friday I was told by a different medical

professional that I would need a chese x-ray}

Friday was so hard. But I am learning as I go. Healing takes a long time and when you have expereinced trauma, it takes way longer than you expect to heal from it.

So I got to eat in NYC at my favourite place

(tea and sympathy) which I hope will make it.

Prices are going up, taxes on imports too

and they have a lot of things from England,

and I really hope they will be OK.

Growth, at any age, I find, is not easy or straightforward. I have been blessed with some good night sleeps. I often suffer from insomnia so when I have that blessing, I don't take it lightly.

I've been slowly reading some Corrie ten Boom books,

I used to read her when I was a young teen and young adult.

Some people, even just in books,

come back to you in your life just at the right time.

I am finding her not only instructive

but very comforting and simple.

But what God did through her is very humbling - to go through that sort of hell - as even she describes it - the consecration camps -

and later forgiving her enemies and telling people all over the world that God their Father loves them

and that Christ is full of forgiveness and love...

it's really a deep comfort,

seeing what she did by God's will and strength...

My favourite tea (toast and jam by yorkshire tea)

is discontinued sadly, I made two orders from amazon of 3 boxes

each because it's my favourite.

It comforted me with warm cups of tea

for the last few years. I am glad, I hope, God willing,

that the packages will come safely and

I will have some left to enjoy.

But also I see that God gives one thing to comfort us,

then it is slowly taken from us and we must trust God that something different, and even better for us, will take it's place...

In the book, Ladder to Heaven, detachement is the bottom rung.

It's always what I am working on.

But I know the secret:

if you see yourself on the bottom, someday,

by God's mercy,

God will lead you to Himself, who is LOVE

and you will find yourself safe in the arms of Jesus, which if everyone knew such loving arms,

they would run to Christ without fear because Christ's radical, accepting love is the greatest reality that exists,

warming and saving us.