July

My computer is fixed, and I have been blessed with being without one for two weeks. It helped me to avoid that sad feeling you get when you don't get an e-mail that changes your life. I did, however, during one boring day at work, check my Tech e-mail account that I haven't checked since March. I had 250 e-mails- all junk. The travesty of e-mail is that it was intended to save time and keep us connected to friends, but all it really does is waste time and allows junk into our lives. Of course, what would we do without it.

Healing is continueing. I'm not quite there yet, but my days are getting better. I can see God's hand working in all of this, and though I don't quite know what He is up to, I praise Him for doing something in my life in spite of the pain. I praise Him for the friends who have sat and listened and cried for me when the pain gets difficult. I praise Him for the church that I've joined, and the people that I've met who have each, in their own way, blessed me in so many ways. And I praise Him for what He is making me into. The chiseling and refining are not pleasant times, but God does have a purpose in them. I can't see it now, but maybe one day, He'll allow me to look at the larger piece of the puzzle and glorify Him even more for how He works in difficult situations.