April 2:
Remember my new year’s resolution? Well, maybe not resolution, but my word for the new year, “surrender”. I just keep learning more and more about it, and today, 1/4 way through the year, opportunity for practical application appeared in the form of physical stress that brought on a full-blown grand mall seizure, as I was on setting out on my trip to return to Texas. I’ve had a seizure disorder since I was a pre-teen, and though my episodes are sporadic, they do seem to follow a pattern of sorts.
God is so good, through all of our hardships. On the way to the airport, my son put in a teaching cd on the topic of God’s grace. Fr. Thomas Richter gave a wonderful talk about trusting in the Lord, and many of his points caused me to reflect on my own need to trust in God and surrender to His will for my life; Specifically, how his grace is imparted to us in the places and times when we are most powerless
The classroom of dependence is the holiest place in my life. If I learn how to trust in the Lord, is either the holiest place or the place that drives me to insanity, depending on how I choose to react to it; either trusting in God to provide, and receiving that provision, depending on His providence, or trying to get rid of it, or trying to be self-reliant through it.
Luke 15:29-31
John 5:19,30
Matt 14:22-33
April 20:
I do not have any recollection of writing this, nor do I understand where (if anywhere) I was headed with it, so I’ll leave it as it is. Maybe I meant to click publish and forgot…I am not completely with it for a few days after a GMS, to be honest, I’m surprised at the coherence of my thought above, since it looks like it was that same evening that I wrote it.
New Things 
I am so sorry to hear about this seizure. It seems like it’s been some time since the last one before this. I am in awe of your words of faith written during the time of the GMS.
Praying for you daily and I hope all is well other than this episode.
Thank you, Kat.
It’s been almost seven years since my last one. I am in awe that the stress of the last four years has not triggered one sooner, THAT is God’s grace. Instead, I got one following a very happy time, where I was good and tired from all the activity, lol. God has a wonderful sense of timing and humor, doesn’t He?
I had the exact same thought.