The Week in Review: What Have I Learned?

When recovering from a head injury, a doctor's Rx may include being a couch potato until released for activity...as was my prescription. I spent the week blessed with short visits from friends, meal deliveries, phone and text inquiries...and still trying to make sure I made the girls' lunches before they headed out to school amidst my headaches, dizziness, nausea and weariness. Somewhere in between, I was to be a couch potato.
Leading up to September 24th, I had a lot of anxiety about many things. Some of which were monetary concerns....

• My car needed an oil change and a likely diagnosis for arm and rocker replacement of the serpentine belt. I was RIDDLED with the anxiety of getting it into the mechanic. 
• Daddy needed a new tire from the flat he got the week before.
• My new windows phone doesn't work properly and my 30 days to return it was almost up!
• We were headed to a long weekend in NJ for a wedding, visit with family and to Carlos Bakery.
• I had a NAHU conference to attend in hopes of networking to secure a new job.
• I was bummed over an employment rejection letter I received last week.
• I was on the fence about running the Empire Marathon and packing in the miles to train.
• I was also struggling with when I could stop treating my house like it was a quarantine for lice care (since we had the critters in the house 5 weeks prior)

God whispered to my heart this week as I rested. "YOU, my child, are loved. Be STILL and KNOW that I am God." He blew kisses that settled my wrestling heart. "I will take care of you," He said.

• First and foremost, as the bridegroom loves His bride (Christ and the church), my husband laid down his life for the recovery and health of his bride. My daughters followed suit.
• God placed friends ALL around me to help care for me. I wish I could list who did what, but including the well wishes, I'd run out of room. Let me just say, my YMCA family ROCKS.
• I prayed for recovery and return to "normal". I am well on my way.
• I got a few more days in annoyed by my phone and will make it to the store just in time to beg for a better deal.
• I had to reschedule my car repair (and be at peace with it!), daddy had to just GET a tire, and we got to save some money by cancelling our Jersey trip (sad as we are to miss all the goings on).
• There is NO WAY I could get networking with a messed up face and half a brain, so maybe God still wants me home with my babies and wants me to continue loving my part time involvement with my Y?
• Packing on the last 10 miles for marathon training now? Not possible, nor safe.
• Lastly, I have given in and put blankets on the beds, stopped vacuuming every day and doing laundry every morning. I paw through my children's hair each day. I finally snuggle with my girls, unafraid of their hair. (LICE is so stinkin scarey!!)
• Realistically, I cannot train for anymore races until next season. I am ok with that.

All week, I realized how "out of my hands", my fleeting life is. When I open up my palms to the heavens and release what is not mine to worry about, God places in them His peace that passes all understanding. He reminds me that HE is in my corner and never forsakes me. He may let me fall, if only for a few seconds, just to catch me and remind me that He is still God.