Tomorrow is my wedding anniversary and I will be married for 32 years. Being a wife and a mother has it's blessings, many,.... and I am eternally grateful for all I have been given. I am most richly blessed.
I am reading the book entitled "Broken Things to Mend" by Jeffrey Holland and I would like to share a quote. In talking to women he says:
"Yours is the work of salvation, and therefore you will be magnified, compensated, made more than you are and better than you have ever been as you try to make honest effort, however feeble you may sometimes feel that to be.
When you have come to the Lord in meekness and lowliness of heart and, as one mother said, "pounded on the doors of heaven to ask for, to plead for, to demand guidance and wisdom and help for this wondrous task," that door thrown open to provide you the influence and the help of all eternity. Claim the promises of the Savior of the world. Ask for the healing balm of the Atonement for whatever may be troubling you or your children. Know that in faith things will be make right in spite of you, or more correctly, because of you.
You can't possibly do this alone, but you do have help. The Master of heaven and earth is there to bless you -- He who resolutely goes after the lost sheep, sweeps thoroughly to find the lost coin, waits everlastingly for the return of the prodigal son. Yours is the work of salvation and therefore you will be magnified, compensated, made more than you are and better than you have ever been as you try to make honest effort however feeble you may sometimes feel that to be.
Remember, remember all the days of your motherhood: "ye have not come thus far save it were by the word of Christ with unshaken faith in him, relying wholly upon the merits of him who is mighty to save."
Rely on Him. Rely on Him heavily. Rely on Him forever. And "press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope." You are doing God's work and you are doing it wonderfully well. Like the woman who anonymously, meekly, perhaps even with hesitation and some embarrassment, fought her way through the crowd just to touch the hem of the Master's garment, so Christ will say to the women who worry and wonder and sometimes weep over their responsibilities as mothers, "Daughters, be of good comfort, thy faith hath made thee whole." And faith-- your and your children's will make your children whole as well.
So Shayla has been fainting for almost 2 years now for some unknown random reason she just drops. We can't seem to attach it to any triggers of any kind. As of late, the fainting episodes, which she actually does not lose consciousness in the middle of, have turned into seizures. These "episodes" last about 2-5 minutes and she doesn't lose full consciousness either. The 12 doctors that we have seen, cardiologists, neurologists, pulmonologists, etc..., have done study after study and found that she is totally normal. Hmmmmmmmmm. Well, after the last normal EEG, the 3rd one, they told us to go and see a psychologist for stress. (The same diagnosis Sarah, my sister got eight years ago. Well, we aren't above doing that, it's just that it seems that it's a long shot since Shayla is my most happy-go-lucky child of the seven.) She doesn't really get stressed much unless you light a fire under her. Now we are left with finding a great new doc, which we have done and are going to see her in a couple of weeks. YAY!
