I Will Be Your Friend In Your Desert

                                                              Have you ever felt like this?

                                                                           

                                                                                 I Did.

After years of struggling through being disabled by an incurable painful disease, endless doctor appointments, surgeries, broken relationships, loss of friends with no one to help me, I felt like a dried up desert inside. Pain and suffering caused  me to feel broken, alone and hopeless. In time I finally accepted that I was not going to; "get out of my desert", unless science found a cure. My only alternative was to find a way "through" it! 

Unable to walk through this by myself any longer I prayed that God would help me.  I met some friends on Face Book.  Others who were suffering from painful diseases and disabilities reached out to me.  They understood where I was.  They encouraged me,  they were compassionate and understanding.  They also  invited me to websites, support groups, blogs and prayerchains that were helpful for them.  Visiting these places I then met more friends.  I felt like they sent me rain in the dry land of my life!  

                                       This is me beginning to bloom where I am planted.

Thanks to God hearing and answering my prayers I now have new friends and belong to a community with  others who in spite of their pain and suffering  have hope for a better today and tomorrow.  Yes, still a "desert"  until we can find cures for our diseases.  In the interim we are growing together and helping others to make our world a more beautiful place!

                                                       Do not remember the former things,
                                                          Nor consider the things of old.
                                                           Behold, I will do a new thing,
                                                              Now it shall spring forth;
                                                                Shall you not know it?
                                                         I will even make a road in the
                                                                            wilderness
                                                               And rivers in the desert,
                                                             To give drink to My people,
                                                                            My chosen.
                                                                            Isaiah 43:18