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
