Whole Healing: Weeks 6-9

I have not been keeping up with this lately.  Sorry about that.

Week 6 was about forgiving others.  Forgiveness is important in our lives for so many reasons.  The Bible talks about forgiveness in many places, and God calls us to forgive, not just because we 'have to' but because it is something we need to do for our own release, our own health.  I found this challenge difficult only in the matter that I felt the person didn't deserve forgiveness... but forgiveness isn't earned.  It is given.  And so, I forgave them.  Not because I didn't think they deserved it, or that I could still treat them as though I could trust them again (I have to be wary of this individual for many reasons, for the sake of my family and kids), but because I needed to be released from it all myself.  That is what forgiveness is for... the person doing the forgiving.

Week 7 is to believe in healing.  I wasn't sure what to make of this one.  I've always believed in healing... believed in God's ability to heal us when everyone else said nothing will work.  The hardest thing for me is anxiety and anger.  These need healing too.  So, that was my focus for the week.

Week 8 was anxiety.  What a week for that one!  I found myself saying the verse over and over this week... Be anxious about nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.  This was the week prior to my due date.  I was dealing with anxiety.  A lot.  And that prayer was repeated constantly, along with praying about the labor and delivery.  I was terrified.  Have been for ages, just wouldn't admit to myself that it was actually going to happen.  But, praying really helped.  And when my contractions started on Wednesday... just braxtons, but they continued to happen every 10 minutes until all of a sudden nothing for an hour.  They happened during the night or day, whenever they wanted to.  It was insane.  But, I'd just pray because I didn't know when labor was actually starting, and it didn't feel like labor yet.  I was anxious to know.  Nothing like not knowing.  So, all you can do at that point is pray.

Week 9 is about picking a food item to grow yourself.  I am most interested in choosing something like greens or lettuce.  I'll have to think about it further... container gardening is something I'm most interested in right now.  I have no other gardening spot.  Well, that is this week's challenge anyway.  I'm glad it's simpler with all that happened this week.  I'll post on that later... as well as another update on the 90 day no sugar challenge...

That's all I'll say for now.  If you want to see the challenges and all the other posts on this, look here.  I'm signing off for now!  Have a great weekend, everyone!