Do you ever feel like you are on the path you should be on and you get stopped in your tracks and turned to a completely different direction? Sometimes it feels like a slap in the face or a kick in the backside of your britches – as my dad used to say. You are not alone. This has been my dilemma for the last year and half, and I feel like I’m finally getting some clarity about it.
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Practicing Gratitude
You would think after all God has brought me through in this wheelchair, it would make me grateful. But I still have my times when I lack gratitude and get grumpy. Today is an example. I don’t have any of my regular aides here on second shift to transfer me from my wheelchair to my bed. Placing me in my bed using the Hoyer lift is more of an art than a science, and it’s easy to bend my head panels, which I use to drive. If my head panels get misaligned, my wheelchair could be out of commission for several days while I wait for it to be fixed.
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So he said to me, “This is the word of the Lord to Zerubbabel: ‘Not by might nor by power, but by my Spirit,’ says the Lord Almighty (Zec 4:6).
I have heard this verse in song and seen it on T-shirts and it has always resulted in a “feel good” moment for me. This morning I had the opportunity to study it more in depth and it lit fire inside of me knowing I possess God’s power and the Holy Spirit. What an emboldened feeling!
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Diary of a Quadriplegic 