There is Strength in Numbers~ICSTRONG~



  Hello Friends, How are all my IC warriors doing on this damp rainy afternoon?  Today is the official last day of IC awareness MONTH, but in REALITY it never ends for awareness and us should never STOP! Can we say AMEN! I cannot hear ya! Ive had been really struggling these last few days with a Constant flare that just will not calm down no matter what I do. I know you know where im coming from and my heart hurt for each of you, all of us! When my pain gets that bad, I can’t think straight and I get severely nauseous and then it plays on my emotions and I get very depressed and feel defeated!
  Yet as the rain falls outside I find myself reflecting on my pain and my life and I said to myself, my pain outwardly and in my heart is like the rain.   The rain falls like my tears onto my pillow. Through my tears I found myself being thankful for my IC family, there really are not words to express gratitude and thankfulness and a heart that overflows with joy that God brought YOU all into my life for a divine purpose!
  Think about this just for a moment, how lucky, how blessed WE are to have one another! IC  is terrible, heart wrenching pain every single day, but every single day we can look around and we have a army of friends. No; more than friends a family that took us in under their wings, who understand the deepest pain we endure, who without judging or precomposed ideas of us, just love us for who we are, with our flaws and our tears,, we don’t have to have it together for  us to feel that love! Its without condition, its without strings attached.
   How many people do you know outside the IC family that has the kind of support we do every day! A lot of us live far from one another, but our hearts are intertwined with each other. We are blessed in that, though we live with the disease that tries so very very hard to take us out, or down, that we have the support that we do.
 If  there is something I can be thankful for in this valley were in, is that I have all of you  by my side, catching my tears when they fall, encouraging me to take another step, reminding me, how precious iam to God and to each of you. I just want to reach out and wrap my arms of love and prayers around each of you and NOT LET GO! you have no idea how much this means! The friendships that we’ve have formed  are priceless, they are  our gems that we show off to the world, because those friendships are what keep us going, when the nights become too long and we  wonder if we have any strength left in our  already tired bodies!
   We all seem to know when the others need a extra support, those words that we all need to hear, I believe in you, be yourself bravely! We all need you! Were like a chain, a chain that needs every link to make it whole. Ok the Lord brought to mind some encouraging words of a poem that I just came up with  and I want to dedicate these words to YOU ALL!
                                                            “Be Brave”
 The rain falls outside, inside I cry my tears, I cry a river of pain
I can’t see beyond tomorrow, I can’t even see beyond the next moment, Lord my pain feels like its consuming every fiber of my being, I need you now more than ever before! Hear me Lord im reaching out for your hand. The Lord hears every cry, sees every tear, and knows our pain from the very first time we cried. He bends down and wraps his arms around us, he becomes our shelter in this storm, and I know one of the ways he takes care of me his child is he sends angels in disguise as FRIENDS!
 My friends come along side me, they don’t care if I don’t have it all together! They take my hand in there’s and hold it tight  through the raging storm, as the storm rages on, they are constant, their words are like sweet honey to my spirit!  when I feel down and out, and totally defeated, they look into my eyes with such love, I can feel it envelope me, and they say” be brave” be brave” you’re a warrior, you’re a fighter, your courageous and I believe in you …
 that even though you don’t feel it now, the sun will shine again and you will rise above the pain, be brave… be brave I know you can, you can stare down this giant… be brave and fight like I know you can, God hasn’t let go of your hand and neither will I!!!! Neither will I!!! the end~

BE YOU BRAVELY~ Love YOU Warriors~ so as this month comes to a close, we go out with a bang! And remember there are STRENGTH in NUMBERS~

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