Building Muscle

A wonderful thing today!  I woke up this morning with warm, comfortable muscles!  Now this might sound weird to most people, but for the last few years, whenever I would do a lot of physical work, I would have searing pain in all the muscles that got worked out.  I think people call this fibromyalgia but I never got an "official" diagnosis.  Since there's really no cure for it that I've heard of, what would be the point?  Anyway, instead of my muscles feeling like they were on fire and torn, they felt like they were glowing warm.  I could feel the tendons and ligaments pulling on my bones, the way I always can, but it didn't hurt.  I could feel the tightness of the used muscles, like they wanted to be stretched, but they didn't feel like cramps waiting to happen.  I could stretch my feet and ankles without starting a "charlie horse." This was truly wonderful, and I lay in bed for a little while just enjoying the sensations.  I'm really praising the Lord!

My feet and ankles and legs got a workout in the last couple of days from being in the studio on the keyboard (my hands are pretty strong from typing all the time, but I don't get a lower-extremity workout from blogging!).  The night before, I played the Taylor 12-string for over an hour, and yesterday, I was on the computer all day doing art and posting on Flickr for my 3 year party.  All this, and very little pain.  My muscles are tired and I think they want a break, though (and the tip of my pointer finger has been showing signs of nerve damage, but it's not bothering me today).  I guess I will give them a little bit of a rest today.  I slept well last night, and when I got up, I could walk on my hip without too much trouble.  Most of the time if I sleep heavily, I wake up with my hip out of joint and I can't put any weight on it at all.  So this is great too.

A big reason for starting this blog was so that I could document my healing!  I didn't want to go around testifying that I'd been healed of chronic pain and disability and not be able to prove it.  My doctor (Jesus) doesn't need to do x-rays of course, and He doesn't need to guess at diagnoses.  He's always right!  I've been praying for several years now, since I injured my hip three times from slipping on the deck, for the Lord to heal me.  It's in the Word, so I'm not quitting until I get it all.  But that wasn't going to do anyone else any good, so I wanted to document it.  Looks like I started just in time!  Isn't that just like the Holy Spirit!

Up Again in the Middle of the Night

Waking up isn't too unusual.  My hip is hurting again.  I did a lot of walking around yesterday, putting things away.  I made some pretty good progress with that, but as always, I had to stop before I was done.   My skin is irritated, too.  I think that keeps me awake worse than aches and pains.  It's time to lay off coffee again.  It does something weird to my nerves after a while.

I was lying there awake and uncomfortable, so I thought I'd blog a little.  I got up and turned the kitchen light on.  There was a large palmetto bug on the counter. Yuck!  Summer in Florida. I took some acetaminophen.  I try not to do that at night if I can help it, but sometimes I do.  Really, I need to take some calcium tablets, but I'm sure that would bother my stomach, so that will have to wait until breakfast.

I came into the studio to turn on the computer.  On the way to the light I ran into that file box with the broken top and scraped my leg on it again!  For the second time in two days!  That thing is getting moved first thing in the morning (I did get it out of the way).  I am paying for my procrastination.

I went to ArteZoe Central first, because it's got the praise music set on it.  I am really missing doing music now.  It must be time to get back to it.  My spirit feels better already just hearing this.  I went over to a blog I had once put on a back burner, "Spirit Eyes," my one-picture gallery.    Yesterday I experimented with the new template designer and found an image I think is really cool.  I don't have anything like this myself, so I used it and messed with the editor until I got all the backgrounds transparent so the blog post and gadgets all float in the air, so to speak.  Well, I like it anyway.  I sure want to figure out how to change the background image in the new template.  Eventually.

Tears are welling up in me right now.  The Spirit of God is just filling me up in His presence.  I was just listening to Chris Tomlin sing "Indescribable."  I am so needing to get carried away in worship!  First thing when I wake up again (after sunrise), I'm going out to the studio and minister to the Lord.  He's saying "I miss hearing you."  While I'm in His presence like this, I'm holding up some people in prayer.  Then I'll go back to sleep.  Love you, Jesus!

A Real Person, A Real Blog

I thought, since I post so many "public" types of things, that I'd give myself a space to express the personal things I deal with every day.  My walk with the Lord is real, and I wanted to be able to share how the Lord ministers to me as I deal with things like chronic pain, working at home, being married to a genius, juggling a variety of interests and projects, as well as being a mom and grandmom.  Real life is where we "practice what we preach."  So, if you want to know who I am, here it is.