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!