Sometimes the last person I can give grace to is myself. I am a whole lot more patient with others, than myself. One thing heart failure has taught me is that I can’t control how I feel. I suppose to a certain degree I can, with what I do and eat, but I can’t control…
This past week, I was able to step away from the worries and wonders of what God is doing in my life and heart. Not that I put HIM aside, but the frustrations, disappointments, and heaviness of it all. We were able to go on my family’s vacation up north here in Michigan for a…
I don’t understand. I find myself asking the whys all too often; especially this go around. Over the past week, I have been on the brink of tears numerous times and sometimes that wall of sandbags collapsed and the river overflowed. There is just so much I can’t wrap my mind around and often feel…
First of all, thank you for all of the prayers, text messages, and love shown once again! They truly keep me going during a time that didn’t go quite like we had hoped. Though we know God sees, God knows, and God continues to hear! I was able to come home on Thursday, for which…
Sitting in my little cubical of a hospital room, awaiting to see what a new medication will do to my heart, I curiously and intently listen to the conversations that occur in the busy hallway just outside of my door that separates my own battle with those that are also battling the same thing. In…
The day before we left for Alaska, I had an appointment in Ann Arbor to address the next steps in my heart arrhythmia journey. As many of you know, I had a subcutaneous ICD implanted in February, to protect my life if I suddenly went into cardiac arrest, since I am at a very high…
