I seem to go through fazes of blogging. I think it's time to start again. I've had several friends mention to me lately that it seems like I should start again.
Life has been interesting lately for me. My mom has been sick this whole month of December due to a huge kidney stone that was causing blockage and infection. This pretty much throws my whole family for a loop because the mother is never sick. She's the one who takes care of everyone else. She eats freakishly healthy. (The other day I offered her a chocolate cheese brownie (otherwise referred to as Heaven #2 or Hell. haha) and she refused!) But yeah, she had surgery today to have a stint put in to let the fluid the kidney stone is blocking out, and then in about a week they're going to explode the stone into smaller fragments. Soon she should be better again. Which is good. While our family's world revolves around my dad, the thing that makes the world go 'round is my mom. I'm so glad she's okay. We've been able to have some good conversations since she's been there in bed. It's kinda sad really, but she's been able to slow down. She is wonder mother, she has 9 freakin' kids!!! That 5 of which are still being homeschooled! Hah.
I've been doing some thinking lately, realizing how much I miss reading the encyclopedias. Dude, I'm serious, when I was young, I'd read encyclopedias cover to cover. I miss it. I miss knowing things. I'm not one of those people that retains everything I've ever learned. I wish I was. But, it feels like the school learning side of my brain is atrophying from unuse. I don't like not remembering things I used to know. I hate it how sometimes I misspell words now on accident and not even realize I spelled it wrong. I used to be a phenomenal speller. I need to start learning something new. I think maybe now is the time to focus on herbs. I know I've been talking about it for years now. But, it's like for some reason, I feel like it's something I'll need to know at some point. I will need to know how to heal with herbs. God gave us so many useful plants that no one knows how to use anymore, let alone find. I want to learn it all. So, is this doable? I think so. It's just a matter of doing it. You can only put things off so much before you finally have to decide whether or not you actually intend to do it.
I was at a restaurant today and two guys walked past me with company shirts on that said something about Holistic Medicine and I kinda just wanted to talk to them. But I didn't. I was actually talking to my mom about this kind of recently, and she mentioned that she'd heard of this guy I know who does prayer healing. So, we started talking about the realities of that. Having never experienced something like that, I'd like to write it off, but I can't. People have an energy, a life force if you will, who is to say that some people somehow have the power to share their life force with another person. Who knows. I know people who have experienced it. It boggles the mind. But, I'm starting to come to grips with the fact that I don't have to understand everything. God is bigger than I can understand, and I need to stop limiting Him to what I think He should be like.
I'm deciding whether or not I'm going to go see The Fighter tonight or not. Part of me really wants to, but the other part wants me to close up the laptop and go to sleep. It's been an exhausting last couple of days.
I am so thankful for the people in my life that have been supporting me through all the trials of these last several months. There have been a strangely lot of them.
Keep stretching and growing.
Always,
Rebekkah
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