Life Storms
It's funny how a day can go , starting out in perfection and then ends in a torrential storm. Just as the sun comes so does the rain. It's no choicer of person nor does it take on any particular gender, race or age. I see the storms in peoples life on a daily basis , some so bad you think it will sink them. It's amazing the strength of the human spirit and also how fragile it can be. Two sides of the same coin you might say. It depends on how each storm is approached and how you go through it.
Having friends and family that have been through every storm that you can imagine along with the patients that I have taken care of. Storms of infidelity, pain, loss, devastating diagnosis's of Cancer, ALS, heart disease and others unmentioned. From the young to the old it effects them all.
I have watched each one and how they work they way through the pain not to mention some that I have been through and still deal with from time to time. The main thing is that remember is that we aren't in control and that isn't easy. We all want to take control of what we have no choice in. I have seen the effects of abuse at the hands of a parent on a child. The child was my friend in high school. I haven't heard from them in years but I assume that they are still alive and hope are well. Hopefully they found a better life to the one they had as a young child. The last I heard from them they were in Japan and that has been many years ago. They wore the scares of what they themselves inflicted on themselves trying to escape what was being done to them.
Seeing each day of the effects of what others have gone through from attempted suicide, when they have come to the point where they feel like life is no longer worth taking another breath. That's sad isn't it? To think a child of thirteen would get to the point that they thought it was only way out. Young men that have suffered the effects of war and the scenes they have watched that has caused them to take their own lives.
I have seen Heaven through the eyes of a dyeing patient more times than I can count. And about as many glimpses of Hell I rather forget. You never forget a patient telling you to get their feet out of the fire and they live to tell others about it. I've experienced a presence I can't explain but you can tell when it is good and when it is evil. I've been visited by angelic beings so I have been told by my patients and at times in the very presence of God at least once.
There is nothing like a experience taking care of a family member that looks over your shoulder and he asks the man behind you, which happens to be your deceased grandfather, and asks him if he's going to take them with him.
Storms hit each and every one of us but only God can help with them and to see us through each one. Psalm 107:29 reminds us of the power of God, He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. God in his power has the ability to still the most frightening storm with a wave of his hand or the sound of his voice. Your choice and mine is to believe he can.http://teresaarrowood.wix.com/lifestorms
Having friends and family that have been through every storm that you can imagine along with the patients that I have taken care of. Storms of infidelity, pain, loss, devastating diagnosis's of Cancer, ALS, heart disease and others unmentioned. From the young to the old it effects them all.
I have watched each one and how they work they way through the pain not to mention some that I have been through and still deal with from time to time. The main thing is that remember is that we aren't in control and that isn't easy. We all want to take control of what we have no choice in. I have seen the effects of abuse at the hands of a parent on a child. The child was my friend in high school. I haven't heard from them in years but I assume that they are still alive and hope are well. Hopefully they found a better life to the one they had as a young child. The last I heard from them they were in Japan and that has been many years ago. They wore the scares of what they themselves inflicted on themselves trying to escape what was being done to them.
Seeing each day of the effects of what others have gone through from attempted suicide, when they have come to the point where they feel like life is no longer worth taking another breath. That's sad isn't it? To think a child of thirteen would get to the point that they thought it was only way out. Young men that have suffered the effects of war and the scenes they have watched that has caused them to take their own lives.
I have seen Heaven through the eyes of a dyeing patient more times than I can count. And about as many glimpses of Hell I rather forget. You never forget a patient telling you to get their feet out of the fire and they live to tell others about it. I've experienced a presence I can't explain but you can tell when it is good and when it is evil. I've been visited by angelic beings so I have been told by my patients and at times in the very presence of God at least once.
There is nothing like a experience taking care of a family member that looks over your shoulder and he asks the man behind you, which happens to be your deceased grandfather, and asks him if he's going to take them with him.
Storms hit each and every one of us but only God can help with them and to see us through each one. Psalm 107:29 reminds us of the power of God, He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. God in his power has the ability to still the most frightening storm with a wave of his hand or the sound of his voice. Your choice and mine is to believe he can.http://teresaarrowood.wix.com/lifestorms
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