New year, new beginnings?

So, it has been a while since I updated this blog. Partly because I did not have internet access, but also partly because things were just so bad there for a while that I could not find the silver lining in the rain cloud that hung over my head.

There for a while, pain was getting to be so severe for me that I felt like I was, as the old REM favorite goes, "losing my religion." I am sure you have been there, too. Things are just so bad. You're praying, and it just seems like nothing is coming together like you'd like, or that you are SO desperate for...

But, in the midst of some ever present trying times, I have been graciously smiled upon my the Lord. I FINALLY have a brand new, state of the art wheelchair that I have been needing for a while. Someone  whom I do not know, but am ever so thankful for, paid for my chair anonymously. Thank you, Lord, I am feeling SO much better. I still have an appointment with an orthopedic doctor/surgeon to see just what is going on with my hip after the fall that I had in early December. I am hoping that some PT will fix what ails me.

I am slowly trying to get moved in to a new place, and that is not without its challenges. I am so thankful for my church family who has been walking along side me in this hellacious journey I have been traveling since my return from California. I am still praying that the needs I have will be met fully so that I can get back to some sort of normalcy and life as I know it.

There is a major water leak in the NEW apartment, which, if I am being honest about it, makes me a little nervous since I already lost one apartment and my belongings. Every morning, it sounds like a waterfall in my bathroom as water is POURING out of the ceiling! Not normal, and I hope this gets fixed ASAP.

While I am so thankful for the many donations that have come my way, I am still hopeful that the things I hold dear to me can be salvaged. Won't you please pray for that, too? I would appreciate it.

Here is to a better start to 2013 than the ending I had to 2012. :)

Here's to moving forward!