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This morning, which is four days after surgery I woke up feeling pretty good. Clear headed, rip raring to go. I have to admit, I have found it difficult to be laid up, to be so tired that all I want to do is sleep. Hubby keeps telling me to chill out, to not be mad at myself since I can't really do much. But i tell him "I'm not made to just sit around'.
So anyways, I wake up feeling pretty good. I get downstairs (just 14 steps) and I'm feeling pooched. And I'm not happy.... 14 steps! that's it. I feel pooched and like I just want to nap. It's irritating. And because it's irritating I feel like a mess.... like the lad's room before I get vexed with it and clean it. I want this tiredness to be done and gone.
I want the bandages off, my garden planted, and to be able to everything I want to BY MYSELF. I don't want to need help.
But here I find myself. Needing to rely on my son and my hubby.
And I feel a mess inside.
Why is it so hard to just let it all go?
I have that in my relationship with God to you know... wanting to manage it all. Finding it hard to admit to the Good Lord that I need help.
And I do need help you know.
I need help to manage my emotions and my frustrations.
I need help understanding that sometimes a body needs time to recover.
I need help realizing that even if I want to .. .I am not the super woman that I want to be.
And so here I sit.... this mess... realizing that God knows me full well.
And he's patient and kind with me.
Holding me when I want to weep with frustration.
and he calls me his own.
He does you know.
He calls me his own.
He makes it so much better...even as I fight and want to manage it all myself.
He's given me a good hubby who reminds me constantly.. take it easy. Stop.. NO DON"T DO THAT! Let me help. And so he helps. And I learn to let go just a bit of the control I have. the desire I have to have it all done my way, and to realize it's okay if it's not all done the way I would do it. It's still done. It's still managed. And I can just rest.
And so, through my hubby's actions, I learn to rest a bit. To trust God all that more.
And this is good.
STOP.