Thursday, February 03, 2005
Kind of Like---Kind
You know the rain does seem to rob the joy from everyday life. I have struggled to be upbeat this week, but I have made a couple of tennis dates for the weekend (temps s/b in the 60’s with sunshine!) So the joy is bursting back out.
My children are hurting right now. Derek has the flu and is trying to stay away from Matthew where he doesn’t get it as well. My daughter has been diagnosed with PCOS and I am taking her to Birmingham today to see a specialist. I know many of you can relate to wanting a baby so badly and everyone around you is getting pregnant. My little girl has always had a harder row to hoe than most. Please keep us in your prayers today.
Last night our class was on kindness. I have known for sometime (but haven’t done much about it) that sarcasm is a direct opposite of kindness. And yet, it keeps coming out of my mouth. We talked about the T.V. shows like Friends and Seinfeld, where the sarcastic and cutting remarks are just funny. But how many times to we resort to the same kind of talk without realizing we are being hurtful to those around us? One of the many books I was reading to prepare for this series talked about kindness must come before goodness; otherwise we will be judgmental when we are “good”. I liked that, and I can really relate to it. Anyway, it may take a total personality transplant, but I am going to try and eliminate sarcasm from my speech. This may be even harder than giving up chocolate!!!!
My children are hurting right now. Derek has the flu and is trying to stay away from Matthew where he doesn’t get it as well. My daughter has been diagnosed with PCOS and I am taking her to Birmingham today to see a specialist. I know many of you can relate to wanting a baby so badly and everyone around you is getting pregnant. My little girl has always had a harder row to hoe than most. Please keep us in your prayers today.
Last night our class was on kindness. I have known for sometime (but haven’t done much about it) that sarcasm is a direct opposite of kindness. And yet, it keeps coming out of my mouth. We talked about the T.V. shows like Friends and Seinfeld, where the sarcastic and cutting remarks are just funny. But how many times to we resort to the same kind of talk without realizing we are being hurtful to those around us? One of the many books I was reading to prepare for this series talked about kindness must come before goodness; otherwise we will be judgmental when we are “good”. I liked that, and I can really relate to it. Anyway, it may take a total personality transplant, but I am going to try and eliminate sarcasm from my speech. This may be even harder than giving up chocolate!!!!
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Many, many, many prayers for your daughter. I have had more friends diagnosed with PCOS (all in our early to mid 20's) than I have had w/out (myself included). The thing about it is that you don't really find out until you've had a year or so of unsuccessful attempts to have a baby. It's not an easy road, but there are numerous medications (some covered by insurance) and tests (all covered by insurance ~ and that's the most expensive part) that will help her overcome this. Tell her if she needs to know anything or wants some advice from someone who's been down the road and come out at the other end to just shoot me an e-mail and I'd be more than happy to share my experiences w/ her. It will be ok and it will be hard, but it's all worth every bad day, every vial of blood, and living by a 28 days calendar.
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