Five Minute Friday

When The Lord Takes Away #FMF {Joy}

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This week’s Five Minute Friday word is Joy.

#FMF {joy}

It seems like a great way to end the year, since my word for this year was joy.

When I think of joy, I am reminded that every single thing that I turn into frustration, anxiety, and fear, God has already redeemed. He has already made it complete, done, joyful.

I just need to let it Be.

This year was really amazing in my journey with Christ; I began the year 3 months pregnant with our Coralie (baby #4). I remember being nauseous, tired, and cranky, but so overwhelmingly full of joy. We had a 2nd loss in July of 2015, and though we had not been trying, and were not trying again with Coralie, to find out God had different plans, that a baby we should not have been able to get pregnant with at that time, was going to be born brought so much joy.

And somehow, this year, in anticipation for baby #4, God took so much from me.

He took away many of the anxieties I had before.

(I am still working on things within myself) But I didn’t realize when I chose the word joy to pray on and work towards in 2016, that God wouldn’t just add it in!

God doesn’t just add things in- The Lord giveth and he taketh away.

He replaced those anxieties, angers, with Him. He replaced them with joy, and so. much. peace.

I still battle anxieties, fears of losing or something happening to my husband is probably #1. I become a mess inside when he gets on an airplane (which is frequently..). I have a few OCD tendencies that I can’t let up when he is gone. When these occasions pop up, I do tend to read reviews on the best CBD oil UK can provide for me, as well as other locations, as it’s said to help with these kinds of feelings, but for now, I believe in God to help rid of these.

There were so many other things before, and God just took them.

He took them from me, and filled those voids with unspeakable joy and unshakeable peace.

 

What do you think of when you hear JOY?

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5 Minute Friday {crave}

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Before a few months ago, crave would have immediately triggered the word “sugar” for me.  But I have been really working hard on eating less sugar (although it was almost always natural sugars).  So now for me crave usually makes me think of stretching.

My body has been fighting me when it comes to exercising; a good workout has been resulting in days of body aches and pains (not typical workout soreness, but deep, debilitating pains).  I am pretty sure this has to do with being 4 months postpartum, and I am hoping it ends once my hormones level out.

But I am craving stretching, and massaging.  I haven’t been able to find a good position to sit or lay without it involving stretching deep in my hips muscles.   Thankfully I have found a great pelvic floor physical therapist that is helping me with some injuries/dysfunction from having baby #4; she has done some release work in my hips and abs that were causing pelvic floor tightness and other issues.

This has given me such relief, that when I do stretches I actually get back a satisfying feeling now.  Where as before I just needed more, and more, and more stretching.

Now I get real relief.  It is wonderful!

What have you been craving?

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