we’re moving!, part five.

“How are you feeling and how will the move affect your health?”

I am feeling . . . much better.  Not one hundred percent, but much, much better than I felt this summer.  I know your faithful prayers are a big part of this.  I still have bad allergies and headaches every day that range from mild to migraine.  But we have noticed an overall improvement, and with my last two colds I have been able to fight off sinus infections with vitamins and herbs, which is a huge step.

I’ve been talking to a couple of doctors who work for our mission agency, and they have given me some ideas to try.  One is to see if I have a gluten intolerance, which would impair my immune system.  I will let you know how those tests go.

We’re hoping the move will help my health (maybe there is something in our current apartment which contributes to the allergies?).  Most of all, a couple of friends have suggested that finding our niche here, getting settled for awhile, and emerging from our first year of culture shock will probably help my stress level and my ability to fight off sickness.  A doctor friend who lived in our part of the world is convinced much of this is spiritual warfare, and has challenged us to pray fervently for God’s protection on our family.  We’d be so grateful for your continued prayers for us.

And in the meantime, please pray that I’ll say with the apostle Paul in II Corinthians 12:

“I quit focusing on the handicap and began appreciating the gift.  It was a case of Christ’s strength moving in on my weakness.  Now I take limitations in stride, and with good cheer, these limitations cut me down to size—abuse, accidents, opposition, and bad breaks.  I just let Christ take over!  And so the weaker I get the stronger I become.”

This is what I long for more than perfect health.

*** Thank you, friends, for letting me be long-winded and talk about our lives this weekend.  It is a gift to me that you are even interested.  We’ve had a couple delays, so it looks like Moving Day will be more like Thursday or Friday.  More pictures to come!

[with the Worshams at Cubbon Park, a quick five-minute drive from where we’ll both be living]