Memory

Lord, long before we started this journey with my constant headache, I was prompted to pray for “protection of my mind”.  At the time I did not know why I was praying that prayer, but I did realize that it was an important prayer concerning my health.  Three and a half years later I am more thankful than ever to know that, in the midst of this headache, You are protecting my mind.  Otherwise I would surely have lost it by now.  Thank You for protecting my mind.  

Now..... my memory is getting worse and worse all the time, Lord.  It is much more than the “normal” memory problems of aging.  It is frightening, Lord.  I am forgetting that I have completed tasks.  I am forgetting what I do from one minute to the next.  I have even had one short “blackout” when all I remember is blackness when traveling from one spot to the other in the house.  Tripping and ramming into the corner of a wall brought me back to consciousness.  I understand that all these forgotten things will help show the doctor what is going on inside my brain, but it is all frightening and frustrating.  Thankfully You are protecting my mind.  If I had not prayed that prayer and received Your Word about Your protection of my mind, Lord, I would be scared to death.  As it is, I am still scared but with hope.  Grant me Your grace to walk this part of this journey with You.  I’m so thankful that I walk it with You.  You alone are my Hope.  May Your will be done in it all. 

“For our light affliction, which is but for a moment, is working for us a far more exceeding and eternal weight of glory.  While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen; for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal”  2 Corinthians 4:17-18

“Be strong and of good courage, do not fear nor be afraid of them; for the Lord your God, He is the One Who goes with you.  He will not leave you nor forsake you.”  Deuteronomy 31:6