From My Speechless Corner of the World: Post #11 (Part 1)
Lessons I’m Learning From Having A Voice But Not Being Able To Speak
Just before my husband and I left for my follow-up ENT visit this past Thursday, he asked me if I were excited about being able to speak again. I responded that I was more pensive than excited. I am an eternal optimist. Better said, no matter what I’m going through, I always believe that GOD is able to move mightily–however, whenever, and wherever, to level mountains and do amazing things on my behalf. And often He does! So the fact that I was reserved about the prospects of being able to speak again was telling. I instantaneously became keenly aware that only God knew when I’d be cleared to speak. And I wanted to be completely yielded to His timing and plan. This isn’t to say I was doubting that I couldn’t have been fully healed. I sure was hoping that I was! But the reality is that God has graciously worked into me another kind of faith. I like to think of it as the ‘faith of resignation.’ I desire to be unreservedly His–wholly abandoned to His purpose for my life. [Read More]