Oh the deep, deep love.
All I need and trust
Is the deep, deep love of Jesus.
Sovereign Grace Music Company
This song has been running through my mind for days. So much truth in so few words. ALL I need is His love. His deep, deep love. No matter the storms that this life brings. No matter the joys, either. He doesn't often leave us without the blessing of the love of others, or of the blessings and joys of the fullness of life. Those blessings are part of His deep, deep love. But in the end, it is His love that I need. All I need.
In the past month, I've mostly been dealing with the same old stuff with a few new difficulties added in here and there. We had a bit of a scare last week with weight loss again and difficulty with finding things to eat, so I talked with Dr. Matt on Friday and in the process we went over my recent blood work and discovered a few things that we can work on. Low thyroid, low protein, low B and D vitamins (not a big surprise!), and low glucose levels which he thinks could be at least partly responsible for the continuous nausea. So, I'll be starting natural thyroid this week, I'm taking an amino acid supplement for the protein problems and will be using highly absorbable B and D vitamin drops. For the low glucose he is recommending trying some of the more innocuous (to me) fresh fruits every few hours to try to bring those levels up. Then he has ordered another DNA stool test because he learned at a seminar a couple of weeks ago that there have been many false test results coming out of some of the labs, the one I previously used being one of them. We'll be using the only one of the bunch that hasn't had false results. So, that's on the docket to try to see if we can determine why I'm continuing to have so many gut issues, regardless of the treatments we've tried. The genetic testing results won't be back for another few weeks, so no news on that front yet.
In the midst of my health issues, our family is struggling with one of those heart-hurting situations in life that I'm not at liberty to talk about. But it weighs heavily on all of us, and we would covet your prayers that God would have His way and use it for the good of those who love Him, and in the process bring glory to Himself. He is so able.
Thanks, once again, for praying with us. We are so, so grateful. Bless you, each one.
