Please enjoy this scripture chant I composed for Promise Bible Study on Jehovah Rapha - the Lord is our Healer - from Psalm 147:3
“He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.”
First off, thank you to everyone who has been reading this blog, especially to those who have taken the time to respond and give me feedback. We’re 9 months in! And it has been such a relief to scratch this itch I’ve had of writing and sharing for so many years. It’s been interesting who responds to which post, and for what reasons. Beautiful truths and empathies and resonances reveal themselves through the comments I receive - each one, such a gem.
My encouragement to everyone wanting to start a project ( a new year is right around the corner!) that may seem daunting is to just DO IT - even if you feel like a phony and a noob at the beginning. I felt like an imposter when I first started - “who am I to ___” - but now it’s legit to say I’m a writer, which I’ve always wanted to be…maybe more of a classic one like a Brontë, or hip like a Bradshaw, but I’ll take a Christian-truther blogger.
COVID THANK YOU’S & UPDATES
Another thank you is for those who helped out while our family healed from Covid. I had numerous people from the church and community bring me food, medicine, and cheerful messages. I felt loved, cared for, noticed; that was a major gift - silver lining - to the illness: experiencing the goodness of the people in my life.
I feel sooo much better - pretty much back to normal. My senses are returning, and I don’t feel any sickness lingering on. The anxiety has also waned. I feel a bit out of shape and foggy-brained sometimes but other than that, I am on the other side, praise God!
I think this has taught me some lessons I didn’t expect about my health. After not eating my normal fare for almost a month and healing my body with small portions of very nourishing foods and vitamins, I guess I reset my sensibilities; with my taste back, I eagerly returned to eating my habitual diet and treats, enjoying a glass of wine with a friend at her dinner party this evening, and I found it all too much. I eat pretty healthy in general, yet even still I am getting messages from my body that it didn’t want to go back into these habits - that it expected better from me, and was happy for the little reprieve while I was ”fasting.” I will have to compromise with it during the holidays, but I do plan to reassess my dietary and lifestyle routines in the new year…another silver lining.
My son’s father is still in the hospital. It’s been hard to understand what’s going on there as we don’t get useful information - he says he doesn't either - and we’re not allowed in. But just yesterday he said they told him he was improving and could be out in a couple days. He sounded hopeful and positive.
A VAN & A PLAN
Back this summer, I bought an RV to turn into a tiny home. I’ve been documenting the renovations - well, ok - right now it’s just demolitions - and am planning to make a video about it, and in fact turn blogging into more vlogging territory that will include all the stuff Everyday Exorcism and The Other Mary has has been up to: original music, critical thinking, the Gospel, humor, social commentary - through visual and musical storytelling. Social media is favoring video content, and my goal is to reach people with the Gospel and critical thinking, and share the gift of music.
I’ve got no shame admitting the RV is a disaster atm. Frankly, I’ve got no shame for anything anymore these days; I feel so humbled by all the help I’ve needed recently, and as the world gets crazier, I am less and less ashamed of soapboxing the Gospel and the truth…or as I say around these parts: preaching, prepping, and protesting.
As we dug in to the RV, more issues arose and I realized how shoddy the construction was, even though on the outside it looked cute (as my contractor friend Sean said, “lipstick on a pig”). We decided to tear most of it out and start from scratch. This is daunting, labor and cost intensive…and then I got sick, which set me back weeks. What I thought would take me a couple months max is now 5 months in, and there’s months of work yet in sight.
Thankfully God has provided people in my life who are helping me, so I express even more thankfulness here, for all those in the church and community looking out for me and helping me create this wee home as best we can. I look forward to sharing progress reports and footage with you all!
All the positive support flowing in confirms that this community - The Misfit Church - can be a light in these dark, confusing times; I’m eager to collaborate more with all here who are interested. Please reach out, present feedback, share content ideas, or suggest a collaboration.
In humble gratitude,
Liz aka Mary (the Other one)
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