My yoke is easy

God often brings to mind the verses in Matthew 11:28-30: "Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls. For my yoke is easy and my burden is light." They're my "theme" verses for this time in my life, I think. My friend, Trisha, told me to think of it like Jesus is taking the brunt of the weight of the "yoke," and all I need to do is walk beside Him and learn. I'm practicing the walking and learning.

My problem-or at least, ONE of my problems, is that the scope of taking care of Annie has so many layers, I don't know which one to peel off first. I've been focusing on this ketogenic diet for the last three months, but her seizures are just one layer. There's the relearning to walk part, and walker/gait trainer that was ordered 6 weeks ago didn't magically appear, so I need to follow that paper trail. Then there's the eating thing that's stalled again, because her nausea and vomiting is a major roadblock to me helping her try any new food-that's-on-the-Ketogenic diet.

Before I go on too long, I have to say that this week HAS been better than last week. She had an alert, productive week at school, and her seizures are way down--I may have seen one today. She has been protesting more about anything she doesn't like, though, which I guess is a good thing. The down side to that, though, is that she is downstairs yelling about something or other, and I can tell I had better sign off for now!

Jean