Overloaded

Every day  the person with ME is overloaded with the intense range of symptoms that jangle and rage through the body. 

Any external pressure or stress, on top of an already physically stressed body can easily become too much to cope with, very quickly.

The person who lives for and cares for the person with ME is also overloaded, with all the worry of what to do and not to do, of how to get proper medical advice and appropriate treatment, with the constant anxiety and threat of deterioration, with a host of other things coming from the strains and stresses of living in the world and maintaining a household with and for the person, to name but a few.

The ME is unrelenting, it never goes away, it never slows down, it demands total focus, it can be utterly  overwhelming. It is in this overloaded state that we come to God, not necessarily peaceful, not necessarily present, not necessarily focused on Him and yet needing His tranquility and solace, His comfort and consolation, His light, His wisdom, His healing balm, His  power to transform, His hope to transfigure, His  mercy to pour into all that needs healing, all that  is unforgiven. 

This is how we turn to Him today and ask for His blessing. Amen