Trials

Trials come every day with Severe ME , for the person who has it does not have the energy or functional ability to deal with even the ordinary requirements of every  day living.

Even getting dressed is a huge problem. Washing your hair , brushing your teeth, eating your breakfast, drinking anything, communicating, all are major challenges way beyond the ordinary  recurrent every day reach of the person. 

It is hard to relate to their reality it is so physically crushed and tiny. Even living in the same space the reality of experience is not the same for the carer and  the person with Severe ME.

This can easily be forgotten. It can even be a trial how to exist together in the same space with such acute hypersensitivity and physical illness making huge demands on awareness, time and energy.

This is where we need to turn to God, to find peace and stillness, to try and cope and make sense of  a bizarre situation. Life can be come fragmented, disjointed, disturbing and discordant.

Let us turn then to prayer and communion with each other and the Lord and beg him to free us from distress and comfort us in our limitations, find blessings and hope and a way through the struggles to a brighter place of peacefulness - where connection is possible and we can rise above all trials. Amen.