mdrpoeling
mdrpoeling
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My name is Michele Johnson. I met my husband, Geoff Johnson, on the 7th grade playground and we have been married since September 2005. We have two beautiful children, Ava(7) and Samuel(2).
We have been through a lot in our short years together. Our daughter was stricken with Guillain Barre Syndrome at 9 months old causing her to be temporarily paralyzed from the waist down, my mother-in-law suffered a cerebral embolism in November 2008 leaving her in a comma for 3 months and now bedridden, my momma was diagnosed with stage 4 lymphoma in August 2011 and lost her battle in August 2012.
Whew! That seems like a lot.
Oddly enough, it didn't seem like it was all that hard going through any of it. It looks harder looking back on it now. I sometimes think…..I should have taken more days off or napped more….when I had the chance! I know these were the times when there was only one set of footprints in the sand. We were being carried. No doubt.
My momma's diagnosis and her yearlong battle was the hardest part for me. During this time, a friend of mine shared this scripture with me:
The Lord is close to the brokenhearted; he rescues those whose spirits are crushed. Psalms 34:18
When I received this scripture, it slapped me in the face! I thought, "This was in the Bible? But it's relevant to my life? And it's in the Bible??" I was blown away by the power of this verse. I clung to it tightly. This is when my life started to slowly change. A friend of mine says, "Forming a relationship with Jesus is a slow trickle." I agree with this. Growing up in the Bible belt, I thought one day I would arrive and I would feel the overwhelming woosh (is that a word?) of the Holy Spirit and all things in this life would magically fall into place.
This. Is. A. Lie.
I say all of this, not to get you to feel sorry for me, but to give you some history and to set a stage to my story for my ever changing life.
This is my journey as the Clueless Christian.
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