Carol,
Ronda and Phil are right on.
Vinny
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rhonda Partain" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYER NEEDED, PLEASE


> Go where the peace is...if the mere thought of playing is stressful, and 
> it
> seems to be, and you are already in pain, seems  the best avenue towards
> peace would be the path of less stress! Surely good friends who thought
> enough of you to ask you to play would be understanding of your situation 
> if
> they knew it, and would want you to decline if that was what was best for
> you.  Don't let "the shoulds" make you do something God hasn't given you
> strength to do at this moment!
> Just my thoughts,
> I'll be praying  too!
> Blessings!
> Rhonda
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The Electronic Church [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On
> Behalf Of Carol Pearson
> Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2006 9:08 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: YOUR THOUGHTS AND PRAYER NEEDED, PLEASE
>
> Hi all,
>
> I have a few things I'd like to share primarily for your prayers but would
> welcome any comments on what I share.
>
> First, as a part of the background to what I share later and so you know 
> how
>
> it is with me now, to those who don't know, I've been battling with a real
> bad sleep problem for years and years but primarily in the last year.  My
> sleep was nothing for so long that I became quite mentally unwell, or 
> that's
>
> what it would seem, and I went through all sorts of peculiar neuro 
> problems,
>
> showing themselves in a sort of form of mini stroke and sometimes I would
> clearly be on auto pilot, talking and having coffee and knowing nothing
> about it.  Finally, with increased meds, I became more and more sleepy but
> felt unwell, so we decided I'd come off them all!  I got almost down and 
> had
>
> a horrific reaction with awful nightmares etc and depression/doom and 
> gloom
> which I've not known before.  My GP is still talking about being off the
> meds in the next month and maybe we'll try Melatonin.  (Medication and I
> just don't seem to mix these days!)
>
> Anyway, amidst all this, I try to keep going and, I have to say that the
> fact that I am still in my home and appear fine a lot of the time to some 
> at
>
> least of our callers is a testimony of God's goodness to me.  However, I'm
> also battling with additional physical problems, including a very painful
> arm and muscle damage over some months, a pretty wrecked shoulder, a back
> that never goes away and legs now that are taking a lot of the pain from 
> my
> back.  In addition I've been having some arthritis in my wrists and 
> thumbs.
>
> Now your thoughts and prayers:  I've been asked to play the piano at a
> wedding in three weeks' time.  I used to play a lot until 15 years ago and
> have had little opportunity since that time.  (I only have a small
> electronic piano which is fairly hard to play so don't find I even play
> around on it too much.)  Anyway, I have been practising on and off but 
> keep
> ending up with very stiff wrists and pains and yesterday just couldn't 
> play
> through the items.  I am really wondering whether I'm to pull out of this
> one.  I know others who are going who are far better pianists than I am, 
> but
>
> it's not because I won't play in front of them that I'm thinking I should
> pull out.  I need my wrists and hands for reading, writing etc. and these
> seem more important to me right now than playing the piano when others 
> could
>
> do it, even though the bride and groom, for some unknown reason, are very
> keen that I should do it.
>
> My thoughts and feelings are all over the place in this one, sometimes
> thinking I can and should and at others feeling it's just another thing I
> can't do right now.
>
> With three weeks to go, I either have to pull out for good next weekend or
> go ahead.  The current pains and stiffnesss in my wrists and thumbs have
> really knocked me back over the past couple of days to the point where I 
> am
> getting very stressed about it all.
>
> Please stand with me in this, that I will do what He wants and, even more
> important, that I will know just what that is.
>
>
> --
> Carol
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