What do ginger, tape, and prayer have in common?

Me!  How exciting. . .

It has been a glorious past two days.  I don’t know if I’ve been able to say that about two weekday work days in a row in years.  No, the job has not gotten any easier, but internally, I have found breakthrough.

All of this gloriousness started on Saturday when I went to have dinner with a dear friend and her family (I teach her daughter).  We were talking about my life and about how weary I always am.  Seriously, at the end of every day, I literally feel like I could crawl into a hole and sleep for twenty years.  I can’t remember a day that I did not feel that way since I’ve been teaching.  After I related this my friend, she started talking, and I just started weeping.  It was one of those weepings where you feel like things are being cast off of you through the tears.  I remember in college feeling that exact way. 

The summer before my Junior year, I went on a mission trip to Turkey.  In preparation for the trip, the team met together every week to pray and intercede both for the success of our trip and also Turkish people.  During one of the prayer meetings, we went around telling how we were doing, and once it got to me, I just started weeping.  One of the team leaders had been walking in the prophetic for quite a few years, so she just started praying for me.  I don’t remember exactly what she was praying, but I remember feeling the exact same way I did on Saturday night.  I was oppressed, and the oppression lifted.

The past two days, I feel like I’ve been waking from a dream.  The feeling of actually having energy to run errands after school yesterday was so foreign to me, I was quite befuddled.  I just sat in the car marvelling at how energetic I felt.  When it came time for bed, I actually did not feel like I was about to drop dead before I hit the bed.  I was AWAKE!  And not the kind of awake feeling I’ve had for so long that is the product of having so much on my mind that I can’t sleep.  This awake-ness was a result of finally feeling rested.  It felt abnormal.

Also on Saturday, my friend told me about a way to detox your body by using ginger in either a foot bath or regular bath.  Well, being the all-or-nothing person that I am, I decided to take a regular bath with ginger on Sunday night.  OH MY GOSH!  Was it detoxifying!  Either it was super effective, or I was a walking body full of toxins.  It was probably the latter.  She said that I would feel tired after taking it, but really, I felt worn out all of Monday.  AND, to make matters more humorously complicated, when my body was detoxing, I was letting out all sorts of unwanted gas – coming out both ends.  Yes, I said it.  But for real, yesterday, after all the gross stuff finished its business, I felt AWESOME!  I think mentally and emotionally, it had to do with the prayer I got on Saturday.  But physically, it totally had to be the fact that I got so much “crap” out of my system from the ginger!  Who knew?  Not me.

And to top it all off, I had a follow up appointment with my foot doctor yesterday because of my surgery I had in December.  I told him that as I was working out last week, I think I pulled some tendons in the top of my other foot as it was trying to overcompensate for my retarded surgicalled (yes, I made that up) foot.  To help me, he put all sorts of tape on my foot to support it, and the most amazing thing happened. . .

My feet finally feel normal!  Incredible what taping feet can do!  My feet finally feel like they did almost 2 years ago before all this mess started with my feet.

So, I’m seriously just floating on a sea of grace right now.  I feel amazing and I don’t ever want to feel oppressed again.  It really, really, really stinks.

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