After reading some of the posts, and talking with some of you guys online, it is so amazing how similar our stories can be. I literally did feel like no one understood and that I was all alone in this life cycle of pain, and still do at times...
This is how I try to cope with it when I am reaching a crisis state... I believe that Jesus Christ lived, suffered and died for me. Jesus did not live and 'easy' life. There were times in His life when if He didn't trust in the Father and know of His love, he would have felt all alone. When I feel that way in my pain, I remember that the Father is there for me and loves me just as much, through all my pain and in spite of it... I also try to remember that nothing happens to us in life that God is not going to work out for His glory... I believe that! Notice, I did not say He did it to us, but He will work it out for His glory. Although God does not cause suffering, He would not allow it, if in some way He would not be glorified through it... Although I believe this, it has been very hard to sit by and wait to see how God can use my suffering, but He has in other ways, and so I believe.

In the past several weeks, when word got out in my new community that I suffered from chronic pain, people started talking to me about their pain and their family members pain. I decided that God has brought these people to me for a reason, and so, I am beginning a chronic pain support group for my community.

This helps me because I know that someone knowing my pain and my experience through it may make theirs a little easier. As it has for me being able to talk to others through this community and educate myself on chronic pain and having a better quality of life.

I am still not able to do a whole lot at one time or without being in pain, but knowing others are out there, and they feel my pain... can listen to me, and I can listen to them helps me through each day...

God gives us one another to love and support one another through anything and everything. I pray each day that God give me the strength to make it through the day in a postitive way that will glorify Him... and He does, Praise Him!

I hope that this helps some of you out there. Trust in God, and lean not on your own understanding... and ask Him to be with you and help you every day, and He will.... Blessings!

Praying for you all, Missy