Picking up with our last conversation... we crossed the Atlantic, made the first docking at Disney's Castaway Cay and landed in Port Canaveral and my condition remained stable : ) And, for the next four years, the numbness and tingling persisted despite pursuing every medical option. During that time I explored lots of avenues on the quest for healing, yet came to a place of content acceptance where it just became part of who I was. During those four years, my energies were poured into a new thirst for God's Word and the migration of my work life to further the kingdom.

Then one morning, God threw my back out (something that had never happened before) and I had to go to my chiropractor. And by gently putting pressure on those places where our skull fuses over our brain- which he explained are like continents, they shift ever so slightly with every tightened, stressed muscle until one day, they pinch in on the nerve that trips the Bells' Palsy- THREE DAYS LATER, it was totally cured and has never returned.

I clearly remember that moment: at lunch with a friend, who said, "Hey, parts of your face are moving that I haven't seen move." My first reply was smarty pants, "Duh, that's because I'm talking," and then, I jumped up and went into the restroom and she was right. God, through Dr. Webb, delivered a miracle!

As time has passed, I still delight in telling the story and even today as we share it, am reminded of how God worked in me through that season, especially how He brought me to that place of content acceptance. Content acceptance, without resignation or frustration... And, how much I need that for the struggles of today so that my heart trusts the One who made me and loves me, especially when I do not understand His mysterious ways.

And we know that in all things, God works for the good of those who love Him, who have been called according to His purpose. Romans 8:28