Having God in My Life Makes Living Easier

I don’t know about you, but if I didn’t have God in my life, it would be so hard for me I would not want to live. Allow me to explain:

You see my life is easy now because I have my God with me and he helps me. If I did not have the hope and love that my Creator gives me each and everyday, my life would be so hard that I would not want to live. Here are just a few of the problems I deal with each and everyday.

I have cerebral palsy, which makes my whole body shake and twitch; I have constant pain in my body. Have you ever had a Charlie horse in the calf of your leg? Imagine that all over your body from spastic, contracting muscles everywhere in your body.

I have spinal cord damage in the 5-7 vertebrae that gives me nerve damage in parts of my body and numbness. My write hand is deformed due to it and does not allow me to write or use it the way I used to.

My speech is very bad due to that nerve damage. The spinal cord problems come from Encephalitis due to a mosquito bite. This gave me what is called Transverse mellitus which affected the nerves that make a person able to function normally when it comes to everyday functions. These different functions that everybody does without even thinking about them, I must constantly fight to keep them just working enough to survive each day.

My daughter’s husband was also in a car accident and was left with brain damage. They are married just four years. I help look after him while she works. Do I tell you this for your pity? No, definitely not. I tell you this because with God, no matter what difficulties you may have to face in your life, it is made easier by putting God in your life as your tower of strength. When things are beyond your personal strength that is when God takes over.

Am I happy and do I find this easy. No, I do not find my life always easy, but it is made easier by having the faith and the love for my God. We all have problems, some worse then others, but imagine having to go through life and its ups and downs without God. I really believe from my experience in suffering the many things I do suffer, has proved to me that God did not design life to be hard but easy.