Back from the Not Dead

Hanging onto the mercy of God with all my strength.

This will be an update, or more a preview of an update to come, plus some good news to share about this space.

The bad news update is that my health has continued to deteriorate and I’ve been focusing on trying to find out why. We don’t have answers yet, and the process of finding them has been traumatic, especially in the last week as I was admitted at Stanford Hospital. I’m going to be saying more about that in the future because there are things going on there that need to be heard, but I just got discharged last night, and promptly took a terrible fall at home, bruising my ribs and falling flat on my back that just experienced 6 failed and 1 successful lumbar puncture merely hours before. I need time to recover physically and emotionally before I talk more about that, but I covet your prayers that I’ll be able to process this in community and therapy and prayer without last trauma, either physical or emotional.

The good news is, if this is going to be my new normal, even for awhile, then it’s time I spend my time doing more than suffering. I meant to announce this earlier, but it’s not too late if you’d like to join me and some of the other God Talk girls (see Caroline Dooner’s Problematic Substack or some of my older posts for context), starting Monday we will be meeting at 8 ET, 5 PT to discuss the book “Having the mind of Christ” by Ben Sternke and Matt Tebbe. If you want to join, we will discuss the intro and chapter one depending on how far folks made it. The chapters aren’t that long, and you can read it on any digital book platform or listen on Audible, or of course, grab the physical book. Even if you start digital, you might be like me coming back to it again and again and wanting to mark it up, so I wound up purchasing a physical book as well.

The formatting on this probably isn’t great. I’m laying flat in bed, and can barely see, but I’ve missed you, I’ve been praying for you, and I know my God is merciful and my pain will not be for nothing. He suffers with me and His yoke is light.

Blessings and all my love,

Elizabeth