Living With Chronic Pain & Spiritual Transformation

You can’t accomplish your dreams without being disciplined with your life.  Think of it this way.  Being disciplined is the footsteps to walking out your dreams.

And a big part of discipline is to understand that you can’t discipline your pain or the pressures against your life very effectively, especially when considering the long-term objectives.  But what you can do is to discipline your mind and your emotions. For destructive thoughts and emotions literally try to steal your ability to dream.

I’ve personally experienced the power of discipline against chronic, neuropathic pain.  There is no way I’m able to discipline my pain to the point of acceptable reduction or withdrawal.   On the other hand, regardless of the pain and fatigue I might experience, I’ve acquired the ability (through discipline) to focus and to implement healthier habits into my lifestyle.

As a result, I’ve walked further along the journey than I ever anticipated after undergoing four neck surgeries.   And I’ve lost 65 pounds and kept it off by remaining single-focused and disciplined regardless of the obstacles and/or temptations that confront me.  For the record, weight loss isn’t entirely about losing the pounds or eating the right foods, although this is essential.  It’s about your disciplined attitude toward change, especially when it feels like everything is against your desires to attain your dreams.

Keep me on your favorites about spiritual transformation.  You can begin this exciting journey of transformation regardless if you’re living with chronic pain or if you’re struggling against horrendous obstacles.

The book is not finished.  Nonetheless, the blogs are back!  As God continues to take me through this faith-filled journey I’m amazed at the twists and turns in the road of life.  Typically, once I make specific plans about a particular project, such as sharing my story through a published book, I expect to finish what I have originally started, thinking God’s sovereignty is somehow intricately involved within the ultimate purpose of what I might be doing.

Frankly, I do not like to start something without a sense of completion, in which it feels like some loose ends are left untied.  These feelings of weakness and inadequacy majorly mess with my organized temperament.  Yet the faith-filled lifestyle is not linear nor is it two-dimensional in its nature. “If – then” deductive reasoning from our human perspectives is not always compatible with the movement of God in our lives.

To obey means to obey regardless – even if the book pages are painstakingly written by me without formal printing.  Commonly in our walk of faith, additional trials happen.  And they happen inconveniently for our growth in God.  In a nutshell, this is what I’ve undergone over the past six months.  I can still feel the smoothing action of iron sharpening iron deep within my soul.

Keep me on your favorites about spiritual transformation.  You can begin this exciting journey of transformation regardless if you’re living with chronic pain or if you’re struggling against horrendous obstacles.