Ep. 32: A Very Hard Week (That Was Still Not all Bad)
M Is for Mama Podcast
Abbie Halberstadt
4.8 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 30 August 2023
⏱️ 29 minutes
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Summary
Goodness gracious, friends! If you want to have a challenging week, have the audacity to publish a book called Hard Is Not the Same Thing as Bad. I can't tell you how many people have said, "It sure does seem like you're under spiritual attack right now, Abbie," and I suppose I have to agree, since the Bible clearly says that our fight is not against flesh and blood but against the spiritual realm.
Still, the Lord has been so gracious to provide moments of respite and opportunities to recognize his mercies in the midst of the hard of back pain and scary episodes with wasp stings, and major publishing mess-ups, and, yes, an entire downstairs flooding so badly we are now living in a gutted kitchen.
Even though some will call it "toxic positivity," I'm declaring my gratitude that the Lord has given our family a peace that truly passes all understanding through our current inconvenient, and sometimes frustrating, living situation.
Be encouraged, friends. The Lord has not forgotten you in the midst of your struggles. He has a plan and a purpose for even this.
Bible References:
Ephesians 6:2
Ephesians 4:15
Philippians 4:7
Psalm 27:13
Matthew 10:30
Hebrews 13:5
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the MS-Mama Podcast. I'm your host Abby Halberstadt, happy wife, |
| 0:10.2 | Mama to 10 Bible Believing Christian. |
| 0:13.0 | And on today's episode, we're going to talk about my very bad, horrible, no good, |
| 0:18.0 | kind of awful week. |
| 0:20.0 | And why I still think that Hard is not the same thing as bad, |
| 0:24.7 | even though I absolutely feel like the Lord is making me put my money |
| 0:28.3 | where my mouth is this week. |
| 0:30.5 | So it started off this past Sunday. I guess that would be last week technically. |
| 0:35.0 | If you ever had the debate in your house whether a week starts on a Sunday or a Monday. |
| 0:39.0 | I know the calendar says Sunday, but sometimes it feels like it must be Monday because that's when the all |
| 0:43.4 | the the obligations and the work week and all of that start over the school week |
| 0:48.0 | but technically according to the calendar last week was the horrible no good very bad week. |
| 0:53.6 | So I started off a week ago last Sunday waking up with a horrible seized up lower back on my right side. |
| 1:02.0 | Couldn't lift my foot to put on pants, couldn't walk straight, |
| 1:06.1 | basically hobbled around for about two straight days, trying to do anything I could to alleviate |
| 1:11.7 | and ameliorate the pain and it eventually let go. |
| 1:15.6 | And then about the time that led up, our son Titus, who is one of our twins, |
| 1:20.0 | got stung by Wask right between his eyes on the bridge bridge of his nose and you've never seen swelling like this before. |
| 1:26.0 | Thankfully, it didn't have any effect on his respiratory system or anything else. |
| 1:30.0 | It just made him itchy and super swollen, but it's pretty scary to see your two-year-old |
| 1:33.6 | swollen up like that so that was a whole thing to get through and to help him treat |
| 1:38.4 | that so definitely the mama nerves are raw and then I opened up my book. |
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