Left handed prayer

I have recently had a slight MS relaspe, nothing serious but my right hand and arm are aching more than usual.  So I decided it might be a good idea to try to learn to write with my left hand.  Today as I practised forming the letters, especially "S" around the right way I found myself writing this prayer.  The words flowed of out me, they were not planned and I did not correct them. 

The left handed prayer speaks for itself.

Praise God in the heavens

praise God in the earth
sing to Him as little children
open your hearts and sing
open your mind to receive Him
use your imagination to praise Him
take pictures made in your heart to bless Him
add music to his name
fall at his feet to worship Him
offer Him your heart full of your love
bless His holy name
dwell in His presence
rest when reading His word to listen
His sheep know his voice
talk to Him of your love, share with Him your dreams
trust in His timing and His answers to you
submit to His plans for they are greater than yours
offer Him your time and lay down your ambitions
go where you are lead but if the door closes, leave it shut
try a new direction always lead by prayer
walk through the openings He has made
work with and pray over those He gives you
do as to all as you would have them do to you
thank the Lord for His provision in good times and bad
practise listening for His voice for He wants to be heard.

Resting In God

God is waiting for you to talk to him.

Nothing fancy, nothing religious, just talk for remember he is also a person like you.

It is always helpful to talk about your problems.

You could call 0845 456 7729, UCB prayerline.

Don’t dwell in your troubles but trust in the Son

Don’t dwell in your troubles but trust in the Son
I am healed when I live at your feet
You draw close to me and my troubles neutralize.
As I remember the cross, that you died
I feel such peace and your strength flows in my mind
Hosannah to the King
Hosannah to the King.

You died for me on the cross full of pain
The Lord sent his son to die for my gain
Now I am freed from my guilt and my sin
Let us sing our praise out to you our holy King
Hosannah to the King
Hosannah to the King.


But it not just about singing on a Sunday morning, or a Wednesday.... it is about a way to live. You see when you invite the Son of God, Jesus to come into your life, He comes.

After a time you start to realise that all you have to face in the daily challenges, you face with Him. When you feel you can’t cope that usually means you forgot to pray in the troubles, or ask Him to help you deal with difficult situations.

Now I am not saying that life in the Son is trouble free, no far from it for too many people in this world are out to get what they can regardless of you or others feelings. What I am saying is this: you are not alone.

You can ask for His help and you will be amazed at the words and patience that comes out of your own mouth as you speak to another who is driving you crazy or making you personally feel hopeless or very angry.

You will find you can handle difficult situations and even arguments with others in a calmer way. You find others will back down more and see your point of view.

Things that looked impossible to solve become solved, some things take longer than others I am not promising a McDonalds instant fix here but I am promising that the Lord is faithful and wishes to share your life and help you cope with all that that may mean.

Trust is hard to learn when others around you have let you down in life, it takes time to understand and realise that the Lord Jesus is really real and really with you.

You will never know his comfort or presence if you never stop from you busy world and give him time to reach you.

I heard it said a radio broadcasts and you can listen it to easily. Well I am here to tell you that Jesus also broadcasts His love and grace and wisdom to you through His spirit, don’t ask me how it works I don’t know... but it is possible to listen to God and hear from Him but in order to learn you must be willing to stop and try.

It can take some people years to realise that they need Jesus to help them when all around them is going well, but ask those who have suffered and you will find they have a deeper sense of the Lords presence. Why? Because they really learnt they needed to listen to Him.

When Jesus asks you to give your life to Him, He meant all of your life.

It’s a hearts cry to really wish to know Him. A deep deep need to know Him will be answered for He desires to be so known by you.

I don't write these words without experience for I have MS so I know what it means to really need to hang on to Jesus when all hope seems lost, for when I was diagnosed it was a shock to my system but He came so close to me I could feel His comfort and love within me. So the words I share are truth. My future plans are in Him now for I am not sure what my future will hold but He knows me and what I will be able to cope with.

I need Him everyday.

Eve x


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MS and Restless Legs, Muscle Relaxant Problems

Well the doctor told me to take a muscle relaxant drug to help me cope with the restless legs and tight hips I have developed, well I did have the restless legs before the MS, to help me cope with the aches.

Now I am a tea drinker. I mean I can drink one cup after the other all day, without counting. I do not really drink coffee as I do not like it much, with sugar it is passable though.

I took Tizanidine, from 1 mg increasing up to 18 mg a day, so not the highest dose that you are allowed to take but I found the more I took the more my legs seemed to play up.

After a time of reading up the medicine side effects information online, bearing in mind this is the 5th drug I have tried, and so far this one that has not made me depressed or given me mood swings, I stuck with it. I increased the dose over the weeks until I got to 12 mg, and then finally after seeing my doctor I went up to 18mg a day, the maximum dose according the packet is 36 mg a day; it made me very tired but still my legs ached.

I started to sleep more in the day, so much that I was becoming nocturnal. So time with my family was compromised, and intimate time with my husband was almost non existent.

So I read up and prayed over what to do. I felt a strong need in my mind to read about the effects of caffeine. Withdrawal includes some headaches. So after reading that caffeine is a stimulant, not so good for my legs; I felt in prayer that I needed to reduce my tea intake, I have.

Now for two days I have taken one 4 mg Tizanidine pill in the morning, and reduced my tea intake to two cups a day. I do have a headache, but that is not surprising is it after all the tea I was drinking. I do use Co-codomal if I am in pain with my neck or legs but I very rarily take more than 4 pills a day; which is half the maximum dose but I feel well. I am not falling asleep all the time and my legs are feeling less restless. I have cervical spondylitis in my neck, from an injury years ago.

So the moral of the story is doctors do not know everything, but God does. So seek Him in your illness and you will find He is willing to assist you in your condition and treatment.

The Creator's Rhythm

As you know I was diagnosed with MS in October 2010. I have had to learn to rest more, to not fight my mind when I feel it is time to sleep, or rest a little in my day; and for me that has been quite a challenge to get my head around as I was always a busy sort of person, doing this or that and never at home.

Over the past year or so I had noticed that I was tiring more easily but I just put it down to age, or being slighlty overweight. I had not considered that I could have MS, the same as my sister, for my symptions were quite different.

However now with time I have adjusted to my diagnosis and in so doing I have been praying for guidance from the Lord as I felt inside that it was like I was achieving so little in my day.

Today I had an email conversation with my friend Mimi, she has ME, and she told me that she also had had problems adjusting to her new slower life routine. She also looked to the Creator for his help; Jesus used her pet fish to help her: they have a set rhythm with times of slowness and times of more activity.

I had to smile when I read her email, for I have been struggling with the same issue and I have found myself watching my cat sleep!

My cat comes and does as he pleases but he spends most of his day sleeping, more sleep than I need! He seems to be content with much rest, and I would guess that he is happy. He goes out to protect his territory. He minds my house when I am out. He comes with us to walk our dogs and we love his company. It is good that he wants to spend him time with us.

So I have been considering this: Creations rhythm is the Creator's rhythm. It is not a world, busy, busy, busy efficient rhythm it is life at a gentlier pace.

So all of a sudden the fact that I need to slow down becomes a blessing to me, for I am able to live in God's rhythm and rest. I have times of work, and times of rest. I enjoy the time that I am able to be more active but now I also enjoy the times that I rest too.

Thank you Lord for your thoughtfulness to both myself and my friend Mimi for showing us that your gentle life rhythm is the best way to live and that the world's rhythm of busyness is not good for it does not appreciate the person who does the work but rather it pushes them harder and harder to do more. Then when you are worn out it drops you like a stone and you sink into oblivion.

I urge you to take time to stop and count the cost of what you do. Do you allow yourself enough rest? Do you allow yourself time to sleep? Do you allow yourself time to consider who is important in your life and why? Do you spend time with this person, or do you rush way to your next busy task?

In God's rhythm I have come to appreciate that I am so loved, for He gave up all He is for me by dying on the cross to pay for all my mistakes. ALL my mistakes.

He appreciates me. How amazing is that?

He is God and I am so small that if you could view the whole universe on a page I would not show up under the most powerful microscope known to man! Yet God values me as a person and has promised to never leave me.

He died for me.

What is your priority? Is it you? Or God?

He died for you too.

Take time to read about Him in the bible, or talk to Him = prayer.

Eve x

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It was not a stroke at all but MS.

Well after many tests they have diagnosed me with MS.

So here I am slowly falling apart but nothing has changed. Jesus is still loves me in fact when I was diagnosed I had a huge sense of peace for I knew that I would not have to face the consequences of this illness alone.

In fact it reinforced my commitment to Christ: Why? Well you see its simple: I know that if every stopped working within my body tomorrow, within mind and soul I would still know and feel the certain presence of Jesus Christ who lives with me. Why? Well that is simple, I invited him to come into my life to be my God and he accepted.

I do not ask you to believe me by my own words. I ask you to believe that if you were to take the chance and do the same, even if you do not believe in him. He will come.

How do I know that? Well you see when I first decided to consider is there a God, I decided to take up the offer that was stated in a book I was given called "Why Jesus". In this book it said if you ask Jesus into your life, he will come for he never refuses anyone.

So I did and Jesus came.

At first I didn't notice much but then one day I was walking our dog around the field near to where I lived and within the field was a large group of teenagers. In the past I avoided them for I felt intimated by them. Yet this day I actually did something completely out of my then shy character and I spoke with them, just saying hello. Nothing more.

I felt so comfortable and so protected that I realised that I was no longer living my life alone but Jesus, God, was with me.

Now people that know me, 12 years on, can not believe that I used to be quiet and shy for I am out going and confident, and definately not quiet. I changed inside for you see I realised one thing that I did not know about myself before. That I am loved.

God has a brillant "A" plan for your life but most of us accept the alternative "B" plan that we control.

Are you not worth enough to yourself to decide to find out if this Jesus is real or not?

Research him and his disciples, or ask him into your life as I did, the lazy way without doing any research; and see what happens.

I was not disappointed with God for he came and gave me such comfort and peace and love and inner security despite my diagnosis.

God bless, Eve x
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This body is not true life

I can say with experience that this body is not just our life. Why? Well I have had a stroke.

So that means for a time parts of my body did not work. It means my brain worked but the flesh body around me felt like it was just a machine, a covering. Why? Simple it would not do what it should do but my brain, the real part of me, those thoughts and connections in my head; or to put it another way my soul was truly alive but it worked independently to my body.

Jesus said I am the Way, the Truth, and the Life and no one can get to the Father God without me. So then does that not point out the fact that there is more than we can possible be aware of now? Yes.

I have faith regardless of whether my body is in working order or not because I have learnt through prayer and through reading the bible that there is more than the life that I can see on earth.

I did not ask for proof, for I have faith. But after suffering this stroke now I have proof!

When you are tired and exhausted with trying to find happiness in this world but find nothing fills the hole, the need for connection, to be known inside; try Jesus. Pray and ask him to show you that he is real. That he wants to connect with you. To know you.

Jesus died a painful death to pay for all your wrong doings, your mistakes, on earth. That means you don't have to try to get right with God. Jesus, he is God by the way, already knows and accepts all that you have done.

Religion teaches you to be pure and holy before God. Jesus teaches you that he has forgiveness, grace, love and mercy all waiting for you to know. All you need to do is ask him to come into your life. At some point after you have known Jesus for some time you will find that you have a sense of peace and worth that you have not been able to receive from others.

Repentance means you turn around from your own way of living to ask Jesus to come and share the rest of your life with you.

It's that simple.

You get a promise that Jesus will never leave you. And Jesus promises to guide you home to heaven at your earth death. In heaven you are eternally happy with Him but also with those who helped you in your Christian walk. You see Jesus provides himself but also a ready made family for you to know.

Jesus is waiting for your invitation to come into your life today.

Eve x