Britt.Britt & All That Entails

List two verses that mean a lot to me personally. 

Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8

   There is a time for everything,    and a season for every activity under the heavens:    a time to be born and a time to die,    a time to plant and a time to uproot,    a time to kill and a time to heal,    a time to tear down and a time to build,    a time to weep and a time to laugh,    a time to mourn and a time to dance,    a time to scatter stones and a time to gather them,    a time to embrace and a time to refrain from embracing,    a time to search and a time to give up,    a time to keep and a time to throw away,    a time to tear and a time to mend,    a time to be silent and a time to speak,    a time to love and a time to hate,    a time for war and a time for peace.

Psalm 121

I lift up my eyes to the mountains—

where does my help come from?

My help comes from the Lord,

the Maker of heaven and earth.

He will not let your foot slip—

he who watches over you will not slumber;

indeed, he who watches over Israel

will neither slumber nor sleep.

The Lord watches over you—

 the Lord is your shade at your right hand;

the sun will not harm you by day,

 nor the moon by night.

The Lord will keep you from all harm—

he will watch over your life;

the Lord will watch over your coming and going

In what area do I need to improve self-discipline?

Short answer? All of them.

If I could have any celebrity chef prepare a dinner for me, who would it be?

List a park in my town I haven’t been too and write the day I plan to go on my calendar. 

What is the most important thing I need to do today? 

Not overdue it. Work is a bit busier than usual and my team has been jacked up all month. I like to relax when I get off, but I also try to have some sort of a social life now that we are in a new city. It’s been hard for me recently to not feel bad about not being able to do things because of a flare. My husband is so understanding, but sometimes that makes me feel guilty. We should be able to go out on a whim or not cancel plans, but I can’t a lot of times. Ugh. The pain of Fibromyalgia is minimal compared to the constant, ever-changing variables that effect your life everyday because of it. I can be having a good day at 10am and it can become a bad one at 11am and I don’t always know what sets it off. It could be something I ate, the weather, hormonal changes, moving too much or being too rigorous. Hell, if I sneeze too hard, I might get dizzy and start seeing stars. I can be ready to crash from exhaustion, but if it hurts to lay down or a migraine develops, I’ll be up for hours. If you’re reading this, I’ll just say two more things: 

1. If someone is experiencing physical pain, believe them and don’t try to fix them. Trust me, they have already tried a number of things, pharmaceutical and holistic. Belief and support is what is needed.