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God's gifts from standing

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Many pictures and moments to write about before I forget their sweetness... But before I write about those, I wanted to record a struggle from this summer.  Starting at the end of May, my sciatic nerve flared up.  And since then, the three doctors I have seen have each said that I may not sit: I can stand or lie down.  This rather limits available activities and driving and doing normal, daily things with my children.   I praise God that over a week ago, I received a treatment that actually made a break through for my sciatic nerve.  I waited for the residual lower back pain to fade as the nerve pain did.  Alas, it has not.  One of my doctors thinks it is possible that I have a "slipping disk."  I am not entirely certain of all the ramifications of that dilemma, but it does sound pretty creepy to me.  I will try the recommended treatments and stretches that this doctor suggests.  And I continue to ask God for His powerful heali...