Coping with Lupus

Trying to focus my attention on the positive things in life as opposed to the negative has helped to ward off the "plom disease" [poor little old me - it is bad enough that I have one disease I really don't need another. ;)]

My biggest struggle is learning not to put excessive demands on myself and then berating myself for falling short. But even with a good outlook, depression, frustration, and the shedding of many tears do occur. When I’m having a really bad day and the veil of gloom seems to hover over me, I try to remember that it will pass, and with extra reliance on God, I’ll get through it.

I have truly come to appreciate God’s qualities of compassion and mercy, remembering often the words at Job 34:28:

‘And so he hears the cry of the afflicted one.’

Yes, mankind is sick, in more ways than one. We need help that even the most skilled physicians are unable to give. I believe that soon God will fulfill the first scripture I learned as a child. Then it will be said of all people:

“No resident will say: ‘I am sick.’”

(Isaiah 33:24) Doesn’t that sound wonderful? It does to me!— and by means of this it keeps me going.