I am not sure if you all are thinking this is good or bad…LOL  BUT I am back…for now. 

I really could not believe how long it had been since I last blogged.  Over a year.  WOW!  Time flies…

So this past year has been an amazing year for me.  When we were asked at care-group what we thought God’s theme was for the past year and for this year my first thought was Heal my hurts….Pay it forward.

So I will start with last year of Heal my hurts.  God has been so good to me this past year.  It will be a year ago February 26 that I received my Cochlear Implant.  What a miracle that has been.  I do not even think I have the words to describe the difference in my life.  The surgery went amazingly well.  The recovery was difficult but not as painful as I was anticipating…Praise God!!!  After the first month they activated the implant.  It was sarcastically referred to in my house as my turn on date…LOL  Adult kids can be so funny.  Any way the first day I could not really tolerate a lot of sound.  By the time I got home I had a headache and felt sick to my stomach.  By the next morning it sounded to quiet already. I went back the next day and they turned it up a lot.  By the end of the weekend it was to quiet again.  I went back 6 more times over the next 6 months.  Each time they would adjust it.  The last couple of visits they tested my hearing with the implant in and I was in the normal range.  That is just so amazing to me.  They did word recognition and I was above normal for that.  Meaning I could recognize words without reading lips.  Thank you Lord!!!  It had been years like 6-10 since I could do that.  This was really life changing and a miracle.  Since I could hear again it just opened a whole new world for me.  Seriously I could hear the whole message on Sundays.  I could go to care-group and catch almost all that was being said.  I could have a date with my hubby that included a movie.  Funny side note here.  We did not take advantage of that til about 2 weeks ago.  we were just so used to not being able to go to the movies that we forgot that I could go now…LOL  I could hear my great nieces laugh and call me Aunt Donna.  It was all so precious and so amazing to me.  One of the most blessed things was I could do the ladies bible study and hear the video.  God has healed so much of my heart with this amazing miracle.  It was life changing for me to be able to take the bible study and be able to participate and hear everything.  God used it to heal my heart about loosing my hearing and about Scott.  Than to top it off Sharon Betters came to speak at one of our ladies meetings.  That was like the cherry on top.  She is an incredibly faithful powerful woman who has been on the road I am on.  She too lost her son in a car accident at 16.  Just to see another woman that was on this road longer calling back to me saying “It’s OK you can do this with God’s grace”  was food for my soul.  I must say that I feel like a new woman because of all that God has blessed me with this past year.  My prayer is that I will be reminded daily of His goodness and be thankful continually.  That is a big prayer for me and I already have failed terribly BUT I know that there is new grace for me each morning.  So that is a little update from the past year.  I do plan to write about specific things as God places them on my heart.  It is good to be back and as always “To God Be the Glory!!!”