Special Announcement!
I started school a few weeks ago (by the time this posts) but my blog posts up to this point have been mostly about how I got here. Breaking the fourth wall, here, this blog and website is awesome because I can write posts several weeks ahead and schedule when they are to publish. Boom. I could go for a tropical vacation in Tahiti for a month and still get my blog out every week.
I have a special announcement for the handful of you who read my blog, though, and it’s… amazing. Tell your friends. This is a testimony, to be sure.
Anyone who knows me knows I am God’s biggest cheerleader. No one is more faithful than the converted and saved. I also am a staunch believer that God uses the bad things that happen to you for ultimately better good than the bad was. Translation? Something we perceive as negative will end up as a net positive given enough time.
I went out of town with my husband on a work project the same week I started school. I had a low back injury in 2019 that was mostly healed but then of course, in classic Holly form, I went and lifted a box I shouldn’t have lifted over the weekend before. I felt fine for a few days, but then while out of town, my back just goes… “aaaaand NO.”
I limped into a local chiropractor for a small fix while I was in town (shoutout to Dr. Ross in Wenatchee, you’re a prodigy, dude) and then when I came back, I had to go back to my regular chiropractor who happened to be 45 minutes north (we moved, not her). I was still willing to make the trek because I love my chiropractor (shoutout Dr. Ashley) but her office was closed the entirety of last week. She couldn’t fix me.
This forced me to establish care down south here in Olympia where my husband and I moved last autumn. More dramatic crying and wailing noises. What a pain.
Wouldn’t you know it, though, I found an AMAZING chiropractor by the name of Dr. Derrick, and I had mentioned I also own a little lip balm business when I went in. He said I should come back in and sell some of my balms in his office, so I came back in the next day and prepared to make the sale.
I started talking with a lady in the waiting room who I assumed was another patient, until she mentioned she was actually Dr. Derrick’s wife, Lisa. I took to her instantly because she had a sweater with “I Love Jesus” right on the front of it. I mentioned I was in school to become a nutritional counselor, and she goes, “You should talk to Dr. Derrick about that, because he’s trying to build a network of providers for holistic health in his office.”
um, whaaaat?
The Good Doctor comes out of his office and we chat for a minute. I tell him what I told Lisa, and he essentially told me I should set up a practice in his office when I graduate.
UM WHAAAAAT
Let this be a lesson, kids. To you, in the moment, all you’re feeling is “my back dun broke.”
To God, it’s, “Let’s bring her to a doctor who will help her establish a nutritional counseling practice once she graduates.”
Our ways are not His ways. Our understanding is not His understanding. If you focus on the negative in your trials, you may miss out on the opportunity to make something awesome out of it. If I had been grumpy and in pain and sour grapes about having had to move chiropractors, I wouldn’t have been smiley and cheerful and made the connections that I just did. Smile through your pain, people. You never know what’ll happen.
The next time you think something in your life is negative, give it time. God can turn it into a net positive for you somehow. He uses our tragedies to make our life overall better, and ain’t that just the real secret of life? This is why we have to be thankful for our tragedies and trials- because there’s something good God’s working with them, even if we can’t see it yet.
This concludes our special announcement. Regular blog posting resumes Sunday.
