Write 31 Days

So here’s the thing. This time last year, I was recovering from a fall down a flight of marble stairs in New York City in July. When October 2015 began, I thought I was almost recovered. I thought the nasty leg wound that sent me to the hospital for 5 days and countless doctor appointments was healing well. my bumps and bruises were fading, and my shoulder pain was slowly decreasing. My leg was still looking nasty, but I was thinking that what was under the huge scab was healing. Oh how I was wrong!

While we were on a trip with my family the first weekend of October, the scab came off. And I’ll spare you the disgusting details, but it was obvious that the wound was still infected.

Back to the specialists I went, and ended up going through more medical intervention, doctor appointments, nurse visits, IV antibiotics multiple times a day via a PICC line in my arm, plastic surgeon appointments (and, darn it, they wouldn’t do any ‘extra’ work on me! 😉 ) and the physical and mental repercussions of months of antibiotics.

Writing was not a priority during this…and trust me, my brain was so mixed up from lack of sleep, brain fog and overwhelm that you wouldn’t want to have read my thoughts. Trust me. I could barely put a sentence together some days.

So I’m back……and I’m going to finish what I started a year ago!!!

I’m going to use the posts I wrote last year (all 7 of them. Lol!) and go from there. I might add some update to the original ones, but will use a different font to set apart anything added this year.

2015:

As the saying goes, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. As I was contemplating whether I should join in on the Write 31 day challenge this year, there were 2 realizations I had about my life recently.

1.) I’ve not written in way too long

2.) I’ve not been consistent in studying the Bible in way too long

This summer was not at all what I expected or planned, but isn’t God just like that? Despite the many lessons I learned over my injury and recovery this summer, the most important one I lived out is how often I believe the lie that I am in control of my life. It took a fall down a flight of marble stairs to ‘knock’ the truth that God is always in control into my head.

So, despite my better judgement, I’m jumping in. Writing consistently for 31 days is crazy right now for my season of life. Family visits, traveling 2 weekends, adjusting to a new part time job, searching for a new part time job….adding in writing each day this month is crazy.

And yet…when God says write…I’m starting to learn I better write!

So…here I go. My ‘apple a day’ will be a chapter of Proverbs a day. I hope you will join me in discovering what God wants to reveal to us about the wisdom found in His word in Proverbs.

Day 1: Proverbs 1

Day 2: Proverbs 2

Day 3: Proverbs 3

Day 4: Proverbs 4

Day 5: Proverbs 5

Day 6: Proverbs 6

Day 7: Proverbs 7

Day 8: Proverbs 8

Day 9: Proverbs 9

Day 10: Proverbs 10

Day 11: Proverbs 11

Day 12: Proverbs 12