Seven Quick Takes – Saturday Afternoon Edition | Paroxysm of Giggles / Critical Mass

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Thing have been CRAZY around here! You would think that a girl with as many planner as I have would be able to stay sane… Well, yes and no. I have been working a lot of overtime, which is my preference, but between that, grad school, and extracurriculars, I don’t have a lot of down time for myself and it’s starting to take its toll. I don’t have a good diet at the moment. Nor any sort of exercise routine to speak of. I desperately need to clean the house (although a friend helped quite a bit recently). This week, I think I’m going to take a hard look at my time commitments and make a plan for fitting some of these things in. Please keep me in your prayers and keep cheering me on! 🙂

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Speaking of my Mitochondrial Myopathy… This week is Mitochondrial Awareness week. My particular disease is a neuromuscular disorder, most consistent with MELAS. It is progressive and terminal. But this doesn’t stop me from trying to do everything that I love, sometimes to the dismay of my friends. However, I recently came across a quote that I just love:

Will I someday be standing with scars to give account before Him that I wasn’t about my own comfort but Christ’s call, that I didn’t make my life about safe living but about dangerous dying, that I didn’t escape into a neat, saved American dream but into a messy, mission-driven God-sized demand, H/T

I think this sums me up pretty nicely.

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Papa! My favorite family made the front page of the Free Press! Not only that, but they are currently in Philadelphia trying to cozy up to Pope Francis! What an awesome adventure! I am praying for their trip and for God to bless them with His grace. Love you guys!