NOT complaining :-)

I really am thrilled to be preggo and my goal is to make it through without complaining. I have too many friends who have had serious troubles getting pregnant, had miscarriages or been unable to conceive at all to fuss. That said, I'm really just kind of surprised by how icky I've felt so I'm trying to figure out how to successfully deal with it (while praying for it to go away)! So far chick-fil-a sandwiches and lemonade are my best standby and mac and cheese - go figure. Forget veggies, most dairy and meat (really, I was a very healthy eater before this).

What do YOU do when you find yourself less capable than your normal routine?

Having spent a great deal of time in the medical profession, I have seen how taxing physical stress, pain and illness can be on the human soul and one's emotional capacity. It can really be a joy robber! No wonder people grow depressed in the face of chronic illness or pain, it takes a lot of joy to stand up under that pressure without growing weary.

I have had a number of conversations as of late about "joy strength." The idea that joy gives you the strength to face trial, endure difficulty and so on. Even the Good Book says that the "joy of the Lord is your strength." I've always relegated that joy to a spiritual variety, such as the joy of knowing the Man who loves you most, the joy of a a clean slate when you mess up ... but my perspective is expanding. Sometime recently, something tipped in my understanding and I've begun to see all honest joy as authored by the Great I Am, like the joy of watching my puppies sleep, the joy of sleeping in, the joy of taking a nap, ok, enough about sleeping :-)