Hi Bobber- I am such a newbie to the forum, and for such a different reason, as I only suffer chronic neuropathic pain following tramatic injury in a car wreck a number of years ago. Having viewed a number of your posts of encouragement on the threads, I know well you are among the fibers God has woven into this loving tapestry known by the name of love. Certainly, you, and each of those numbered among the visitors to these pages either experience pain overwhelmingly as a personal thorn in the side or lovingly support one who does. Much of life we once knew has been seeminly robbed from us, as though a thief snatched cherished things from us not once, but time and time again.

Times come when in the throes of pain we are not as loving to those round about us as we might rather be. It is in those times I find I have to lean on my faith relationship with God to put myself forward once more, looking back over my shoulder to realize those prints in the sand are not mine, but the one who carries me [heck, if the prints in the sand were mine, there would be the little mark from my cane alongside a foot, or I would just be bogged down altogether in my wheelchair, because that wonderful device likes neither sand nor snow].

So many are praying for you now, as am I, that I believe you have to be feeling the or given to lift you from such moments even as they are bound to recur tomorrow or a few days from now. None of us are without blemish. It's the human condition. May you know fully the love of ALL who are around you in those times of doubt.

Blessings upon you Bobber,
Mark56