Hi everyone, I wrote this recently about my last year and it is a testimony as well, although not a lifetime one.
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Hi everyone I wanted to share this story with you about an extreme test that I went through the last few year and only overcome and sustained this with God and the love of Christ.
I will give you the journey of my life in the last year.
In October 2024 last year I had a terrible pain in my stomach and it was felt like it was 8/9 out of 10 the pain. I was in agony for three days stretch. It subsided though, during this time as always I was praying and holding on and trusting in God. During this I made my food easier to prepare. The pain continued for some months at a much reduced level and I had moderate light body swelling internally. The pain lasted for some months at a decreasing level.
The pain has gone today, The body can repair from severe damage as my GP told me to, people can have operations to if needed. Also, with God if your recovery is to be in his will it is possible if you trust him to get to a semi functional or functional state as well. I was taking Holy water during this time and the Holy Sacraments at church which I continued to attend regularly during this time.I think that without these it could be even worse.
In December I had mild gas poisoning and God rescued my life with this and I got treatment and gave thanks to God and came out beaming and got to have a Christmas free from headache due to the gas.
Then I received religious abuse in February 2025 and at times I thought I was alone at some times and desolate God's spirit would appear and then depart to another world above that Psalm 104 speaks of and I felt his love. I also had a blessing with Holy Oil once a month at church and I also again drank Holy water daily received from the church blessed during this and I would pray and check in for a for time with God and then let my spirit decide with Psalm 24 if they needed anything to equip us through the week. I also did things to get me through and thought of good things and connected my pain to Christ’s suffering and it got me through which Christ wants us to do as Christians.
Then a miracle of God came and the words of the abuse that entered my body would just disappear in tracts sometimes overnight and the mental wounds would heal up of the pain by Christ alone and the Holy Spirit. I could hear them coming to remove the words to at times if awake. We have a mysterious working and he God hates violence as Psalm 11 tells us and he will support those who are afflicted and not abandon them as Psalm tells us 37 in difficult times. Wounds healing and being equipped to cope in extreme trials happens time and again through Christ as it happened to with Saints such as Saint Agatha.
During this I too held onto Jeremiah’s promises for a plan for peace again and hope as my destiny (Jeremiah 29:11). I also thought about eternal life beyond earth with Christ. This was my own mission amongst extreme trials that the former Pope Francis to has spoken of too in the “Footsteps of Christ our Hope speech.”
During this time of religious abuue I would also look after my spirit to and ask for a blessing at church and prayers to from the minister to and they were powerful tools. I would confess to what I was hearing as abuse to heal my soul. Give glory to God. I could have been injured, but I don’t think one part of my body was touched thanks be to the most merciful God. Life isn't as always sweet as roses as a Christian, but there is inner joy and peace with Christ which you cannot put a wordly price on.
Now I want to share something sweet with you. In 2023 I was nearly taken to my grave with anorexia, but Christ got me out of there. At that time, visitors came to see me. My niece came who I helped to raise as a child and she wept and said goodbye to me. Her father came to and my brother in law came and was the one who was leading prayers and always hoped for me to come out. Christ intervened and I came out like Christ’s most loved Lazarus to. I was to like Sleeping Beauty to be woken by Christ's though who is the Son of God by sending the Holy Spirit with its healing touch. The Holy Spirit also made me aware that Christ would anchor me in this recovery period by a vision.
Today, my niece got married on Sunday and I was there to attend and I cried when I saw the three of them my family members coming down the aisle like they came to also when they saw me when I was expected to go to my grave.
They was my strong team who was involved in helping to pray for me during a great difficult time and they came out arm in arm to walk my niece down the aisle to meet her husband I was there to watch and alive. They almost took me to the grave as finished in the body because of my conditions. Christ though carried me out and restored me to a functional state over the course of time. I could be there at the wedding, only due to God. People greeted me and remarked I seemed more of the old me before anorexia. As we all do I walk my daily path with Christ. Praise be to God. Get help from others and from a hospital if you cannot recover alone, I have done that in the past but this was right for me today with Christ. Do not delay though looking for help in the medical system if you need to which Christ supports too.
I have shared a video of a video clip of them coming down the aisle. A time to celebrate. Hold on in extreme trials and God will see you through.
Who doesn't love a wedding, it is just a very short video.