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Date: 09 September 2009 10:40:09
At the weekend I met up with a friend who has had Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS) for the last few months. This set me remembering when I was ill with CFS as a late teenager. A year of forced nothingness was very frustrating for me as I am someone who has a tendency to be slightly hyper-active!! Looking back now I can see how God used the time to help me refocus what I was meant to do with my life. Before being ill I had started to study mechanical engineering, and was planning to go and study this at university. The year out gave me time to realise how important people are to me. Just before being ill I had helped with looking after children at a mission conference and had really enjoyed it and had lots of positive feedback. During my time of being ill I realised that actually what I wanted to do was work with children. Which is a decision that I have never regretted, but without being ill would never even have thought through properly. While I hated being ill, I can now look back and see the positives. I also can look back on how God healed me when the time was right, and I was ready to move on to new things. That his timing was right, it just wasn’t my timing.