Prayer & Healing: my lil' guy's eczema

Lately I have been convicted that God wants us to pray reverently for healing. 

We can get caught up in our day to day routine of healthy eating, exercise, vitamins and oh yeah, work that we forget that God wants to be our Jehovah Jophe--Our God, Our Healer (Exodus 15:26).

I started praying over my son this week for healing.  On Saturday night, his eczema was bad.  The area behind his knees was red, itchy and flaky.  I cant imagine being 2 years old and having to deal with that.  And he just keeps on smiling in the midst.  And I could not figure out the cause.  He has A LOT of food allergies and I have been using NAET (www.naet.com) to clear his allergies.  For the past six months he was doing really well and then 2 months ago the flare ups started again.  I hadn't used any topical steroids or wet wraps for months but tried to tame the red as much as I could and started doing more allergy clearings.  The clearing I did a couple weeks ago on him I started seeing improvement but then the flare up and so on Saturday night all I could do was pray! 

God had me on my knees and hands on my munchie.  I prayed for direct healing, I told God I had faith He could heal if He wanted to and I was asking for Him to heal my son.  And while the next morning came, I did not see "results" physically on my son but I look back now and God was giving me wisdom.

The first was that I needed to get some natural crackers to replace the ones he got at school daily.  I wasn't sure if it would make a difference but it was worth a try.  I also started to keep a food journal that week too.  The other thing that I ended up doing, not really on purpose, was I did not let him play in the grass in the backyard.  And I kept praying, believing in healing . . .

On late Wednesday and Thursday, I noticed healing had begun to take shape.  He wasn't itchy, he was less red where you could almost see his natural skin color.  Then on Friday morning I reported this all to his nutritionist, Dr. Nelson.  We then compared snack ingredients and he pointed out all the artificial flavoring and coloring that was in the school snacks (trust me, we are working on changing that in his school).  And needless to say, my son was allergic to that.  And then I shared the grass bit with him too and while sharing I realized that my son had started spending more time in the backyard these past couple months as it has gotten lighter and warmer, hmmmm . . .And yet again, his tested positive to a grass allergy.  So on Friday we had a grass clearing performed on him.  We will slowly now introduce back to backyard play but watch him closely.
God did perform a healing this week.  He healed my son, he gave me the wisdom, clear headness and the right doctor to narrow down what was happening to my son.  To God be the Glory!

Structural Damage & Optic Neuritis

A few months ago I went riding on the beginner ride with Rock MTB (www.rockmtb.com) as my husband is one of the team leaders.  It was in Coronado, on a paved, flat pathway called the Silver Strand.  I think it is now to be the LAST bike ride I will ever be on as I fell.  Yes, clutzy me looked behind me for a second at husband and child and "ate it".  I hit the ground so hard that it resulted in an ER trip to get liquid stitches on my chin. 

Fast forward months down the road and my vision started acting up.  I could not understand it, I was eating right, taking my vitamins etc--why Optic Neuritis again?  I was told to have a partial computer analysis of my systems to see what is changed-- well, a lot.  A lot of improvements, yea! but there is was--cervical 1-5 was stressed.

What happened recently asked my doctor.  Hmmmm . . . hmmmm . . . oh yeah, the Coronado bike ride.  After that realization, I was ordered to stand up and the doctor looked at my posture and pointed out to me and my husband that clearly one shoulder was higher than the other.  I needed to have some work to get everything back in place. 

So that brings us to today, I am in the process of correcting the situation and was even given some at-home exercises. But it is still not perfect, but its getting better.  The blurriness comes in and out and is less.  Its just amazing to think how connected everything in our body is.  That we can get in a bike accident that makes your body ache but a few months down the line your vision is affected. 

It continues to affirm the importance of holistic medicine.  We need to look at the body as a whole, the way God created it so magnificently, and its connectedness to explore what is wrong and what is right in our system. 

By the way, I am exercising now. I walk 1 mile uphill 3-4 times a week.  It gets my heart rate up and I sweat   Its a huge accomplishment for me and I'm proud of it.  Hopefully I will start enjoying it, like I enjoy reading a good book curled up on the couch.