If you are a follower, and I know that there are not many, you will notice that I changed the title of my blog to "God's Grace is bigger than Ataxia."  I am often very reluctant to share my daily struggles but have decided that this is what this blog needs to be about. In addition, I hope to be transparent with my daily struggles and how I do rely on God's grace to get me through the hour, the day, the weeks and the months.  My prayer is that you will be able to relate to these struggles, even if you don't have a type of ataxia, and that we would focus on God's grace and how tomorrow is another day to lean on and learn what God has in store for us.

For those of us here in the northeast, this weekend was beautiful! Unfortunately my husband had to work most of the day on Saturday.  I am so thankful for the community that drives my kids to baseball games and practices.  Just a picture of God's grace to our family.  When we moved to the Elverson area 11 years ago I had no symptoms and life was good for us. Only God could know that many years later, this disease would take so much from our lives.

Thanks to my son and husband, I was able to make a wonderful beef brisket for Saturday and the boys did some grilling on Sunday.  I did have a little fall on Sunday.  While attempting to salt the burgers, I moved from one counter to the next to fast and down I went.  My wheelchair was just inches away, but not close enough, silly me, I know better than to move to fast!!

As the day wore down yesterday, I asked Dave how I could pray for him this week, what did he feel he was struggling with?  His answer...my ataxia and how our home has changed.  So I will pray that the struggles for him and my boys will just marinate in grace.

Today is good so far, I even walked myself to the living room and have some clothes to fold (what else is new)  we will see how the day goes and how God's grace gets me through!

Romans 5:1-5

Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, ² through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand.And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. ³ Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings,because we know that suffering produces perseverance; ⁴ perseverance, character; and character, hope. ⁵ And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.