"Promises in God"

This, has been my song of praise over the past few days..   I haven't heard it for a long while or sang it for a while; but recently it has come to my heart and I have sang it repeatedly. (Side note: when I started this blog, back in 2007, I had a hard time coming up with a name for a blog.  I loved love this song and Psalms 100; therefore, A Joyful Noise originated it's name!).
I love this song for so many reasons.  It's such an encouraging song.  I love especially these words:

My comfort, my shelter,
Tower of refuge and strength;
Let every breath, all that I am
Never cease to worship You........
..................I sing for joy at the work of Your hands,
Forever I'll love You, forever I'll stand,
Nothing compares to the promise I have in You.
It's been a week of calling doctors and figuring out the plan of action regarding the outcome of my MRI.  I have three doctors involved in the outcome of this recent MRI results.   My MRI did show a "large mass of soft tissues in the right neck region."   My pain doc, Dr. Lee hasn't called me back about his plan of treatment, and that is probably because my other doctors hasn't gotten back to him.  My UVA doctors has finally gotten the report (after I kept bugging Augusta Hospital to send the reports to UVA..... ) Good news.....I think....is that my neurologist, Dr Leone, doesn't think that the soft tissue mass is the cause for my head/neck pain;  however, that also means we still don't know the cause.   As far as what is the soft tissue is, the doctors (and I) are guessing it is my usual culprit, the NF tumor....which mean surgery to remove it; there are other tumors and that side of the head that needs removed as well.   I'm waiting to hear from my surgeon to look at the films and report to see what he thinks the "tissue" is.
The past week, I have been struggle with a lot of pain.  There were times I almost checked myself in the ER....it was that bad.   Today was an extremely odd day for me.  I was out with my Mom at Lowes (I usually try to go out every chance I get since it's good for me to get out when I can).  I remember waking up, doing morning routines, eating breakfast, sitting down and reading a book, and then getting ready to go out and actually going out.   In the midst of getting to Lowes and looking at light fixtures and mirrors with my Mom, which of course, took some time, I started to have my usually head pains. I wasn't too alarmed, but then I received a text message from a friend telling me that she was going to call me after lunch to discuss something.  I was thinking to myself "what is she talking to me about??? Lunch time?  It's in the evening!  I was convinced my cell phone was broken and that it was NOT half-past noon.....I was so confused...(you think you have had that before, but this is unusual for me because it gets worse).... I then suddenly lost my bearings and can't figure out for the life of me was I doing at Lowe's with my Mom, even though I was standing right there in front of the mirrors; and I was holding on the cart with the light fixture we picked up.  My Mom looked at me and asked if I was okay; I hesitated for one second and then realized what I was doing; and eventually figured out what time it was...... (and, no, I didn't have any lunch hunger pains that gave away that it was lunch time; whenever I don't feel well, I usually don't ever get hungry).

As I go through this, I see many of my friends go through their own trials.  A dear family who has lost just about everything and is basically "starting" over in a new place.  AND this dear family will have to be separated due this dear brother has go through chemo at another hospital FURTHER AWAY and his loving wife will follow.   Oh, how much I love this family so much.  This dear brother's daily words encourage me (and others) more than anything and I think to myself "I should be the one encouraging him!  He needs the encouragement more than I do!"  He encourages others through a group on Facebook that was created for OTHERS to encourage HIM! I wish I can be just as encouraging. 

So, back to the song I started with on this post.  I needed the reminder that God INDEED is a shelter, He INDEED is a Tower of strength and INDEED refuge AND a comforter.    In God's will, He will get us through rough times/patches in our lives whether it is medical/physical or personal issues; but through it all His promises to us is true and His Love for us will never fail.