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Learning to Walk

I'm teaching in church today. Again. Again because I don't feel ready and I never feel like I'm ready. I'm fighting off a lot of discouragement lately. I feel like I'm running a race and I'm never where I'm supposed to be. I feel like I'm giving my all, yet I'm late for appointments, forgetting things, and disorganized. I used to be so proud of myself for being able to schedule everything and get an amazing amount done. Now the reality is that I need a good twenty minutes a day just staring into space, and another twenty minutes to process what is happening with my daughter Chickadee. Therapy is hard right now, at least home therapy. Every time I do it it reminds me that she might lose the very skills we're working on tomorrow. I know it's worth it. I know she will have better mobility, motility, bone density, lower rates of scoliosis, but I'm still mourning the first and second regressions. My brain just refuses to acc...