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Day 2671: Start Looking Up

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“Prayer should be our first response rather than our last resort.” – Unknown

 

It’s 12 : 21 PM on day 2671 of my journey towards independence and I managed to pray, read Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 and promote my 50 New Feet Campaign benefiting MiracleFeet – raised  $6 816 only $5 684 more to raise by June 17, 2018 to help 50 kids with clubfoot .

 

Today I’m feeling flat I’ve done everything I can think of and nothing’s moving (I’m grateful that I am alive and healthy and that my family and friends are alive and healthy too) from today onwards I’m going to stop looking every which way and start looking up only God has ever been able to help me

Day 1149: Do you let your deeds speak for you?

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One good deed is equivalent to a thousand prayers – that’s what I believe.

 

It’s 12 : 09 PM on day 1149 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to pray,  brush my teeth, feed myself boiled egg and  Bran Flakes for breakfast,  read 2 Kings 7,   publish my Disability of the Day feature, practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles and hang out with my sister.

 

A couple of days ago listening to my mom pray I couldn’t help wondering if that’s what God wants – for us to pray all the time – I pray too there’s nothing wrong with it but I believe one good deed is equivalent to a thousand prayers so I try to pray less and do more.  Do you let your deeds speak for you?

Day 1134: Don’t Stop Praying

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Continue praying even when you feel like nobody’s listening –that’s my message to the world.

 

It’s 12 : 37 PM on day 1134 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to pray, brush my teeth,  feed myself  Bran Flakes  and boiled egg for breakfast,  read 1 Kings 13,   publish my Disability of the Day feature and   practice sitting up straight to strengthen my core muscles.

 

Yesterday in a sermon entitled “Don’t Stop Praying” our reverend basically said we should continue to pray even when we feel like nobody’s listening I can attest to the fact that most of the time if we pray for something for long enough we will eventually get what we asked for during my anti-slavery campaign I prayed every day open people’s eyes to scourge of slavery and move them to do something and eventually things happened.  Do you continue praying even when you feel like nobody’s listening?

Day 245

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You should stop trying to get new people to see the real you and start appreciating those who already do – that’s what I learned today 🙂

It’s 8: 46 PM on day 245 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself a chicken hotdog for breakfast, tweet and Facebook about my Clean Water For All Campaign –no luck – feed myself rice and curry for lunch, tweet about my campaign some more – wow the power of prayer never ceases to amaze me @bonuschief (Frank) made a donation – thanks God and Frank 🙂 – feed myself an orange for dinner and brush my teeth once more.

Today I was reading In the inner circle, there’s no “weird” by Ellen (see excerpt below) – an American mother who has a son with Cerebral Palsy – and I realized that whenever I met new people I was trying to get them to see the real me but no more if you can accept me in the rapper that I’m in then I’ll welcome you with open arms if not, don’t let the door hit you on the way out. Do you try to get new people to like you or choose to hang out with people who already do?

I have been thinking a lot lately about how people see Max. This is not simply because I want him to fit in, so to speak. I ache for people to look beyond his disabilities and see the charming, funny, smart, complex kid I know. I want them to see Max, all of Max. Not just a child with cerebral palsy.

Then I got a grip: In the special needs community, there is no such thing as weird. For the people at the programs we go to, the teachers at Max’s school, the therapists in his life: quirky is the norm. I may have a ways to go to get the world at large to see the wonderfulness of Max. But in the inner circle of special needs that we inhabit, he is who he is—and people usually adore him for it.

Are we connecting on Twitter? If not, say hi at http://www.twitter.com/nisha360

if you’ve given to my cause or you can’t give now, please help me by sharing my cause with others. You can tweet about it like my friend Stan Faryna. This is the tweet he uses: @Nisha360 is a brave, smart young woman trying to make a better world for us all. Please help her do an amazing thing. http://bit.ly/hC7vOu

Stan’s very sweet for saying so, but feel free to write what reflects you best.

Thanks to all my friends out there who are helping me make my dream come true: to make a better world for all of us!

Dat 240

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It’s the okay to complain sometimes – that’s what I learned today.

It’s 8: 11 PM on day 240 of my journey towards independence and I’ve managed to brush my teeth, feed myself a polony and lettuce sandwich for breakfast, tweet about my Clean Water For All Campaign for a few hours – after thirteen LONG days a kind heart by the name of Ellen (@LoveThatMax on Twitter) and Adrian Klein  – someoone I don’t even know  made donations –  thanks to both of you for your contributions you don’t know this but I actually prayed
for a donation 🙂 – feed myself rice and curry for lunch, watch TV, feed myself grapes for dinner, continue reading A Purloined Life – the first of two books in Stella Cameron‘s Charmed and brush my teeth once more.

Today as I sat in front of the laptop trying to breathe through the pain in my hips I remember thinking I’m not going to complain, I’m going to complain, I’m going to complain but after a short while I gave in and thought I hate being in pain most of the time, I hate the fact that my father doesn’t take me anywhere, I hate the fact that my mom thinks I do nothing even though I get up every day and try to make a difference, I hate the fact that people see an invalid when they look at me…I hate cp and just like that my anger was gone. Do you hold things in until you feel like you’re about to blow?

Are we connecting on Twitter? If not, say hi at http://www.twitter.com/nisha360

if you’ve given to my cause or you can’t give now, please help me by sharing my cause with others. You can tweet about it like my friend Stan Faryna. This is the tweet he uses: @Nisha360 is a brave, smart young woman trying to make a better world for us all. Please help her do an amazing thing. http://www.firstgiving.com/fundraiser/nisha-varghese/nishavarghese

Stan’s very sweet for saying so, but feel free to write what reflects you best.

Thanks to all my friends out there who are helping me make my dream come true: to make a better world for all of us!