Not everyone gets a second chance at life. Not everyone overcomes physical disabilities. Not everyone has the opportunity to be healed.

After my first brain surgery, I lost my ability to walk. I was told that the problems with my left leg was an issue with “neuro-feedback.” Since my first day when I was given this prognosis. I told myself I was going to learn to walk again, and get out of my wheelchair, because I had to get myself back to home, to be with my son and husband.

So, I started the physical therapy at the rehabilitation center, and I tackled it with vigor. Then when I got released home, I still made it an effort to walk all the time, until one evening while walking with my husband I told him, “I can feel my left leg.”

2 months later a coworker asked me, “Did you ever think you wouldn’t walk again?”

And honestly, the thought never occurred to me.

I am still struggling with my eyesight and the eye doctor told me there were no exercises to improve my eyesight that he could recommend for my condition because it is, “not that type of problem.”

And yes, struggling with my eyes has been the great challenge as of now. But, I remember a friend telling me that through the savior “I would expect miracles and be healed!” What I’ve come to understand is that being healed doesn’t necessarily mean, having perfect eyesight. It means learning how to adapt.

For example, I am navigating potential other career paths if teaching choir won’t work for me anymore in a public school setting, and I am taking a class in instructional design.

I am learning how to use adaptive technology, and receiving more soon.

I am learning to sing and play guitar with my eyes closed.

I have learned how to twist and make balloons through “feel.”

I pray every night the lord will heal my eyes. But in his own way, by giving me confidence and tools, my eyes are healing, just not in the way I expected.

I hope you enjoyed this post, and I hope you can gain confidence to overcome your own life challenges. Sometimes we just have to learn to adapt. And I truly believe the Lord gives us strength to do so.

2 Corinthians 9: “And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.”