New Year, Same Me, New Me

Welcome to 2017. I think I need to expand 40 to 40 until the year 2020. We could all use an extension, right. I'm turning 39 this year and my goals are becoming stressful and that was not the intent. I am enrolled in a doctorate program and work is progressing nicely. I should become an Associate Director by March. I also received some strange new that I may not have MS but this new NMO disease. So I'm waiting for results and understanding. I need for God to help me grapple with this one. No sure what to do but I know that I can't change much but I do see my book in this one. MS shaped my life since I was 19 years old... It was my burden or my cross to bear. I filled my body with interferons... it gave me an essay for the PMF and my doctorate. It hindered some of my relationships and it participated in my being without children. So what  now.  What is my story? As long as I'm still alive it is being shaped but who am I? A child of God, yes but what else?

These are images from the last two years - 2015 and 2016.