I am 12 weeks along in my pregnancy. I've felt... not great with this one. Thankfully, I can tell I'm getting close to my 2nd trimester because the "morning" sickness is only at night before bedtime and the fatigue is letting up a good bit. Unfortunately, in it's place has come the mother of all tension headaches that keeps appearing every day around lunch time for the past 2 weeks.
Yesterday, I went to the OB for my monthly appointment and she gave me muscle relaxers to help with my headaches. I had a headache so I took one when I got home. Well, 2 or 3 hours later I still had what now felt like an almost migraine. Piper had just woken up from her nap but I sat her on the bed next to me and she happily watched what ended up being a couple hours of shows on Netflix. (Pretty unusual for her).
I get headaches a lot so I had tried EVERYTHING I knew that had helped me in the past. It's been a tiring few weeks from feeling bad day in and day out so I was to the point of wanting to cry about it. I finally lay there, trying to block out the sound and light with an ice pack, and through the fog of that headache all I could think was "Lord, there's nothing else I can do. I don't know what to do or what to ask from You".
Then He said this verse to me.. "Come to me all you who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest"
I went to sleep repeating that verse and woke up a while later without a headache. I have no doubt that He told me this promise for what He could do for me if I would trust Him. During the two weeks I've had these, NOTHING has helped or stopped the headache once it began.
Moral of the story for this follower of Jesus... He does not sit idly by while one of His children suffers. And I thank you for that, Lord.
"I lift up my eyes to the hills- where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth. He will not let your foot slip- He who watches over you will not slumber; indeed, He who watches over Israel will neither slumber nor sleep."
