CAUTION: Woman In Progress

With everything that's going on in the world these days, our country especially, I find myself prone to anger. At the events taking place, sure. But more so with the way the people around me react, think, and feel about them. I'm a Christian. I asked Jesus into my heart when I was eleven years old. I wake up every day and do the best my lowly human self can do to live in a way that both serves and pleases the Father. I fail, yes. I fail often and spectacularly. I own that. But it doesn't stop me from trying to do better. To be better. To live better and leave this earth better than it was when I woke up this morning. The current political climate, the current U.S. Administration and all the ills that have come with it...it's hard on my Christian heart. Made even harder by the Christians around me who blindly support everything that's been happening. All but worshiping at the feet of a president who displays the least Christ-like behavior imaginable. And I don...

I'll lead with the good news. While I was at the Student Health Center trying to figure out why I passed out this morning, they checked my blood glucose and it was in a healthy range two hours after eating a protein bar. So, yay! I seem to maybe be a little bit on track with the prediabetes reversal. The scary news is, I fainted and fell out in the floor at work this morning. SUPER not fun. Funny now, but scary as all hell when it happened. I've been having dizzy spells and such for a couple of years now. Blurry vision and all. My doctor just brushed it off when I told him about it though so I just assumed it was anxiety or something. Stress, you know? Well, today I was in the middle of training a new student assistant when my vision got really blurry and I became "swaying while I was standing" dizzy. I took a second to try and breathe through it like I normally do and it subsided a little bit and we carried on with the training. A few minutes later it hit again,...