I have no doubt Kathy Carlton Willis is qualified to teach us on the subject of disappointment in this Biblical Thinking UPGRADE. I was on her prayer team last year when she experienced what she calls, “back-to-back-to-back disappointments.”
“I started the year in the hospital for a post-surgical infection,” Kathy says. “It required additional surgery, going home with a PICC line, and a change in plans to allow time for recovery.”
I (Dawn) think most of us would struggle with just that, but Kathy’s tale of struggle and disappoint went on and on. And so did her commitment to deal with those struggles in a “grin with grace way.
Kathy continues . . .
I was so disappointed in how that impacted my year. I had to cancel contracts with clients and postpone a writer’s getaway.
My diet and exercise plans were on pause, too. Everything just felt off kilter.
Then, when I finally got back in the swing of things, I had four disappointments hit almost simultaneously.
- I developed a urinary tract infection that wouldn’t go away.
- The antibiotic I took for it caused a tendon injury.
- Hurricane Harvey hit.
- And if that wasn’t enough, it flooded a home we had in contract.