Dependence on the Lord - with Noelle Aucoin

Well, I would like to start by sharing a personal example of today's topic from my own life.

And the topic we are discussing today is dependence.

So around Christmas of 2024, I was pregnant with our second daughter and I got a bad cold.

So the bad cold developed into something called pleurisy, which I've since learned is inflammation of the lungs.

So normally this can be treated, but being newly pregnant, I couldn't take the medication that would take care of it.

So this began a long journey of physical limitations that I had just not experienced before.

This included pain, shortness of breath, elevated heart rates.

I was just worn out by the end of every day.

After having our baby, my symptoms subsided with medication.

Well, this winter, I got sick again, which again resulted in pleurisy.

And to treat my sickness, I was given a shot of antibiotics that, for whatever reason, caused me to have some pretty intense pain.

It was not able to be explained, and I was told it would hopefully subside at some point one day, but with no real end date.

Okay, so why am I telling you this story? Well, this was my first real taste of physical limitations in which I just had no control.

Well,

and you also

had no end in sight.

You didn't know.

I got to hang on for even a month.

There's something about not having an end date that's so discouraging.

Absolutely.

And this is a common lived experience, most much worse than what I just shared.

So I will tell you that my first tendency in a season of weakness like this, and now that I've learned more, I see it in many areas of my life, is to run to self-sufficiency.

And what I mean by that is to live in a

way that says, I can do it.

I don't need help.