The verdict

This morning was my two week check up for my ears. I told the audiologist that I have been praying that my ears would be better. So into the soundproof room I went and put on the headphones to check on the verdict. It was so encouraging as he tested me I could hear more of the frequencies in my left ear than last time.

He also did this test of a recorded voice saying words that I was to repeat. The last time when I did this test it sounded distorted like a voice on dead batteries that is low and in slow motion. But today I could actually hear the voice and that he was saying words. I still couldn't make out most of the words but at least I could hear sounds that weren't distorted.

The audiologist said that he could see improvement and that we are headed in the right direction! Yeah! I told him that a lot of people have been praying for my ears and he said-well keep doing that.

We are just praising the Lord for His answers to our prayers! My hearing in the left ear is still below 50% but he said that it could improve more and my right ear is compensating well.

Thank you to each and everyone of you who have been praying. And thank you Lord for letting Your answer to be improvement.

The times that it impacts me the most is in large groups of people with any background noise. But around the house it is fine with the kids. I just feel like I want to pull something out of my ear and hear again. I will have another test in 3 months to see if it has changed again.

Thank you again for being the body of Christ to me in this situation. I don 't think my ear will ever be back to normal but I am super thankful for progress. I am also thankful for how the Lord uses physical things to make me more dependent on Him. I definitely need Him in various situations that I wouldn't have before.

My parents reminded me the other day of Paul's prayer to be delivered from the thorn in his flesh(whatever it was). It is a great reminder to me that God will use anything to make me humble.

Pressing on!

2Corinthians 12:8-10

"Three times I pleaded with the Lord about this, that it should leave me. But He said to me, My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness. Therefore I will boast all the more gladly of my weaknesses, so that the power of Christ may rest upon me. For the sake of Christ, then, I am content with weaknesses, insults, hardships, persecutions, and calamaties. For when I am weak, then I am strong."