With Wings like Eagles

Due to several very serious health issues, it was necessary for me to step away for awhile, but I am back! This post is not the whole story, but just 1 of my medical hurdles.

For the past 2+ years I have gotten tired easily. Not necessarily short of breath, just fatigued. As some of you know, I nearly died (twice) during a 19 day ICU stay with Covid pneumonia in mid 2021. Last fall, after 6 months of blurry vision and 3 eye doctors, Dr. Spraul in Effingham, IL ordered some special blood tests and subsequently diagnosed me with Myasthenia Gravis.

Literally meaning "grave muscle weakness", MG is a rare autoimmune disease and can affect all skeletal muscles, as well as the breathing muscle (diaphragm). I have seen 2 different neurologists (1 is a specialist for MG); both believe I had this when I got Covid, which would have contributed to my breathing difficulties.

One of the treatments for Covid19 is mega doses of steroids, which I received. Steroids are also triggers for myasthenic crises which can be fatal. All of which is to say that I am even more grateful that God brought me through that "valley of the shadow".

I am literally a walking testimony to the awesome Providence of the Almighty God, YehoVAH. I still wonder some days why He saved me while people were dying in rooms all around me, but I am determined to preach TRUTH about the Gospel of the Kingdom until my dying breath.

When I decided as a teenage cross country runner that my favorite Scripture was Isaiah 40:31, I never dreamed that one day Myasthenia Gravis would give me a totally different PERSPECTIVE of this verse. Here it is with the preceding verses for context:

Isaiah 40:28-31 TS2009 

Did you not know? Have you not heard? The everlasting Elohim, YehoVAH, the Creator of the ends of the earth, neither faints nor is weary. His understanding is unsearchable.  

(29)  He gives power to the faint, and to those who have no might He increases strength.  

(30)  Even youths shall faint and be weary, and young men stumble and fall,  

(31)  but those who wait on YehoVAH renew their strength, they raise up the wing like eagles, they run and are not weary, they walk and do not faint.

I might add, EVEN with Myasthenia Gravis.

If you have ever prayed for me, THANK YOU. God answers prayers. May He bless each one of you.

Bro. Lance Thackrey