Hey everyone!
its been a little while since I have posted a blog! I wanted to share about what has happened recently. Recently I was battling with a sickness of a parasite which was keeping me from doing ministry for a little while. The doctor said its called round worm which are where worms are actually coming out of you in different places. I started to feel better after awhile until I woke up one morning when I inhaled and has this incredible underneath my ribs, having sharp heart pain, back pain, and leg pain. This started to freak me out because I had heart pain in my past before and I was getting checked by cardiologists back at home. My next move was to go back to Quito and get my heart and everything else checked out so I could figure out what my pain was because the pain got worse. I stayed in Quito for 3 days going to different kinds of doctors and specialists to see if they could find out the problem, but most of them could not figure out what the issue was. I sent my results to my doctors in the United States to see if they could look and see if they see a problem, but most of the tests they saw were fine. I was frustrated and stressed because I was still having pain and know one knew the answer why. Finally on the 3rd day in Quito I had to make the choice of do I need to go home to get checked by the doctors there? Or do I stay? This choice was incredibly hard, and I called my mom and talked to her if any results came back from the doctor, and she said no. My mom reminded me of something my United States doctor said that it could be something called Pleurisy. Pleurisy is after a parasite an infection that can affect your lungs, heart, back, muscle pain, and making you tired. I googled Pleurisy and saw all those symptoms, and I was just stunned because it was exactly the pain I was having and I finally knew why! During this time frame of all that was going on the Lord really taught me trust. In my life trusting in someone is super hard for me because I have had so many bad experiences from it. I realized how many things I take control of because I don’t trust others to do it. I realized I take over trust sometimes in me and God’s relationship. The Lord gave me such a peace after the situation. The Lord said to me in his word, “be still and know that I am God.” In our lives we think we always need to do something and figure out the problem on our own, but in reality we can’t. We need God to take control of the situation and not us so that we can be still and know that he is the almighty God who is so powerful and someone we can put our full trust in because his plans our perfect.
Love, Ryan
