Monday, October 4, 2010

Anxiety, Curses.


We live in an incredibly active spiritual, supernatural world. Whether you like it or not. Whether you are in Canada, United States, DRC, or Kenya. However, when you are here, and random weird things start happening, that seem to be happening to no one else... sometimes it's worth considering the idea that it is possible someone has gone to a witch doctor and attempted to put a curse on you, your house, your cat, or whatever. Sounds much more freaky then it actually it is. But that's only if you don't have Jesus. ;)

We've been struggling with rats/mice for the past several months. About 2 weeks ago, I suddenly realized, 'how is it that out of 45 apartments in our compound, we are the ONLY ones with this problem?!'. So Hot Husband and I began to pray. . . anointed the house with oil, etc. And no more rats or mice... at least inside the house. . There has been some evidence of them outside on the window ledge. I can't say for sure either way what the dealio is. But I can say, it's definitely worth considering these things.

A friend of mines guard had his little girl die in the night, she was 2. According to his village tradition if someone dies, it's ALWAYS someone elses fault. This guard decided that it was his coworker, my friends house help. They're from the same village. The guard then went to a witch doctor and placed a curse on the house help. Now her house is in a bit of chaos. She fired the guard yesterday.

Stepping back out of these things a bit. I'm having weird dreams. For several months. Where I wake up completely overcome with stress. Anxiety. Though I pray, renounce, or whatever... it still can take several minutes to snap out of it. Lately it can happen in the daytime as well. Last night when it happened Hot Husband was trying to get me to relax while praying for me, and though I was relaxing all of my body to the best of my ability- my muscles were still tense. It took about an hour for me to fully snap out of it. It can often happen when I'm on the computer. I have come at it from every angle, and when I'm not struggling, I have no fear, no anxiety, I'm not stressed... The anxiety, even when in it, is completely nonsensical. Last night I started to wonder if this is a chemical/hormonal thing having to do with pregnancy. It simply has no basis for its existence. Because of that, it's either some sort of curse, or some sort of chemical imbalance.

At any rate, I ask that if you read this that you pray for me. That this would not be something I struggle with any longer, and that the baby would be protected from it. That I would not have this during labor and delivery. That if there is a supernatural element to it, it would be broken, and we would have wisdom to what is going on!

Aha! :

I was thinking after I wrote this, since all this morning, and this afternoon I've been having this sort of anxiety mind numbing, muscle tensing body sensations... And realizing two things. 1. It is happening purely to my body, if I check in with my spirit or my emotions, they are not in a state of turmoil or stress. 2. I've been taking a lot of vitamins, including a Shaklee immunity booster- Nutriferon in order to not get any more sick then I already am.
This is has made me wonder- Are the vitamins and their mixture causing a chemical reaction with my hormones? Definitely worth cutting them out for now at least!!!!

24 hours later:

haven't had a single "episode" today. and i'd say today i've had much more reason to. (more on that later). no nutriferon in about 30 hours... i'm more and convinced the nutriferon had something to do with it. whatever the case, i'm just feeling more 'sane' today! thank you Jesus! thanks for praying!

2 comments:

  1. oh Krista, I will be praying for you. So sorry you're going through all of this! Hopefully it's just a mixture of the vitamins. I know when I was pregnant I had some crazy dreams and such, but nothing like that!
    What do you think of the Shaklee immunity booster? I use all of the shaklee cleaning products and absolutely love them, but have never tried their vitamins.

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  2. Jenny- my MIL is a shaklee junkee. my sister in law and i joke that we could run a vitamin store out of our cabinets with all the shaklee we get from her. we're really blessed- it's super expensive! that being said, my favorite shaklee is the B vitamin. it's like a happy pill. the nutriferon is awesome- when not pregnant. though i can't find anything online that says it's at all dangerous for pregnancy. the nutriferon has warded off many a flu/cold in our house. also- their probiotics are good too, especially if you do a lot of travel. :)

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