God's Grace is Sufficent (2 Cor 12:9): G Force

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My name is Robyn Waters and I was born to my parents on 17/11/81. I have a brother who is 5 years older than me who I have always respected and looked up to, as far as I can remember we have always gotten along really well. Both my parents were teachers, my Dad High School and my Mum Primary School, so we always had school holidays together as a family (more often then not we'd go down to our holiday house on the south coast). Mum used to go to church every now and then and would take me to Sunday School, but I hated it. The biggest reason I think was because I accidentally got locked out once, and I had no real friends (they were mainly boys). When I was about 14 I was invited to youth group when I went to church with mum (I kept going to make God happy, or so I thought). I went along thinking that I had nothing else better to do but planned only to go once. But when I went the unexpected happened, I enjoyed it, not only that but I wanted to come back the following week and stay longer for night church as well. What was different? I made very good friends very quickly and a lot of them I am still very close with now. Over time I was invited to a bible study group as well and Jesus and the bible became more real and less distant to me. I began a close relationship with the Awesome God of the Universe, and understood that the only way I could have this relationship was by trusting relying and depending on Jesus' death and resurrection to save me from God's just anger toward my sinfulness. The verse that stuck out the most to me was when Jesus says “I am the way, the truth and the life, no one comes to the Father except through me” John 14:6. So slowly through the influence of Christian friends and by reading my Bible I became a Christian.

I had my first back operation when I was 16 because my back brace was not holding my 50 degree curved back (scoliosis), and the curve was effecting my lung capacity. I had a major spinal fusion done, it took me 8 weeks until I got back to school due to complications (excessive pain that in the end my surgeon could not explain). Being half way through Yr11 I felt that I missed too much school to ever catch up so after a couple of weeks I left to start my way into nursing. For the rest of that year I did a medical reception course, which helped me into an Assistant In Nursing course the following year for 6 months, which helped me into a Uni Start Programme for another 6 months, which helped me to get into University to do my Bachelor of Nursing (same time as if I had of stayed at school). Throughout my time doing Nursing at Uni I most enjoyed the time I spent with the Christian group (CBM- Parramatta UWS). I enjoyed meeting in small prayer/bible study groups as well as the bigger meeting during the week. I grew so much as a Christian during that time. And began to lead some groups myself. Mid my second year of nursing Mum and I went by ourselves on a 2 week holiday to Cairnes, I mention this because it was a great memory I have with my mum and we had a blast every day. I started dating (my now husband) Ben in my 3rd year and within a few months we were engaged to be married in January 2003. I expected to have finished my degree by then and thought I could work to support Ben through his last year of Uni. God's plans were different to ours, late 2002 my mum had cancer in her bladder diagnosed and began treatment. Treatment seemed successful but she had a heart attack due to medications she was on near Christmas. During this time I was meant to be doing my last prac for Uni, however I was in a rehab ward with a lot of lifting and in the last week I had a disc prolapse. That put finishing my degree on hold but we went ahead with our beautiful wedding. I finished my degree in an ICU, worked in Emergency for 3 months then quit around the time of my mum passing away. In my 2nd month of work she was diagnosed again with cancer in the stomach but could have no treatment due to the severity of it and was only given a month to live (and they predicted rightly).

Ben and I survived off Government payments and the generosity of others that year, and of course due to God providing everything we needed. In 2004 Ben worked as a Food Technologist and I retrained as a Primary School Teacher. February 2005 my disc prolapse became inflamed again to the point where I could not get out of bed, after a few months my bladder began to retain urine. It was then decided in April that I would have a discectomy to cut out the large prolapse. After I recovered from sugery I began Casual Teaching in my local Primary Schools. It was so scary for me at first but with a lot of support and encouragement from my mum's school friends as well as family and my church family I started to really love Casual Teaching. But I knew that I would be moving in 2006 and that I'd have to start all over again in terms of getting to know schools again. 2006 came and Ben and I moved up the Central Coast to be a part of a new church plant (And Ben started his 2 year apprenticeship as a Trainee Pastor – MTS) . I had never lived outside of Richmond before, this was a scary move, moving away from my family and the only church I had belonged to.

Once again God's plans weren't ours, I had troubles getting work in the local Primary Schools. Then in April my back went out yet again, so I have pretty much been lying flat on my back since. I saw my surgeon around July and will see him again in January 2007 to decide whether he'll operate or not. The disc that was operated on in 2005 has become unstable and is deteriorating. And that is where I am up to. I'll try and fill things out more as I go along with my blog.

God's Grace is Sufficent (2 Cor 12:9)

Wednesday, 24 June 2009

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