Hope Restored
The Fork in the Road, Following a Traumatic Brain Injury
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On this first office visit,I was given a book to read,to my suprise as I started to read this book,I realized that it had been required reading in nursing school.It was about,we are what and who we think we are,which brought to my mind,Proverbs 23:7,For as he thinketh in his heart,so is he.
Thinking in my heart and believing what God's word says about me,for His Word is truth,set me free.
The washing of the water of the Word,washed my mind and planted hope in my mind and soul.Where it grew,producing leaves,flowers,and the fruit of wellness in my mind,watering my mind, which still flows today.
For I had been thinking of the injury and disability as a deformity,this was not the truth,it was junk in junk out,resulting in stinking thinking.
Throught God's Word,I learned and started to believe that I was a winner and not a loser,that I had the mind of Christ,that God loved and accepted me without conditions,and that He created me because He wanted me,and that I am accepted ,not on my abilities and performances,but throught Jesus ,I am one of the beloved.
So, accepting the truth,that I am fearfully and wonderfully made,a child of God,I started to walk in the truth of who I am in Christ Jesus.
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Faye writes from her personal perception using her thoughts, feelings, and observations as she struggled with the personality and behavior changes following a traumatic brain injury. She related to this time a walking through Shadowland, a place of ashes. Faye tells how her hope was restored by a personal word from God, which allowed her to accept her new personality and the changed behavior, allowing her to take the new road map for her life, forging ahead with courage, because she is a survivor and knows that the journey is worth taking.
Faye lives in Mobile, Alabama. She is a 1980 graduate of Troy University School of Nursing, Montgomery Campus. She is a member of the Mobile Writers’ Guild, the Alabama State Poetry Society, and a former member of the National Associate of American Pen Women, Mobile Branch ,as Letters, serving several times as the chapter’s chaplain.
Faye has been published in The Journal of Christian Nursing, several anthologies, and different newsletters pertaining to Traumatic Brain Injury and relating emotional problems. She is a guest writer at TrustinginJesus.com. In her spare time, she enjoys playing Mexican train dominoes, cards, Chinese mahjongg, designing and making quilts, ballroom and line dancing, reading mysteries and historical fiction.
About the Author
My name is Faye. I am a survivor of a traumatic brain injury. I want to share with you from poems and prose, my personal struggle with the personality and behavior changes following the traumatic brain injury which I relate to as walking through Shadowland, a place of ashes. It was a pathway that I walked not by choice but of necessity, to survive. How my hope was restored with a personal word from God, which gave me the hope and courage to take this new road map for my life and forging ahead with hopeful expectations, living life to the fullness that I am capable of.