I feel like I have been going through the ringer these days. The Lord has brought me to such a unique place in my own walk with Him lately that I can accurately say I've never experienced this mix of physical, emotional and spiritual feelings before. This past year has been really hard: leaving everything and everyone we love back in the States to move to a new home, a new culture, a new language, a new society with new laws, seeing new faces and eating new food. It almost feels like being born all over again (not that I remember what that is like), learning everything necessary for survival. There have been some really hard trials I have gone through that seem a touch trivial now that I look back on them. But you know those moments when it seems like the walls are closing in, that there is no escape from the situation, that all hope is lost? The loss of a loved one, losing a job in a tough economy or lets be honest, the flu. Who has had the flu for an extended time or to a se...