I WOULD WALK 500 MILES....and HELP YOU AROUND THE STUMBLING BLOCKS

Two or three times when I was young and having school checkups or whatever, the good doctor mentioned something about me having a slight heart murmer. That meant it kind of skipped a beat once in awhile or something like that. When I take my pulse, I notice that it goes along and then I can't feel it anymore. So I have to ask someone if I'm dead now..haha. None of this is any cause for alarm at all. It just is what it is.
I am a reasonably healthy person now, life is good. Whatever the little irregularity or what-have-you, has had no effect on my life.

Now, I've been wondering lately about the labels that are being stuck on people in these days. I can envision a magazine page with a little boy face that has stickers all over it. Each sticker has a label, 'heart murmur' or 'bi-polar' or 'ADHD' or any of all those others being used to define a lot of our children. How many teens are labled as 'depressed' or having 'social anxiety'? or any of the other modern terms that basically just define a personality?
Have you read some of the e-mails going 'round' pleading for people to recognize that years ago, folks with some of these stumbling blocks just had to "get up and get over it."? Is all this definition a help or is it stumbling blocks?
There are problems that have always existed and now are helped and treated with modern doctoring. Thank goodness. Men, women, children,all of us have problems too big at times to deal with. I am grateful there is understanding help to be had. I just wonder if nowdays, my heart condition would become a label and all sorts of cries would go up because of it. Would it become problematic? Would it need to dealt with in professional fashion, causing worry and restrictions? Doubtless, in this age, I would be taking pills of some color.

My very dear Visiting Teachers are grandmothers age. Whenever I bring up a worry our family is dealing with, that someone somewhere, in their daily on-the-job habit of analysis has given, these ladies, who have a lot of experience in child development, wave their hands and shake their heads, and say something very comforting, like, "The kids are just stretching themselves out there a bit." And then we talk about experiences each of us have had that all proves there is really nothing to worry about.
I can imagine that with a "heart murmer" today, I might be put on the sidelines for a lot of things, being not allowed to participate or become involved in whatever might elicit some excitement. You do the imagining. And the point I'm making here is that, the thing (murmer) is not worth a second thought! I don't dance well or keep a steady rhythm going. I tend to put little jumps or skips into a drumbeat every-so-often. So, that's me. It's how my heart beats! And it doesn't make a difference to anything!
It's interesting to me that my V T friends each had a story to tell about their own children as well as others they knew with the same tale to tell...somewhere, a 'professional' had made a diagnosis that threatened to stick labels to a ghostly premonition. They were wrong, lacking experience. I am telling you that a mother knows more about herself and her family than anyone else, except maybe the father. Mothers must trust themselves and what they know in their hearts and feel to be so. You have a divine calling and you will have divine help. The one who really knows everything is your heavenly father, and he can tell you waht your really need to do. Mothers feel with their minds and hear with their hearts. Listen to that first.