Can You live without a liver

Liver~A large glandular organ in the abdomen involved in many metabolic processes.

Liver~ a person who lives in a specific way.

The word liver was never on my radar or in my vocabulary until September 11, 2013. That fateful day it would be all that was on my mind. I was admitted to University Of Michigan Hospital for removal of the left lobe of my liver and bile duct. I was knocked off balance and shaken to the core. I needed help from others for the first time in my life. The toll it took on my mental state was as profound as it was physical. The person who came out of the hospital 14 days later was unrecognizable inside and out. I was a frail 95 pounds and my hair was falling out and I was just broken inside.

“Sometimes we have to break so that the light can shine through.”~ Stephanie Phelps

God broke me down so he could build me up that day in September. The wound on my abdomen was a physical reminder that I needed to heal a few things in my life. Humbling myself being the first thing followed by pride, arrogance, selfishness, materialistic, narcissism and superiority complex. Healing would occur if I eliminated each one of these qualities.

This is how my journey to minimalism ultimately started. I began to see what was really important to me and began to incorporate these values into my life. I started working on the negative attributes and changing them to that of a more humble stance. God began the task of rebuilding me to be the person he knew I could be. God’s gifts don’t always come in a neat little package, but when you receive a gift he makes sure it is as unique as you are.

~But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness.~ Galatians 5:22

I knew that I needed to move towards a more minimal life with an attitude of “look at HIM instead of look at me!”

The attributes I work on daily!

• Humility
• Grace
• Self Control
• Kindness
• Love people not things ~ the minimalists

The wound is now a scar which means I survived the battle, with Gods grace on full display. I had many helpers from his army to show me what a “liver” of life actually looks like.

“We all have two lives. The second starts when we realize we only have one.”~ Tom Hiddleston