Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
**Daily Devotional**
Jean-Dominique Bauby?s memoir, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, describes his life after a massive stroke left him with a condition called ?Locked-In Syndrome.? Although he was almost completely paralyzed, Bauby was able to write his book by blinking his left eyelid. An aide would recite a coded alphabet, until Bauby blinked to choose the letter of a word he was dictating. The book required about 200,000 blinks to write. Bauby used the only physical ability left him to communicate with others.
In 2 Timothy we read of Paul experiencing a different kind of ?locked-in syndrome.? Under house arrest, the apostle learned that his execution might be imminent. With this in view, he told Timothy: ?I suffer trouble . . . even to the point of chains; but the Word of God is not chained? (2 Tim. 2:9). In spite of his isolation, Paul welcomed visitors, wrote letters of encouragement, and rejoiced at the spread of God?s Word.
For some of us, circumstances may have isolated us from others. Lying in a hospital bed, serving time in a prison, or being a shut-in can make us feel that we are experiencing our own ?locked-in syndrome.? If this is true for you, why not prayerfully reflect on some ways you can still reach out to others. ? Dennis Fisher
Give me to serve in humble sphere,
I ask not aught beside!
Content to fill a little place,
If God be glorified. ?Anon.