Tonight I sip hot herbal  tea with honey, as I silently pray for healing.  This cold crept up on me in the night and placed a pile of bricks on my chest. I’ve got way too much to do right now and no time to rest, so please virus make haste and go.  This “bug” has hung around so long it took over the guestroom in my lungs….time to move on now, head on out.

I fell asleep sitting up in bed, when I woke up at 3 am my bible was upside down on my stomach with pages all flipped out of place.   I think we feel this way when our health is upside down. We are knocked out of place from our normal daily routine, we struggle to right ourselves, make it all better.  Remembering the last verse I read before I drifted off, I remind myself again, God is in control, relax.  Hard to do in a struggle, you just want to kick and squirm and wiggle your own way out.  From my own experience I will tell ya, it does not work, seems I fall deeper in the sick pit when I fight.

“The Lord has declared that He will restore me to health and heal my wounds.”  Jeremiah 30:17

I drift back into a uneasy slumber…”My presence will go with you and I will give you rest.” Exodus 33:14

Each morning I manage to carry myself to work and move slowly through my day.  I think of God walking with me, of His peace and His presence in our hard days, big or small.  He carries us through it all, a late winter cold, a cancer scare, a loved ones last days, He is there, He cares. It is this unmovable, unshakable mountain moving faith that sustains us, it is what keeps us going in the sick days.

Keep the faith, keep praying, fall asleep with your Bible in your lap, keep His word close and He will always walk with us….it is a promise from our King.  I am counting on it to lift me and bring me peace for I am held together by a God who does NOT change.