I do a great amount of thinking when I am driving, especially when I am driving alone. This morning I traveled to Austin to physically be at work instead of working from home, it is about a three hour drive. I was able to reflect over the last three weeks as I have been dealing with poison ivy that I picked up over the Memorial Day weekend. As of last Friday, I did not think it was getting better, worse even, so I called the doctor to get another round of steroids (dang it, no pro sports for me!) and searched all over for the best anti-itch concoction!
As I started my trip, I had to thank God that the poison ivy is MUCH better… I was really dreading this drive in my previous state! Then my mind went on a little trip of it’s own wondering if there was a lesson that I could draw from this recent poison ivy experience. I thought back about how I had been very busy with many things over the last few months, I was tired physically, mentally and spiritually. Work has been crazy lately, just wound down the first full year of being involved in college ministry again, I had a few aches and pains from work and play and my life seemed to somewhat over scheduled! Back to the lesson… I was a home body for the last three weeks, no outside activities to prevent from sweating to make the issue worse and being drowsy from the antihistamine I was taking. Eventhough I felt as if this was a huge inconvenience and I am not a big fan of that itchy feeling constantly (especially during the night!), my body was able to rest, an ache in my hip subsided and I feel like I reconnected with God in a much needed way! Yeah, I think there is a lesson in there somewhere… I hope that I can always have a different perspective of my circumstances so that I can learn and grow through them!
So, as I drove into the parking garage, I was very thankful for this poison ivy, thankful that I was able to rest my aches and pains, thankful for all of you that put up with me while I went through this (Nic, you will get extra rewards in heaven for this!) and very thankful for God grabbing a hold of me again! Oh, the other lesson I learned… don’t weed-eat that area to the right of Bert’s boat ramp again! By the way, I am working hard today Bert!
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June 11, 2008 at 10:55 pm
rewards…i would like to talk about that…i really don’t think i’ll be getting any due to the poison ivy stent… love you and sooo glad you are feeling better!!