I have been pretty sick this week. It's been weird. It started out with a full day of headache and then progressed to, well we'll skip parts of the unpleasantness. I had to work for a couple of days of it and the physical side of the work was definitely a strain. During the day if I stopped, forget it. I told someone I felt like a wet bag of lead bricks. At night I began to get muscle cramps all over. My feet would curl up and I would fight the pain to get them to relax again. This went on for a couple of days. A muscle in my left palm knotted up so badly that the skin over it reddened and the muscle bruised form the strain. Totally weird.I stayed home yesterday, and from church today to give myself some recovery time. I am feeling a little better.
This is kind of a weird replay of when I got bitten by a spider once, but minus several of the symptoms, and the muscle part is worse. This is a little difficult for me because physically, I'm used to doing whatever I want to do. Sure I get tired, but I usually have a lot of energy, and at the end of the day I'm fine. I don't really get too upset about this stuff anymore if it happens because, well it's the way I've become. This sort of thing just happens. Other people have much worse to deal with and of much greater duration than I imagine this little bump in the road will produce. Of course, I could croak tonight in my sleep to. In all things praise His name.
Life has to remind most of us that we aren't as young as we used to be, because as the Bible says, "Rid yourself of all worry and pain, because the wonderful moments of youth quickly disappear." Ecclesiastes 11:10 CEV
I have always understood that verse to mean that you might as well not waste time worrying about getting old, and accept the pains as they come, because the strength and seeming invincibility of youth are just a breath. It doesn't get any better in this area. Things physically are all downhill from here. You might as well quit trying. Die now. I'm laughing here. No, seriously, I was about nineteen when I read that verse and decided it was all over. I'm kidding around a little bit here, but it was exasperating to me the first time I actually read it, and I took it to mean about as I described above.
I'm still a dunderhead, the way I was in my youth, about taking care of myself although I've gotten a little better. But I have learned something since my youth. He is enough, and His joy is my strength.
Isaiah 12:2 Behold, God is my salvation,I will trust and not be afraid;'For YAH, the LORD, is my strength and song;He also has become my salvation.'" NKJV
and:
Neh 8:10................Do not sorrow, for the joy of the LORD is your strength." NKJV