About a week ago Si became sick. He's had the typical gi symptoms that are so familiar to us. He hasn't been able to shake it. Sager has also had off and on diarrhea this last week. Last night, T and I came down with food poisoning. It's laid me out. I spent the morning in bed. I couldn't walk across the house without losing my breath. We're a sad bunch right now. As is usually the case, T has been the stronger of the two of us when sick and she has cared for the kids real well today. She's amazing! But while lying in bed this morning and trying to lie in bed this afternoon two things happened. My mind began to bargain with God, "God, if you'll make me well then I'll quit this sin, or take that sin more seriously when I'm better, ..." Unfortunately the times when I bargain with God are usually when I'm treating him like a vending machine. Rarely have I ever bargained with God about his glory or the lost. But thank God that he uses sickness and disease to create a sobriety and disdain in our hearts for sin. The second thing that happened as I tried to get comfortable enough to sleep, which is really difficult when you've been in bed so long, is that I thought of those who are bed-ridden and live daily with the pain in their bones and muscles that I was experiencing this afternoon. It created compassion in me for bed-ridden people and caused me to pause and petition God on their behalf which I never would have done had I not gotten sick. Thank God for the severe mercy of sickness and disease.
-J
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