Wow..what happened to me?

I have been rather absent from the blog haven't I? Well, as usual life happened. In other words, I got horribly sick. Potentially with what made Jim sick, but his tests showed no bacterial infection while mine showed preliminarily positive for shigella (similiar to salmonella or ecoli). Whew! It wiped me out for a good solid week. I wish I was being melodramatic, but honestly I am not. It took me days to recover (if I even am fully). I should get the final results sometime this week. The State Health Department even called to interview me in case other cases broke out and there was some sort of infected food or something out there.

It is not ideal to be sick especially at this time of year. I feel horribly behind at work and home, but here is what I know. I have had a rough year. I just have. Lots of yucky stuff has happened to me and around me. Yet in the past two weeks in midst of my latest crisis, I felt so immensely loved. My family, church family, and friends stepped in and helped me, loved on me, and encouraged me. On the flip side, other people in our congregation or near to our congregation have experienced immense pain and tragedy. There have been several funerals, cancer diagnoses, and just plain yucky stuff. Stuff yuckier than my stuff.

So I am thankful. I am thankful that my yucky stuff has been survivable. I am thankful my troubles were more of the temporary kind (minus losing my Dad of course). I am thankful that a heart that has been healing got a chance to be reminded that it was loved at its worse without reservation. I am thankful for my wonderful children who are flexible and resilient. I am thankful for a marriage to a wonderful man. I am thankful for a home, a job, and to live in the country I do. I am thankful to God who has chosen me, some one so unworthy to be chosen.

Thankful and once again humbled. It is a good place to be....