Do You Want to Get Well?

I (Sherry) have been sick for quite some time now. Seriously, I can not remember the last time I have felt this awful. My first round of sniffles and deep cough resulted in obtaining a Z-Pac from my doctor. Faithfully, I took all the pills and well, never really felt completely myself but, did feel better than before I started the drugs. Now, just a couple of weeks later, I am again on a Z-Pac.

Do I want to get well? Without a doubt -- a RESOUNDING yes! I lack energy, got blisters up my nose, my head still hurts, and I'm still coughing. As I struggle with getting well, I find my hopes in a little pill that is suppose to help get me back on my feet. It's not working.

I was thinking the other morning...how much do I want to get well and had but one answer, "MORE THAN ANYTHING!"

"Really?" an instant-thought message in my brain recanted.

I knew exactly where my thought processes were headed. In the craziness of the past several months, I reflected on my eating habits -- deplorable. Always on the run, I just grabbed what was convenient and available--mainly junk. Empty calories, high sugar, diet pop, and fast food. My sleep patterns can only be summed up with one word -- depreviation. And exercise - with a physical education degree one would think -- nope, not even a slow walk yet alone a brisk one. I must admit these things are still a large part of my life right now as I write, yet I SAY I am willing to do anything to get well.

Really?

I am not much different than the man by the pool of Bethesda (John 5:1-9). It was too much work for the crippled man to get to the pool when Jesus asked him, "Do you want to get well?"

Now I hear Jesus asking me, "Do you want to get well, Sherry?"

My answer is yes, but I realize this will take much more work than popping a small pill. It will take DISCIPLINE to actually grocery shop and choose good food, it will take TIME to rest, and it will take EFFORT to exercise. I have sown a pattern of destruction since August and am reaping with the worst health I have had in a long time. But I ask...

How MUCH do I want to get well?

More than anything...so I am off to the grocery store!

Learning the hard way,

Sherry

O Happy Day

On Sunday we, the worship team, closed with a song by Tim Hughes that was such a fitting declaration of the work Christ did for us. We celebrated by ending with this song, and I'm still singing it two days later!

The chorus rings, "Oh happy day, happy day. You washed my sin away. Oh happy day, happy day. I'll never be the same. Forever I am changed."

I am so thankful for that happy day of the resurrection where Christ gave hope and life to my faults, doubts, wrongs, malicious thoughts, lack of love, quick tongue and much much more. Things have never been the same with Christ, and even though I am prone to continue to do wrong, I am no longer controlled by it. I am forever changed.

You can view Tim Hughes singing his song at this link. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjJrbB8vxR4

I couldn't resist adding a few adorable pictures from Easter Sunday.

Our family: Kaiya (4 years), Broden (6 months) and Allie (2 years)

-Stephanie-



















The ND grandchildren: Kaiya (4), Cohen (1 1/2), Tavia (4), Allie (2 1/2), Broden (6 months)

Grandma (Sherry) made all of the girls dresses and helped with the tie on Broden's shirt. 

Here we go again...

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