It all started last week on Tuesday, fever, sore throat, ache feeling, pain. You been there, I know you have. Well, I haven't been there for about 10 years, so it was a little unusual for me to be in that place.

So Pastor David, didn't you pray and ask God to heal you, well, let me think . . . YES . . .Why wouldn't I! And did he, yes . . The healing even today is on going. But I didn't was time in the healing time . . In my pain, I watched and prayed and thought and listened and learned. Here are just a few things.

The body is an amazing machine that God built. From it's ability to operate under extreme conditions. But from time to time, to fight the ugly that invaders, sometimes, it needs the body to slow down and say still to let what was designed from our creator to work.

Secondly, there are still a lot people that are worse then me. We have a gal that comes to our church that has been fighting a major illness for some time. During the same week I was at home sick, she was in the hospital sick away from her home and husband and kids. I'm not going to say that God nicer to me then her, but I will thank God that this time, I was able to kick this bug at home.

Thirdly, the church body really knows how to turn up the help lines when the main Shepard goes down. From a staff member speaking, to other members adjusting meetings that had been planed weeks in advance to others taking up the slack, God and His people are good.

Lots of other things I can mention but those are just a couple of things I learned. Where am I today, well after a shore set back on Monday, I'm feeling about 80% and feeling better every moment.

David