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Positive home test January 1, 2023 – Happy New Year!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

I’ve been distracted over the holiday season and haven’t taken the time to blog recently. I guess I have plenty of time now to do so, as I’m holed up in my office\/extra room convalescing with Covid-19. Yep, started feeling off on New Year’s Eve day and the home test was strongly positive yesterday – January 1, 2023. (It’ll be easy to remember the date.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far my sinuses aren’t feeling as miserable as they did with my first go-round back in February 2021, but it’s definitely in my throat and I have the familiar tickle cough. Woke this morning with aching pain in the right side of my chest that hurts worse when I take a deep breath or move in certain ways, so I’ll have to keep an eye on things. Bloodwork over the past few years has hinted at inflammatory\/auto-immune issues though specific tests for lupus and the like come back negative. At any rate, my body seems to like to go on inflammatory overload and Covid is a known inflammatory. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gods Plans vs. Ours<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

I’m praying God will help me get through it without too much difficulty. And yet, I was reminded this morning that His will isn’t always our will as I opened an email from my church informing me Covid took the life of a member of our congregation last night. We’d received a prayer request several days ago, as he was hospitalized and very ill. I have no doubt that many have been praying daily for his recovery. Still, he did not recover. He died. Why didn’t God heal him? I don’t know. But God does.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The heart of man plans his way,
but the LORD establishes his steps.<\/p>\nProverbs 16:9<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

It’s moments like these that are hard for me to reconcile. This man was a youth pastor of our church many years ago before becoming a lead pastor at another church in the area. After retiring he and his wife came to attend our church again. He was a man of God from all I can tell. And so, as I pray for his wife and their kids and grandkids in their grief, I think to myself, “Death is horrific, and yet he is likely experiencing a level of joy in seeing Jesus in person right now that none of us can even fathom.” <\/p>\n\n\n\n

What’s far more difficult for me to consider is all the people who died without knowing Jesus, who aren’t now experiencing that joyful bliss of being together with their Lord forever. What about those who are still alive but are blinded to their need for a savior to wash away their sins and and open that door for them to eternal life in heaven with the Lord, either because they don’t understand their need for Him or they deny having a need at all?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am not perfect. I’m not even good a lot of the time. It’s a blessing that God convicts me when I mess up, that He doesn’t just let me go along thinking it’s all okay. I’m glad He gets my attention and that I’m able to come to him and ask for forgiveness. Though I can’t completely comprehend it, I’m so grateful for Jesus’s substitutionary death in my place – that He took on all the sins of the world (past, present and future), including mine, and that His death paid the price for them. That He rose again and conquered death – not as a ghost or a spirit but as a truly living, breathing person. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As they were talking about these things, Jesus himself stood among them, and said to them, \u201cPeace to you!\u201d But they were startled and frightened and thought they saw a spirit. And he said to them, \u201cWhy are you troubled, and why do doubts arise in your hearts? See my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch me, and see. For a spirit does not have flesh and bones as you see that I have.\u201d And when he had said this, he showed them his hands and his feet. And while they still disbelieved for joy and were marveling, he said to them, \u201cHave you anything here to eat?\u201d They gave him a piece of broiled fish, and he took it and ate before them. <\/p>\nLuke 24: 36-43<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Jesus lives! And we who are trusting in Him will live forever as well, with new resurrection bodies, even though our current bodies will face death (unless Jesus comes again first). That’s the hope we have!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And yet, I find myself struggling from time to time (like now, with Covid) being somewhat down in the dumps with the day-to-day. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So back to the issue at hand. I pray that the Lord will be merciful and gracious and will grant me healing from Covid and that I’ll once again be able to be the wife and mother I desire to be. With God all things are possible – the little things and the big things.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things to be Thankful For<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

In the mean time, I’m creating a list of 10 things (in no particular order) that I’m thankful for at the start of this new year:<\/p>\n\n\n\n