So this past week has been quite an experience. For those of you who may not know, I spent my weekend at Tampa General in the ICU....yes, the Intensive Care Unit, definitely not a place I had on my radar. What started out as a simple virus or 24-hr stomach bug turned into a five day stint. I have been working my tush off over the last few months. Work has been busy with the normal everyday tasks and then add to that a big engineering effort that needed to be designed last week; it's needless to say, I have been going non-stop. But it did not stop after my day job, because when I got off is when I got to do the stuff I was born to do, like teach and minister to others. So I would go teach at HCC, get home and cook for my family and finally sit down around 9:00 or 9:30 at night and on the nights I didn't teach there was always something else I had to do or felt called to do. Everyone has been telling me to 'slow down', but I knew I would be getting a weekend off on the 8th....so I was pressing on. Pressing on full force...until I could get my weekend off, it was oh so close. And then, like a thief in the middle of the night, no it wasn't my Savior coming to take me, it was the enemy trying to take me out with a stupid virus. I cannot believe a virus caused me to be in the ICU. Now, I do have other conditions that make me more susceptible to illnesses, but this just came so quickly and unexpectedly. I was not ready, but I tell you what, I was prepared. I stay prepared, by the grace of God. I was prepared because I was not worried, I knew God was healing me. I was prepared because I had been through this before, I serve the same God. I was prepared because I knew this was not going to be the end, God has been showing me it is the beginning. It is the beginning and I am so, so excited. If you saw me right now, laid up in my bed looking weak, you might not believe me, but where I am weak, my God is strong and His spirit is strong in me. The devil really thought he had me....as I look back I laugh at him, because my God is about to be glorified. I am so excited, I seriously am so filled with joy I can barely contain it. The best is yet to come....stay tuned.
Hebrews 11:1
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.
