Give me back my body...

The new year has not been kind to us as of yet. Joshua was the first to succomb to the invasion. He came home early from daycare last week with a temperature near 103. This makes for a terrible day as Brenda and I were on our way home from the wonderful west Texas town of Amarillo after having purchased a mattress for his new toddler bed. We have a friend pick him up until we can get there and lo and behold, our child has RSV. For those of you who know this wonderful little viral friend you realize how pathetically helpless you feel as your child is working his way through it. Breathing treatments and oral steroids become the order of the day. Now all this time we have removed Benjamin from the house in an effort to keep the dreaded invader from his little body and allowed him to have a slumber party at our senior pastor's house. Unfortunately, Joshua's love of his little brother was our undoing as he was in Benjamin's face a little too much before is exit from the home. So now we have two sick boys and to make it all worse, I come down with some unknown invader as well. It has taken up residence in my head and refuses to stop talking to me. My ears hurt, my sinuses hurt, and now I legitimately have an excuse when I tell my wife I did not hear what she said to me. However, I would trade this for a moment or two of uncompromised peace. So today I broke down and went to the doctor myself after a week of denying my need. I got a wonderful shot in the butt from a female parishoner of my church ( I am not sure how I will look at her on Sunday) who is a nurse in our doctor's office as well as about $70.00 in presciptions--I think I should have taken my chances with the virus. To make matters worse, my Irish lost to the most hated college team of all and only helped to aggravate my pain even further. All in all it has not been an auspicious beginning to my New Year. However, I am undaunted and still believe that it will be a good year full of God's grace and mercy. May God bless each of you as you begin this new year.