You can’t keep me down….

I have a cold!
Another rotten head cold, and I am feeling miserable!
This is the 3rd cold for me this winter and I am kinda sick of being sick.

Our family is not one that gets sick very often. We have gone for years and years with none of us getting sick. To the point, our Doctor rung us to see if we were still patients of his as he hadn’t seen us for so long!

But since moving to TA, we have had more sickness and injuries than we have had in the previous 5 years. We have had broken bones, damaged tendons, influenza, bronchitis, root canal’s, gastro bugs, headaches, unexplained aches & pains, and cold after cold after cold!!

Now, this may sound like I am complaining. I am not! Honestly, I am not!
But I do look at all the sickness and think to myself, that we are getting attacked. And that kind of excites me, not the sickness part, but the part where the enemy is so scared of what we are doing, that he is trying to attack us any way he can. And it seems he thinks he can stop is through our health!

I think not enemy!
If you think a broken bone or a rotten cold will hold us back, you don’t know us very well!
Team Strong are stronger than that, and to be honest, there is nothing that would stop us doing what God has called us to do! We are on a mission and we know we have been called for a purpose!

So, as I write this, I am grabbing yet another tissue, and blowing my nose. I am counting down till I can take more panadol and I am SO looking forward to my bed at the end of the day.

But I am also praising God! Praising him for all he is doing in my life and all that he has promised to us. I am thanking him for my #blessedlife and I am so grateful I don’t have to go through life without him. As I spend time on the couch, I am thankful that life can slow down a little and I can spend time in prayer and thanksgiving.

Let’s keep it all in perspective friends. Being sick is not fun, I am not trying to pretend that it is. But on the greater scale of things, what we go through now will fade in comparison to the glory and grace that we will eventually see.

So as we say in our family (and it is said with lots of love) “Suck it up princess” and let’s not lose our focus because of a wee cold or a broken bone! You cannot keep me down for long……