Tea and Tissues..Please

Who likes being sick? Anyone? Anyone? (Insert cricket sounds here) Yeah me neither.
I survived my first morning opening at work today...I reported for duty at 4:30. Except, my daughter and my husband had a mild case of bad food. So they were up at 2am ill. A 5 year old breaks your heart when she thinks puking on your bed is HER fault. Poor kid. Needless to say I stayed awake, made sure the family was taken care of (in spite of me wanting to stay back and hold their hand), and went off to work. I came home and went to lay down for a couple of hours just to catch up on the lost hours of sleep from earlier. I woke up 5 hours later and had a sore throat, stuffy nose and a tad achy. I work in a coffee shop and thought nothing of it. I made dinner and started to feel worse. We ate.  And that is when it hit. After dinner. I spare you the details. But I am sitting here with tea to calm my tummy, tissues for my nose, throat lozenges for the obvious, and a cup of tea and honey.

All I have to say is REALLY??? Like I have time for this. New job, new blog, organizing my house, and being wife and mom. And do it all in a graceful Christian manner.  REALLY??? I am not really up for the challenge.

If I have ever needed to be covered by God's grace, it would be now. But God with His amazing sense of humor, has also telling me a few things too....Dawn, SLOW DOWN. Sometimes even our First Doctor, First Healer makes us slow down a bit. And I believe He is right. I NEED to let Torrance help out since he feels good. I NEED to let myself get better. It is almost like I needed Him to give me permission to SLOW DOWN.

And I am. By His Amazing Grace.