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The last several weeks have been hard on me emotionally. We have given and given to help people. We have made financial sacrifices at times, given hours upon hours in ministry time, given our heart and energy to help people. My wife has made many sacrifices as a new bride. Sometimes it is easy to wonder if it makes any difference.

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I am feeling much better. Luckily I got over the cold/flu whatever it was quickly. I admit I am a wimp when I get sick. I will do whatever I need to do when I am sick, but I hate it when I am sick.

I was just thinking of a funny situation that happened to me several years ago. I had a job where I needed to crawl around in an attic space to run telephone cabling. There was blown insulation everywhere. The pollen count was high as anything and I had terrible allergies. My eyes were tearing up terribly and I could not stop my nose from running. Plus it was around 100 degrees in the attic. With all that liquid on my face, my face collected all the blown insulation it could. I came walking out of the attic looking like who knows what. And the customer comes walking down the hall staring at me. I bet her husband and kids had a great laugh that night at the dinner table.

For the last couple of days I have been sick with a terrible cold, flue, whatever it is. I normally only get sick once a week, so I hope this is it. I tried some homeopathic meds, but did not work. So just using meds to cover up symptoms.

I have been going to the gym three times a week, but this has put me out of commission regarding exercise. The good thing is that I work mostly out of the home doing web design. Did have to serve a few papers today, but it went smooth. I also took my wife to the jail so she could get on the volunteer list. Now she will be able to go to the jail with me.

The Lord is really fine tuning me. I know this experience well. When He is ready to take us to another level, He gets the scalpel, chisel, hammer, whatever it takes to get us prepared for the next phase of our life. What I am going through lets me know something great must be coming. So, I have jumped on the roller coaster, tightened the seat belt, holding on tight, and holding my breath for the ride of my life.

I am doing much better in my attitude, but not over the hump yet. Just had another indvidual that we have been working with who is making bad choices. It can be so trying at times.

It doesn't help when finances are very low because of lack of work and time taken to help people who ultimatelys till choose to make wrong choices. The good news is that I have learned a long time ago to not let other people's wroing choices influence me to make wrong choices.