Yup, I'm still battling a fever and sore throat and cough. :P
I woke up at 5:00 AM not being able to put my blankets on me. So now I have a routine. I wake up around then, get out of bed, drink some water, take some fever-reducing pills, and then wake up mom just so that she can know what's going on. After I get back in bed, it takes me forever to fall back asleep. Mostly because I'm so hot, but also because I'm using mom's pillow and it isn't very comfortable.
But I forget to switch it, and by 5 in the morning, I'm too hot and lazy to get up and switch it then.
Something nice/weird that happened last night, though, was reading Psalms when I couldn't sleep not only helped me sleep, but it made my throat feel better! Weird, eh?
So basically, when I woke up last night, my throat hurt more than it had in a long time and so Mom and I prayed. Then I went back to my room. My throat still hurt and I started crying from pain when I coughed/overtired-ness. So I asked God "Will you reach out your healing hand, or breathe on me or something? I'm sure anything of yours will help even a little bit!"
That's when he raised his eyebrows and said "Then how about my words?"
You have to understand that I have not been reading the bible as much as I'd like to be. I always find an excuse not to read 12 chapters all about wisdom and knowledge in Proverbs. So, after hesitation, I figured "what could it hurt?" so I opened it up and started reading Proverbs chapter 12. I thought there must be something I need to hear in this.
That's when a bookmark that I don't even remember putting in my bible fell out of Psalms. Mostly in curiosity, I turned to that page and started reading. At Regionals, Jack said "If you want to hear God, feel God, understand him more, read his word. But most of all, read Psalms and Proverbs."
So I did.
It was mostly when I started reading more and more about "no matter what, the Lord is my strength" when my throat stopped hurting really badly and I stopped coughing.
Then I read Psalm 30:2 : "I called out to you, O Lord, and you are healing me." when I realized that it took a fever, a sore throat and a cough for me to realize how stubborn I was being.
Good thing I have God to pick me up and help me realize when I'm forgetting to add him to everything I'm doing.
I think that I am getting more excited about the verses I've memorized if God's words can help heal and restore.
I woke up at 5:00 AM not being able to put my blankets on me. So now I have a routine. I wake up around then, get out of bed, drink some water, take some fever-reducing pills, and then wake up mom just so that she can know what's going on. After I get back in bed, it takes me forever to fall back asleep. Mostly because I'm so hot, but also because I'm using mom's pillow and it isn't very comfortable.
But I forget to switch it, and by 5 in the morning, I'm too hot and lazy to get up and switch it then.
Something nice/weird that happened last night, though, was reading Psalms when I couldn't sleep not only helped me sleep, but it made my throat feel better! Weird, eh?
So basically, when I woke up last night, my throat hurt more than it had in a long time and so Mom and I prayed. Then I went back to my room. My throat still hurt and I started crying from pain when I coughed/overtired-ness. So I asked God "Will you reach out your healing hand, or breathe on me or something? I'm sure anything of yours will help even a little bit!"
That's when he raised his eyebrows and said "Then how about my words?"
You have to understand that I have not been reading the bible as much as I'd like to be. I always find an excuse not to read 12 chapters all about wisdom and knowledge in Proverbs. So, after hesitation, I figured "what could it hurt?" so I opened it up and started reading Proverbs chapter 12. I thought there must be something I need to hear in this.
That's when a bookmark that I don't even remember putting in my bible fell out of Psalms. Mostly in curiosity, I turned to that page and started reading. At Regionals, Jack said "If you want to hear God, feel God, understand him more, read his word. But most of all, read Psalms and Proverbs."
So I did.
It was mostly when I started reading more and more about "no matter what, the Lord is my strength" when my throat stopped hurting really badly and I stopped coughing.
Then I read Psalm 30:2 : "I called out to you, O Lord, and you are healing me." when I realized that it took a fever, a sore throat and a cough for me to realize how stubborn I was being.
Good thing I have God to pick me up and help me realize when I'm forgetting to add him to everything I'm doing.
I think that I am getting more excited about the verses I've memorized if God's words can help heal and restore.
Wow! That must have been a cool thing to experience! :)
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