On health and the lack of it.

LiI've been sick all week. I caught that miserable cold - the one that makes your head ache, your jaws throb, and totally stuffs up your nose. I don't know if I've ever had it this bad before. I've been hot and cold and then both at once- my head pounds when I lay down and my sinsuses drain into my throat when I sit up. I don't feel like doing anything - even reading holds no allure.
I spent two days in and out of bed and on the third day started coughing - that deep down rasping cough that makes your chest hurt and your heart double it's beat. Now it's winding down - but expending any amount of effort totally exhausts me.

I know - it's a tale of woe that no one wants to hear but it's had me thinking alot about how our bodies are made and how they work. It's also made me very appreciative of health - something we seldom think to thank God for until we are sick.

The body is an amazing machine - so "fearfully and wonderfully made". It is a marvel of engineering and even when I feel miserable, it keeps on doing it's job - all those cells and whatever else there is involved working like mad to return the body to it's healthy state.

So this week especially, I am very grateful for health - even for the aches and pains. For they keep me aware of all the parts fo my body that work together to enable me to move, breathe, feel and rest.