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Bouncing back from weeks of being sick is not as easy as it used to be when I was younger. I guess that’s the cost of getting old.
Over the last six weeks, I’ve had this bug thingamajig going around. I had it for two weeks, and then it gradually went away.
Then, it came back to me for another two weeks, just as painful as before. A couple of weeks later, it gradually went away.
Then, for the third time, this bug thingamajig hit me again.
What is it about me that is so attractive to them? If I knew what that was, I would get rid of it today.
During this bug time, I spent a lot of time napping. I was so exhausted when I got up in the morning that I had to take a nap right after breakfast. I need to take this nap. I can take some medication for the bug thingamajig, but I really need to take a nap. That seems to be my best medication.
Right after lunch the other day, I was going to work on taproject I had started a couple of days ago. But as I sat in my easy chair drinking some hot coffee, I said to myself, “Just one more nap and I’ll be ready to go.”
Have you ever had a time when you believed exactly what you said? Good luck on that one.
I need to sit down with my body and have a very serious conversation about all this napping that I’ve been doing. Is there something else I can do instead of taking a nap?
After a long chat with my body, I got no response. My body was napping at the time. The word nap means, Not Always Present. That’s what it seems like to me.
I have reached perfection in napping. Never in my life have I been able to nap quite as perfectly as I have lately.
Why can’t I have some bug thingamajig that gives me energy instead of a nap?
The strange thing is that after napping all day, I can go to bed at night and sleep through the night without waking up. How in the world does that happen?
When I watched television the other day, I saw a commercial on sleep deprivation, and they were trying to sell some medicine to help you sleep at night. The only medicine I had to help me sleep at night was taking naps all through the day. I wish I could patent my napping and sell it on TV. I could make a lot of money on that.
I’m looking forward to the time when I slowly get out of this napping stage and get back to my normal life. Of course, I don’t know what normal is with me. But I want the chance to find out really what it is.
I thought of some scripture in this area.
“Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light” (Matthew 11:28-30).
I’m going to focus on God’s rest each day and allow Him to get the glory.
Dr. James L. Snyder lives in Ocala, FL with the Gracious Mistress of the Parsonage. Telephone 1-352-216-3025, e-mail jamessnyder51@ gmail.com, website www. jamessnyderministries.com.
