Saturday, December 30, 2017

December 30 – “It’s just …”

The whole man-flu thing didn’t go over so well around here yesterday.  Oh, not that I woke up feeling just swell or anything.  I was still wracked with horrible flu-like symptoms.  Chris was just in a state of denial.  She refused to say out loud that it could even possibly be the flu.  “You just have a bad cold,” was the best she could muster.  Cailyn didn’t even help much.  She just ran away whenever I sneezed or was hit with a spell of agonizing coughing.

The two of them went over to see Mrs. Betty from home group and take her some homemade bread.  They also made a stop at WalMart.  I was jealous, but then I wasn’t moving around much anyway.  Man-flu, remember?  I managed to drag myself to the couch so I could watch a little of the Texas A&M football game.  The Aggies lost by three, but between the two teams I think they scored 107 points.  Pretty exciting stuff.  I watched some of another game, too.  Kentucky and Northwestern.  That one really came down to the wire as well.  Kentucky had a chance to win if they made a two point conversion.  They didn’t.  End of game.  I guess my sports reporting is not all that exciting, is it?  It’s hard to get fired up when you really don’t care one way or another about the outcome.  College football is a lot easier to watch than the pros, though.  The passion is directed toward school spirit rather than making money or showing off “how wonderful I think I am.”  If they would just put the cool commercials on the NCAA championship game, I probably wouldn’t even turn on the Super Bowl.  Can’t miss those commercials, though.

Well, that seems like a terrible place to end.  No climactic cliffhanger.  No resounding, mic-drop moment.  Just a cough and sneeze and a “woe is me.” 

Psalms 19:9-10 says, “The fear of the Lord is pure, enduring forever.  The ordinances of the Lord are sure and altogether righteous.  They are more precious than gold, than much pure gold; they are sweeter than honey, than honey from the comb.”


Father, thank you for my nurse wife.  She really does make sure I am taken care of.  Pardon my whining.  Amen.

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