It has been said that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions, and I suppose I could use that to explain my lack of posts for the past week. Oh that it were just slacking off or forgetfulness! In fact, it was neither. Amanda and Ben, got the very nasty version of the flu early on, and though I was their caretaker and doing very well, sure enough I came down with it too mid-week. We have all been miserable and not doing much other than just surviving it. Thank God for Steph and Scott who have stepped up to help out (and have yet to get it) but really all our energy has been zapped by the illness (let alone by worrying about a 7 month old little baby with a 104 degree fever). Thank God for his recovery at least! Amanda is still fighting it off and though I did drive to Nashville tonight to do the service, it was too much! On the way home we postponed the start of the Alpha Course tomorrow. I came home and abbreviated my sermon and though I will do both services tomorrow, I will be home much earlier than I was planning and hope to be asleep much earlier than I was planning too!

I did manage to sneak out of the house on Valentines Day with a 103 fever to “go get myself some cough medicine.” Of course it was really for flowers and candy that she really didn’t want in her toasty-state, but I was already overwelhmed with guilt for not being well enough to have something already there! Oh that road is so very long and winds through all parts of my life!

Anyway, hopefully with a bit more rest, plenty of water, and apparently a lot more medication, we should be back to the land of the living sometime before Christmas! And this Valentines Day is just delayed for us this year.

But please accept my apologies and I hope you understand the delay. It’s easy to be a husband or wife in the “better” the “richer” and “health” parts of marriage, but sadly it doesn’t always work that way. I just thank the Lord for the opportunities He gives me, and will take them. I am a priest, but I am a husband and father too. I enjoy all three….but do please pray for me, because I am also a patient! And that is one thing my wife will tell you I do not do well!!!