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Thank God for small favors.  I was operated on my arm and that healed up nicely.  It was my hand of the operated arm that was causing me problems:  the top of my left hand (right side) and its corresponding thumb–(the top of it and side) was numb and tingling and sensitive causing me pain. I thanked God the other side of my thumb was not numb.  It was the side I gripped my fingers together.  I thanked God for that.  Everything is by grace.

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It is okay, sometimes, not to feel well.  You just work through it.  The fact is you usually do not feel perfect.  That is really a rare state.

If you wait to attain it, you miss out on too much.  So you have to avoid relying on your feelings that come and go.

My wife has been taking care of me for the last week.  I was operated on.  She made lots of trips to the hospital and it is almost fifty miles away.  She took really good care of me.

It was not a big thing; but I emptied the dishwasher and loaded it.  In the process, I started to feel slightly nauseous but decided to finish my task.  I don’t have to be prey to my moods.

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Tragedy befalls people everywhere.  I just came from my small church this Sunday morning.  I talked to a lady who was going through chemotherapy at least a second time:  her cancer returned again.

We were told that in our congregation a four year old boy’s brain tumor returned and he would be operated again next week.

You do not have to live very long to discover somewhere someone is dealing with some difficulty.  The only question is whether they face their difficulties with courage and honesty.

Someone is always coming down with something.  There are accidents.  There is illnesses and disease.  Tragedy happens every day to someone.

Every day someone lives, someone dies.  It is the same everywhere.  Though, that knowledge does not make it any easier, especially when you are that person.  It is something you have to work through.  And it takes time.

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