Christmas Cold
December 31st, 2018 by G.
I had a cold yesterday. I sat in the foyer, took the bread and water, and left.
My mind is usually pretty active. Everywhere I go I carry with me a superstructure of plans, goals, attitudes, and mythmaking. I like it that way.
But it was nice to be too run down for any of that. It was nice to experience the sacrament and the spirit of it without any preconceptions, hopes, or narrative.
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December 31st, 2018 06:13:37
Carter Craft
December 31, 2018
I had a serious cold and hadn’t slept for about three days as a consequence of sinus drainage and sore throat, but I went to church anyway and managed to stay awake all three hours, because I knew this was going to be the last three hour church meeting I was going to attend.
I only wish that I hadn’t been sick these past two weeks so I could sing the seasonal hymns much better.
Bookslinger
December 31, 2018
Yeah, I’ve contemplated that too, that colds and other sicknesses force us to slow down, or take a break; a mental vacation as well as a physical one.
I wonder if the contrapositive (or inverse, I forget how that goes) is true: if we were to maintain the correct balance, mix, perspective in the first place, would we get sick less often or perhaps not at all?