It's good to be back -functioning, hopefully, on all four cylinders!
Thank you to everyone who sent me good wishes, prayers and support, they were all very much appreciated. By ways of explanation, I have food intolerance's which normally don't give me too much of a problem but when I eat something that I shouldn't (I hasten to add unbeknown to me) and then pick up a viral infection (there are lots about at the moment, our parish priest couldn't make any services today due to an infection-very out of character) then for me it is a nasty combination!
Any way, what has all this got to do with the shores of Lake Galilee you may be wandering?
During my five days in hospital I had the pleasure of sharing a bay with a gentleman who had been tested to the limits of human endurance both physically and emotionally over the past few months and so I tried to give a listening ear in and amongst the drugs and sleep! My efforts to offer comfort and console didn't seem up to much (especially as I wasn't best pleased about my own situation)...
However, the said gentleman gave me a gift shortly before leaving, by way of thanks for helping him through the past five days, much to my surprise, it was a dried leaf originating from the shore of Lake Galilee in the 1930s! I found it difficult to accept such a gift, something that was obviously so precious, but he insisted. Needless to say I was somewhat lost for words but felt God's hand in it all, something I very much needed to feel.
In our weakness is God's strength...
It has been two and a half years since I have been caught out by my food allergy and hopefully it will be a very long time before it happens again, however, in the meantime it has left me with the strong sense of the incarnational Holy Trinity in all!
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