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It's been an interesting week.  I'm very thankful that I talked to friends about their experiences with prednisone.  At times, I'm just fine.  Other times, I feel like my blood sugar is low and eating something won't help.  Then, there are other times...like last night.  Those are the times my friend Karen warned me about thankfully.  It was after dinner and I could feel my body getting antsy.  I couldn't handle the kids asking for five more things for five more minutes.  I explained to my husband that I needed to go be by myself away from everyone.  I knew I needed to.  I sat at the computer working on various projects for an hour and then the jitteriness began to start ebbing a bit.  My hives had returned, though, from my allergic reaction to amocillin last week.  I took a benadryl and made my way to sleep before my body decided to act up any more on me.   When I woke this morning, I felt fine.  But, the jitterin...

These quotes struck a chord with me this morning... "When it comes down to it, apart from Christ we have very warped views of what the abundant life is all about." --from Practical Theology for Women by Wendy Alsup, p.38 It's easy to lose sight of Christ and His best for me. from my Bible study this morning by Cynthia Heald, she put it better than I could "If I am abiding --spending time alone with God and His Word--then my heart is being trained to ask for the eternal things of God.  My heart becomes set on "things above, not on things that are on earth"." from Becoming a Woman of Prayer, p. 32 "We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea.  We are far too easily pleased."  from The Weight of Glory by C.S. Lewis ...