I am praising the Lord this morning that I am back in the land of the living! I have never been so sick in my entire life. It actually began Saturday evening with Mark. That night around 11:00 p.m. he began violently throwing up, having stomach cramps, spiked a high fever and eventually passed out two times. It was a very scary night. We thought he had food poisoning from something he had eaten at a restaurant that day, but it wasn’t, it was a nasty virus and on Monday night around 11:00 p.m. it hit me. I begged God to deliver me…I had so much to do...tutor CC the next day, take care of the girls, visit my grandmother for her 95th birthday and the list goes on. Yet I resolved that if I must go through it I desperately needed the Lord to help me. The Lord did help me and demonstrated His love through the tender and loving hands of my husband. He held me through each gut wrenching episode of vomiting, caught me when I passed out and placed cold rags on my head, forced me to drink 7UP so I wouldn’t get dehydrated, called his mom to come get the girls and cancelled work and meeting plans to stay home and take care of me. I never want to go through this again but I’m thankful for the blessing of a husband committed to me “in sickness and in health.” This March we will celebrate 13 years of marriage. Is our marriage perfect...NO...but I love him more today than I did yesterday...more than I ever imagined 13 years ago.