It’s been a few days of sickness, okay, maybe more than a few, but I’m starting to feel better. Still, I woke up from a power nap feeling something. This phrase came to mind and it sort of fits.
Chilled to the bone!
Yes. There have been times when a fever left me chilled, but I’ve had little fever with this cold. Equally, I’ve been around a lot of cold weather when it seems like it’s difficult to get it to leave your body. This morning it was that super chilling feeling of requiring layers of clothes!
I was chilling! Oh for a fireplace!
To chill means either to cool something down or to relax. Well, I wasn’t relaxing. I was chilled, cold and so ready for this sickness to be over. The medicine leaves you in a fog, and the rattle in the chest leaves you gasping for good breath. Sleep is whimsical. Wheezing sounds are normal, stuffy head, sore throat… Wait. I sound like a commercial!
It’s no time to be chilled!
Here’s My Thought
This is my favorite time of the year. It may not be yours, but it is the season I love. Ice. Snow. Rain. Bad weather to some, excellent to me! So, this is not the best time to have a chilling sickness. Tractor time is calling!
So. I must get better, even now, in the winter.
This left me thinking about what we do during the downtime of the winter. It’s what you do during the downtime that prepares you for the growth time.
"Winter forms our character and brings out our best."~Tom Allen Click To TweetThink about it for a moment. When Noah left the ark, he offered a sacrifice to God. It was accepted.
Then Noah built an altar to the LORD, and took of every clean animal and of every clean bird, and offered burnt offerings on the altar. And the LORD smelled a soothing aroma. Then the LORD said in His heart, “I will never again curse the ground for man’s sake, although the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; nor will I again destroy every living thing as I have done. “While the earth remains, Seedtime and harvest, Cold and heat, Winter and summer, And day and night Shall not cease.”
(Genesis 8:20-22 NKJV)
As I pass from 2019 to 2020, I pray for a non-chilling year! Of the sickness kind, at least. Still, when I hit that chilled time, may it be a productive time of the year.
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.” ~William Blake
Whoa… Powerful thought! I felt like someone needed to find this nugget.