The old man is back after two weeks in the hospital and three weeks in rehab for Covid Omicron. My symptoms seemed so mild that dehydration and/or low blood sugar sneaked up on me and almost took me out before I knew what hit me. Fortunately my friends saw my weakening condition and got me to the hospital in time. That variant seems to affect each person differently. It seems like everyone I talk to who have had it have had different symptoms.
After five years of posting twice a week, I have really missed sharing with you these past five weeks and I hope you have missed my blog too. My recovery is definitely the result of the prayers that have gone out for me across this country and around the world and God’s quick answer to them. Because my friends have shared my blog and my situation with their brothers and sisters in Christ, I know at least five churches that I have never set a foot in have been praying for my recovery. Even if I didn’t know about it, I have felt those prayers every step of my recovery. God isn’t done with me yet and I feel stronger and healthier now than I did before I got sick.
I had to fight my natural instinct to try to rush things. Instead, I put it on God’s perfect timing. He reminded me of a song Christy Lane released in 1981. Every night in the hospital and rehab I sang these words and it helped me sleep peacefully.
“I’m only human. I’m just a man. Help me believe in what I can be and all that I am. Show me the stairway I have to climb. Lord for my sake teach me to take one day at a time. One day at a time sweet Jesus, that’s all I’m asking of you. Teach me today, show me the way, what I have to do. Yesterday’s gone sweet Jesus and tomorrow may never be mine, so for my sake teach me to take one day at a time. Do you remember when you walked among men? Jesus you know, if you’re looking below, it’s worse now than then. Pushing and shoving, crowding my mind, Lord for my sake teach me to take one day at a time. One day at a time sweet Jesus that’s all I’m asking of you. Give me the strength to do every day what I have to do. Yesterday’s gone sweet Jesus and tomorrow may never be mine, so for my sake teach me to take one day at a time.”