R.A.D.I.C.A.L. Thoughts

"I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing. ~Agathe Christie

Sorry my blog has been late today. After a wonderful, wonderful, fun filled Christmas day with cooking, dinner, presents, puzzles, games, and just hanging out, I got sick. Everyone was gone to their own homes by about 9:00 p.m. -- about the time I started getting sick. As I was throwing up through the night, I just kept praying and hoping it wasn't the turkey. Thankfully, no one else has been sick like that. I'm hoping that its a bout of the flu that has gone through my daughter's family that lasts just about 24 hours start to finish. When I called my brother this morning to apologize for not calling last night, he laughed and said, maybe that's just a little taste of what hell might be like. Sometimes I think our struggles make us appreciate the good stuff that much more. That's why the quote above caught my attention today. Because during the night I thought to myself, "I wonder if you can die from feeling this bad?" Obviously not, but I am certainly happy to be feeling better today. After a night of wondering if I would make it 'til morning, feeling better is a gift. Life itself with all of its struggles is a gift. And as Agathe Christie points out, even though we have been "acutely despairingly miserable," just being alive is wonderful. Remember that the next time you feel really terrible either emotionally or physically. And remember, we have a promise that we can not only have life, but we can have it more abundantly than we can even imagine.

"... I came that they may have life and have it abundantly." ~John 10:10b