Mercy Me!

So - what an interesting 3 weeks this has been. My sister passed away after a year and a half of battling colon cancer. Two days prior to her passing, my mother suffers a heart attack. Then added to that the pressures of not having the financial means in which to bury my sister. Can you say, "whew!" My life seems to be on auto pilot and right now and I seem to be passing through the valley. I do take a moment to pause here and say a huge "thank you" to my Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ - without whom I would have already suffered a huge meltdown. I don't understand how those without hope in our Lord survive throughout all of this. What I have learned thought out all of this is that "life" goes on. Once you stop - you realize that you just have to jump right back into the race of life and hopefully you can catch up to what used to be "normal." But guess what? That "normal" that you used to know, has left and what you are now stuck with is what we now call, "the new normal." It sucks because its not what you are used to, but it does what it does best - it assimilates and you become "it." So you better get used to it. Well now I have a little bit of a set back, or as I like to refer to it as "a bump in the road." Last night, out of nowhere, I was awakened out of a deep sleep with a severe pain on the left side of my head. The pain was so strong that I woke up my wife with all of my moaning and groaning. After about an hour, I was able to go back to sleep with the help of a Vicodin. Today, I saw my physician and he ordered a cat scan of my head in order to determine if what caused my pain was anything severe - I am praying not. I call this a little bump in the road because when you walk with God - that's all that it is. GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME AND ALL THE TIME, GOD IS GOOD!