Be Careful What You Wish For

Was it only a mere five days ago that I was bemoaning my life as a plate juggler and hamster on a wheel? Poor, sad girl...if I could only take it back. I guess the Lord must have a sense of humor because Friday morning I woke up to find myself so dizzy that I could not stand. The entire world was spinning around me. (Not the good kind of "the world revolves around me" either) I have been trapped in bed for the last three days. That I am sitting up now (and able to type) seems a minor miracle. While life went on around me (volleyball, school, work, parties, carpool) I could only listen from afar. And, I dared not even attempt anything more than a small shift of my body or the world would go spinning again. It's a very pitiful and humbling thing to be helped to the bathroom by your 9 year old child and know that if she walks away you're going to hit the floor. My condition is labyrinthitis, an inflammation of the inner ear canal. This condition goes away with time and symptoms are managed by motion sickness pills. Cause? Probably allergies. Or, a little nudge from above, from the Creator of time. Boy, did I have time. Fortunately, prayer can be a motionless activity and I had plenty of time for that. "Be still, and know that I am God..."