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I have been sick for over a month. Kind of the reason why I haven't been able to write for a while.  Earlier this month I had the stomach flu. And right as I am recovering from that, I get a cold.  It's been two weeks and I am still recovering from it. I wake up in the mornings, still, congested and a weird pounding headache you have when you have a cold. 

 I've been thinking a lot about health. 

Especially with the health scare of 2009 (better known as swine flu).  This past winter season was a scary one. 

I think we all heard tragic stories of healthy men, women, pregnant mothers, and young children dying after being infected by the H1N1 virus.  It was plastered all over the news, we knew of people who  got it and lived through it, or died from it.

It really made me think...How healthy am I? 

I mean other than this cold, I haven't really been sick in years.  I don't really understand the concept of being sick, or in pain.   

And I am GRATEFUL.

I am appreciating my health more now. Maybe I'm getting old, or maybe I'm understand what is really IMPORTANT in life.  The phrase, "your health is everything" really has been ringing true to me these past few weeks.

I had to take time off work. I couldn't come into KAC, I couldn't go out of the house.  I felt soooooo bad for a cocuple of days that I was thinking to myself, "What if I felt this pain everyday? For a long period of time like someone who has cancer, or some other disease?" 

I know I'm lucky that MY pain will go away, but others are not as fortunate. 

 I believe more fiercely that my body is a temple, a fine and strong instrument and vessel that I must keep safe. 

Look around you and see how lucky we are to have good health.  It is just one more thing we have to be thankful to God for.