Today I feel like a ton of bricks is sitting within my head.  My quartet was singing for the funeral of our bass’s mom.  She was loved and respected very much like my own mother.  There was a beautiful bouquet of lilies right smack in front of where we stood each time we sang.  That’s all it took.  I am so allergic to those critters!  I use to get sicker than a dog from an exposure like that before I had my sinus surgery and got rid of all the pockets of sinus infection.  Today, an exposure like that still shuts down my sinus passages so all the pressure I feel is the passages which have swollen shut temporarily from the exposure.  However, it will subside within today and I’ll be fine for day 2 of our Christmas production this afternoon.

As I was having my devotions this morning I realized how much an allergy attack is like a temptation.  It seems a temptation is always attractive at least to the one receiving it.  Most people know I love gardening and flowers.  So when I saw the lilies yesterday I knew immediately to ask to have them removed or at least placed farther away from where they were sitting.  I didn’t go smell them but I didn’t say a word and so they had their full effect on me.  In Celebrate Recovery I’ve learned well my need to call for help when I am tempted.  If I do I get help immediately.  If I don’t  and I try to handle it on my own——well, I will end up just like I’m feeling today–a ton of bricks weighing me down.  Then I have to tell a different story.  The first telling would have removed the problem.  The second telling has to confess the consequence of not telling the first one.

God seems to know how to turn every situation into a lesson.  I want to be a good student and learn well from Him.  Today is no exception.  I love my Teacher!