Sickies in the House

I hear the flu is particularly bad this year. We hear it everywhere we go, and when it involves most medical-types, they follow that up with, "You have had your flu shots this year."

It's not even a question. It's a statement heavily loaded with, "Only crazies wouldn't have gotten the flu shot."

Here's the thing.

I don't get sick often (*knock on wood*). I never have. That said, I have never gotten the flu shot. Not even when I was pregnant.

I am not an anti-medicine hippie. I believe that God gave humans intelligence to develop things like antibiotics, pain killers, and vaccinations. I also believe that God created our bodies with incredible immune systems, bodies with the ability to heal. I think we in the western world far underestimate the healing ability of our bodies. I also think we are terrifyingly over-drugged.

All this just to say that he has a bit of a cold and has slept terribly the past couple nights.* 

We didn't go to church yesterday, because we didn't want to expose other children to his germs and him to other people's germs.

I can't wait until we're settled into a church where people will notice when we're not there and call to make sure we're okay.

Well, I hear a little voice calling for me. If you think of us today, say a little prayer for healing. And that we'd find a church home soon.

*And before anyone gets all up in arms and judgmental, yes, Little B did get the flu shot this year.