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Finally got a good nights sleep... I started feeling ill last Wednesday, was even worse on Thursday, went to the doctor on Friday, began feeling better on Saturday, felt okay but tired on Sunday, and only this morning feel like I'm better. Even though I practically slept through Wednesday evening thru Saturday I didn't feel rested. At least toward Saturday afternoon I was able to walk out of house for a little while... if I wasn't dealing with a real fever, it was cabin fever!
I've got to take the opportunity to brag on my wife for the wonderful way she took care of everything while I was down. What a Woman! Not only did she take care of me, but she worked her job at the school Thursday & Friday, babysat on Thursday, managed our own three kids, took care of the house, mowed the grass, stored away the window AC units, accomplished laundry, and no one missed a meal (except for me, but I wasn't eating). You know what I'm going to do for her... Anything she wants.
My devotional reading dealt with the importance of developing relationships... and however inconvenient this process may be for us in our lives it is important. Then my Scripture reading took me to Genesis, chapters 32-33. In these chapters I read of Jacob returning to see his brother Esau. Jacob is terrified of meeting his brother face to face for fear and guilt of how he had treated his brother so many years earlier. Jacob creates almost a parade of gifts sent ahead to "pacify" his brother and to calm his brother's potential anger. Finally they meet and Esau embraces Jacob, throws his arms around him, and gave him a kiss. And then the Bible says they wept together. Esau was not interested at all in the attempts to buy off his love... what he desired was the relationship.