Well, my 2010 has not started as I had planned. As a matter of fact, I really haven’t started my new year at all! I have been home since Christmas week. Sick! No, not “Sick!” as in “good,” or “cool.” But “Sick” as in “I have been sick with pneumonia for over two weeks now!” So, as the world has celebrated the new year and started their New Years Resolutions, I have been home praying every night that the next day I will be able to begin mine.

I went back to the doctor this past Thursday and there it was as plain as day, pneumonia still showing up in the x-ray. I have a large mass of pneumonia in my lower right lobe/lung.

New medication. “Well man, you’ve been on the wrong medication.” This is what my family doctor told me. The Rheumatoid doctor placed me on a medication that wasn’t effective for the area of the pneumonia that’s inside me. “RA docs aren’t as up on antibiotics because they don’t deal with these issues everyday,” so my family doc says.  So, I am on a new round of high power antibiotics which should work, and if they don’t? A Brother has to visit the hospital for a few days. These medications better work!

Having Rheumatoid Arthritis, which causes your immune system to eat your joints, I have to take medications that will suppress my immune system. Thus, infections are very common. Actually though, I have been very blessed. I have not had an active immune system in two years, and this is the first time I have been sick. But boy when I do it, I do it up right!

I am praying for my complete healing, and I believe with every cell that is in me that God is able to heal me completely. I stand upon God’s promises.

Well, God knew I would be getting pneumonia at this time in my life. Why He allowed it, I do not know; however, I pursue God in every way that I am able. While at home I am praying and reading. I am at least soaking up information that will help me when I am able to begin my new year.

So now, we move forward. I have realized that there are some things in my life; things from my past, and some old ways of thinking, that I cannot take with me into this new year. I also realize that there are some things that God is wanting me to change about myself as I enter this new season of life. I have to do the hard work of making these changes so that I can please God and live in His blessing!

What about you? What do you need to forget? What do you need to change? What do you need to add to your life? Pray about it; consider it and do it. You know, I trust God and I believe in me and you to make these changes. 2010 will be a better year!

My prayer is that God will richly bless everyone whose eyes fall upon this blog.

Good Morning and Happy Sunday to you all!

Pastor Gene