Fever, coughing, headache, sore throat, body aches.....it's like an epidemic around here. So many people have been infected with the flu virus. People of all ages are carrying the virus from place to place, and it's contagious nature is oppotunistic as it invades healthy bodies and makes them very sick for a time. One day there were 100 children out of an elementary school in Billings. The spread of disease can be devastating.
All of this got me to thinking the other day.....you know, sometimes these dismal thoughts can get a person down. I don't know---is it a human tendency to focus on all of the things going wrong in the world, rather than the things going right? For me, it has to be a conscious choice each day to pull my thoughts away from the negatives so that I can see the blessings and hope around me. I mean, in this situation I thought, "wouldn't it be great if the spread of goodness could be so contagious?" It can be! We can all be carriers of love and hope, infecting the hearts of others in epidemic proportions. Instead of a short course of infection, it could be an eternal epidemic! I see it happen every day....not just during "flu season!"
So, next time you hear the statistics on how rampant the flu is, think feverishly of extending God's love and infecting a few people for Him!
Achooooo!
