Sleepless in Duck Ditch

It is 12:43 am Tuesday morning and I am sleepless in Duck Ditch USA. I am watching a rerun of The Closer on TNT. I am sleepless in Duck Ditch because my sleep habits have been screwed up thanks to pnuemonia. I thought that I had a garden variety cold as of last Friday. Typically my colds start out in my head and then move into my chest which causes me to have a day or two of coughing which screws up my rest. This process typically takes one or two days and then I am done with it. As I entered day 4 today I realized it was time to suck it up and go to the HealthFirst Clinic in North Charleston. We like this clinic because it is Christ centered and they move you in and out of there very quickly. They also work with folks who do not have health insurance and allow them to set up payment arrangements on their bill.

Luckily for my family and thanks to my new employer I now have a full time job with benefits. It seems that the whole family was in serious need of these medical benefits since we have all been in and out of the health clinic since the insurance kicked in December of 2008. The alternative to this was just not going to the clinic and just waiting out the symptoms in hopes they will go away. I feel sorry for folks who are already barely making ends meet in this economy and then having to their rent money or car payment money so they can take their loved ones to see the doctor. I have no clue what the current percentages are but I can only imagine that a lot of folks live from pay day to pay day and do not have the magical emergency fund of three months of income that is set aside for these types of emergencies. I am not saying that saving money or having an emergency fund of some sort is impossible. These things are possible if you make very wise financial decisions early on and set up a strict budget that you follow. If you wait until later on in life to make these changes and committments then it is more painful to keep the committment and will take longer to reach the goals.

Grace Fellowship Church in Goose Creek is hosting a 3 day revival February 5,6 and 7 starting at 7 pm. Mitchell Louper is the guest evangelist and from what I have heard is is a very dynamic speaker, singer, preacher and evangelist. I am hoping I feel better enough to sing on the praise team all three nights. We are hosting the revival so that means other churches in the area are going to be meeting with us at our sanctuary which means we should have a full house for three days. Singing in front of home folks seems to be easier than singing in front of a bunch of folks I have never met before. All we can do is make a joyful noise unto the Lord and hope that everyone else will be doing the same thing and not be paying attention to any screw ups.

My Katy has out patient surgery last week and is now trying to recover. Katy has been approved to pursue her Masters Degree in Special Education online so she has been very busy with studying and such things as that. It is hard to believe Jan 2009 is done and now we are into Feburary and Valentines day will be upon us.






James Moffitt
http://www.lightourworld.com
chiefpropellerhead@comcast.net