We had a great home-cooked meal with all the trimings. The egg hunt was underway when I missed Ann. She would never miss this event unless there was a problem. There was. She was sick. She threw up several times and was having chills. We headed for ER. While we waited over there a young lady from our church came in with her mother. She was sick! She is also eight months pregnant. She said a number of her friends had the same thing. They had been together at a shower on Saturday. Ann was there. Laura was a hostess. Emily was there. Last night Laura got sick and threw up all night. She is waiting to see if any of the others come down. A virus came along like a rotten egg and tried to disrupt our Easter family fun. Ann is still at the hospital this Monday morning but feels better. She also had an infection that needed treatment. Hopes to come home later today or tomorrow.
Ever have your fun plans disrupted by weather or accident or sickness or whatever? Sure you have. It happens all the time. Sometimes we can work through or around it. Often we cannot. I experienced these things a lot in ministry. They were not always things disrupting in my life, but in someone else's, and that would bring about a change in what I had planned. We just keep on keeping on. We move to the next red light. It may only be a block. Some of it depends on the way we choose to go. We can leave from home here, and only have one stop light between Rockport and Los Angeles. We have to stay on the Interstate, however. If we choose to take the slower routes where the people are living there might be a hundred stop lights. I am not much of an Interstate driver; in driving or in life.
