As most of you know, we’ve been sick around here. While I had my turn with it last week, I learned some lessons. The following is a random list of five of them.

1. It’s important to slow down every once in a while. It takes being intentional–or getting sick–to make this happen, otherwise life fills up and races by at lightning speed. Life goes on if I don’t get to every email within 24 hours.

2. Being sick made me appreciate health all the more, and to be thankful for every day God sustains my health.

3. Health can become an idol, a gift that surpasses the Giver in importance.

4. The horrible feeling that comes from vomiting made me think of the many, many people going through chemotherapy right now, today, experiencing this unnatural thing on a regular basis.

5. Being sick reminded me that there is no sickness in heaven. No vomiting. No disease. No disability. If I was in perfect health every day of my life, would I ever long for heaven, my true home?