Bridge Over Troubled Water

 If you were born between 1965 to 1981 you belong to the so-called generation X, and you probably have listened to this amazingly beautiful song Bridge Over Troubled Water by Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel. My grandfather loved this song so much that he asked me to play it at his funeral, which was not possible at that time, long story short we had appointments for his funeral in the morning,  but the death certificate and his dead body weren't released until that afternoon and we, actually myself, confirmed it for the morning, which didn't happen, I was very close to him and had to deal with a lot of things related to the burry. But I did I sing it to him in my mind. These lines are incredible:

"Sail on silver girl

  Sail on by

 Your time has come to shine

 All your dreams are on their way"

Thinking about these beautiful inspiring words it came to my mind these quotes from Florence Shinn, which are also amazing and like a puzzle their meaning, in my opinion, complete the thread of thoughts from the song Bridge Over Troubled Water:

Man's word is his wand filled with magic and power. The man comes into the world financed by God, with all that he desires or requires already on his pathway. This supply is released through faith and the spoken word. Believe all things are possible". 

With that I'm leaving today's post with another quote from Florence Shinn:

"Gratitude is the law of increase and complaint is the law of decrease"

To wrap up all these positive words,  trust in God your dreams, work hard today on your assigned tasks, pray and have faith your dreams are on the way these attitudes you know already so well, are also called the path of least resistance. Gratitude for all your dreams that you so eagerly dreamed of all the accomplishments you have obtained through prayers and think of them, with the same gratitude of that day, it lift up our spirits to remember we were answered through prayers. There are so many to mention... praising the Lord they were answered when we most needed. :)

 

  

How to survive Covid-19

So I'm here to tell you that I had covid and miraculously I survived. I prayed too, of course. I  started feeling feverish on Tuesday, February 1st and by that day at night I had chills and my throat was red and sore it stung as I swallowed. The next day I called in sick and I only started working again the next week I was quarantined for 6 days and as I felt better I was confident about returning to work. Now  I can say I survived and the symptoms I experienced were scary, scarier than the normal flu or a simple sore throat. Like Dengue another dreadful viruses disease, my whole body was in a state of alarm by raising its temperature, my thermometer was missing somewhere around the house, so I couldn't know for sure if I had a high fever. The next day I had no energy to make a complete meal and so I managed to cook a soup containing potato, carrots, and ground beef and also leek soup with some leftover roasted chicken and the leek soup I cooked at the very beginning of covid. My boss texted me to hydrate, so I did. Among the hot beverages I especially need to give special attention to the hot honey lemonade with 3 drops of propolis, I ordered several small bottles of 30 ml each they have also spray bottles from Amazon. they're amber in color and glassy vials which are excellent. 

I had normal coffee with cream half and a half and cinnamon raisin toast for breakfast which was my delightful hour because I had that warm drink going down my sore throat and I felt deliciously healing, warming up, so I coughed a little.  Whenever I felt too weak to be standing up cooking I just got Mcdonalds and that was great. 

I did lose my sense of smell which is quite scary if you think about it. In the shower, I tried 3 different body washes I had bought recently and couldn't smell any of them. I now as I'm writing these lines I can smell again, thank God.

The soreness in my throat was like a sting as I swallowed, first on my left side affecting also my left ear which I felt a sharp pain for a couple of times, and then it started popping. As soon as the left side had almost completely improved the right side began to bother just like the left side the stinging pain in my throat as I swallowed and the sharp pain in my right ear then a good deal of ear-popping  and belching. I actually enjoy burping so it was a way of expelling this virus. 

My eyes had a little burning feeling for three days. at the end of the sixth day my face, lips, and nose were extremely dry and my skin was flaky as if shedding the very top thin skin. just a little but not like a snake or anything like that. 

I did not take any medication I conducted my infection hydrating as much as I could, resting and cooking simple food. None of my family members caught it or none of my clients caught it, Thank God! I wore a KN95 mask at all times and washed my hands, and had the necessary care not to cough on anyone or anything, the basic manners tell us to always cover our cough and sneeze as a good sense.

Hopefully, my words will be as a balm for your worries, just as a reminder that although there's a lot of fear, bullying, and panic around covid, please do read Psalms and believe in those words and promises be calm and focus on your own beliefs, hoping they are optimistic and may the strength be with you always, Amen!