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had it since before Christmas

Posted By: it was a doozy! on 2006-02-21
In Reply to: Has anyone else had this awful - cold that has been going around? sm

I'm about 95% well now but I came down with it about a week before Christmas.  Never felt so bad for so long in all my life.  Of course, I tried so many OTC meds, but I did find some temporary relife by boiling a pot of water and holding me head over it and just trying to breathe.  You can add a bit of vinegar too although I was so sore already from coughing and sneezing that it seemed a bit much.  You can also put a towel over your head as you do this to keep the steam in.  Short-term relief but at times I was desparate for anything.  I also found that I seemed to finally start turning the corner when I drank lots and lots of orange juice.  You have my sympathy--it is awful. 


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First I think all families are a bit dysfunctional.  I say this from experience, I could tell you stories that would make your family probably seem normal.  As a born again Christian for 30 some years now, I would have to argue with your nephew.  It sounds like he may belong to a way out church or cult.  Being married or single does not get you to heaven according to my Bible (King James Version).  John 14:6 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.  


I believe is this, God made the way very simple, it is people who add things and try to make it complicated. 


You might ask him if he thinks the apostle Paul made it to heaven?  He was not married and actually he thought it better for a church worker not to be married because they could dedicate themselves to God. 


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1 Peter 3:15
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Some Christian forget that people find God through love, not being beat over the head.  It doesn't sound like your nephew is being meek, but a Bully.  This is not God's way.  God is a gentleman, who knock on the door of peoples hearts and waits for them to answer.  He does not break down the door.  He created us with free will, he is not going to force himself on us. 
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An MT Christmas Poem

’Twas the night before Christmas
And in MT town
Tired MTs were longing
To lay their keys down.

Their earphones were hung
On their skull caps with care
In hopes that new words
Wouldn’t bring them despair.

Some in their sweatpants
And some in their tights
Had just settled down
For a long evening’s type.

When over their headsets
The sounds were so jumbled
They couldn’t quite make out
The words that were mumbled.

They hit the fast forward
Reverse, stop and slow
Trying to make out
The message below.

They checked in their Dorland’s,
Drug books and spellers,
Some called class buddies
Or even asked their fellers.
If they had an inkling
Of what the tape said

Or why someone was trying
To mess with their head.

When no one could answer
They listened less quick
And suddenly knew
The "doc" was St. Nick.

Now he spoke very plainly
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It was quite simple
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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays
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MT Christmas Poem
HOw nice, is this the SS ?