Fatigued

I have had the great privilege of having various careers in my 45 years of walking this planet. When I was a young man I worked with my dad manufacturing plastic injection molds. This led to my first career in plastics manufacturing. Without going into too much detail, I learned first-hand what fatigue can do to plastic. It’s easy to understand really. Can you remember bending a piece of plastic and then trying to return it to its original form? While you may be able to get it back to form you soon realize that the plastic is marked forever at the point of the greatest stress.

Another way to convey my point is to explain what I learned in the flooring industry (my second career). Have you ever noticed cracked stone or ceramic tile while walking through the mall? If you pay close attention you will notice that the cracks are usually connected in one straight line. The reason for this phenomenon is that big structures have stress (fatigue) along supporting column lines. The concrete slabs move and create stress in the tile and then you have a crack.

I can feel some of you saying, Greg, you’re losing me dude. Well this is what I am learning about chemo therapy; it causes my body to be in a state of perpetual fatigue. I am at the point of breaking all the time. Everything is I do is more difficult than it used to be. I feel stressed out lying on the couch.

Lesson- Jesus said “my yoke is easy and my burden is light; come to me all who are fatigued and I will give your soul rest”. Fatigue is ungodly! I think all of us know what it is like to be fatigued but remember this; you will not experience this in heaven. If this is something that you struggle with then simply apply the Masters advice; come to Him. Please pray that the fatigue I suffer from never becomes an excuse to treat others poorly. I have been guilty of this lately and I feel terrible about it.  

Chemo, round 2 starts in 14 hours