Pill Container

 

For years, I would be asked, “What medications are you on?”  I would smugly reply, “None.  Really, none at all.”  But all of that changed last September.  Now I take two pills in the morning and four at night.  Oh, well.  It was a nice run while it lasted.  Now when I am asked, “What medications are you on?” I take out a paper that I carry in my wallet and unfold it.  Too many medications for me to remember.  And I hate filling up that morning-and-evening pill container!  And when it’s empty, I even put it off another day, but then I have to open up multiple pill bottles anyway to take my meds.  But I have figured out a way to stretch it out, if only a little bit.  When I fill up my pill minder, I set out one extra dose on the table.  That gives me eight instead of only seven.  So, I get one free day before I have to fill the dreaded pill container.  But since it is morning and evening pills, I only get a free day every other week.  You may say that it isn’t worth the effort, but that extra day is my triumph over my disability!  Hey, do you struggle with daily prayer?  Do you have problems reading your Bible every day?  Do you have little sins that you struggle to overcome?  Don’t be overwhelmed; take it one day at a time.  And if you fail, don’t beat yourself up, just start over again … one day at a time.  I Corinthians 10:13, “There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.”  Hey, look to the Lord!  He will provide that door of escape.  Gain the victory one day at a time … through Jesus Christ!