Hey don't forget to check my previous journal entry for a link to a great cartoon, it only will take a few seconds to read and the message is a good one.  Anyway, just read a devotional that I had to share.  This is from the Our Daily Bread facebook application.  Short entry to follow. A Cure For Futility READ: Micah 6:6-8 What does the Lord require of you but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God? —Micah 6:8 I once heard interviews with survivors from World War II. The soldiers recalled how they spent a particular day. One sat in a foxhole; once or twice, a German tank drove by and he shot at it. Others played cards and frittered away the time. A few got involved in furious firefights. Mostly, the day passed like any other. Later, they learned they had just participated in one of the largest, most decisive engagements of the war, the Battle of the Bulge. It didn’t feel decisive at the time because none had the big picture.Great victories are won when ordinary people execute their assigned tasks.When followers of Ignatius (1491–1556) endured periods of futility, he always prescribed the same cure: “In times of desolation we must never make a change, but stand firm and constant in the resolutions and determination in which we were the day before the desolations.” Spiritual battles must be fought with the very weapons hardest to wield at the time: prayer, meditation, self-examination, and repentance.Perhaps you sense you’re in a spiritual rut. Stay at your assigned task! Obedience to God—and only obedience—offers the way out of our futility.  — Philip Yancey When comforts are declining,He grants the soul againA season of clear shining,To cheer it after rain. —Cowper If you sense your faith is unraveling, go back to where you dropped the thread of obedience. ~~~  "Spiritual battles must be fought with the very weapons hardest to wield at the time: prayer, meditation, self-examination, and repentance."  How true is that.   Just got back from running down the road to the natruopathic store.  As I suspected the rash came back with a vengence.  So while I was there I asked if they had anything for heat rash or itchy skin.  The stuff he thought would be the best they didn't have in the moment though he's going to order it.  In the meantime he had some stuff on clearance that may or may not help and he gave it to me for free.  It's mainly for bug bites, fever blisters, and cold sores but it is safe so if it doesn't work for this I'll likely still use it when I get eaten alive by the bugs this year.   So I used that and it actually seemes to maybe have helped a tiny bit...but I am also sitting in my room with the blinds clothes and most of my clothes off to keep cool.  Haha, too much info I'm sure.