Low on the Go!

Lesson for the Day: Your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, so take good care of it, so that you can serve Him effectively.

Until today, Lydia had never fainted before. But i suppose, there is a first time for everything!

4 hours of sleep + no breakfast + no lunch + giving blood on a day when its 46 degrees with humidity+ class where the AC is broken= NOT A GOOD IDEA!

i went and gave blood today, without having eaten lunch or breakfast... felt okay...and then ran off to class. got to class, and we were watching this cool video on punishment. i got all excited about the video, because they mentioned how Christians were once really persecuted, and they talked a lot about stoning and cruxifixions and such. i was thinking about how i could segue into the gospel during the ensuing group discussion, when i started to feel really dizzy. i started to feel as though i was going to vomit, so i stood up, maneuvered my way out of the classroom..and i remember thinking to myself...i just need to stop and rest for a second. So i grasped the wall just outside of the classroom.

The next thing i remembered was hearing my knees hit the tiled floor and thinking to myself, oh i'll just rest here for a second. everything went black, and the next thing i know, i was in a fetal position, a man was tapping me on the back asking me if i needed help. He helped me up, and took me to the arts and science office....where they gave me juice and told me to sit for awhile. i was shaking pretty badly and sweating like a madwoman--literally drops of sweat dripping down my face!

sat there for awhile, got back in time for the class break, asked my prof if i could go early...but she said that if i did, i'd lose participation marks and would miss her lecture. So i stayed the whole time...completely out of it and totally zonked.

Now i am home..but i wish i had taken better care of myself. because if i had, maybe i would have been "sane" enough to share the gospel with my classmates during group discussion.

moral of the story: lydia is going to take much better care of herself, because you can't share the gospel if you're worried that you're going to hurl or faint again.