Chicken and Noodles (A.K.A. In Sickness and in Health)
When you’re sick, what food do you want to help soothe you? If you’re anything like me, chances are the first comfort food you thing of is none other than Chicken and Noodles. Keep this in mind…
So, I’ve been sick. Real sick. Nose pluggage, scratchy throat, light headedness, fever, dizzy spells, unnecessary tiredness, the whole shebang. But, unfortunately for me, I had a mandatory class today as I was presenting a project for a class.
Yesterday, I did a passage in my daily devotional. Part of this was the passage of Mark 5: 25-34.
25 And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years. 26 She had suffered a great deal under the care of many doctors and had spent all she had, yet instead of getting better she grew worse. 27 When she heard about Jesus, she came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, 28 because she thought, “If I just touch his clothes, I will be healed.” 29Immediately her bleeding stopped and she felt in her body that she was freed from her suffering.
30 At once Jesus realized that power had gone out from him. He turned around in the crowd and asked, “Who touched my clothes?”
31 “You see the people crowding against you,” his disciples answered, “and yet you can ask, ‘Who touched me?’ ”
32 But Jesus kept looking around to see who had done it. 33 Then the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came and fell at his feet and, trembling with fear, told him the whole truth. 34 He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has healed you. Go in peace and be freed from your suffering.”
So naturally, I paid attention… Here I was an ailing woman as well! Another devotional passage I had read told me to ask God to show himself to me today in a way I would never expect, a way I could never dream of! So, I prayed about it… Cue today. I was hurrying back from Nichols Hall to Van Zile Hall to eat my lunch and scurry off to my next class. On my way, I realized just how DRAINED I was. I did not feel too awfully hot. So, I started day dreaming about the ultimate sick comfort food: CHICKEN AND NOODLES. I huffed and puffed until I made it, at last, to VZ. As I handed the checker girl my card, my gaze fell upon the menu board for the day: Chicken and Noodles. The first on the list. I hustled over to the right line, to make sure I got my fill. I received the very last scoop of mashed potatoes and one of the few scoops of noodles left in the pan…. Tell me this wasn’t a small miracle. It’s little miracles like these that we ignore EVERYDAY, but they are nonetheless THERE. We just have to pay attention. My God, he takes care of me, both in sickness AND in health. We just need to look a little harder, think a little longer, but he’s there. He always has been, always will be. So now, I pray that everyone will get their daily dose of Chicken and Noodles tomorrow….
