Having four small children, six and under, simply means that over the last six years, there has been a lot of sickness in our house.

And for two and a half years of that time, we have lived through the pandemic.

Our culture has been hypervigilant and very fearful of any kind of sickness because of COVID.

And while there's really no right or wrong way to be sick because you're just sick,

I have learned a few things.

I've learned ways to cope with sickness, ways to cling to Jesus,

ways to pray over your children during sickness,

ways to perhaps make sickness a little less miserable.

And that's what I'm going to share with you today.

You're listening to Work and Play with Nancy Ray, episode 149. Much of our daily lives can be

divided into two categories, work and play. Simply put, that is where

our life and our legacy take place. This is a podcast all about learning to work and play well,

which leads to a healthy soul and a fulfilling life. Listen to it.

Sickness is the worst. It is literally the worst you're just going about life you've got your

to do list your rhythms your work your meal plan your errands and then boom somebody's sick

and everything you have planned gets thrown out the window and you feel the anxiety and you have to

just start over and make a new plan. It's the worst. And while the weather's changing and things are

getting warmer here in North Carolina and I feel like we're coming out of the pandemic and out of

the winter of sickness and all of my kids being so little, there's going to be more

sickness. It's just going to happen. It's just part of life. It's how our bodies build up

immunity. And I think we can learn ways to make it a little bit better. Now, before I dive in,

I want to say something. This episode, this episode is for

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