This year I'm serving on the Steering Committee for the annual Bike MS event on behalf of my wife who has MS, and Abundant Life. This event raises money for the Multiple Sclerosis Society that helps folks who suffer from this disease, and helps fund research to treat and cure it. Abundant Life has a team of about 10 who will ride together on July 31st and August 1st, plus others who will volunteer to support the 600 or so riders.
If you've ever wanted to embrace the perspective of living one day at a time, trusting God for each new day, try on Multiple Sclerosis for size.
This disease attacks the myelin sheath around your nerves, causing "short circuits" throughout your body, resulting in all kinds of symptoms from tingling all over and fatigue, like Cynthia has, to weakness, loss of mobility, blindness, you name it. Anything the nervous system controls can be affected, which is everything. And MS can attack anywhere at any time.
So every day is a new day, and you don't know what symptoms you might have, and if they'll ever go away. Cynthia's diagnosis 20 years ago forever changed us in how we look at life.
And frankly, we should all look at life this way. Each day is a new day. We do not know what it will hold. And as Christ followers, we know we are in good hands, no matter what challenges life presents to us.
Feel like making a difference for people with MS? You can volunteer to help at the event (Abundant Life is sponsoring a couple of rest stops), or join the cycling team by e-mailing me at alan@coolchurch.com. Or donate by clicking on this link Donate for Cynthia
And may you awake tomorrow with a new sense of wonder at God's creation, and all that is right in the world.